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I think that was more true when I came to the UK in 2016. It feels like today there’s increasing acceptance that the mythic “tax the rich” well is not as deep or as well-supplied as it seemed during Occupy or even upon Corbyn’s Labour leadership election victory.
Seen on Reddit literally an hour ago:
New calls to increase personal tax allowance from £12,570 to £45,000
The comments are, as you might expect, supportive of the general thrust of this idea (consensus seems to be that £45,000 is too much, we should "merely" increase it to the minimum wage) and proposals to make up for the tax loss are the usual "tax Amazon", "fight tax fraud" etc. etc. without realizing just how big of a black hole they need to fill.
I have zero faith left that the common man will ever see sense. The good ending for humanity is probably to keep feeding him antinatal propaganda until his TFR drops to below 0.5 and his numbers slowly dwindle away over the next few hundred years while we create sensible human beings through genetic engineering of zygotes incubated in artificial wombs to replace the lost people.
If the system isn't working for the people of Uk they might as well Starve the Beast.
They all blame austerity, ironically, for causing their current economic malaise
More evidence for the "Brits only sound smart because of their accents" thesis.
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People on that Reddit are especially stupid. On the UKpolitics subreddit there was some good discussion about UK’s fiscal situation and some actually highly upvoted replies saying that the 20% band should be raised to 30% and the personal allowance should probably fall to the ~£8k range.
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