The Pollution Paradox 2024 – 40 x 24cm, acrylic paint, tape, on canvas
In 1947 Friedrich Hayek founded the Mont Pelerin Society, a right-wing thinktank that called its members neoliberals, they each believed that capitalism had to be protected from democracy, they believed that creeping socialism and the welfare state were a threat to their profits and individual freedom. The UK Conservative Party and Starmer’s recently changed Labour Party base their austerity policies on neoliberal ideology that wants freedom from the ‘oppressive constraints of democracy’.