Originally Posted by
kosman
i'm afraid warrens right,if everything stopped for a week then the goverment would be forced to do something,but all the sheep proved last week they will pay no matter what the price so whats the point? the whole country needs to do something,not just a few petrolheads.
and even if they messed things up for a week, the government will NOT give in to civil disorder. They will just put more laws in place to beat us into submission.
motorists are a obvious cash cow the government just cant do without at present and for the next decade or more.
Originally Posted by
Rogeyboy
Another thing to protest about is foreign aid, we give out billions to countrys with better or faster growing economies than our own...
Unemployment benefit - the numbers who receive it are growing everyday...
Immigrants, people coming in an taking our jobs and claiming our benefits!
As rab suggested, revolution or a complete collapse of our democracy is the only thing that will achieve the necessary changes to the welfare state and the issues you mention to free up enough cash to reduce fuel tax.
The problem is weve taken decades to create this corrupt welfare state and corrupt public sector. It will take decades to change it back to anything sensible.
The simple fact is the benefit vote and public sector vote is too great for any politician to risk loosing significant votes by even suggesting the necessary changes, let alone actually getting them to happen.