If you think the State should provide the essentials to keep society going, by collecting taxes and doing it for you, then you're a Socialist. If you think people should stand on their own two feet and the law of supply and demand will solve all the problems and provide what we need at a price we are willing to pay, then you're a Conservative. Naturally, neither system works perfectly by itself, so we need a Mixed Economy.
We've got a Conservative-leaning Mixed Economy at the moment and it's not working very well. To start with, the Banks, the very heart of it, had to be given a lot of money to prop them up!!!To do that we've had to reduce benefits to the disabled and sell school playing fields. Can that be right? But now matters have got even worse. We seem to be having to pay those lovely property-developers to property-develop! And remove anything that is hampering them, like planning permissions. And not even insist that they build houses normal people can afford to live in.
All our least favourite people are being handed out the dosh. Who's next? Will estate agents have to be subsidised to help them sell these houses that we can't afford to buy?
This blog is a plea for common sense in public policy. Our leaders don't seem to have any. They just make daft rules for us to follow. We need to assert our right to use our own good sense instead of ticking boxes which can only say 'yes' or 'no'.
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