In Tony's country, there is a new tax every month! Does that shock you?

Question

A new regulation every hour, a target every day, and a tax every month. (Daily Telegraph)
How on earth can they get away with that?

Answer 1

I need to get out of this country it's run by lazy pompous champagne socialists like Brown and Blair twats the pair of em tax tax tax tax tax tax that's all i pay i work hard why on earth are we buying nuclear submarines that's why he sucks Bush off isn't it? This question has pissed me off i am sick of paying half of my salary to this stupid government. I would gladly pay if they helped people who were more unfortunate than myself happily but no they wast it on civil servants and bureaucrats and pointless exercises i can name a few but i will be here all night and i am tiered let's hope "Tony's country" is invaded by reasonable people who can build this country into a civilised society where you don't get taxed for breathing it's coming i kid you not.

Answer 2

Well, those figures may or may not be true - bear in mind that the right wing Daily Telegraph has always been anti-Labour, so it may not be entirely free of bias.

In answer to your question, one short answer is that people voted 'them' (ie, the Labour government) back in power. Maybe they were conned, maybe they were stupid, but like it or not, Labour did win the last three general elections.

Another, better answer is that the electoral system is rigged: not everyone's vote is equal, and in the last general election Labour won with the support of under a quarter of the electorate. That means that over three-quarters did not support them. Unfair? Of course, but until the system is changed, it is perfectly possible and quite likely that a future government will get into power on an even smaller share of the votes.

What to do about it? Well, for starters, I have no sympathy with people who don't vote: that's your one and only chance to actually have a say in which party forms the government, so if people waste that chance by not voting, then they deserve everything they get in my opinion.

Secondly, get involved: complain, write to the papers, campaign, support a political party, all of that.

Thirdly, support a party that promises to change the electoral system. The two major parties have a vested interest in leaving the system as it is, because they know that sooner or later it will be their turn in power - it worked for the Tories in the 1980s, it works for Labour now.

Also, as the British electoral system stands, there is no way for the general public to directly throw out a law they hate - just look at the huge numbers who marched in the streets against the Iraq war but we invaded nonetheless. In some countries, the people can call for referendums on major topics and vote for or against whatever the issue is. Here, we can't.

So, if you want to do something about the situation, then the best long-term solution is to find a party that wants to change the system. So long as the current system is in place, 'they' will legally get away with anything they want. And 'they' could be Labour, Conservative or worse.

Answer 3

NO. Tell lies. Have an election on half truths and get into power on such a small number of votes. Now you can do what you want. \Dont forget it is the next wannabe PM BRown who puts your tax up. Tony is too busy kissing the backside of pop stars to worry about what we have to put up with. Now we see the real Scottish Mafia at work Brown and Blair sneaky, underhand and sleazy so no nothing shocks me with New Labour.

Answer 4

Easy! Get elected on a manifesto which omits 95% of what you actually plan to do and then do whatever pleases you. You now have a mandate - carte blanche to whatever you like. I do not recall reading (in the 1997 manifesto) that immigration would increase the population by 3 million in 10 years. Nor that the CPS would alter murder charges to manslaughter as a matter of everyday routine in order to save money. Where was it in the manifesto that promised to make gambling and drinking free from all control (virtually)? Where did it promise to make 20% of the entire population dependent upon social security. Yes, 12 million people (men, women, children) dependent in some way upon benefits.

Were we all living in another time zone? Try to remember how things were here in 1995 - then weep.

Answer 5

That would make only 12 tax rises in the past year surely you mean a new tax every WEEK!!! Maybe they should replace the lotery with a new sweepstake to see who can guess the next rise before it happens!!! The sooner these money grabbing sh*tes are removed from power the better!!!!!

Answer 6

there's no longer a scarcity of low salary, tricky labor jobs--in certainty, there is unquestionably a scarcity of workers for those jobs. those are the jobs that unskilled illegals take. individuals do no longer want those jobs. this is one case the place i will particularly trust conservatives because of the fact the subject is that it would not particularly make experience to get this sort of job considering which you're able to nonetheless be impoverished yet you're able to in all probability get much less counsel considering which you had a job. i'm going to seek for a source, to assist that those jobs want workers (i.e. there's no longer a job scarcity, in straightforward terms a scarcity of prepared workers).

Answer 7

Labour are a disaster in power - strangling the country with their taxes and regulations.

The sooner they are removed the better for the country - our competitive position has been ruined.

Answer 8

It doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I've got so fed up with Blair and Brown taxing me to the limit, I'm leaving for New Zealand in the New Year.

Answer 9

No it doesn't shock me, though its one of the many reasons I and thousands of others have left the country!

Answer 10

Seeing his wife without make up would shock me