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Post by politician2 on Nov 28, 2023 18:31:23 GMT
A very silly article that advances an unsupportable premise (the top 1% do not directly cost anything: they contribute 27% of all income tax receipts, so everyone else is benefiting from their wealth and entrepreneurship) and then fails to substantiate it. The quote by Sahni-Nicholas is a classic begged question typifying those sorts of campaigners and directly translates as "There is a direct financial cost to inequality as inequality is very costly". As for "Britain in the 1970s was one of the most equal of rich countries": Britain in the 1970s was an economic basket case haemorrhaging talent and wealth, and kept afloat only by an enormous bailout by the IMF.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 28, 2023 20:39:28 GMT
Would you concede that a smaller disparity between the richest and the poorest would be a good thing?
That so much land and wealth is owned by so few and just passes from generation to generation is inherently unfair and unhelpful to the country?
That billionaires should contribute more tax than they do currently?
That great equality of opportunity would be a good thing and would have economic and societal benefits?
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Post by politician2 on Nov 28, 2023 20:43:54 GMT
Would you concede that a smaller disparity between the richest and the poorest would be a good thing? That so much land and wealth is owned by so few and just passes from generation to generation is inherently unfair and unhelpful to the country? That billionaires should contribute more tax than they do currently? That great equality of opportunity would be a good thing and would have economic and societal benefits? In order: No, not necessarily. I'm more interested in overall prosperity than inequality. No, not really. People are entitled to pass on their wealth to their descendants. No. Yes. |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 28, 2023 21:53:47 GMT
To get 4 we need to remove or at least reduce structural inequalities (1-3)
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Post by stu77 on Dec 7, 2023 14:44:02 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Feb 22, 2024 16:48:25 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Feb 24, 2024 12:47:03 GMT
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Post by personunknown on Feb 24, 2024 18:51:15 GMT
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Post by wardance on Mar 5, 2024 20:02:52 GMT
My current MP, although due to boundary changes I think we're looking at someone else.  |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 5, 2024 20:35:47 GMT
Feeling's running high in South West Surrey
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Post by personunknown on Apr 5, 2024 11:57:50 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 5, 2024 13:12:56 GMT
It’s unreal
Hunt actually praising him for apologising 🤬
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 5, 2024 13:14:17 GMT
How about this…..?
Rishi Sunak has become deeply unpopular with the public, 71 per cent of whom hold an unfavourable view of the PM, taking his net favourability rating to a frosty minus 50. But what if I told you he could get you a discount voucher code for JD Sports?
That appears to be the plan. The Conservative Party discussed monetising its members through a new app that would share user data with “brand partners”, according to reporting by Tom Burgis and Henry Dyer in the Guardian
Senior Conservatives were reportedly interested in sharing the party’s database of more than 170,000 members with the developers of the planned “True Blue” app. A pitch deck leaked to the newspaper suggests that the party faithful could be monetised at a rate of £128.50 per person through a “Conservatives Marketplace”. The document suggests the party planned to make commissions on deals, with major brands such as Vodafone, Tesco, Amazon and British Gas its main source of income. (None of the brands mentioned have said they had any involvement in the app.)
Part of the pitch is a “Rishi Recommends” offer in which a cutout of the Prime Minister is put beside a 10 per cent discount on insurance. Perhaps this is what Sunak meant when he committed last year to “a wholly new kind of politics”: the kind of politics in which the highest office in the land is used to sell you cut-price merchandise
Grifters gonna grift 🙄
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Post by personunknown on Apr 18, 2024 7:17:37 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 18, 2024 9:12:42 GMT
It’s like there’s a conveyor belt now
This fella Menzies sounds like a total liability
A lot of the issues seems to stem from shame about their sexuality which suggests ongoing intolerance from within the party
The biggest scandal here seems to be that Central office have known about it for three months, but have dragged their heels to the frustration of local activists who alerted them to what was going on
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