Yeah, what about taxation then eh?

Ha, what can you say today about tax? Nothing much except that it has gone up. Yeah, yeah, I know, gone up by a huge amount. But despite weasel words from both Starmer and Reeves which have now been shown to be complete lies as well, it will have been designed to raise over £40billion. Pocket money really because most of it will go to the national hoover service, the NHS. I realise that people think they will need the NHS but do we need the all-encompassing service as it is? Which other country allows people to attend a GP surgery with a common cold? Or a graze on a knee? Or dispenses free medicine, even paracetamol? Here in the UK we have been allowed to grow up expecting freebies like the NHS without fail. Now that due to increased population the NHS is tottering and still tries to stand up, our political nonsense purveyors think that throwing just a bit more money will do the trick. As it has already been proven, it does not. It just increases the administration apparatus and wage increases plus bonuses for the top. Little will be left for GP services, modernisation of equipment and more hospital buildings. But we are talking Labour, the party that sees the NHS as its personal baby. Frankly, that baby is now well and duly grown into a struggling to walk adult. 

I am a bit fed up with having to say the same things over and over again about politics and politicians. We might well ask why that is so. Is it the quality and experience of politicians? Or are we saddled with those who think they can be a politician? Those with university degrees who think that a degree in home economics is the be all and end all qualifying them to be Chancellor or even Prime Minister? Or is the system we actually follow, called democracy the correct one for the times we live in? The world population is increasing fast and already stand at 8.3 billion souls. It increases by approximately 150million a year. Men outnumber women today as well. If you want to see the numbers look up https://countrymeters.info/en/world. To govern such numbers you would need to be autocratic. Meaning you could not satisfy all the demands that people make such as in a democratic system. Obviously I am not proposing a system such as the examples from the Russian quarter. But a benign autocracy? A proper working UN could do it, abolishing all borders.

But we are talking humans and that is a whole other story.

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