Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130415204132/@comment-6078851-20130419225256

the uk government did exactly the same thing for our banks' recent collapse and the morons who caused it still got their massive annual bonuses. what the majority of people don't realise is that banks could disappear overnight without the world being significantly affected: banks are supposed to hold and transfer money, nothing else.

the cafe closed due to lack of business. for the last 3 - 4 years uk businesses have been closing with an alarming rate of frequency. we're in one of the country's worst recessions and as the cost of living increases so are the taxes. there was a proposed bill, as part of the governments continuing 'austerity' measures, to increase tax revenues by a) a blanket tax increase for everyone, or b) a slightly higher tax increase only for those who earn over 100k (might've been 50k) a year. surprise surprise they opted to allow the rich to get richer and the poor stricken poorer and went with - a). not only that but to try and crack down on welfare cheats - everyone who is on government benefits because they're unfit to work must go through physicals to verify their claims (fair enough) - the government has given the 'physicals' contract to a french company who are paid regardless of the outcome, but they are given a commission based on how many people are removed from welfare, and as such there are swathes of people unfit for work who are now being forced into work, during a period where work is very hard to come by. all this is from the governments austerity measures, which can be traced straight back to the banks and the government using taxpayers money to bail them out (of the trouble they got themselves into by spending the taxpayers' money).