....2/2....decreased. if the country wants the same standard of pension, healthcare, education etc then it has to be paid for - the only way of doing that is increased taxation but voters fund that unpalatable - hence we are stuck in a country with below standard services compared to our peers

When are politicians going to be honest about our economic state - honest about our ageing demographic, huge pension costs and huge welfare costs - honest about the cost of our health service with the ageing population - honest about the tax paying workers to pensioners ratio and how that has.....