Jackie Danicki

I think I’ve done a relatively good job lately of keeping a lid on my depression and rage over the horrendous state of the UK’s political system and culture. So let’s just say I agree wholefreakingheartedly with Perry de Havilland:

[A] culture of entitlement without responsibility is not just a consequence of the welfare state, it is pretty much the objective of the welfare state. As a result it seems odd that the political class who presided over the growth of the all encompassing nanny state should decry the fact that people do not take responsibility for their health or behaviour when the very system they created is designed to prevent people paying directly for the health consequences of their life styles.

…[A]ll this dances around the issue that people buy what they want not because the labelling says this or that, but because they like it and there is no clear economic motivation to worry all too much about long term medical consequences when the NHS takes care of all that stuff. It is almost as if the Tories, LibDems and Labour are shouting at each other across the floor of Parliament, all pretending not to notice the large and very hungry elephant standing in their midst who is crapping all over the statist paradise that we would all live in if only we had a few more regulations.

American friends who think government-run healthcare would be a godsend: This is part of why I want to weep when you start on that shit.

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