Holy Mother of God! I hope you are a minority, the UK is well and truly over if you’re not!
Firstly, even the immigrants are leaving, if it’s such utopia in the goldfish bowl of socialist Labour, why would they leave? By the way, it’s very easy to export any benefits you might be entitled to after your temporary stay as well, so I imagine you will live a lot more cheaply in say Poland than the UK on the money they hand out.
Secondly, the numbers of people leaving are majority skilled (harder to recruit, engineers, doctors, architects, nurses). Now you are arguing that it doesn’t matter because we can just import some more immigrants to do those jobs.
Here’s what you don’t know, UK skilled expats are amongst the highest paid in the world wherever they are because we are so respected for our hard work ethic, our compassion, our attitude to working and our ability to get a job done properly and we take responsibility for doing a job – we have the best skilled labour. You can’t import these traits from the sub-continent or even the Mediteranean, it’s unique to us as British people, we set examples to the rest of the world believe it or not!
“Can you clarify this question please, I’m not sure what you mean? : “If income tax was abolished tomorrow and the Government announced that the benefits of the non-working family next door was allocated to you instead on a charitable basis, would you turn up with a cheque each month for the full amount of your tax and national insurance? I seriously doubt it.””
Mr GB says no more income tax for you to pay, instead what you would normally pay in tax and national insurance is to be given as a voluntary charitable donation every month to the family next door who don’t work…it saves on the paperwork and just makes the redistribution of your tax more simpler. How many cheques would you hand over?
I resent paying a high level of taxes to dossers. I don’t mind paying taxes at a reasonable level but I resent being screwed out of them and having no choice as to what they are spent on and whether they are lining the moat of some politician’s castle.
“Society’s problems are unfortunately there for everyone to see. Deeper thinking will reveal that we should look at the ways to promote social responsibility through education and health advice.” And Labour have been so successful at this haven’t they? 13 years later.
I’m sorry, but the fact that we are not there is not our loss but the UK’s, we were the ones paying in and taking nothing back out and now we’re not paying tax at all yet we can walk in at any time and abuse the system if we wanted to and the skills we have that are needed by the UK are being utilised elsewhere. I would rather slit my own throat than vote another Labour government in.
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