I'm not talking about increasing taxes, I'm talking about the system of collection. What is done once the system is in place is up to the politicians and therefore finally, to the voters. The British people don't like income tax and don't seem to understand the way indirect tax works. All they express is their unhappiness at paying at all!
Then they demand top class services. Basically it comes down to voter ignorance and newspaper scaremongering. If you want an example of that see the Daily Express front page today. How many people now believe we'll have a three day week and petrol rationing tomorrow?
No doubt everyone soon will be driving round with full tanks again and filling up every fifty miles...and who will we blame for this? The papers? No, the politicians.
Sometimes I despair. No wonder a third of us want to emigrate.