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The tax system is broken, the economy is tanking, the people are indifferent. The reality is this has been a slow decay of the British empire for many decades.
by asim 3y ago
The tax system is broken, the economy is tanking, the people are indifferent. The reality is this has been a slow decay of the British empire for many decades. All the money was being made via colonisation, nothing is made at home. Foreign money now enters to subsume many of the assets the Brits cannot maintain. The UK at this point is a shell corporation. I thought a business minded Rishi was going to do something but he's being held back by his peers and unfortunately it's too far gone to recover. We need a way for the country to make money, we need to be making a profit and that means we need to be investing significantly in producing next generation infrastructure on all levels. We don't do that. Countries in the middle east are reinventing themselves. Look at Qatar moving from pearls to oil and gas and then diversifying those investments further much of which is coming here to the UK. The country has rethink it's approach. Taxes aren't going to get lowered through efficient use of funds. It's going to happen by producing something of value for the rest of the world.
- lifestyleguru 3y agoYeah sure that's all valid points, but will Harry reunite with his family?
- DrScientist 3y agoJoking aside - telling stories, entertainment, sport etc is something the UK is actually good at. Higher education is another world leading sector.
- dukeyukey 3y agoCompared to it's European peers, the UK is ridiculously good at: * Basically anything creative (especially literature but also film/tv, and not bad at games) * Tech (not American levels but still better than all it's neighbours) * Education * High-end aerospace and automotive
- ghusto 3y agoI agree that the UK has had a paper economy for a long time now, but to a lesser extent, so do other EU countries. Not that I don't think this is a mistake, only that it should show that this is not the issue. The issue is pessimism, something the British excel at. Economic investment and stock markets obviously don't do well with that. Unpopular opinion, but Brexit didn't _need_ to be a disaster. It was made so by the negativity surrounding it. A large part of the shit-show was investors getting spooked and moving abroad, because of all the doom-and-gloom it became a self fulfilling prophecy.
- ghusto 3y agoOh what a surprise, symptoms of having come up against the though-police; downvotes without arguments.
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