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THE CHINA MAIL DECEMBE

THE WORLD GOES

xtraordinary things are said in Parliament sometimes.

For example, listen to this:-

1987-

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devils the

For this reason, you can see how after to-morrow. Its policy is not into the blackness of tactless it was of Mr. Maxton to ask a means to an end, but only a means thing. Pass the poo the Government to state what the of keeping its end up. A Govern- port nation, as a nation, wants For ment is itself the mere sport of in- what Great Britain wants, officially, scrutable economic forces over w

which Finally, no Government would "Mr. Maxton said that in the lis almost the exact opposite of what it admits it has no more control than dare to say what it wants the citizen King's Speech there was no clear de Great Britain wants as a nation. ¡over the weather. finition of what Great Britain, as aIndeed, from the days of Oliver

nation, wanted in the world, or what Twist it has always been understood, Let us, therefore, treat these frail,

of its citizens to be.”

be, for it would like him to be, something entirely different from what he actually is.

It would like a citizen who has a

head and limbs but no stomach, so that he can abandon once for all the expensive habit of eating.

It would like a citizen who ca manage to pay his income tax out ever having any income.

the Government desired the future among gentlemen, that nothing and helpless creatures tenderly. Let causes any ruling body so much painus remember that when, in his dark- as to be confronted with the know-er moments, a Cabinet Minister looks Here is a man who actually ex-ledge of what the people want. into the future, he sees nothing but pects a Government to know what it

a vast and infinite recurring decima is driving at

Mr. Maxton's second question. "What does the Government want Slump follows boom, and boom The only thing that saved the Gov-the future of the citizen to be?" gives way to slump, down the dark ernment from a painful predicament is even more embarrassing For no abysm of endless time. Inflation and was that, in a Parliamentary debate, Government can see, neither does it deflation succeed one another in an In short, the Government's ideal nobody is ever expected to reply to dare to look, farther into the future endless chase that has no goal. Back citizen may be likened unto an or- anything anybody says, and all re-than the next financial half-year. No and forth swings the pendulum of ange, which, though you squeze it marks are addressed to the Speaker, man, with a spot of affection for irrevocable economic fate, like some dry every day, remains forever full who, naturally, never speaks.. dumb animals, would ever ask a Gov-vast clapper on a bell of doom. And of juice.

ernment to think of the future. For so, as far as the official eye can see, But how can you expect the Gov- The fact that an experienced mem- a Government has no means of know- the process must go on until all ernment to say all this? I repeat- ber can so forget Parliamentary ing what is going to happen the day earthly governments have passed it isn't fair to ask it. traditions as to expect a Govern-

ment to define its ultimate object, or even to have an object at all, only shows how little people understand of what a capitalist Government's function really is.

As a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Gov- ernments, therefore, I consider it

·BY: "ULYSSES"

my duty to explain what a Govern- ment is for.

Let us take Mr. Maxton's questions in order: (1) "What does Great Britain, as a nation, want in the world?"

The term "Great Britain" has two meanings. In its common or social sense it means all the peo- ple; in its official ΟΙ Par- liamentary sense it means only two kinds of people those who invest money and those who lend

money.

..

A Government's main function, therefore, is to help investors to get the best possible return for their money, and to help the lenders to find the greatest possible number of borrowers.

To this end, the Government de votes most of its time and energy to maintaining what is called "A Favourable Balance of Trade." This- is achieved by sending as many goods as possible out of the country and selling them to foreigners at the lowest possible price, while raising the prices of the goods at home to the highest possible. level

Officially speaking, therefore, what “Great Britain” (official) wants, can be stated quite clearly in two words

"Foreign Markets.”

All this, however, is very different from what the nation, as a nation, wants. The nation does not want more goods to be sent out of the country. It wants more goods to be sent into the house.

And there are few working-class] mothers who, when invited to state their heart's desire, will reply," "A revival of foreign loens.

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