We are in the early days of a General Election.
Apparently many young people are being drawn to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party.
Corbyn is a socialist - Momentum the engine now driving Labour are probably to left of socialism - closer to communists - which is extremely worrying!
I am older of course. I have lived through socialist governments and know they do not work - have never worked over the longer term. Of course I have seen communism fail spectacularly wherever it has been tried ( have you read Animal Farm) and is now totally discredited. (Sadly too many young people seem to understand very little about our political journey since the end of the 2nd World War - and know very little about the lessons learned the hard way.)
I could write a lot about socialism - but here is a simple story that will illustrate succinctly one of reasons socialism does not work - (sadly because it is contrary to human nature - idealists get real).
The ant worked hard all summer collecting food and preparing his home for winter. The grasshopper played all summer not doing any work. When winter came the grasshopper had no food. No worries, the grasshopper elected a socialist leader that took away 40 percent of the ants food and gave it to the grasshopper. The next year the ant thought what is the point of working hard if the government is going to take it off me. He decided that the new government would have to take care of him the same way so he played all summer too, as did all the other hard working producing ants. When winter came, there was no food and they all starved to death.
Idealists do not like it but the reality is a society has to earn it first before it can give it away - which is why it is so important conditions are created where businesses flourish (to generate the income to pay taxation) in a compassionate society. Socialists are not interested in supporting business - they see them as cash cows to rape and pillage. I believe in a Welfare State where the weak and the vulnerable are supported but where does the money come from? Is it earned? If it comes from borrowing it won't be long before the nation is in trouble and that effects just about everyone in a negative way.
My life long experience under Labour governments is the ant and the grasshopper scenario inevitably plays out - businesses fold or move abroad - unemployment rises - the tax take falls and the country builds up a massive and unsustainable debt.
The Tories then get elected to clean up the mess! They have to prescribe strong medicine. They have to get income and expenditure back into reasonable ratio. No one likes the medicine but grudgingly know it is what the patient needs. When are we going to learn? Are we really going to give 5 years to Labour to set us back a decade or more. Surely not. When will the nation learn?
And then there is the 6th formers - the not so Liberal Democrats!
Apparently many young people are being drawn to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party.
Corbyn is a socialist - Momentum the engine now driving Labour are probably to left of socialism - closer to communists - which is extremely worrying!
I am older of course. I have lived through socialist governments and know they do not work - have never worked over the longer term. Of course I have seen communism fail spectacularly wherever it has been tried ( have you read Animal Farm) and is now totally discredited. (Sadly too many young people seem to understand very little about our political journey since the end of the 2nd World War - and know very little about the lessons learned the hard way.)
I could write a lot about socialism - but here is a simple story that will illustrate succinctly one of reasons socialism does not work - (sadly because it is contrary to human nature - idealists get real).
The ant worked hard all summer collecting food and preparing his home for winter. The grasshopper played all summer not doing any work. When winter came the grasshopper had no food. No worries, the grasshopper elected a socialist leader that took away 40 percent of the ants food and gave it to the grasshopper. The next year the ant thought what is the point of working hard if the government is going to take it off me. He decided that the new government would have to take care of him the same way so he played all summer too, as did all the other hard working producing ants. When winter came, there was no food and they all starved to death.
Idealists do not like it but the reality is a society has to earn it first before it can give it away - which is why it is so important conditions are created where businesses flourish (to generate the income to pay taxation) in a compassionate society. Socialists are not interested in supporting business - they see them as cash cows to rape and pillage. I believe in a Welfare State where the weak and the vulnerable are supported but where does the money come from? Is it earned? If it comes from borrowing it won't be long before the nation is in trouble and that effects just about everyone in a negative way.
My life long experience under Labour governments is the ant and the grasshopper scenario inevitably plays out - businesses fold or move abroad - unemployment rises - the tax take falls and the country builds up a massive and unsustainable debt.
The Tories then get elected to clean up the mess! They have to prescribe strong medicine. They have to get income and expenditure back into reasonable ratio. No one likes the medicine but grudgingly know it is what the patient needs. When are we going to learn? Are we really going to give 5 years to Labour to set us back a decade or more. Surely not. When will the nation learn?
And then there is the 6th formers - the not so Liberal Democrats!
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