Dear Editor,
It would appear that our correspondent suffers from a severe form of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
Has he still not worked out why the States voted for Trump as we voted for Brexit and Boris?
Farage has that knack of articulating what and how the man and woman in the street think.
They are not stupid.
To say they are stupid and wrong is to ape our chattering classes.
Besides, our welfare state, in its well-meaning generosity, is bankrupting us.
The population at large is taking out more than they are paying in.
Should he not be questioning all the payments that he lists?
Is there really a moral case for each payment?
Secondly, should the government, courtesy of us the taxpayers, be paying it?
Is it really the job of the government?
The origins of the welfare state go back to the National Insurance Act of 1911.
This resulted in the death of most local friendly societies and other societies set up by groups and communities to help each other when one or other member fell upon hard times.
That interventionist society has expanded relentlessly.
Now, if there is a problem, the automatic, unthinking response is to draw up another regulation.
A Civil Service that ran an empire in 1914 with 25k civil servants has now expanded to 250k.
And we are paying for all of them.
Is it not time to stop and think and start asking hard questions rather than yet again run a tape of rather dated opinions?
The hard facts do not support the statement that Brexit has cost us billions.
But that is for another day!
D Bradley
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