Budget 2024 - Twitchy Arse or Power to the People Comrade?

What are we proposing as the alternative? Let the health service decline, make sure that kids never have a chance of being able to afford somewhere to live, deny them any opportunity - including eating daily, keeps us all as good solid renters of every service, at the whims of business to hit us with on demand pricing, routing all profit to shareholders and then coming back to us with higher prices to pay for any infrastructure maintenance or development?

Do you want to build a society and invest in a better standard of living, or return to serfdom for future generations?

That's the stark choice. There's cost both ways. My judgement would be better try to end up with something for your money. Your mileage may vary. We are where we are because as a society we have headed the wrong way for too long. If you don't fancy actually believing in your country, being proud of it, and investing in it, Vlad has a cushty alternative for you.

I'm for it. I've not really seen a credible suggestion of how we can legally achieve this, while maintaining a place as a (diminishing but) leading capitalist economy. And no way without a furious tirade from the fascist conspiracy about how our government care about their mothers, and are kind to donkeys out of their own pocket...along with a likely global business trade war conspiracy, and a financial cost of living attack on us.

When engaging in war, first build up your supplies and arms, campaign to build a big army, bolster morale and skills with victories in skirmishes, before going into campaign altering battles without preparation. Tilting at windmills, or taking a half arsed gang up against a fortified town, when nobody is really sure what you are fighting for, is a recipe for handing your opponents your arse on a platter.

Starmers early time in office shows meticulous preparation, no sizeable chinks in the rearguard, and a programme of change more profound in terms of movement on the ground than anything (at least in a positive sense) since 2016. Not that you'd notice that from the coverage of it. It's a hell of an oil tanker to turn around when when it's already been driven into the rocks, and sunk.

Then you are probably not a brainwashed retard, that I was mildly lampooning. So hopefully you will have enough brains left to realise that without the support of society you can do almost nothing. I mean you might be a billionaire who can pay for your own armies of facilitators....but if you are an ordinary member of society you will quickly suffer unimaginably without social structures around you (including being nourished, protected from harm, and not spending every waking hour growing turnips - assuming you can fight for a piece of land for turnip growing, and get water, and not have your turnips stolen before you can eat them). We all, even the very rich, benefit massively from our society.

So the question is not really how important it is, but how dim would you have to be to let other people damage it significantly without wanting to do something about it?

Your problem with these things appear to be the clusterfuck that private business have made of them. So, maybe well managed public services could provide an improvement? The one thing you can absolutely be sure of, is there is no incentive for disparate private service providers to provide complimentary integrated service policy. And they will charge you as much as they can, for the smallest amount that they can provide (and the less the market provides, the more you can be milked for minimal investment in infrastructure). Nothing personal. Just business.

It's not realistic to assume that you can just flick a switch and fix these things. It require widespread public will, and support...and by support I include money.

If you have so much madri that you can't even find your own nob, is that tax evasion?