They don't want to be educated. [Interjections.] [Applause.] I appeal to you, Speaker. You know, I am a professor and I am supposed to lecture you. [Laughter.] [Applause.] So, please allow me. [Interjections.] You know, what I would normally do in a classroom when the students misbehaved is throw chalk at them. [Laughter.] All I have here is a glass of water. [Laughter.] So, I don't want to do that because that would be unparliamentary.
We know that for several decades the free-market philosophy did win globally and, indeed, the whole world began to follow the free market. For several decades all our universities were teaching neoclassical economics, macroeconomic stabilisation, all that stuff. And, by the way, that was encouraged because the command economy of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe failed. So, a climate was created in which the free market could flourish and the command economy was in trouble. [Interjections.]