The ultra rich dodge taxes on 20+ trillion dollars. In other news, water is damp.

[Sneezeguard]

Holy shit if we cut off the cayman islands overthrew it and raided the banks everyone who took part would probably end up with 100 million!

Who's with me?

 

[SonicWaffle]

But that doesn't end there, oh no, once ol' Gordon was evicted from his position in the most unbloody of ways, a coalition government was established with one, very big role: Protect our sovereignty against those who would seek to turn us into just another europian nation.

Bwahahahaha!

Yes, our current government are entirely concerned with protecting the sovereignty of the nation and not, say, pretending that they have the faintest idea what a pasty is or trying frantically to remember the last time they bought a pint of milk.

Our government, like most other governments, have one very big role; getting themselves re-elected. They will say and do whatever they think will get them the most votes, and since the right (and particularly the right wing newspapers) are currently attempting to pretend that all our problems can be laid at the feet of Europe that's what they'll blame. If tomorrow the tabloids blamed Britain's problems on our lack of a pubic wig manufacturing industry and backed it up with a YouGov poll, you'd better believe Cameron and chums would be on the front lines talking about how much they enjoy their merkins.

 

[SonicWaffle]

It's all very well having a go at the "rich" but even if "the rich" could be defined in any real meaningful fashion, they wouldn't all be evil tyrants who inherited mass wealth and live in diamond castle using children has footstools, in the same way that benefit claimants aren't all work shy thieves.

Therein lies a part of the problem, though; in Britain today (and from what I've read, America too) benefit claimants are demonized to a point beyond the ridiculous. It's very, very frequently implied - though rarely outright stated, at least in prominent and faux-neutral media, the subtext is so blatant as to practically be text - that they're all skiving scumbags, we have government ministers coming out and telling poor people to stop having children or that working cash-in-hand is morally wrong. We have no similar backlash against the rich. We may complain about them but there doesn't seem to be any media-led fury against all those rich bastards. Sometimes we'll have an expenses scandal or be mildly annoyed at Jimmy Car for his (entirely legal) tax dodging, but it isn't the deep and abiding loathing aimed at people who claim the JSA.