Quote Originally Posted by Redshank View Post
Two things needed to start fixing this country...

1. A truly democratic electoral system not the sham that we have now.

2. Address the inequality issue. Until the drain of wealth to the uber rich is slowed and ultimately reversed nothing will change, in fact things will get worse. There must be a wealth tax of some description otherwise we will all become poorer - including the government of the day.

Unfortunately, sham democracy and redistribution of wealth to the rich is at the heart of neoliberalism, and both main parties subscribe to neoliberalism so nothing will fundamentally change.

Don't expect your living standards to do anything but deteriorate after this election. Same with public services, roads, rivers, NHS. It will all get much worse.
What we have is the end of the road for the political consensus the country has consistently voted for since 1979 whether that be the Conservatives or New Labour .

Too much power , too much political influence and probably way too much wealth placed in too few hands is the end result .

I've forgotten what the model is called but it goes like this , get 10 people together starting with the lowest paid through to low income , middle income , upper middle income and super rich and if you distributed $100 , $83 would go to the super rich and the $17 remaining would be distributed amongst the rest with the poorest only getting a $1 .

I personally believe that both the Conservatives and Labour know all of this and that they are aware of inequality despite the fact inequality is never added to their economic models .

Of course this is all very well but the scary thing is they haven't a clue what to do about it so instead they play a game of wack a mole , one mole gets wacked only for three or four more to appear and so inevitably nothing really gets done .

You could argue why should the super rich be the ones to solve inequality anyway ? , isn't that the government's job , the last time I checked it wasn't a crime to be super rich , it's not a crime to avoid tax either .

There's no government going to solve this the same as they aren't going to solve climate change either , they really aren't .