O/T Corbyn will eclipse Rotherham's record losing streak

[great_fire]

I see Len McCluskey has been given £417 000 by Unite to buy his London flat. It's in Borough Market - very nice!

Just had a big party to celebrate winning with cheapest champagne £51 a bottle.

[great_fire]

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.

Not to mention betraying his long-held anti-EU principles by backing Remain.

[Amanda_Hugg_n_Kiss]

It's not nonsense at all but you believe whatever makes you happy

[Amanda_Hugg_n_Kiss]

How many describe the Israeli government as friends? and they're by far the biggest terrorists round there. Before anyone says anything I've got nothing against the decent Israeli people or Jews in general, just against war criminals and terrorists.

Didn't Corbyn explain himself? And pretty sure he's against all violence, doesn't seem to be lying to me, could be wrong. He also gets the IRA etc... stuff thrown at him, but the only difference with others that had meetings etc... was that Corbyn was open about it.

[Lasterman]

Corbyn's 'tax the rich' approach is laughable. Almost half people the population pay no income tax at all, while the top 1% pay about 24% of the total take. Put in perspective that's about 300,000 people paying a quarter of the tax. We have a global economy. These people are mobile. If even 10% of them bugger off because they feel they're being overtaxed that's going to leave a big hole. The proportion of tax being paid by the rich is at a historic high level. Push them further and a significant number will move away in my view, taking their tax revenue and future UK investment with them.

[millmoormagic]

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.

Apart from the NHS, the welfare state, council housing, workers rights, health and safety at work, oh, and let's not forget that massive socialistesque policy of quantitive easing, the state bailing out the banks to the tune of billions, god forbid a socialist leader actually doing that for normal people eh?

Well done millers today, nice to hear the crowd singing Paul Warne's name at the end also..UTM

[great_fire]

Top rate of income tax was around 90% in 50s, 60s and 70s, a period of decline.

No coincidence that the decline stopped when the top rate was cut in the 80s.

[howdydoo]

https://www.statista.com/chart/5364/...r-wage-growth/

Oh dear!! *shakes head*

[rolymiller]

Some decent points Howdy but I believe that there are many genuine people out there who are working their bollax off and getting nowhere. We all tend to look after our families first, I do, but I do realise that there are a lot of deserving folk out there who through no fault of their own need help and I would not deny them that. I certainly dont mind paying more tax for better schools, education and housing.I don't mind paying extra taxes to fund more teachers and nurses or paying them more. I am not interested though in funding wars and royalty.

[sawmiller]

Interesting that the banks are about to walk off with near £30 billion of our money, and the whole nation appears to turn into ostriches? Or should that be Lost Riches? Imagine what we could do with that? And no-one is held to account.