[an9n]

A smart government would incentivise the population to invest in British industry, which would develop the economy and reduce this ridiculous industrial-investment-killing monster in the shape of the property market. But, this is England: a place where good ideas that might benefit the masses are generally either strangled at birth or sold off for a pittance.

[dazc]

A nation of shopkeepers has become a nation of buy to let parasites.

[an9n]

Something like that. It really is tragic. Our 'leaders' seem to have no ideas beyond a relentlessly expanding, relentlessly interfering state.