Argues the welfare state moved people outside society. Only interest of people was around themselves.
This created "proxy politics" of race, gender an took them out of a sense of common cause. This demanded an economic response, manifested in Margaret Thatcher.
Created a society where people win or lose, and then requires policing of rights.
Blond argues the postwar left and right were driven by the same ideology of liberalism.
The origins of the destruction of society is this liberalism
(crowd feels a bit tense)
We need new social and economic arrangements. Wealth and power flow into hands of wealthy or global businesses, most of which pay little tax.
Our politics and society is increasingly rigged in these two extremes (left and right)
Blond notes that despite huge increase in gvt funding, productivity went down.