Originally posted by vista
I have some sympathy with that now, ever since the current Chancellor started finding stealthy ways to grab more and more money from me, and the IR started bullying people into paying tax they shouldn't be paying.
But it is wrong to suggest that "all politicians are the same".
I have paid more tax under Labour governments - the second half of the seventies when I started work, and the last five years - than I have under the other party.
Yet through that time, the things that tax revenue is now spent on have not changed greatly. Hospitals still have similar waiting lists, trains are still late, crime is still increasing, schools are different but no better.
So from that point of view, it seems to me that all politicians do a similar job - it is just that Labour politicians do it more expensively and with more complex systems than the others.
Therefore, if I consider economic grounds alone, I'd rather not hire Labour politicians to run the country for me.
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