Bingowings said:

What the UK needs is a Socialist government for a few years to allocate wealth to do things that need doing (like building cheap houses), providing employment and making the hyper rich a little less rich for a short period.

Socialism is a tricky thing. It is certainly a luxury of the rich countries. Your country first need to globally successful at capitalism (exploiting other countries) in order to have a good socialism within its borders (for example Scandinavian countries). If a non-rich country tries to have a socialism it will be just making everyone equally poor. But even a rich country must be aware to what extend it goes with socialism because if you go too far you will make the "successful" people unhappy and that will gradually lead to degradation of your country on a global scale. And when that happens you will not be able to have the luxury of socialism any more.