I agree with you, it's nice to get back to the earlier topic. Thanks for sharing your opinion here Sunshine.

I think we probably understand each other's relative political positions, living here as we do. So I don't need to explain "Old Labour" and welfare state to you. I'm simply someone who believes in higher taxes for the rich, abolition of the aristos, and redistribution by an ethically responsible government. Someone who, let's say, owns their own company and who has millions of pounds worth of assets, should pay their fair share in my book. They used to.

We don't pay half the taxes that you do, we pay the same actually. I looked it up and the top tax rate now starts at £34,000, which isn't that much higher than the average national income. We feel it as well, and it was especially difficult when only my husband was working. Two or more people living together, each earning just below the top tax rate, don't have to pay the top tax rate. Also unfair, if you ask me.

You say that you feel you see very little in return for what you do pay. Can I ask how you would like to benefit more personally from your tax money? Better transport? Better schools? More police? The problem is, if a conservative government got into power and slashed taxes, where would the money come from for those things, plus others like the NHS? We would see a reciprocal slash in services. People generally like it when politicians say they will cut taxes, but there are always consequences further down the road.