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Each time I wonder if moving out of the UK was the right choice it gets justified whenever I look over in its general direction.

smcl 4y ago
If you don't mind me asking, where did you move to? I sometimes think the same thing in the time since I moved to Czech Republic. It's quite far from a utopia here but I feel like the most visible problems at least can be overcome. To me the UK feels subtly broken in an unfixable way - the main parties seem to believe that the problems are bad, but the causes are actually good.
- bsenftner 4y ago
  Some day, a remote maybe, a nation will realize it's greatest goal is the education of it's population. A generation into this realization, that nation will begin to threaten the global status quo. But being a nation of educated individuals, and not a nation led by educated manipulators, the manipulators efforts will appear childish and immature. That is what our civilization is today: immature and childish. We are large enough that political economics dictates the quality of our lives. Yet, we are immature enough that we still cling to religion and physical violence to achieve our goals. I wish I could sleep for a few generations, and wake to see a mature human race.
202206241203 4y ago
Probably a good move, we are about to enter a Labour government, I am afraid...
- badcppdev 4y ago
  You are saying you're afraid but I think if you look at the decisions the Tory government has made and the policies they've enacted then I don't think you are being very logical. The conservative government has seen: * Wide spread fraud (£££ contracts for friends of ministers + covid loan fraud) * Wide spread law breaking (covid lockdown laws) * MPs being charged with sexual offences ranging from assault to rape * Brexit policies, negotiations, and treaties that are chaotic and highly damaging to the economy * Inefficient social welfare programs that leave disabled people starving to death If you pay tax in the UK then I don't honestly see how you could be worried about a change in government. The conservatives are only capable of 'governing' by giving large amounts of tax payers money to private companies that extract a large amount of profit while delivering the minimum possible for the money.
  - 202206241203 4y ago
    Whatever government that is less likely to raise my taxes! Though you are right, Conservatives are not better than Labour these days. Everything tends to converge on some safe centre-left.
    - multjoy 4y ago
      >Whatever government that is less likely to raise my taxes! "I'm alright, jack"
  - xdennis 4y ago
    > Wide spread law breaking (covid lockdown laws) Under a Labour government there would have been much more covid laws to break. The conservatives have been terrible, but socialist governments around the world have been much more tyrannical.

smcl 4y ago

If you don't mind me asking, where did you move to? I sometimes think the same thing in the time since I moved to Czech Republic. It's quite far from a utopia here but I feel like the most visible problems at least can be overcome. To me the UK feels subtly broken in an unfixable way - the main parties seem to believe that the problems are bad, but the causes are actually good.

bsenftner 4y ago
Some day, a remote maybe, a nation will realize it's greatest goal is the education of it's population. A generation into this realization, that nation will begin to threaten the global status quo. But being a nation of educated individuals, and not a nation led by educated manipulators, the manipulators efforts will appear childish and immature. That is what our civilization is today: immature and childish. We are large enough that political economics dictates the quality of our lives. Yet, we are immature enough that we still cling to religion and physical violence to achieve our goals. I wish I could sleep for a few generations, and wake to see a mature human race.

202206241203 4y ago

Probably a good move, we are about to enter a Labour government, I am afraid...

badcppdev 4y ago
You are saying you're afraid but I think if you look at the decisions the Tory government has made and the policies they've enacted then I don't think you are being very logical. The conservative government has seen: * Wide spread fraud (£££ contracts for friends of ministers + covid loan fraud) * Wide spread law breaking (covid lockdown laws) * MPs being charged with sexual offences ranging from assault to rape * Brexit policies, negotiations, and treaties that are chaotic and highly damaging to the economy * Inefficient social welfare programs that leave disabled people starving to death If you pay tax in the UK then I don't honestly see how you could be worried about a change in government. The conservatives are only capable of 'governing' by giving large amounts of tax payers money to private companies that extract a large amount of profit while delivering the minimum possible for the money.
- 202206241203 4y ago
  Whatever government that is less likely to raise my taxes! Though you are right, Conservatives are not better than Labour these days. Everything tends to converge on some safe centre-left.
  - multjoy 4y ago
    >Whatever government that is less likely to raise my taxes! "I'm alright, jack"
- xdennis 4y ago
  > Wide spread law breaking (covid lockdown laws) Under a Labour government there would have been much more covid laws to break. The conservatives have been terrible, but socialist governments around the world have been much more tyrannical.