Obie wrote:It is not strange for socialist to become a conservative or socially or fiscally conservative.
The 17 years old might have been a Socialist, during the Thatcher days, and her oppression, but the rich and older wanderer is certainly not a Socialist.
Now as you grow richer your view are more aligned with the conservatives. Punish people who are most marginal in the UK, like the unemployed in the Uk, the defenseless migrant, the single parent on income support, the Youth trying to get a job and being on Unemployment benefit. Those are the people that Wanderer is against.
Again the Surcharge, is just a political rather than a financial thing. Many of the people being charged are paying taxes, putting a lot more in the UK than the take out, and never visited hospital in some case.
That's insurance tho, aside from any politico-social bias, £200 a year is fair for a new entrant, it's nothing and as I said, I paid far more even within the EU (well CH) for health insurance.
When I was 17 there was no Thatcher! In fact we had the worst ever labour Gov. under James Callaghan, if anything that should have shattered my Socialist ideal, instead it strengthened it - instead I got a visa to Brezhnev's USSR and went there an realised what a crock of shiit that was too. confused.com
I do ok now but always under the threat of having it taken away, such is the way of modern gov/tax, the next brown envelope may well be an enormous tax demand for not ticking box A or not accounting for SSAP 54..
We're not much different just looking from different angles, I have my hang ups, you have yours. And I respect you for them and that's not a platitude, hate platitudes!
What was the OP's question again?
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