David, whilst this has worked for you (I thought you were 39??) the benefit of the tax credit system, minimum wage, New Deal, etc just pales into insignificance when you consider the utter carnage that Labour have wrought onto the UK in the last 12 years in other areas.
How will these help when more of the high tax payers leave? Who will fund these initiatives then? For 2009/2010 benefits payments will exceed income tax revenue by around £25 billion https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5651825/Benefit-payouts-will-exceed-income-tax-revenue.html ).
The country is creaking and on the edge of bankruptcy overly supporting an over-populated society which it doesn’t trust to support itself.
The UK needs to be run more like a business than a charity for the next few years and Labour just don’t have the business sense in them to do it.
Cut costs, cut the perks, get rid of the dross and start making something worthwhile that other people want.
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