Originally Posted by
Mandaloopy
I'm rather afraid that they will as much as it pains me to say it.
Quite why so many people are willing to vote for more misery is beyond me. Cuts to hospitals, schools, the fire service and the police are hardly election winning policies but yet they get votes.
Taking a hardline on immigration will always appeal to a certain block of the population- it will most likely be a lie and immigration will remain or increase.
I'm not from the UK, but I've lived there.
What one person describes as 'misery' might also be seen as reducing the spend to balance the books.
You can't fund the NHS on the Credit Card ... on the Never Never.
Nor can you favour the 'Big End of Town' with generous Tax concessions at the expense of a decent Social Justice support mechanisms.
It's a balancing act.
If you want a generous Social Welfare Platform, you have to fund it somehow.
Take Sweden for example, they have a good Social Safety Net, but the average tax rate there is ...
The Personal Income Tax Rate in Sweden stands at 57.10 percent.
Personal Income Tax Rate in Sweden averaged 56.31 percent from 1995 until 2016,
reaching an all time high of 61.40 percent in 1996 and a record low of 51.50 percent in 2000.
Here .
My modest time following Politics show me that generally we favour/keep in Government, a Conservative Party who takes care
of Business ... both big and small
and shows compassionate consciousness/policies to the less fiscally advantaged.
Sometimes, when that balance swings too far one way or the other we oust them and change to the 'other mob' in hope that they bring the changes we desire.
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