VAT at 25%?!

[Prepper1]

VAT would only be 5% to 8% if we did not have the welfare state bleeding us dry.

Now I thought I saw the world through rose coloured glasses sometimes...
Do you really think they'd drop vat to that low level if we didn't have a welfare system?
Who's going to pay for the foreign aid for the presidential palaces to be built?
If the welfare system vanished, they'd still charge vat at its current rate because they'd expand the aid program.
This Government has a deluded need to be seen as a big player in the world for some reason.
Hang on doesn't Turkeys sewer system need fixing again?
Maybe they're running out of bolly in the parlimentary bar again...