Maybe its the bit that Corbyn/McDonnell haven’t said. The final piece of the Marxist-Labour puzzle which brings the whole, seemingly stupid, ridiculous, moronic and ill-conceived plan together. Because they’ve outlined spending on a scale which would cause tremors for the Sultan of Brunei. Billions to the NHS, trillions in nationalisation projects which will then, as an inevitable consequence of that nationalisation, run at massive losses requiring constant input of millions more billions. Then reduce everyone’s working week to 4 days AT NO LOSS OF INCOME and the NHS alone would need to find an extra… divide by 5… add 3,625.88… multiply by Diane Abbot’s IQ… raise to the power of the number of stars on the cover of Mao’s little red book… and the answer is: SHITLOADS. Increase benefits, reduce taxes for ‘working people’, no more tuition fees, 40,000 more police…

It seems impossible. And that’s before you take into account the massive number of businesses and entrepreneurs who simply up sticks and go to a more tax friendly environment. Thus massively reducing the government’s coffers from the levels they naively estimate.

Yet the solution is not only easy and fairly obvious but as it is used by Corbyn’s best mate and ‘model for the ideal government’, Nicolas Maduro, over in Venezuela.

Drug money. The drug industry has an annual turnover of 194,882,759,116.32 dollars a year. That’s an estimate. My estimate. You don’t need much of that to shore up the exchequer. It’s what Maduro is now doing in his country, where the drug business has increased by 50% in the last year. Due to the lawless, government-less shitstorm of chaos, starvation and instability that the world’s most oil-rich nation has ‘enjoyed’ since their own little path to a more Marxist outlook took hold on the country and smashed the economy to a pulp. Venezuela is now bankrupt, even with all that oil, and what little food there is can’t be bought by the people because of the inflation. Maduro is apparently reaping this as a national benefit. Probably files it as ‘increased productivity’ or some such.

So that’s the answer for Labour. Harvest the drug money. Forget about taxing slippery foreign investors like Amazon, Google, Facebook, they’ll just go elsewhere. But everyone needs drugs. It’s a win win.

God fucking help us all.

Happy Monday

A xxxx