The UK spends over £106.2bn to subsidize the rich.
According to the Equality Trust’s cost of inequality report, the cost of inequality in the UK is £128.4 billion per year, with the top 1% of Britain being the most protected in all of Europe. While the rich in Britain rake in the dividends of their mass of accumulated wealth, the lives of everyone else are deteriorating; from poverty and degrading social services like health care and education, to crime and inflation and the restriction of human rights.
Despite the cost in thousands of human lives of the cost-of-living crisis, the UK's capitalists - a repository of wealthy individuals from around the world - continue to enjoy some of the lowest tax rates and glut themselves with austerity. Privatization of national and public services such as the NHS have failed to provide any sort of benefit: instead, cost-cutting measures are introduced which rob the health of the public and lowers the length and quality of the average person's life.
With the “opposition” of Starmer's Labour party, we can see how so-called “socialists” constantly compromise and betray the class struggle as they act according to their parliamentary role. Instead of fighting this situation of total capitalist privileged in Britain, these opportunists have helped bring it about. The working-class is only as strong as its organization, otherwise capital will deepen its exploitation and entrench its position, leading to the situation today.
Alfred Rosenberg, the chief ideologue of the Nazi party, writing: "Zionism must be vigorously supported so that a certai number of German Jews is transported annually to Palestine or at least made to leave the country." With an eye on such statements, Hans Lamm later wrote: "..it is indisputable that during the first stages of their Jewish policy, the National Socialists thought it proper to adopt a pro-Zionist attitude."
After 1933, the fascists permitted the Zionists to continue with their propaganda. While all the newspapers in Germany were placed directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Propaganda (the newspapers published by the Comrnunists or the Social Democratic Party or the trade unions and other progressive organizations were banned) the Zionist Jidische Rundschau was allowed to appear unhindered.
The analysis showed, with a high level of statistical significance, that privatised companies did worse than those that remained public, and continued to do so for a period of 10 years: “the privatization group underperforms the group of sectors remaining public”. The authors add that this fits with the experience of Russia, where: “GDP declined with privatization, faster privatization did not lead to improved performance.”