New Labour famously came to power by telling the middle classes that old style socialism was dead. After twelve years we know that it was deceit all along. We saw the size of the state grow and grow. We saw ever larger parts of the population being pushed into state dependency. We saw state employment going up and up. Taxes going up by stealth, so we wouldn’t notice. All of this resulting in the economic crash. Caused by Labour’s policies; yet used to attack capitalism and used to increase the size of the state even further.
It was die-hard socialism all along.
Yesterday the masks came down. Now even class struggle is back. 50% tax for the rich will make the Socialist Worker’s readers swoon.
The rich will be off soon, if they haven’t moved already. The rich never pay tax: they pay tax experts.
It's the same with companies. Many companies have moved abroad: Shell, Hiscox, Beazley, Omega, Shire Pharmaceuticals, Henderson, Charter, Rhodes, Experian and Invesco all have escaped Brown’s British Dream.
United Business Media, WPP, Astra Zeneca, Diageo, Amlin, Smith & Nephew, International Power, BP, BAE Systems, Brit Insurance, Vodafone, ITV, Aegis, and GlaxoSmithKline have either expressed concern or have threatened to leave. These lists are non-exhaustive. Many banks have contingency plans to move departments to Switzerland .
We are not killing the golden goose: we are chasing it off the farm. What remains is the middle class cow: to be milked. And milked. And milked.
