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« Reply #5920 on: April 20, 2017, 10:31:56 pm »
Who calls their children Sebastian?

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« Reply #5921 on: April 20, 2017, 10:34:52 pm »
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« Reply #5923 on: April 20, 2017, 10:39:24 pm »
Who calls their children Sebastian?
He would have been like a boy named Sue in my old school. :evil
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« Reply #5924 on: April 20, 2017, 10:51:46 pm »
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« Reply #5925 on: April 20, 2017, 10:53:00 pm »
He would have been like a boy named Sue in my old school. :evil
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« Reply #5926 on: April 20, 2017, 11:10:42 pm »
Im from Chile and Sebastian is a really common name here fwiw ( Corbyn ex is chilean).

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« Reply #5927 on: April 21, 2017, 12:13:41 am »
Im from Chile and Sebastian is a really common name here fwiw ( Corbyn ex is chilean).
is she the one he divorced over his school arrangements?

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« Reply #5928 on: April 21, 2017, 12:17:03 am »
is she the one he divorced over his school arrangements?

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Re: The Labour Party (*)
« Reply #5929 on: April 21, 2017, 07:58:14 am »
You've got to be so so careful with things like those on over £70k being 'rich'

£70k is a lot more than the median wage (way more than I get paid too), don't get me wrong.  But it's not so far out of sight that the ordinary person can't aspire to it.

£150k?  I think it's fair to say that's beyond most people's reasonable aspirations.

So why do we need to be careful?  Well, if you stigmatize something that isn't an outlandish aspiration, then you risk stigmatizing people who are trying to earn more to support their family.  You could alienate a whole tranche of support.

It's a very difficult line to tread and needs to be done with sensitivity and thought..
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Re: The Labour Party (*)
« Reply #5930 on: April 21, 2017, 09:15:01 am »
Who calls their children Sebastian?

Oi KH - behave eh  :o :o! My youngest daughter's second son for a start :P :P
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« Reply #5931 on: April 21, 2017, 09:27:37 am »
Lord and Lady Marchmain...

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« Reply #5932 on: April 21, 2017, 09:35:50 am »
You've got to be so so careful with things like those on over £70k being 'rich'

£70k is a lot more than the median wage (way more than I get paid too), don't get me wrong.  But it's not so far out of sight that the ordinary person can't aspire to it.

£150k?  I think it's fair to say that's beyond most people's reasonable aspirations.

So why do we need to be careful?  Well, if you stigmatize something that isn't an outlandish aspiration, then you risk stigmatizing people who are trying to earn more to support their family.  You could alienate a whole tranche of support.

It's a very difficult line to tread and needs to be done with sensitivity and thought..

Is being called rich a stigma, though? People wouldn't be aspiring to be rich if it was. No one's saying there's something wrong with earning £70k, but it's a lot of money and should be taxed accordingly.

According to the Guardian, around 5% of people earn £70k or more:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/19/how-much-earn-rich-70000-labour

Isn't it perfectly reasonable to say that the top 5% of earners are rich?

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Re: The Labour Party (*)
« Reply #5933 on: April 21, 2017, 09:44:19 am »
Is being called rich a stigma, though? People wouldn't be aspiring to be rich if it was. No one's saying there's something wrong with earning £70k, but it's a lot of money and should be taxed accordingly.

According to the Guardian, around 5% of people earn £70k or more:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/19/how-much-earn-rich-70000-labour

Isn't it perfectly reasonable to say that the top 5% of earners are rich?
id say well off is a better term, top 1/2% is £150k? Pushing to increase taxes a bit for those (not what McDonnell has said before @ 75%) would make more sense, the way they're going about it will just make them look like they're punishing people who are/want to do well, fine line to tread

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« Reply #5934 on: April 21, 2017, 09:50:18 am »
Is being called rich a stigma, though? People wouldn't be aspiring to be rich if it was. No one's saying there's something wrong with earning £70k, but it's a lot of money and should be taxed accordingly.

According to the Guardian, around 5% of people earn £70k or more:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/19/how-much-earn-rich-70000-labour

Isn't it perfectly reasonable to say that the top 5% of earners are rich?

I would say PAYE earnings are already taxed accordingly generally, they're pretty progressive as they stand,  if you are earning between £100-120k your effective marginal tax rate is 60%, and evasion for salaried employees is pretty minimal

If I was serious about dealing with inequality within society, I wouldn't have PAYE taxation as my first port of call.

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« Reply #5935 on: April 21, 2017, 09:54:57 am »
Is being called rich a stigma, though? People wouldn't be aspiring to be rich if it was. No one's saying there's something wrong with earning £70k, but it's a lot of money and should be taxed accordingly.

According to the Guardian, around 5% of people earn £70k or more:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/19/how-much-earn-rich-70000-labour

Isn't it perfectly reasonable to say that the top 5% of earners are rich?

It depends. I don't think I'd class people on 70k a year as rich, especially if I was unfamiliar with their circumstances. If they're the sole person earning in a household (which they might be renting), or they're supporting/caring for someone, that 70k a year would probably go relatively quickly.

Obviously subjective, but I'd personally use rich to describe people who have absolutely loads of money and capital, and who retain a lot of the money they earn

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« Reply #5936 on: April 21, 2017, 10:11:24 am »
It depends. I don't think I'd class people on 70k a year as rich, especially if I was unfamiliar with their circumstances. If they're the sole person earning in a household (which they might be renting), or they're supporting/caring for someone, that 70k a year would probably go relatively quickly.

Obviously subjective, but I'd personally use rich to describe people who have absolutely loads of money and capital, and who retain a lot of the money they earn

A subjective view that  I would largely agree with, I'll be interested to see if we start to see some moves towards wealth taxation in some form or another in the manifesto

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« Reply #5937 on: April 21, 2017, 11:23:17 am »
Is being called rich a stigma, though? People wouldn't be aspiring to be rich if it was. No one's saying there's something wrong with earning £70k, but it's a lot of money and should be taxed accordingly.

According to the Guardian, around 5% of people earn £70k or more:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/19/how-much-earn-rich-70000-labour

Isn't it perfectly reasonable to say that the top 5% of earners are rich?

It is a stigma when the rhetoric is all about fat cats and tax havens. When McDonnell conflates a GP's (or MP's) salary with Phillip Green then middle class and aspiring Labour voters will question whether they belong or how they'll be treated.

If the top 5% are 'rich' what about the next 5% of earners below that? That takes you down to £50k a year - train drivers and the like. Wouldn't you say that say, an 80:20 split would be about fair for the poor:rich split? That would make the break at £38,500 before tax.

The Inland Revenue makes the break at £43,000. Earnings above that level are taxed at 40%.

It just comes across as all 'class war' bollocks from McDonnell. You could propose the same tax proposals in an inclusive and positive way. Talk about society and the responsibility of those earning more to pay more tax. I pay the higher rate because I own my own business and employ staff. I don't have a problem with it and neither do most higher rate tax payers have a problem in principle. I don't want to pay any more tax than I need to but I understand the principle of redistribution of wealth through taxation.

I do resent that prick McDonnell spouting off about fat cats on his £74k MP's salary. I get pissed off when taxation is portrayed as a penalty for being well off rather than a social responsibility.
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« Reply #5938 on: April 21, 2017, 11:29:54 am »
It depends. I don't think I'd class people on 70k a year as rich, especially if I was unfamiliar with their circumstances. If they're the sole person earning in a household (which they might be renting), or they're supporting/caring for someone, that 70k a year would probably go relatively quickly.

Obviously subjective, but I'd personally use rich to describe people who have absolutely loads of money and capital, and who retain a lot of the money they earn

I don't take 70k from my business in a normal year but I'm in the higher tax bracket and as you say it's easy for it to go relatively quickly when you are the only earner. I have no savings and no pension and have to support my son because he's been denied disability payments by those pricks at ATOS. I'm going through a divorce and will probably have to commit to working until I'm 75 to get a last mortgage before I retire or drop dead (whichever comes first). I work 60+ hours a week as a minimum and at least one day most weekends.

Am I rich? Comparatively I might be but I'm worth more dead than alive.
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« Reply #5939 on: April 21, 2017, 11:47:40 am »
I don't take 70k from my business in a normal year but I'm in the higher tax bracket and as you say it's easy for it to go relatively quickly when you are the only earner. I have no savings and no pension and have to support my son because he's been denied disability payments by those pricks at ATOS. I'm going through a divorce and will probably have to commit to working until I'm 75 to get a last mortgage before I retire or drop dead (whichever comes first). I work 60+ hours a week as a minimum and at least one day most weekends.

Am I rich? Comparatively I might be but I'm worth more dead than alive.

Precisely as you put it Alan, it comes across as scornful/hateful 'class warfare' nonsense. And as Filo put it, wealth taxation would be far more interesting a proposal but probably too nuanced for McDonnell, compared to trying to convince people that those on 70k don't pay their taxes.

As someone who has an academic and work interest in reducing inequalities, I've yet to hear McDonnell, Corbyn or any of their cronies suggest anything in line with an evidence base. It's hard to believe them when they claim to be guys who are interested trying to tackle inequalities, when they seem more intent on stoking up divisions and faking/lying that they aren't part of the 'establishment' than on economic policy.

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« Reply #5940 on: April 21, 2017, 11:49:52 am »
they seem more intent on stoking up divisions and faking/lying that they aren't part of the 'establishment' than on economic policy.

It seems a bit embarrassing to me - career politicians who've never had a proper job in their lives going on about taking on 'the establishment'. You are the fucking establishment, dickheads.
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« Reply #5941 on: April 21, 2017, 11:54:36 am »
Is being called rich a stigma, though? People wouldn't be aspiring to be rich if it was. No one's saying there's something wrong with earning £70k, but it's a lot of money and should be taxed accordingly.

According to the Guardian, around 5% of people earn £70k or more:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/19/how-much-earn-rich-70000-labour

Isn't it perfectly reasonable to say that the top 5% of earners are rich?
There are far more than 5% working hard in the hope of getting promoted to a job which will earn them over 70k a year as well. most people adjust their spending to their income, if they earn more then they buy better homes and cars.
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« Reply #5942 on: April 21, 2017, 12:01:34 pm »
There are far more than 5% working hard in the hope of getting promoted to a job which will earn them over 70k a year as well. most people adjust their spending to their income, if they earn more then they buy better homes and cars.

Its not an obscene wage in London either, I know people getting close to that level (mid 60s) and they're still renting in flatshares, because they weren't one of the lucky ones who were on the property ladder at the right time, on the other hand its not uncommon down here to find people sitting on a fortune in their property value with in theory relatively low taxable earnings.

During the property boom I think the average homeowner down here was earning more from the appreciation in value of their house than they were from wages, which just shows how ridiculous the whole situation is.

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« Reply #5943 on: April 21, 2017, 12:33:34 pm »
Its not an obscene wage in London either, I know people getting close to that level (mid 60s) and they're still renting in flatshares...

I'm 60 and if my divorce goes badly I'll be looking at being able to afford a one bedroom flat in Peckham. While I was Googling a few things I came across this discussion about final pension schemes for train drivers.

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=77712

Some interesting stuff in the context of Corbyn and McDonnell's statements. £60k a year, $40k a year final pension scheme (£24k for early retirement) and some lovely comments about tax avoidance. I can't afford to retire at 60 let alone 55 and certainly not on £40k. Who is 'richer' - a train driver on £60 with a massive final pension scheme or someone working for themselves with no job security and no pension but earning £70k?

Corbyn and McDonnell are so far up the arses of the unions they have no fucking idea what it's like for people like me who have built a small business, employ people and pay their taxes.
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« Reply #5944 on: April 21, 2017, 12:40:00 pm »
Its not an obscene wage in London either, I know people getting close to that level (mid 60s) and they're still renting in flatshares, because they weren't one of the lucky ones who were on the property ladder at the right time, on the other hand its not uncommon down here to find people sitting on a fortune in their property value with in theory relatively low taxable earnings.

During the property boom I think the average homeowner down here was earning more from the appreciation in value of their house than they were from wages, which just shows how ridiculous the whole situation is.
Yeah, I know a couple who love London and offered decent jobs on higher pay but turned them down, house prices horrified them and they would have been worse off in real terms.
Were back to what does fair actually mean. people who aspire to improve their lives (and that band is far higher than 5%) wont take kindly to the idea their dream of earning enough to buy a nice home and provide a better life for their children will be hurt because the Labour government want to take more tax off them.
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« Reply #5945 on: April 21, 2017, 02:03:47 pm »
I mean, I just googled 'Corbyn salary' and the first thing that came up was Jeremy Corbyn says he is 'not wealthy', despite £137k salary. ("I don't consider myself highbrow or wealthy...")

We are a pretty conservative country, not quite as bad as somewhere like America, but the 'tax the rich' stuff is never going to fly and always going to be seen as anti-aspirational, and when you can just google something like that it comes across as hypocritical. I would avoid talking so much about tax. The stuff that everyone cares about needs to be at the forefront. I don't think people are against contributing to essential services but you talk about those essential services, not the tax.

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« Reply #5946 on: April 21, 2017, 03:32:46 pm »


Unlike Corbyn and McDonnell to score own goals like that...

Considering they're thick as thieves, it doesn't exactly bode well that they can't be on message. Same thing happened yesterday, with the unclear second referendum waffling

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« Reply #5947 on: April 21, 2017, 03:38:19 pm »
Unlike Corbyn and McDonnell to score own goals like that...

Considering they're thick as thieves, it doesn't exactly bode well that they can't be on message. Same thing happened yesterday, with the unclear second referendum waffling

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« Reply #5948 on: April 21, 2017, 03:41:42 pm »
Brexit cheerleader Kate Hoey has faced down unrest in her local party after they backed her reselection to stand in Vauxhall.

The Labour Leave chair sparked controversy for campaigning alongside ex-UKIP leader Nigel Frottage on his Thames flotilla during the referendum.

Despite the Vauxhall Labour Party publicly disassociating themselves from her over Brexit and rumours she would be deselected, members have rallied around her so she can fight her eighth election.

A statement released by the branch to the Evening Standard said they had agreed to “work collaboratively” with 70-year-old Ms Hoey, who has held the seat since 1989.

Labour strong-hold Vauxhall voted 77 percent in favour of Remain at the EU referendum.

Her main challenge comes from the Lib Dems who today announced they are targeting her 12,708 majority and will make it one of their key General Election battlegrounds.

A senior Lib Dem campaign source said: “We just can’t believe Labour has been dumb enough to re-select someone who makes Nigel Frottage look like a cuddly pro-European. It’s game on in Vauxhall.”

Ms Hoey shrugged off the party’s provocation. She said: “It’s fine. Why wouldn’t they? They’ve got a history of targeting seats.”

The Lib Dems claim their membership in local branch Wandsworth and Vauxhall has doubled since the EU referendum and 2000 people have joined the party since Tuesday.

Membership is said to be up 12 percent in Kingston & Surbiton, 15 percent in Twickenham and up 17 percent in Bermondsey & Old Southwark, which will form the centre of the party’s plans for a revival.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexitbacker-kate-hoey-faces-down-unrest-to-stand-in-vauxhall-a3520111.html


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« Reply #5949 on: April 21, 2017, 03:51:47 pm »
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« Reply #5950 on: April 21, 2017, 03:55:50 pm »
McCluskey has been reelected as General Secretary of Unite

Fucks sake.
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« Reply #5951 on: April 21, 2017, 04:01:54 pm »
Len McCluskey won 59,067 votes, Gerard Coyne 53,544 and Ian Allinson 17,143, in a turnout of just over 12% -

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« Reply #5952 on: April 21, 2017, 04:32:33 pm »
I mean, I just googled 'Corbyn salary' and the first thing that came up was Jeremy Corbyn says he is 'not wealthy', despite £137k salary. ("I don't consider myself highbrow or wealthy...")

We are a pretty conservative country, not quite as bad as somewhere like America, but the 'tax the rich' stuff is never going to fly and always going to be seen as anti-aspirational, and when you can just google something like that it comes across as hypocritical. I would avoid talking so much about tax. The stuff that everyone cares about needs to be at the forefront. I don't think people are against contributing to essential services but you talk about those essential services, not the tax.


We already Tax 'the rich' a fair amount though, more so now then we ever did under Labour:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39641222

It's more nuanced than that of course, but when you hear it from Labour it sounds like by the book socialism rather than understanding the concerns of working class people.
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« Reply #5953 on: April 21, 2017, 05:10:47 pm »
Len McCluskey won 59,067 votes, Gerard Coyne 53,544 and Ian Allinson 17,143, in a turnout of just over 12% -
Unbelievable. McCluskey getting re elected is bad enough, a 12% turnout is shocking.
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« Reply #5954 on: April 21, 2017, 05:19:24 pm »
I tried looking for this myself (and failed), so I'll ask here. What's Labour's policy on the EU/brexit for this election.

It feels like the sort of information that should be plastered everywhere, let alone unable to be found for a person actively seeking it.

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« Reply #5955 on: April 21, 2017, 05:22:18 pm »
I tried looking for this myself (and failed), so I'll ask here. What's Labour's policy on the EU/brexit for this election.

It feels like the sort of information that should be plastered everywhere, let alone unable to be found for a person actively seeking it.

Don't ask, don't tell.

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« Reply #5956 on: April 21, 2017, 05:28:15 pm »
I tried looking for this myself (and failed), so I'll ask here. What's Labour's policy on the EU/brexit for this election.

It feels like the sort of information that should be plastered everywhere, let alone unable to be found for a person actively seeking it.

This election - the one that's being held to increase the Tories majority so they can push through Brexit, the one that's being held during the UK's withdrawal from the EU - is not about Brexit apparently.
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« Reply #5957 on: April 21, 2017, 05:36:38 pm »
We already Tax 'the rich' a fair amount though, more so now then we ever did under Labour:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39641222

It's more nuanced than that of course, but when you hear it from Labour it sounds like by the book socialism rather than understanding the concerns of working class people.
Yeah, that's what I mean, I'm not saying this country is particularly anti-tax, just that I'm not sure 'tax the rich' sentiment is much of a votewinner. Feels too extreme for this country and a throwback. Maybe that's the me having been brought up in a New Labour world shining through, but I think we probably have moved on that, if we were ever on it (and I don't think we were, were we?)

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« Reply #5958 on: April 21, 2017, 05:37:26 pm »
Don't ask, don't tell.
This election - the one that's being held to increase the Tories majority so they can push through Brexit, the one that's being held during the UK's withdrawal from the EU - is not about Brexit apparently.

It's shit like this isn't it? This might be my epitome moment, for how bad Labour actually are these days.

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« Reply #5959 on: April 21, 2017, 05:43:12 pm »
It's shit like this isn't it? This might be my epitome moment, for how bad Labour actually are these days.

Look Labour, I like you. I always have. But you have to try...

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