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You can probably thank Thatcher and the cabal of idiots dumber than lettuce that is the Tory party. Squeeze the poor, squeeze the state budget that even the pol
by netsharc 2mo ago
You can probably thank Thatcher and the cabal of idiots dumber than lettuce that is the Tory party. Squeeze the poor, squeeze the state budget that even the police force is under-resourced, give the money to their buddies.
E.g. with North Sea oil: https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/214768/economics/norway-uk-oil/ https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/214768/economics/norway-u...
Norway is rich and socialist. I was there a while ago and their billboards had ads from their national refugee council asking for donations... on the Friday evening there was a march for Palestine in downtown Oslo. Imagine how well that would go down in the UK "society".
- encom 2mo agoNeither Norway, nor any other Scandinavian country is socialist. We're just taxed up the arse.
- hammock 2mo agoWhich may be worse upon reflection: use capitalism to produce the goods, then taxation to redistribute them
- TheOtherHobbes 2mo agoThe problem with the UK is that the rulers are far more criminal than the people. They set out to rob the nation's wealth in the late 70s, and they largely succeeded.