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An analogy regarding the elections

Jamesmac

So, I recently heard Reform UK is winning most of the seats in the current elections, and it has me worried. As a Transformers fan, I thought I'd rationalise it this way;

Ideally, we all want an Optimus Prime to lead our country, but unfortunately these days, that's not going to happen. Sometimes we're better off settling with Megatron, because it'd be worse if we had Starscream, which seems to be what's beginning to happen now! (Because we all know how that turned out!) (Edit: Ok, if you don't know how that turned out, he had this big coronation that got interrupted as he was killed off by Galvatron. And yes, this also works perfectly for the analogy.)

basically, what I'm trying to say is getting someone bad out and getting someone worse in is not the solution we need!

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  • Not being a trasformers fan, or even knowing what it is, I can't really comment, other than to say, the real test for Reform starts now, they've got control of some councils, but are they going to be able to do all the things they've promised? Somehow I doubt it, whoever runs councils is going to be cash strapped, theres no waste to cut, so how will they make savings?

    Labour have another 3 years before the next general election, so they do have time to sort stuff out, the chances are that Starmer will be forced out and someone else take over. I do think that a lot of the good stuff they've done has been overshadowed by international news and a media that is hostile and overmightly. That being said, they've done a lot of stuff which has been a disaster like the hike in employers NI contributions, large businesses might be able to absorb those costs, but for small businesses its a disaster. I'm all in favour of rises to the minum wage, people need to keep more of what they earn, it seems ridiculous that so many are universal credit even though they're in work, I think this skews the debate on the benefits bill. 

    Antoher problem is that we want champagne services on a beer budget, if we want Scandinavian levels of public services then we will have to pay Scandinavian levels of tax. I think that we pay to much tax in exchange for the services we recieve, but not enough to have the services we want, so in a sense we're stuck with the worst of both worlds. 

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  • Not being a trasformers fan, or even knowing what it is, I can't really comment, other than to say, the real test for Reform starts now, they've got control of some councils, but are they going to be able to do all the things they've promised? Somehow I doubt it, whoever runs councils is going to be cash strapped, theres no waste to cut, so how will they make savings?

    Labour have another 3 years before the next general election, so they do have time to sort stuff out, the chances are that Starmer will be forced out and someone else take over. I do think that a lot of the good stuff they've done has been overshadowed by international news and a media that is hostile and overmightly. That being said, they've done a lot of stuff which has been a disaster like the hike in employers NI contributions, large businesses might be able to absorb those costs, but for small businesses its a disaster. I'm all in favour of rises to the minum wage, people need to keep more of what they earn, it seems ridiculous that so many are universal credit even though they're in work, I think this skews the debate on the benefits bill. 

    Antoher problem is that we want champagne services on a beer budget, if we want Scandinavian levels of public services then we will have to pay Scandinavian levels of tax. I think that we pay to much tax in exchange for the services we recieve, but not enough to have the services we want, so in a sense we're stuck with the worst of both worlds. 

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