It has been revealed that David Cameron has set up a Cabinet Office Behavioural Insight Team. Formed in July 2010, the secretive cell is tasked to ‘dream up psychological tricks to alter our behaviour’ … and on a colossal scale.
The Independent newspaper, which broke the story, warned how the public is to be reframed or ‘nudged’ into politically agreeable ‘Social Norms’. This will begin with healthy eating, voluntary work and tax gathering. While this may seem innocuous to some people, these early ‘soft’ targets are already being greatly expanded to include wider central government ideological and political agendas, including Cameron’s socialist straitjacket of the Big Society. Influential multi-millionaire Socialist and Tory Chancellor George Osborne has already signed up to Behavioural Economics; a further variety of mental reframing of individuals and groups, specifically to accomplish political economic objectives. Their theory and intent is, that once mentally retrained, we ‘willingly rush to pay excessive taxes’.
The danger is that we are to be trained to believe what our politicians and public sector – The State – says is right. And we will not even be aware that we have been ‘reframed’ to think so. The Soviet Union would have paid in blood and gold for Cameron’s political mind-control initiative to lock people in a hive mind.
There is, no doubt, an inclination to laugh at the idea that we can be mentally ‘reframed’ or ‘reprogrammed’ into new belief systems and patterns of behaviour. But clearly these people have not been assembled behind closed doors to play games. A simple click on Google will reveal thousands of NLP training organisations, leadership trainers and consultancies. They all state that they can and do change people’s minds. They earn money from doing so. The meetings at No. 10 are for that reason extremely sinister.
Rod Millington
Editor
