UK taxes are lower than almost anywhere in Western Europe.
https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-united-kingdom.pdf
That's why fuck all works here.
These are precisely the views that enable Putin's evil regime to invade Ukraine, and are why Ukrainians are fighting.
It's not some kind of coincidence that Putin's regime commits atrocities against Ukrainians and atrocities against terrorist suspects.
The argument was that our deterrent was what mattered.
Equally, there's no way anyone else is unleashing a nuclear response to the story of minor provocation Russia would likely use next.
...when you need the bulk of your security forces to stop normal citizens from protesting an unjust war, then gaps of your security net eventually happens, whether accidentally or by design.
It also buries once more the notion that a dictatorship is safer than a democracy. It is not, because...
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