Most of what the UK achieved was built on socialism, well, a form of socialism, it worked for years, the UK's become increasingly broken and divided since the Tories changed from a system that worked incredibly successfully to Reeganomics, the only thing thats going to arrest the Uk's slide is returning to the model that worked and binning off Reeganomics. Every single one of the major issues in the UK has been caused by Reeganomics, if you follow a model like that, you're going to end up with a society like that and thats what's caused the UK to go to shit.
Any model for society is workable but can be easily broken by excessive greed. Capitalism could work fine without the excessive greed, in the old system we had socialism and capitalism running side by side in relative harmony, there wasn't this US ideal of smashing profit margins every year, banking and investment was conducted far more responsibly and that benefited the majority, because they could save and have bank accounts that would give them reasonable returns on their savings, they could borrow money without excessive interest and it was pretty well balanced. People got paid a fair wage for fair work because there wasn't the excessive greed or number of interested parties (investors) in businesses that wanted people working for as little as possible again to try and maximise and increase their profits year on year. People doing normal jobs, that would be zero hour contract jobs in today's Tory society could buy a house or get a council house in their early twenties, have 2 or 3 kids and feed and clothe them. Obsolesence and the witholding of the newest technology only to release it in phases a year to 18 months after each next higher tech model wasn't anywhere like as rife.
It's as you saym down to what really are a few very very greedy bastards who want more money than they can ever spend and are quite happy to see billions of other people suffer to achieve that
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