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Originally Posted by August
Didja ever think that our constant complaining about taxes is the main reason we aren't being raped like you guys?
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We brits complain a plenty about taxation... don't change the fact we get shafted at every turn - not only with income tax, but VAT, fuel duty, national insurance, and never mind about pensions... (what pensions? unless you're fred goodwin).
We just got out TV licence renewal... it's almost 150 ******* quid! Just to watch television for a year! and all you get to show for is is ****ty programs like 'strictly come dancing' and 'X-factor', or 'britain's got (no) talent'. the ultimate lowest common denominator programming
Utility companies run for the benefit of shareholders and not for the service they're supposed to give, knowing too well that we all have no other choice but to take what is offered because we can't do without gas/electricity/water, so every year the service costs more yet is of a successively lower quality of service... rrrrrrrg!
I'm certain the level of voter apathy here is a direct result of the fact that no matter what we complain about and no matter what is promised by successive governments, everything is more expensive in terms of what we have to pay out and anything that is due to us is worth less year by year.
It's like the ultimate pyramid scheme, only on a national scale
About the only half decent thing about living here is the NHS and even that's a shadow of what it was intended to be at its incept, having been bloated by endless middle management drones and ill informed government initiatives. Leave the running of the NHS to medical professionals like doctors, consultants and nurses, not sodding bean counters ffs.
Don't even get me started on employment, or the despicable lack of it for anyone with more than 2 braincells to rub together.
This last bunch of thieving crooks and liars and their 'opposition parties' all have their heads so deep in the communal trough they are no longer interested in what their job means to the country. The worst kind of politician is a
career politician, and they're all we seem to have left these days. So, more pity for the rest of us who aren't privy to inner sanctum of the cathedral of profit, whilst we dress in rags they are flaunting the ermine robes of expense accounts and connections and 'old boys' networks, the sole purpose of which are to keep everything close at hand and away from the batteries of the economy.
soz, got a bit carried away there.