Government should be symbiotic

Not parasitic. It should help us or get out of our way.

Firms are dying under the weight of paperwork, taxes, supplementary 'fees' for things like the Money Laundering Regulations, Data Protection Act, specious qualification requirements and others. 

The unemployed and child rearing ought not to get given so much that their income becomes a barrier to gainful employment. The welfare trap is real and people are being pushed onto the scrapheap through unthinking charity.

Tax relief not tax credits. It costs money for the Revenue to take it off us and then give us some back and we fall for the con trick of being grateful.

The State needs to protect it's taxpayer base which is why it encourages people to have children but even that has gone awry. Too much under the existing Government have the feckless and idle scroungers given birth to an army of more feckless and idle, who will do as their parent (the State) instructs - claim every thing they have been told they are entitled to in later life. Alistair Darling's debt is going to be several thousand a head; it will be several tens of thousands per net tax payer. He has no mandate from our future selves to put us in this penury.

There are fewer and fewer net tax payers supporting more and more unproductive public sector workers* and dolescroungers. This is the way of madness. This is the way of anarchy. This is the way of bankruptcy. I do not believe there is a grand plan, that Gordon is a closet Marxist or Communist. It is easy to believe in triangulation. That while times were good money was thrown at anyone who asked for it (in full knowledge that there are a lot of decent people who will be loathe to ask for help) and then for Gordon to ride to the rescue when the wheels fell off. For me the fingerprints of incomptence and infantilisation are all over this nation. Nanny was meant to know best. Nanny knew jack shit.

* There are plenty of public sector workers who genuinely add value to this country. However, there are an army of back room jobsworths whose "work" is an unneccesary burden on the rest of us. It isn't that they would be better off unemployed but that they would be better off self-employed or in private employment earning a productive wage and contributing tax revenue.