The State: A Burden Become Unbearable
The British people were once free. Not absolutely free, no society has ever achieved that, but free in a real sense, with the State kept on a short leash and its power limited by both custom and necessity. That nation is gone. We live now under a government so bloated, so intrusive, so suffocating in its reach, that it bestrides every area of our lives like a grotesque colossus, demanding money and obedience without public support.
It has become tyrannical not in the jackboot sense of an old-fashioned dictatorship, but in an inhuman bureaucratic nightmare, a thousand regulations and petty taxes binding us tighter than prison bars. The tragedy is that this tyranny is paid for by us, the working people, the pensioners, the savers, through a cancerous system of taxation that has metastasised into the biggest single expense of our lives.
The whole piece is well worth reading as a reminder of the absurd, cloying bureaucratic tyranny which has sucked the life, the vital spark out of our freedom and almost everything we once valued.
Also worth reading because there is not the slightest sign of meaningful reform, no bonfire of the quangos, no hint of more productive spending, no sign of any official realisation that things are becoming worse.
Government in Britain has become the single greatest threat to our liberty and prosperity. Its taxation devours our income, its regulations suffocate our enterprise, its failures impose yet further costs on us. It is tyrannical not only in its hunger for control but in the sheer arrogance with which it squanders the fruits of our labour. The doctrine of Net Zero epitomises this arrogance, a delusion used to demonstrate virtue while imposing austerity on everyone else. The welfare state is another, keeping millions dependent in order to justify the existence of the bureaucrats who administer it. Law and order, health and education, all are failing, despite or perhaps because of, the endless flood of taxpayer money.
The truth is stark: the State offers appallingly bad value for money. We are compelled to fund it at levels that consume the largest share of our income, only to be met with incompetence, corruption, and decay. It has ceased to be a servant and become a master, demanding more while delivering less, eroding both our prosperity and our freedom.
The truth is stark: the State offers appallingly bad value for money. We are compelled to fund it at levels that consume the largest share of our income, only to be met with incompetence, corruption, and decay. It has ceased to be a servant and become a master, demanding more while delivering less, eroding both our prosperity and our freedom.
8 comments:
I now think of government in this country as a 'fat berg' blocking the sewers. Too much rich fat has solidified.
There is some talk of a 'Great Reform Bill' in the next government which will flush the blockage away. See https://capx.co/we-need-a-great-reform-bill-time-to-start-writing-it . Perhaps the time has come.
DJ - I'm sure the time has come, but are Conservatives the party to trust? It seems unlikely at the moment. They have people who know well enough what the problems are and how they could be tackled, but they attract craven wets who bend at the first sign of substantial opposition.
It is hard not to be pessimistic and depressed about this Nation. We do not make much, we do not produce much and our biggest money maker just juggles money belonging to overseas entities while the rest of us, the lucky ones, live in a theme park for foreigners. But even they will not come unless they have an overwhelming desire to see humongous Mercedes logos, sometimes rotating, and mega hectares of stained ( dirty ) glass. All linked with a nationwide cat's cradle of Chinese made metal cable strung from Indian made pylons.
Doonhamer - I agree, it is hard not to be pessimistic and depressed about this Nation. It is easy enough to take satisfaction from at least some aspects of daily life, but the bigger picture is bleak.
A while ago I came across an observation by Xi Jinping who said that China had to focus on manual work. It seems to be important, even in the home. This morning I stacked a load of wood-burner logs ready for winter and it's a satisfying thing to do.
What more can I say, having said the same for the last 30 years? And how in Gods name do we break out of it?
Tammly - I don't think we can break out of it unless something else is going on which will change our direction whatever the government does.
History shows that your comment is very true. Things do come unexpectedly out of the blue.
Tammly - I'm sure there is something impersonal going on, as if government is being redefined, political parties have become irrelevant and the services we actually need are coming into sharper focus.
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