Britain has an unexplained productivity shortfall crisis.
In the latest OECD Compendium Of Productivity Indicators, the GDP per hour worked in the UK is less than half of that in Ireland (the best performing country - a nation first again) and also falls behind (in order of performance) Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, USA, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Netherlands, Iceland, Finland, the Euro Area and Australia.
Not so great Britain.
We would like to offer some reasons for this lack of performance in this green unpleasant land.
Productivity is defined as the ratio between the volume of output and the volume of inputs.
It measures how efficiently labour and capital are being used in an economy to produce a given level of output.
Productivity is the key source of economic growth and, hence, economic well-being in a nation.
Intangible assets play a considerable role in productivity and economic growth.
This produces challenges over measuring output due to intellectual property assets being located in low tax countries rather than where actually produced.
This undoubtedly inflates the OECD productivity figures for Ireland and Luxembourg.
To enable comparisons to be made between countries requires the use of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP).
This converts a country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) into a common currency allowing economists to account for cross-country differences in price levels.
An interesting feature of the OECD report is that the countries that work the longest hours don't have the greatest productivity which blows one hole in the hull of the Conservative Party's blinkered view that the 'laziness' of workers in the UK are to blame for the lack of productivity.
The top ranking countries in order of number of hours worked are Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Poland, Greece, Chile, South Korea, Israel, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Portugal, USA, Turkey, Czech Republic, Canada, Italy, Ireland, Spain, UK.
How is Ireland over twice as productive as the UK when the number of annual hours worked per worker is virtually the same?
Some of the difference is undoubtedly due to the impact of intangible assets but this does not explain away the UK's poor overall productivity compared to similar nations.
If the workers of the world are working excessive hours but this time at the coal face of employment is not leading to productivity increases then there are several explanations.
Workers may be skiving, the line management of workers might be substandard, there could well be inappropriate and biased promotion of individuals leading to no trickledown of expertise or strategy, perhaps the senior and board management is not fit for purpose, or the wrong sectors are being invested in.
Undoubtedly, all of these parameters have an impact on a lack of productivity and growth but these impacts are an inverted pyramid.
If one worker skives then this leads to a tiny incremental fall off in productivity.
If one senior manager or chief executive is incorrectly selected and / or skives then the impact on the company or institution is colossal as all layers below underachieve due to the lack of talent in the boardroom.
A further indication that management is to blame for the lack of growth is when the senior positions are apportioned based on a non-meritocratic basis - only selecting from one particular religion or sect (Sri Lanka, the Six Counties of the North of Ireland, for example), only selecting from one gender, elitism based on privileged education which produces feedback loops of unproductive bosses and when appointments are made based on membership of secret societies e.g. the Freemasons.
Each of these non-meritocratic constructs is far more impactful than a labourer sneaking a sly ciggie in the loading bay.
There are further issues with inappropriate senior management appointments. By directors serving in one another's companies, executive pay is vastly inflated leading to inflation and enhanced income inequalities (see Thomas Piketty).
The current argument put forward by free marketeers that inflation is caused by workers' pay demands is a fallacy based on observation in a restricted window. The spiralling up of executive pay since the 2008 crash has been matched by a relative decline in the take home pay of workers. There were three choices to rebalance the global economy after the crash - austerity, inflation or taxing the rich. So far capitalism has tried austerity twice and inflation once but seems strangely averse to taxing wealth and even more averse to the closing down of offshore financial centres where tax evasion is the raison d'etre.
A further major impact on productivity is corruption where black and grey market behaviours avoid taxation while promoting thugs rather than brains and, when elevated to state mafia levels as in the UK currently, we are left with a kleptocratic infrastructure - pub managers and lingerie entrepreneurs gaining PPE contracts during the pandemic without the process being put out to tender or a prime minister who promotes associates to the House of Lords in return for favours received or the next prime minister making investments via his wife while then making policy strategies that enhance such investments e.g. more oil fields in the North Sea.
The gains from a kleptocratic pseudo-democracy are largely non-productive being explicitly designed to benefit insiders and the elite.
Perhaps the most notorious input to this charade is the manner in which free market capitalism ignores externalities (particularly those related to climate catastrophe).
Fake growth to the benefit of a few in the short term evolves via chaos theory and feedback loops into environmental destruction (at best) and a permanent economic nuclear winter in the longer term (at worst).
Chomsky is surely correct when he describes humans as being a lethal mutation.
Although a more refined view might be that the psychopaths who are in control are a lethal mutation who put selfish short-termism ahead of the poor, the disenfranchised and the planet as a whole.
In the UK, the Freemasons are the major input to the lack of productivity.
They distort meritocracy and fit with the adage that the shit always rises to the top.
Whenever I put on an Armani suit and meet new senior executives at the top of industry sectors, I am almost always initially greeted with a masonic handshake.
This is a complete takeover of British society.
Let's look at a few examples from my experience.
In nearly forty years of reading British satirical magazine The Economist, I've only seen two references to Freemasons which is a bizarre oversight considering how many of their contributors are actually Freemasons.
Two siblings whose combined IQ barely reached double figures were made directors of an electronics firm that went belly up destroying the livelihoods of an entire workforce.
A mason wasn't shortlisted for a headmaster post at the biggest sixth form college in the country. Masonic influence changed this reality and the halfwit was appointed to the detriment of the college, pupils and staff.
One pompous individual had public school, Oxbridge and freemasonry on his CV and he went on to fail at banking before destroying two engineering companies in the Black Country.
The blinkered reprobate who failed those who died in the Grenfell Tower manslaughter is now chief executive at Greater Manchester NHS Integrated Care where he is regarded as a clown.
Freemasons were given prior warning regarding the governmental change in regulation over the creation of the care home sector so that they could gain a time-based economic competitive advantage over latecomers to the sector.
Roy Hodgson, despite decades of failure as a football manager and a background of apartheid enhancing racism, is still a manager in the Premier League where he is proximate to matchfixing while his legacy is bolstered by corruption in various guises.
And if you're ever invited to a black tie dinner in Scotland, don't even think of attending unless you satisfy at least two of the following conditions - Freemason, protestant, rugby union player or a fully paid up member of the Orange Lodge who enjoys stomping around up to your knees in Fenian blood...
... the same applies if thinking of becoming a Scottish Premiership referee.
Senior (mis)management of the NHS in the UK is probably the most unpleasant of these masonic takeovers of swathes of our economy.
Clap For Nurses has been superseded by Crap For Nurses.
Government ministers (plus shadow ministers) have shares in the private health care invasion while deliberately running down the health service via government-supported malicious management practices that cause underperformance of the NHS and the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers who end up exploited, demoralised, desperate and underpaid.
This is a complete and deliberate destruction of a social health service on behalf of private health providers who wish for you to sell your home in order to survive your illness.
And once you have no assets left to pay for your medical treatment, you die.
This is a psychopathic death cult.
It's little wonder that Italian anti-corruption hero Roberto Saviano describes Britain as the most corrupt country on the planet.
All of these masonic corruption structures are facing an unseen and largely unknown enemy - whistleblowers.
There would be no public knowledge of the malfeasance and systemic corruptions operated by organised crime groups in British football if it weren't for the Football Is Fixed Network.
Yet we receive malicious threats, menaces, death threats, hit-and-run attacks on vehicles, psychological abuses, meetings with military intelligence with more implied negativities...
And it is brave whistleblowers who are exposing the systemic corruption in the NHS.
When serial killer Lucy Letby was busy murdering babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, concerns were raised by senior doctors about unusual patterns in mortality and the presence of Ms Letby at each of these instances (the only staff member to be ever present at the scene of the crimes).
We have been reliably informed that Ms Letby's father John is a Freemason at the Chester lodge.
Tony Chambers was the chief executive at the Countess of Chester NHS foundation trust at the time of Letby's killing spree in the year leading up to June 2016. He held a meeting with Letby and her father before getting senior doctors to apologise to Ms Letby over their suspicions that she bore responsibility for the murders.
Chambers resigned in September 2018 before astonishingly getting several further posts as interim chief executive officer at other NHS trusts.
Chambers is a Freemason at the Chester lodge.
Stephen Cross was the hospital's director of legal services and head of corporate affairs at the time of the murders. He is accused by senior doctors of putting the trust's reputation above patient safety.
Cross claimed that contacting the police would be terrible for the hospital and would make the neonatal unit into a crime scene.
Cross, a former police officer, is a director of Chester Freemasons.
In the aftermath of Letby's life conviction, the Telegraph newspaper (a bastion of freemasonry) ran as their third main article on their web page on Wednesday August 23rd - Lucy Letby Appeal Fund Launched over what "may represent the greatest miscarriage of justice the UK has ever seen".
The Square moves in mysterious ways.
Meritocracy and Socialism should trump privilege, mafia, murder cover-ups and handshakes.
The only square that Freemasons should be on is the 5.5 metres squared of the average British prison cell.
Whistleblowing is expanding mightily under the Tory kleptocracy.
If you feel the need to whistleblow, we suggest you seek the support of the Courage Foundation for advice and strategy.
Whistleblowers of the world unite (and take over).
Shake dat ting, snitch!
Rich bastards beware!!
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