Allow me to make a small prediction
I can't believe he's so stupid as to try it again!
It will play out like this: Labour will introduce a universal social care “levy” to extract more funding to pay for the things, for which, they already tax us. Everyone grumbles, but gets used to it. The government is pleased as punch, having found another way to squeeze us till the pips squeak. To great fanfare, the universal social care “safety net” is launched. Despite the fact that we already pay through the nose for it. The levy grows and grows in size, but somehow the social care system starts to creak as it tries to deliver things it was never intended to. Quangos spring up around it to control it, learn lessons, monitor it. people die needlessly in its care. Tory governments try to starve it, but lack the gumption to kill it off properly. A future Labour government, decrying the Tories’ for being in thrall to corporate social care providers, open the taps and flood it with money. People still die needlessly, until a new, meaningless term that roughly equates to “looking after people” is invented. A new levy is introduced to cover this and …
People who wonder why the Palestinians and Israelis can’t seem to learn the lessons of history might wonder about things closer to home.
- uberVU – social comments
- March 31, 2010 at 07:43
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March 30, 2010 at 16:44 -
well said Sir. Now I’m off to see why you aren’t coming up on my reader. At times IT defeats me.
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March 30, 2010 at 17:11 -
Brilliant – you have got it in one. And the only class to benefit is the Nomenclature – whose purpose is to keep labour in power.
Is this to do with how use our brain hemispheres – all left brain and expanding ever bigger? -
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March 30, 2010 at 17:34 -
The Israeli’s have learnt the lessons of History: If you’ve bled for, never give it up.
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March 30, 2010 at 17:42 -
Yes, Andrew Lansley – a man so wet you can shoot snipe off him – appears to think that we should be encouraged to bung the state yet more money to do something we’ve already paid for and would be better doing for ourselves in any case.
Until we’re all taxed into indigence and nagged into infantilism, there’s still work for the politicians to do.
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March 30, 2010 at 18:04 -
Let me make a better prediction. As the state goes bankrupt, mass civil disruption a la East Germany breaks out. Everyone wakes up and realizes, after years of stateless peace, that we do not need the state at all to protect us, manage our health, clean the streets or do any of the things it currently does very badly. The economy booms because no one is paying taxes anymore, and capital allocation is entirely governed by market forces. After an initial hyperinflationary price spike, prices fall to record lows as money Os commodities and private mints replace the discredited and destroyed pound. Organizations based on the National Trust model spring up to care for the needs of the needy. A new golden age of Britain is heralded in just 5 years after the great crash.
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March 30, 2010 at 20:16 -
People will always die needlessly. As a commenter on a new development in medical science of CIF said in response to worries about the cost, arounf £100,000 per patients “If it cost a million pounds each its money well spent when a life is saved.”
A million? Only a million? What an insult. A million pounds to save our lives is peanuts, if only the government would spend enough we could all live forever.
The NHS needs to give everybody a big does of reality.
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March 30, 2010 at 20:17 -
“Yes, Andrew Lansley – a man so wet you can shoot snipe off him”
I larfed
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March 30, 2010 at 20:31 -
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March 30, 2010 at 20:37 -
the state we’re in …. huh????
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March 30, 2010 at 22:02 -
Ahhh, a bureaucracy based on the NHS. Yes, thats just the job.
Where do I sign up, so they can look after me in my old age?
I have only one request, I want to be in the same home as Gordon Brown, I suspect it might be a little nicer than most, and the opportunity to hit him over the head with my walking stick 50 times a day should do wonders for my cardio-vascular and mental health. With any luck I will live to be 95 and will die contented, knowing I have done my bit to bankrupt another ridiculous socialist scheme.
I do hope this gets to be a major issue during the election and the baby boomers have a chance to ask what happened to their NIC contributions-very juicy.
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March 30, 2010 at 22:21 -
All natural processes and phenomena seem to have limits, which stop them disappearing off the map. I think Murray has it about right — too much interference and too much taxation leads to not enough disposable income, which means social unrest, and as the pressure increases — BOOM!
Labour have introduced about a million new laws (I MAY be exaggerating here) and every single law the State passes has a cost attached to it, usually the salaries of the people who have to carry it out, plus the bloody QUANGO set up just for the hell of it, and keep one’s friends in luxury.
I have to go and take my medication now.
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March 30, 2010 at 22:21 -
On reflection, perhaps I should restrain my enthusiasm. The national socialists have tried this previously, I would be very despondent to enter the home and note that the welcome above the door reads “Arbeit nacht frei”
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March 30, 2010 at 23:46 -
Liebourarescum
The time to be REALLY despondent is if the sign above the door reads ‘Showers’.
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