alt Hacker NewsWhile I sympathise and agree with the point, it’s easiest to blame political parties but the electorate are also to blame.
They simply want to have their cake and eat it too. Plenty of times post-GFC where parties have tried or proposed much needed reform only for the voters, gerrymandered by the press, to throw their toys out of the pram. Theresa May’s “demantia tax”, Starmer’s winter fuel allowance for example.
Sadly it feels like it’ll probably be taken out of everyone’s hand, through some sort of economic crash or worse, to get people to be realistic again.
> Starmer’s winter fuel allowance for example.
To me this is a prime example of the problem - they were really just fucking around at the edges anyway. It wasn't any sort of major reform. That old scene from Futurama often springs to mind -
"I say that your 3% Titanium tax goes too far!"
"And I say that your 3% Titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!"
I do agree the press are complicit though.