It isn’t that difficult to promise better!
What I always find bizarre in a democracy, is that we elect people to represent us in government, they could tell us if their ideas are being ignored by the party leader (i.e. the Prime Minister) or they could endeavour to get the PM to listen to their ideas?
Instead, the party leader gets replaced and the same group of MPs change departments but we expect a different outcome….?
If the only real source of revenue is the tax paid by workers, and we’re not creating new industries, now workstreams and we haven’t suddenly doubled the workforce (to double the amount of tax coming in), and challenges facing the government (defence, pandemics, energy reliance etc) are not going away. What is the exact solution changing governments is expected to bring?
Balance the books better? Borrow more?
Are those solutions that the previous government couldn’t implement? Nope!
Good intentions only go so far. As Kier Starmer found out.
We need practical answer. And while at it, the government needs to communicate better! We no longer have money coming in from our overseas sugar plantations or from our colonies. So, we became a financial nerve-centre and the City of London was raking it in? But not anymore? If a governments is largely funded by the taxpayer’s taxes, then you know someone needs to think outside the box!
Instead, what we get, is successive governments just moving the food around on a plate! Hey! We have removed VAT on energy bills here, wonderful! But to fill that gap, we are introducing VAT over there!
If anything is to change, there has to be bold solutions that create new types of jobs, new sectors, get more people working and less on benefits etc. Without this, you can change government a hundred times a year and switch MPs around and do all that…
1 + 1 is always only gonna be 2!!!
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