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From a labour government, crikey
It has been red tory v blue tory for decades.
The end result of this will be reform in power. The rich won't mind this. The poor, who vote for it, won't benefit. But to them it will feel like the only option that might help.
It is a similar dynamic to the US playing out in different ways. Musk's slash > privatise the government is a speed-run of what has been happening in the UK since Thatcher - the last looting of empire being the looting of the profitable bits of the British state itself on behalf of the rich/capital (call it whichever you want).
How much could we save by simply scrapping the bureacratic overhead of administering this stuff? The amount of money spent to avoid the odd dodgy claim is false economy.
It's certainly going well for the Americans. Or, we could just TAX THE RICH.
(Agree the govt shouldn't be punching down yet again.)
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