Akshata Murty

[mickd1961]

The nurses/footballers & celebs argument is always trotted out but here’s the simple truth........there are tens of thousands of NHS nurses and maybe 600 Premier League footballers and maybe only 200 celebs that can command silly money in this country.

So you’re not going to ever get 40,000 deserving nurses on £200k or more a week.

The BBC apart, celebs and footballers are involved in a business that generates money through commercial success.

I’m all for nurses and the like earning £50k a year or more but I want to see the money coming from reducing foreign aid, reducing defence spending, cutting out the ridiculous waste and profligacy in the Public Sector and by “taxing” Amazon and their likes on TURNOVER done in the U.K. rather than on their supposed non profits.

[Omegstrat6]

That's the real point isn't it-the few can earn excessive amounts provided everyone else can earn a decent living wage.

Agree with you totally about the need to ensure that companies like Amazon pay the taxes they should, just as I do on the subject of spending public money where due diligence and budgetary controls need to be far far better. My only concern is on defence spending where continued cuts have left us short in key areas. I understand the debacles over the Ajax project and escalating costs of the naval carriers and F35 fighters, but given the likes of Putin and Xi Jinping perhaps we should listen to the warnings from those who should know about the shortcomings in our defence capabilities whether that be military hardware or cyber and counter intelligence systems.