There you have it.
That's the problem. These guys are taking the p!$$.
The fat cats are doing the same.
If you've spread your seed, Look after your own. If you've got kids get them in the best state schools you can and give them all the support you can.
If you truly bring them up right, they've got every chance. Don't let the cynics and/or the do gooders and/or the fat cats influence anything
Do what's best for your own. The rest don't appreciate anything you do for them anyway. The system is beeping 'red alert'. 'Your own' :means: your family, friends, real people in the community. If you give something, make sure sure you know where it's going. If not, be careful because it might come back and hit you in the boll@cks.
Don't believe all these people in the system. Rich man, Poor man. Union boss, politician.
All in it for themselves. The system has been manipulated to f00k. I abhor it.
Union leaders, proper politicians from a bygone age will be turning in their graves.
£0.5m per week for a footballer? £10m+ Per film for a film star?
Someone's having a laugh.
Tax people at source and have done with it all.
Stop reproducing chavs and in-breds and look after the working classes.
Genuine people who just want to have a nice life.
F00k the rest.
Last edited by howdydoo; 22-04-2017 at 01:29 AM.
That’s not a straightforward question at all. Nor is it the one we should be asking.
There are several questions, all of which arise from the changing nature of medicine and the population since the NHS was founded. We now have an aging population, some of whom will suffer from illness that would have once killed fairly quickly, but is now treatable, but only at substantial and continuing expense. With that being the case, one of the main questions is whether the country can still afford a comprehensive, free-at-the-point-of-provision system.
The NHS is such a sacred cow in this country that, like on other issues such as immigration, it is almost impossible to have a sensible discussion about it. We get no honesty from any political party when it comes to the NHS. The Tories won’t admit that is cash starved and failing and the Labour Party won’t tell us how they would pay for it. The notion of putting up taxes for only high earners is laughable; there aren’t enough of them to raise the sums involved and the super-rich will simply move their wealth or themselves off shore. Increased corporate taxation will simply stifle investment and innovation and, when they taxes get high enough, the companies – and their jobs – will simply move out of the UK .
He’s so principled that he trousered £20 000 for appearing on a programme for an Iranian TV company that is implicated in the torture of journalists and has described Hamas and Hezbollah as ‘friends’. And let’s not forget the Virgin Trains debacle where he happily took part in an attempt to mislead.
I'm sorry, but this is nonsense. Labour has struggled ever since Len McCluskey and his chums put the current 'leader' in place.
I don't think there is any prospect of the current Labour Party gaining power; there are too many people alive who remember the economic vandalism wrought by unrestrained Trade Unions and by the nonsense Socialist policies that it espouses.
Socialism has only ever delivered misery for the people it is supposed to help.
It's irrelevant whether the note was left in a vicious way or not.
The deficit hasn’t gone up. It’s gone down significantly. The national debt has gone up because there is a deficit.
I really don’t understand why the Left constantly take the deficit point. Given the economic upheaval of 2008 onwards, it was inevitable that the Labour government of the time and the governments that followed it would run significant deficits, but that situation cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely. If the Left feel that the deficit should have been cut more quickly, perhaps they should explain what further cuts should have been made?
When you refer to a levy on grammar school entry, I assume you mean VAT on private school fees? I don’t know if you’ve ever had much to do with private schools. If you did, you’d find people from across society who are working hard to get their kids what they believe to be the best education available. Many of those parents remortgage their homes, forgo evenings out, forget nicer cars or holidays and scrimp and save to achieve that. And, of course, they pay taxes whilst doing so - putting into a state education system that their children aren’t using.
This is old Labour at its worst – preaching the politics of envy and prejudice and seeking to hit those who aspire to improve the lot of their families. If it were ever put it into effect, it would hit only that large body of parents who are struggling to buy their children’s education and who would not be able to do if the price were to include VAT. On that policy alone, any chance of me voting Labour under its current 'leadership' evaporates.