Chameleon Magazine

 💷🏴‍☠️💼You work. You graft. You sweat for every penny in the private sector jungle.

Then the government takes a chunk — the highest tax burden in the UK in 70 years — and what do they do with it?

They give MSPs a raise. 🧾📈

That’s right. From April 1st, Scotland’s MSPs will enjoy a 4.3% pay rise, boosting their annual haul from £74,507 to £77,710.

Meanwhile, small businesses are drowning in red tape, tradesmen are chased for crumbs by HMRC, and freelancers are charged more than Amazon to operate in their own country.

Welcome to the socialist fantasy economy, where the people who create wealth pay for the people who create… paperwork.

💼 Private Risk, Public Reward

Let’s call this what it is: a wealth transfer from risk-takers to risk-dodgers.

While entrepreneurs navigate economic minefields, and private workers beg for a 1.5% raise that doesn’t get laughed out of HR, MSPs just auto-upgrade their salaries with zero shame.

And why? Because a spreadsheet from the ONS says it’s fair?

Let’s talk fair:

• You don’t get an automatic raise for doing your job.
• You don’t get benchmarked against another country’s Parliament.
• You don’t get to vote on your own wage and call it “independent.”

But MSPs? Oh, they do.

🧮 Taxed to Death to Fund the Politician Class

Scotland already has the highest taxes in the UK — more bands, more percentages, and more excuses for why your paycheck feels like it’s been mugged.

And where does it go?

Not into potholes. Not into ambulances.

But into politicians’ pockets. 🧑‍💼💸

These are the same politicians who:

• Let services collapse
• Lecture you about “hard choices”
• Then sneak themselves a tidy raise with all-party approval
• And remind you they still earn less than Westminster — as if that makes it noble

Meanwhile, the private sector foots the bill like a never-ending tab in a bar it’s not allowed to drink in.

🧨 Working Scotland Gets the Bill (Again)

Here’s the deal:

The Scottish private sector generates the wealth.

Holyrood just spends it.

And now they’ve decided they deserve more of it — while handing back less.

You don’t get the roads fixed.

You don’t get decent trains.

You definitely don’t get the pension.

But you do get the privilege of paying for someone else’s salary hike.

🔥 Challenges 🔥

Why do we let this pass? Why do workers, tradesmen, start-ups, and self-employed Scots keep funding a Parliament that treats them like an ATM?