My early "Musings and exttrapolations".... Contributions to Irish economic thinking

First, a preliminary....I,as Marx believed,and all sane people believe,that economic conditions and social  upbringing determine collective consciousness.

My youthful high academic achievements were the outcome of reasonable sufficiency and a Catholic upbringing in Northern Ireland. 

Thatcher took reasonable means of support away from myself and many others,pitting young against middle-aged and old and low-paid and poor against middle class and students. She destroyed youthful naivete, careful nurturing and moral tuition. Mouthy middle class Brits backed her so-called reforms as upper class prats back every reactionary government. As long as we have classes,these twits will always do,British-Asian hoodwinkers not excepted. (Therein lies the reason,lack of means universally and small sufficiency, that the Security Unit pulled a white plastic bag over Frank Hegarty's and others head.For my part, I decided to be economical with explosives by using fuel-air materiel).

Schooldays over...

My high academic standing disappeared when confronted by workerist obstinacy. This I encountered in agency working in Germany. Later, I saw the fruits of Anglo-Saxon economic laissez-faire,Dutch sloth.

Working years. Comparative wages on the Continent 

In Germany,I was paid an average wage for work native youth would not,or would only reluctantly, perform; in Holland,land of docility and social agitprop,I was paid a low wage set by government fiat.

Attitudes of workers,health and safety 

In Germany, conditions were better materially but I saw no evidence of social enlightenment apart from the Social Democrats. Old prejudices still prevail in that racially-superior,if you please,dungheap ('dochall').In Germany labour rewards for juveniles is higher and safety at work tightly enforced.In Holland I often found work conditions, particularly the health and safety of young people at work, dangerously unregulated. I sometimes,as memory recalls,worked two 12-hour shifts in succession in the docks. Not for me the farmer's lazy bed in winter-I worked all year round.

Student reflection on the working life

At university,my social and labour views were sought for the purposes of labour regulations reforms and the drafting of labour laws by the resident QUB MI 5/Sinn Fein agents.

I was that dehumanised young man who preached the mobilisation of all labour power for the maximum social and manufacturing output. I was a Stakhovanite materialist.

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Looking back on my philosophising,I was  what Phyllis Bateson of the Northern Ireland Police Authority,called a "German agent" but one who wanted Irish society to compete with his German alma mater.

However, despite Ireland's best efforts to capture its inflowing investment,Germany has recovered its famous equilibrium after long years of stagnation but Britain has failed to learn from Germany and rests where it has always been since the defeat of the Miners' Strike of 1984-5. To whit,an industrial bit player.

Since early student reasonings and explications?

Ireland has followed my ideas and there is "a bit of spare fat to be skinned off".

The macro problems remain because Britain is greatly overdeveloped.

Working people?

Let us,rich and poor,be happy with current growth rates of income.We are in a much better situation since the death of Reagan,Thatcher and Reynolds,a much more egalitarian and better-divided world.

The legacy of corporationism has vanished. 

In the South?

Beneficial social engineering has had a permanent affect on the South of Ireland,street-crawling Gardai and political parasites apart.

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With hindsight. A contemporary reference

Work,work,work,I used to say. Now,keep them parcels moving to coin an adage with the long-running and intractable UK postal strike in mind. 

Britain, in the dying years of the police Raj is breaking up the postal service to satisfy the appetite of a few bully boys in police uniform for "clowning" and "lengthening lines of communication". Those games have a potential to become a Final Frontier in the breakdown of unionised society. (Asset stripping and the sowing of social disorder and proto-totalitarianism have been long prefigured since the Special Powers Act in the Wee Six).