Well that’s it folks. George Osborne is set
to sell off the governments final 30% share of Royal Mail, raising £3 billon of
the £30 billion the government needs to find. Now apparently the NHS and
schools are protected from cuts but when you can amend laws like…erm I don’t
know the human rights bill, I guess you can do anything. I mean it’s not like
human rights are important, they were only set up to stop things like WW2
happening again, but who cares about 6 million dead Jews, right?
Now on the front end of this I can see that
the government need to raise some funds and selling Royal Mail is going to have
a lot less backlash than selling the NHS, which I’m still convinced the Tory
party will try and do at some point in the next 5 years. But have the government
explored other options? Or have they acted like the ignorant, narrow minded,
middle aged white men that they are and decided that the only way to raise
money is the tried and tested “sell off government shares” method, allowing for
the privatization of industries, the same one that brought this country to its
knees in the 80’s (thanks Thatcher).
Now I think the problem here is stuffy
nosed, upper class British tradition. The same one that makes the rest of the
world look at us and think of afternoon tea and cricket not forward thinking
politics. Well okay I guess the U.S.A look at us with their two party system
and their privatized health care but they only see those things at face value
they don’t see the NHS cuts that cause the 8 hour waits in A&E or the fact
that the majority of the country could be left wing inclined but have their
votes spread across three parties and go on to elect a right wing majority
government.
But back to the subject at hand this £30
billion deficit that needs reducing in three years and the measly £3 billion
that the sale of Royal Mail will gross. It seems to me that an answer to our
problems lies just across the pond, and then across some land and mountains to
finally arrive in Colorado. Yes, Colorado U.S.A. home of the Denver Broncos and
the Denver Omelet/Omelette and John Denver… well actually not John Denver. But
Denver is in Colorado, which is what I was trying to get at.
Colorado amendment 64 is what we are
talking about here, which allowed the legalization of
cannabis/marijuana/weed/pot/wacky backy meaning that in January 2014 shops
opened that sold drugs legally. What idiots, making drugs legal would lead to vast
crime and chaos and have no possible positive effects at all...apart from the
$53 million that was raised in taxes from the first year of sales. Going on today’s
market that’s nearly £35 million from a state with a population of 5.3 million
people less than 10% of the population of the United Kingdom.
I truly believe that this may be the
fastest way to clear that £30 billion. And for anyone who thinks that it’s a
bad idea I leave you with this. People will do drugs whether they are legal or
not, but this way drugs can be taxed the same way alcohol, tobacco and caffeine,
aspirin or whatever are. As well as this I believe it’s the perfect way to
cheer up this pretty hostile little island.
Pot cookies for everyone!
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