It's occurred to me that UK isn't lying about protecting children, but what's meant is protecting children of the royalty from peasants who will need secure communication methods to organize.
It really boggles my mind though why these 'peasants' (not my word) keep voting for the Tories. They basically represent the top 1% which in a normal democracy is a non-starter to get a majority.
Britain now has a whole ruling class where even labour leaders have gone to rich private schools.
Ps: here in Holland it's not much better but I understand better why people vote for the party that doesn't actually represent their interests. With Britain I'm too far away to understand this.
Because for a while they were the only party who supported a free market. Labour wanted to nationalise all business until new labour arrived.
The Tories are shit, but if you believe (like me) that free enterprise is the best way to lift humans out of poverty , they were the best we had. Unfortunately now they are more interested in banning things and meddling in our personal lives.
Unlimited free markets have failed every time they've been tried. But the trees kept voting for the axe, because they thought its handle was one of them.
Market failure is a thing with insufficient oversight/regulation. But it's just as easy to cripple something by nationalizing and over regulating it.
Take the housing market, when there was no regulations we ended up with inadequate housing and the poor being housed in terrible conditions. Now we brought in all the wrong regulations and it's no longer just the poor who are struggling. Next we'll vote for universal rent control, do nothing else and sooner or later nobody will be able to move.
Edit: and if we completely nationalize it we might end up with inadequate commie blocks for everyone.
well.. I have no issue about ugly on the outside if the quality of the accommodation is adequate.
If you actually knew anything about soviet buildings this was pretty far from the truth. Multiple families were often assigned to share kitchens/bathrooms and often just one or two rooms per family to live in. They were not well designed, poorly heated and ventilated and generally pretty miserable places to live. It was not uncommon for the entire family to sleep huddled around the single kerosene heater.
They did get better as time went on but it wasn't really until the fall of the soviet union when a lot of these inadequate accommodations were demolished. Also i'm totally on board with having cheap to build ugly accommodation - so long as it's not 100% of the housing stock, By all means throw as much up as possible until we've housed all the poor, but what if i want something different?
The irony is that voters thought of free market for SMEs and regulation for big corporations* and the Tories did the opposite - big corporations have essentially a free reign and SMEs are crippled with high tax and regulation (e.g. IR35 to stop small service based business from operating, while exempting big corporations from it).
*(with the focus of getting them to pay taxes - HMRC even today literally has no idea about the scale of tax avoidance, because they don't audit big corporations).
Cause all the other ideologies got to implement their ideal world and it all lead back to the imperial great game board and caste system the Tories always proclaimed the natural order?
