Brexit? Zero cost. Corruption? Zero cost. It is amazing that the state is giving massive handouts to people in work, and they still complain that things are terrible. We are giving thousands of pounds per year to people on more than 3x the median salary, and your response is: more money please. We are spending £200bn/year on healthcare, fully universal..."why am I having to pay taxes for this? Things are so bad".
Okay...if you were on £50k, would you support the govt making thousands a year in transfers from you to people on £200k?
One reason why economic policy is so bad in the UK is that people genuinely cannot conceive of economic policy being made for anyone but them: planning, govt finance, monetary policy...every area, it is really quite excruciating.
It's a great deal for the people receiving pensions now because they massively underpaid contributions compared to the total pension they'll receive.
> ...if it is so good, would you have all your contributions paid into the state pension? No.
Of course not, because our contributions now are really going to pay the pensions of current pensioners. We are paying for the previous generation.
> Brexit? Zero cost. Corruption? Zero cost.
What? Ok this is some weird humour!
I'm guessing you don't have children because they actually promised to do it in a year. Nothing has changed yet. Also the extra funding for free hours works out at like 20p/hour which is way below what is needed for nurseries to break even on free hours.
I think you're massively overstating how good things are. Are taxes aren't high because they're paying for great services; they're high because they're paying for great fuckups. Brexit, corruption, too-good pensions deals, etc.