Geeklawyer, a pio­neer in the dif­fi­cult art of com­bin­ing “red in tooth and claw” free mar­ket prin­ci­ples with cor­po­rate social respon­si­bil­ity, con­grat­u­lates John Red­wood for his lat­est plans to revi­talise cap­i­tal­ism in the UK.

For the past decade we have laboured under the woolly com­mu­nist think­ing of pinko lefty Tony Bliar cyn­i­cally mas­querad­ing as neo-conservativism, for no other rea­son than pop­ulism. His cam­paigns of “pub­lic ser­vice” before pri­vate profit have wrecked the poten­tial value that ‘public-private’ ini­tia­tives could have brought to cor­po­rate prof­itabil­ity. And pub­lic ben­e­fit. Because, remem­ber, when large cor­po­ra­tions make tens of bil­lions in profit, which are hus­tled off into off­shore hold­ing com­pa­nies not pay­ing tax, it isn’t just share­hold­ers who ben­e­fit. No, it’s the poor and dis­ad­van­taged who ben­e­fit from the trickle-down effect of these prof­its. Every­one wins. Except under Neo-Labour com­mu­nism. It’s polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness gone mad.

John Red­wood is now sug­gest­ing a return to the glory days of Vic­to­rian Eng­land. The time when we had an empire. He sug­gests we return to the days when point­less tosh like ‘data pro­tec­tion’ laws and, so called ‘Health and Safety’ laws didn’t exist. All of these being red tape bur­dens on the heroic entre­pre­neurs who could oth­er­wise return us to the power of empire.

Geeklawyer longs for a return to the days when Lan­cashire mill own­ers could oper­ate fac­to­ries employ­ing legions of 10 year old girls whose job was dart­ing in between the spin­ning unpro­tected sharp­ened blades of cot­ton machines. Or who could employ old age pen­sion­ers to use poi­so­nous chem­i­cals in indus­trial processes.

Dan­ger­ous? Yes, undoubtably. But have you con­sid­ered that by culling the old, sick, weak and slow these fac­tory own­ers were really improv­ing the healthy stock of the pop­u­la­tion of the area? The sur­viv­ing young girls are now quick enough to fend of the lech­er­ous intent of even the mill own­ers them­selves. And sick old peo­ple died quickly instead of clog­ging up hos­pi­tals who were then free to treat more pro­duc­tive eco­nom­i­cally effi­cient workers.

And by hav­ing their prof­its enhanced the com­pa­nies are now able to set up char­i­ta­ble foun­da­tions to help the peo­ple they con­sider to be the wor­thy poor. No need to bur­den the tax payer with ruinous wel­fare schemes allow­ing the feck­less to feed them­selves instead of dying as they richly deserve; or have their ill­nesses treated in pub­lic hos­pi­tals at tax­payer expense.

And like most lawyers Geeklawyer works at least 90 hours a week. Man­i­festly it has not harmed him. Most of us in the UK cheer heartily our Amer­i­can cousin Dan Hull at WAC who would make 12 year old asso­ciates do an 90 hour min­i­mum week.

It’s polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness gone mad.

Let us all hope John Red­wood is suc­cess­ful. He may be a bit of a leftie but hope­fully this will shift pol­i­tics away from the cur­rent extreme left toward a more mid­dle ground.