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I think it's a negatively compounding quick-fix. The more money that leaves the country as profits from foreign investment, the less there is left to invest yourself, so you need to go looking for even more, on worse and worse terms as you get smaller and smaller and they get bigger and bigger.
This is like your plumber knocking on the door to tell you that you have a leaky tap.
This means foreign governments and private companies can extract money from UK 'customers', recycle it into buying yet more UK assets, strengthen themselves and - whenever they feel like it - deliberately run critical UK infrastructure into the ground for strategic reasons (see British Steel). All safe in the knowledge that anything they do is underwritten by UK taxpayer bailouts.
Our own politicians are pimping us out like crack whores and not only to China. Just think for a minute about how monstrously dependent the NHS is on Microsoft and what that means.
The biggest threat to national security isn't jihadis or the Russians, it's privatisation and global free market capitalism.
Then how do you explain this:
Sadiq Khan's fault.
I haven't been watching much TV this decade but I enjoyed Vigil from 2021. It's a police/conspiracy drama set on a Trident nuclear sub.
I checked out the Greens economic policy and it's deep, comprehensive and well thought out. The wealth tax is just one component of it.
Not only are they not paying their fair share of tax but they are out-competing everyone else in the market, making everything more expensive.
They are a burden.
Everyone knows that it HAS though
Because weakening our democracy, sovereignty and real economy leaves us unable to protect ourselves from any threats, whereas the other two are just instances of threats. They aren't fundamental and systemic.