I had a conversation with a Labour supporting friend at the weekend. She’s far from nuts, not overly political, just instinctively pro ‘being nice’ and ‘looking after the unfortunate’.
The long and short of it is that she has no understanding whatsoever of business or the economy. She sees Britain as a very rich nation but with almost all the wealth trapped in a vault somewhere, with ‘billionaires’ controlling the keys. The government’s job, in her eyes, is to unlock that vault and shovel as much cash to ‘unfortunates’ as possible.
When I point out that crippling taxes on businesses and individuals inhibit growth she just agrees with me and suggests those taxes would be better if they were only aimed at the really wealthy. It’s incoherent but most of all it relies on a worldview that the left have carefully constructed so that they can give money to their clients. It’s going to end in disaster. Arguably it already has.