Much of what has been said I am in agreement with, however, I feel (rightly or wrongly) that it misses the true point.
Many many years ago income tax was established as a means of generating money to pay for wars being fought. The idea was that the tax would be scrapped as soon as the war was over, of course, that never happened and taxation became the predominent way to support a countries spending.
Next, with the invention of the internal combustion engine came a reliance upon a natural resource, crude oil. Whilst original finds were sufficient, demand outstrips supply and today we are faced with buying oil from countries that are less than friendly towards us.
War does nothing if not generate profits for certain corporations, amongst them are the oil companies. Currently we, as a country, are involved in TWO wars with the possibility of a third on the horizon. Wars against the two largest oil producing nations should tell you just how desperate the West is.
Irrespective of who did or didnt do what, the important thing is that you, me and everyone else are just Collateral Damage. The government isn’t deliberately attacking the industry, it is merely suffering the side effect of heavy oil reliance (as fuel).
Yes, it is easy to bleat on about the government and its conspiracy against the ‘lowly trucker’ who is just trying to do his/her job; yet seemingly harder to accept and appreciate that we are at war. OK, no bombs are dropping on our heads, no London blitz or blockades of the channel, but people are dying for a false flag of terrorism all in the name of oil.
There is nothing you can do. We wont blockade the refineries, revolt on the streets or overthrow the government; but we will moan about it all every single day. Why, because the great British spirit was broken by the likes of Thatcher and Blair, and Brown couldn’t care less whether you cycle to work or not. As a nation we are truely ‘whinging poms’.
The only real way is to take over our oil fields and nationalise them the way Chavez has done, then we can honour the promise made to the British people when oil was first discovered on these shores.
As for cheap labour. It generates an increase in profit which generates more tax which pays for more war. Billions of pounds are spent monthly killing people who did nothing to us, and you are indirectly paying for it.
For those who may say ‘so what’, well, maybe its just nice to have another viewpoint t times
