It may not be your fault, nevertheless the Tory ideologues, aided and abetted by most of the national media, managed to convince the British voting public that:
1) Our National Debt is such that we need to do this sort of rubbish 2) Quangos are the cause of problems, not the solution to them 3) It's all the immigrants fault 4) It doesn't matter about growth, what matters is balancing a budget in times of extraordinary circumstances when we should be borrowing to help us get out of this mess 5) We need less regulation to encourage industry and commerce, when it is a lack of regulation of Banks that got us into this situation in the first place
Lowest common denominator prejudices are such easy things to play with. Smaller government, less oversight, more of a free-for-all gets us into a worse situation.
But if I were to call for slightly higher taxes, especially for the wealthy or those on huge bonuses, I'd be looked on either as an absurd anachronism or a dangerous Marxist radical.
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Re: OI
Date: 2011-01-07 01:26 pm (UTC)1) Our National Debt is such that we need to do this sort of rubbish
2) Quangos are the cause of problems, not the solution to them
3) It's all the immigrants fault
4) It doesn't matter about growth, what matters is balancing a budget in times of extraordinary circumstances when we should be borrowing to help us get out of this mess
5) We need less regulation to encourage industry and commerce, when it is a lack of regulation of Banks that got us into this situation in the first place
Lowest common denominator prejudices are such easy things to play with. Smaller government, less oversight, more of a free-for-all gets us into a worse situation.
But if I were to call for slightly higher taxes, especially for the wealthy or those on huge bonuses, I'd be looked on either as an absurd anachronism or a dangerous Marxist radical.
Oh England, that it should come to this.