“Holy Mother of God! I hope you are a minority, the UK

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by Helen.

“Holy Mother of God! I hope you are a minority, the UK is well and truly over if you’re not!”
I am contributing to the UK every time I go to work, every time I pay tax so I am part of a majority, you are the minority. I really like the UK and feel lucky to live here, apart from the weather. You read the Daily Express and the Daily Telegraph; which I assume have already informed you that the UK is already well and truly over, with regular headlines along the lines of:
“Paedo gypsy asylum seeking gays are after your jobs, Britain.”

Just to discuss further a few of your points:
“Firstly, even the immigrants are leaving, if it’s such utopia in the goldfish bowl of socialist Labour, why would they leave?”
Because we live in an age of globalisation where people will follow work; that is their right, that was your right when you moved away: capitalism, not socialism.
Not sure what you mean by the comment on exporting benefits?
“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.”
No what I’m arguing is that capitalism also results in a dynamic movement of skilled professions across the world. You have left this country, but someone willing to work for less than you, with the same skills may have taken your place. If you are appalled by this concept, maybe you should rethink your status as a capitalist; you only seem to love this concept when it suits you financially.
“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. “
This seems plausible but also anecdotal; however it’s ironic that you have demonstrated a limited amount compassion in your posts.
“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?”
Is this a realistic attempt to explain what happens to tax when it’s distributed? What about the ambulance I might need to ring, the police assistance I might need, the teachers I might want to teach my kids, the army I want to defend my country, the doctors and nurses I might rely on etc etc. Will I have to write cheques for them too? (Actually, that’s probably what you ultimately want people to do). You haven’t got a balanced view when it comes to use of tax. Not surprising as you aren’t a UK tax payer.
“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.”
If you read my post, my point was that the press find and publish cases such as the man fathering 8 children to 8 women and people like you use it as an excuse to wash your hands of all the other people in receipt of government support who are hard working, decent people. You associate all people on benefit with the father of 8, and the 8 mothers of >=1.
This father of 8 scenario will happen regardless of who is in government because there will always be stupid selfish irresponsible people. I’m not daft enough to let it detract from my belief that the government have a responsibility to help people when they need it, many of these people are just as decent and hard working as the next. I wasn’t making a party political point. If you believe any government could completely eliminate societal problems such as these, please elaborate.