In the upcoming elections there’s no choice at all. Everyone wants to go along with the status quo but play with this a bit or more or that – apart from those consumed political, economic and social migration.. There’s a huge issue that we need to address. How much longer are we going to let the growing – in numbers and influence – global Oligoplists dominate many key markets like food and drink, personal care and alcohol?

Capitalisms drive toward the shortest route to the biggest profits has always created costs that society at first accepts and then put in rules and taxes to control and modify these primal urges. Now seen as landmark change in Western society’s moral growth, the outlawing of slavery, was going to be the ruin of Capitalism when campaigns first began to demand that change.

In Victorian times the chill was closer to home: People realised the cost to wider society of smog, open sewers and the diseases that took hold in the burgeoning towns and cities.
The selling of addictive drugs such as alcohol, tobacco and others became another national land mark as the horrors of London’s Gin ‘lane’ and ‘Palaces’ forced change: Victorian society took the health of the, then, working class masses as an important element of society’s over all health: both moral and physical.

Today we once again face such a pivotal challenge and all our politicians offer is a choice of how far to turn this control or how far to move that lever. What about a different future? Where is the Vision?

The challenge facing the western world is one of obesity, of the violence and ill health borne out of alcohol consumption and the spread of betting and celebrity culture. All these issues stem from one facet of contemporary global capitalism: that must be controlled by changes to taxation.