Watched BBC Question Time since Gary Stephenson was on it. He's great of course.
Everyone else is exactly the same as why I stopped watching. The panel filled with pompous bootlickers and wankers who defend the status quo and the rich, even as they attack each other.
The audience full of barely coherent idiots whose questions miss the point where they make any sense at all.
The panel other than him is unanimous that Wealth Taxes can't work because they've been tried in some places, and those places then stop trying after a while.
I mean the obvious reason for that is that wealth taxes affect the rich and the rich run the country, so they stop those policies that effectively reduce their wealth.
Strange to jump to the conclusion that it's because they're ineffective.
#bbcqt #watching #ukpol
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