Labour won't get into power for the next 2 or 3 General Elections.

Doesn't matter how much Labour try to slag the Government down with their little schemes, Labour won't get into power for the next 2 or 3 General Elections.


Hopefully, because by then Tories really will have no excuse for their incompetence and we can check how much bankrupt Britain (Their words not mine) owes by then.

They always seem to have something that comes along and saves them. Thatcher it was the Falklands (By design or incompetence? another argument) The Cameron, May & Johnson, run its been covid. We won't bring Brexit into it because everything was going to be so much better, so it can only be covid.

There's one gamble that did pay off.... the Vaccinations.  Although Johnson is like the gambler that plays the fruit machines puts in £900 wins £400 and claims he's won.

The rest of the gamble/incompetence has cost fortunes, the one pays for the rest, although we are not seeing any financial evidence of that yet.

Upping NI to "Fund the NHS" just means that those with money pay less, normal for the tories.
I'm all for funding the NHS but everyone should pay the same percentage and not when the Tories are spunking our money up the wall ...to coin a phrase.

And let's not forget we would not have the NHS if it wasn't for William Beveridge (Beveridge Report 1942) who was Liberal and the Labour government who put it in place although Bevin couldn't get all measures through which is why doctors surgeries are privately owned to this day amongst other things.

The NHS was put in place when the UK really was bankrupt after the war. Would the Tories have done the same?

I'm sure you have availed yourself of NHS services over the years?

What would your circumstances be had you had to rely on the insurance-based model that was in place before the war that few could afford?

Your treatments and drugs over the years would have cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and it's unlikely you would still be covered on insurance.  Unless you're lucky enough to have not needed it in which case what a relief to know that it's always there as a safety blanket for that unlucky moment.

LINKS

https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxes-explained/national-insurance-contributions-explained

https://www.income-tax.co.uk

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/jan/28/middle-income-earners-hit-hardest-national-insurance-higher-percentage-uk-rishi-sunak

https://www.if.org.uk/2021/09/09/national-insurance-young-people-and-lower-earners-hit-the-hardest

https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/a-caring-tax-rise

https://www.sochealth.co.uk/national-health-service/the-sma-and-the-foundation-of-the-national-health-service-dr-leslie-hilliard-1980/a-national-health-service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beveridge

Could Mayhem still come out of it a winner?

What is clear from the current Brexit shambles is, Theresa May is probably going to go down as the worst PM ever.

Winston Churchill was described as Pig Headed and Theresa May certainly gets that mantle. She has forged ahead on her own Brexit deal regardless of advise from others and regardless of massive historic vote losses. In this regard she has not brought people together she has alienated and divided.  In any other point in time a PM facing such losses would have to resign, they would have no option.

Now she has the spectacle of her own party voting against a three line whip, which is almost unheard of and they are not going to be sacked for doing so. Truly unprecedented times.

However all is not lost, Churchill made massive mistakes at Gallipoli with his decision to attack Turkey on its Dardanelles coast, at Gallipoli. The ensuing battle lasted over eight months,  involved a total of about a million men on both sides, of whom nearly one half became casualties. The failed campaign led to the humiliation of the British. Churchill was dismissed from his cabinet position, excluded from the War Council, and allowed no hand in the further conduct and administration of the war.

But that was WWI, in WWII Churchill became a national hero with his rousing speeches.

Fast forward to the 80s and Thatcher another Pig Headed politician not known for taking advise, was heading for almost certain defeat in an election until (in my opinion) she engineered the Falklands war, thereby saving herself and becoming a national hero. Although in my mind the real heroes were the troops and not Thatcher. (see this link for my blog on why I feel she engineered the Falklands war)

Is May on Churchill's or Thatcher's level, probably not, shes shown herself to be far more incompetent and a Narcissistic incompetent to boot.  She is only still in power because the Tories need a fall guy for the Brexit fall out. Any other time and they would have had the knives in the back just like they did with Thatcher.

With parliament voting today against a no deal Brexit (although the default legal position is still Deal or no Deal on 29th). We could find, with the prospect of a weakened Brexit or Brexit delay some Brexiteer's could go for another vote on Mays deal on or around the 26th March. (see this link for my prediction on that one.)

Could Mayhem still come out of it a winner?  Personally I don't think so but ...

Only time will tell.




LINKS
https://garysoapbox.blogspot.com/2016/12/was-falkands-war-thatchers-gamble.html
https://garysoapbox.blogspot.com/2019/03/brexiteers-see-their-goal-slipping.html