On that, I suspect we agree at least in part.
The greatest trick the devil played was to convince people he exists. The second greatest was to burn every single recent PM or chancellor who even briefly publicly considers moving the dial on taxation.
What works in one territory may admittedly not automatically work in another, but I’ve long struggled with the notion that all of us are overly taxed when certain significant major European neighbours pay more; and evidence of pledges to ringfence 1p-2p in the pound of sufficiently high earners solely for use on health, education and transport has informed my three and a half decades’ worth of voting choices as much as any policy.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.