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Huge wrote:

Unlikely. He appears to be driven entirely by short-termism,
greed and spite, and the standard socialist motivation that
everything should belong to the State, to which everyone should
be beholden.

I agree. The job of local and central gummint these
days seems to be dedicated to squeezing more and more
money out of the proles..... either as a hidden under-
tax, or by a method that can be spun to look politically
acceptible (and if a pollie stands up on his hind legs
and utters the phrase "User Pays" one more time, I'll
bloody well throttle him.... the Users have already paid,
and paid, and paid.... all their working lives).

Note that there is no corresponding improvement in services.
The extra money is required to keep them all in the style
to which they have become accustomed, and to fund all those
index-linked pensions.

Rant over.

--
Tony Williams.