A country with a national debt that cannot, ever, be serviced, and still growing, so much for our wonderful economy, i blame neither of the two main parties nor the fading lib dems, each are as bad as the other and are all equally to blame with the foolish people who elected them on false promises and spin.

Their only answer is to continue the housing bubble by constant increasing demand...elephant in room...and our housing bubble and it's reason seems to be the basis of our economy now, it doesn't take a genius to work out this is going to come a sticky, and increasingly painful end, the longer things stay like this.

There really is no money for repairing/replacing our wrecked infrastructure, and not just the roads, it was never designed to cope with the population, still growing by 1/2 million a year, that we have now...they are fiddling whilst the country burns.

However

''I once wrote to my local, tory MP (and no - I didn't vote 'em in) and received a reply of: "We will not be dictated-to by the electorate on what we decide to spend taxation on". I wrote back with a simple "Wanna bet?"

Next election - she realised that in reality, she did in fact need to listen to the electorate, because she was out! I wrote her a final letter to congratulate her on realising the facts. Too funny.''

has cheered me up no end, thankyou, the way things are going she won't be the only one out, if the status quo had some nasty shocks in 2016, wait until they've welched on the referendum result to see a lot more smacked back side faces come the next election, the difference now is that at least 17 million people have at long last realised the govt, the BBC (especially) and the MSM in general are not their friends and are not to be trusted, hah fake news indeed, we know where to find that just switch the idiot box in the corner on or pick up a rag.

Edited by gordonbennet on 14/12/2016 at 15:23

Do I ask for too much with the tax revenues running into approximately £40+ billion per year (yes BILLION!))? It's an embarrassment to the nation.

It's approx £6 billion so no where close to your £40 billion.

Also you might want to call it Road Tax but that's not what it is called and if you want to join forces with anyone to get the money spent on just the roads then you do need to call it what it is otherwise you look foolish.

And it's not been spent on just the roads since 1937 so would think you will have an uphill struggle getting a change now.

I really do not care what you call it, it still has to be paid, the annoying thing is, next year (if then) it is allegedly being spent on the roads ( I do not believe it) at least untill this argumentative government think of something else to spend it on!