What's wrong with the left?

Ok i picked that particular topic because the way Healey chose to approach the problem IS very much a here and now problem.

Unlike many, and i suspect that includes Tony Blair who swore blind in a letter to Michael Foot at about the time one was a brand new MP and the other was about to write the longest suicide note in history that he had read it, i HAVE actually read both The Communist Manifesto AND Das Kapital. I’ve also read Mein Kampf. Being an IT freelancer stuck in a grotty B&B four nights a week dozens or hundreds of miles from home is a really luxurious, exotic lifestyle NOT.

The points i would take from Healey’s actions as apply to today is more to reflect on the utter hypocrisy on both sides.

The basic policy of the left is to tax the rich more than the poor. Yet today it is impossible to legally be paid for a forty hour working week without being brought into the tax system and the only party that has done ANYTHING to restore the original purpose of income tax as a tax on those who had an income worth taxing are the lib dems who forced a raising of the threshold by far more than the rate of inflation. You might retort that we have a much larger state than we had when income tax was introduced as a temporary measure to fund the napoleonic wars, but that still overlooks the fact that the tax take from the LOWER end of the income scale is massively in excess of what it was when i was a child in the1950’s and sixties and even in the seventies when income tax was thirty three pence in the pound fewer than one in three families in the street paid any (mum and dad being one of the one in three) because there were NO housing benefits because rents on council properties were controlled by a tribunal and set at a rate a manual labourer could afford and a semi skilled blue collar factory worker could afford to keep a family on.

And that’s before we start on that bloody VAT which only one of the contenders for the 2017 tory party leadership, Dominic Rabb, had the guts to state he would abolish now we are free of the demonic EU who invented it.

If you’ve never been in business on your own account you can’t fully understand how truly regressive and insidious that bastard child of the european hegemony is. Let us suffice to say before 1973 anyone suggesting they impose purchase tax on tampons and jaffa cakes would rightly be thrown off the terrace of the house of commons and probably at low tide so they broke their neck on the stony scree below rather than dissolved in the chemical swill that was the Thames at that time

But enough of the hypocrisy of the left who tax the lower income bracket more heavily than the wealthier. Let us now move to the hypocrisy of the right who are keen to focus entirely on their mantra of no increase in the basic rate of income tax, whilst simultaneously hiking up a whole range of stealth taxes, first by not moving the starting rate of tax bands so as to ensnare more every tear, increasing the cost and the workload, snd inventing ever more invisible stealth taxes to skin you with.





AND Mein Kampf.

Doublespeak.

From ww2 onwards the Empire was a net cost to the UK, that is why the retreat from Empire was so rapid. 

The voice of the Left...

Did anyone remember to tell him that Gaza hasn't been occupied by Israel for 18 years? Land for peace!

Of course it is, any selection based on an attribute is discrimination, the point is that levelling up, whatever it is, is not a race based selection. The whole point as regards 'historic racism' is that the vast majority of people believed that making a judgement as regards someone based on the colour of his skin was just plain wrong. Now it seems the left think that some must be judged by the colour of their skin and must be discriminated against to correct an historic injustice the level of which is uncertain and the continuance of which is a crime; even worse for which the individuals upon whom that new discrimination is enacted have no responsibility for the injustices or the crimes for which they are being discriminated against.