Wake up and smell the austerity! Shock Doctrine come to Europe.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Cambridgeshire's Chief Constable has warned the police service may be forced to deal only with 999 calls.
Julie Spence is retiring from the force on Sunday and has spoken out over government plans to cut its budget by up to 40%.
The force faces £33m cuts over the next four years.
"It would be Armageddon. The police service that you see today would not be the police service that you would see in the future," Mrs Spence said.

Cambridgeshire Chief Constable Julie Spence stuck her head above the parapet on the day before she retired.

All the British police Chief Constables have been told by government and their advisory body (ACPO) to spin the cuts as a once in a generation opportunity to restructure policing in the UK.

The implementation of economic Shock Therapy (in Naomi Klein's terms) has traditionally been reserved for developing countries.

What we are witnessing now is the application of the electrodes to "First World" nations in Europe and north America. This is a relatively new development - Thatcherism notwithstanding.

I hope the ordinary working people of Europe say "No" to Shock Therapy, and prevent its implementation.

We shall see.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's piece suggests that the British financial-intelligence-complex is a tad worried about social unrest.