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| Topic Started: Sep 3 2015, 07:16 AM (704 Views) | |
| RJD | Sep 3 2015, 07:16 AM Post #1 |
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Assuming Corbyn wins how is he going to form a Shadow Cabinet? Surely anyone with aspiration, such as current competitors would try and keep a distance?- Dan Hodges LINK It looks like a few years of internecine warfare in the Labour Camp is on the agenda, with targets for deselection doing the rounds. We will see exactly what I have been saying for years and that is that Labour still has a rump of wannabe Commies in their ranks. They were not purged by the Welsh-windbag, they just hid in closets. |
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| RJD | Sep 4 2015, 09:19 AM Post #41 |
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You have no proof to substantiate H's claim which is specific to total income not ownership of assets. Best you start to understand the very basics before spouting off. Yes I know you are glued to the TV, but some of us try to have a bit of life. |
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| Tytoalba | Sep 4 2015, 10:07 AM Post #42 |
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The bankers, financiers and chief executive officers pay taxes that pay for the schools and hospitals. More than half of what they are paid is taken in taxes, Earn a million and the government gets half in direct taxation, that's £500,000 even before indirect taxation. I don't see what your objections are all about. They pay their fair share of tax, but never in your eyes. |
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| Tytoalba | Sep 4 2015, 10:13 AM Post #43 |
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PS . I have just had the good news that I have been taken of the self assessment tax requirement. Every year I get tax repaid, so they think if I don't self assess they will get more tax out of me. They can keep the difference , a couple of hundred or so, to help the country and the poor and needy. Brownie points for me. |
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| Heinrich | Sep 4 2015, 10:20 AM Post #44 |
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Outlandish disparity of incomes which reward the CEOs of failing banks and shady financial operators is an obscenity tolerated by a government of the rich by the rich and for the rich.
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| RJD | Sep 4 2015, 04:14 PM Post #45 |
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The UK is not a Communist State and the PM cannot regulate how much the Board of Directors of a private company decide to reward the CEO for his/her services. That is a matter for Shareholders and if you are not one of these none of your business. Think UK CEOs are overpaid? Then don't look over the Pond. Still waiting for you to justify your claim that these "Captains of Industry and Commerce" are taking the Lions Share of total incomes/revenues from such economic activities leaving less than 50% for the rest of the working population. Sounds like BS too me. |
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| papasmurf | Sep 4 2015, 05:29 PM Post #46 |
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Justify this:- http://uk.businessinsider.com/high-pay-centre-ftse-100-ceo-pay-versus-average-salary-2015-8 British bosses are paid 183 times the average worker's salary Lianna Brinded Aug. 17, 2015, 7:47 AM |
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| RJD | Sep 4 2015, 05:53 PM Post #47 |
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Why should I? With a private company it is the business of Shareholders and if they wish to pay their CEO obscene salaries and bonuses then I have no right to complain. There is no Law no Regulation no Tablet of Stone handed down by Moses that inhibits Shareholders paying what they wish. Whilst we can condemn as obscene, vulgar or damn right insulting, I for one would be against State interference. The unfortunate thing is that some companies (Boards of Directors) see the amount they reward their top Directors as akin to a fashion statement and if they do not pay big bucks who would believe them to be serious. Of course it is mostly bunkum, but State regulation would be a dangerous interference. |
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| papasmurf | Sep 4 2015, 06:23 PM Post #48 |
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RJD yes you do, you just have no desire to, and more worryingly you don't see the ever widening gap as a problem. |
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| johnofgwent | Sep 4 2015, 06:43 PM Post #49 |
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It .. It is GREEN !!
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I don't need to "think it" I can find people who have proved it A total of 447 people oen, between them, MORE than the poorest 50% of the REST OF THE FUCKING WORLD http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk-most-unequal-country-in-the-west-1329614.html |
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| RJD | Sep 5 2015, 11:54 AM Post #50 |
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So? |
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| disgruntled porker | Sep 5 2015, 12:54 PM Post #51 |
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Older than most people think I am.
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That sums up your attitude to life in a nutshell.
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| Steve K | Sep 5 2015, 12:56 PM Post #52 |
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John that article is so 1996. Sunday 21 July 1996 in fact so why is it relevant now? |
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| disgruntled porker | Sep 5 2015, 12:59 PM Post #53 |
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Older than most people think I am.
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Hang on. After the financial crash, was it not you that spouted about a lack of regulation causing the problem and that more should have been in place? Oh, that's right, before it went tits up, your opinion was that the govnt should have less regulation and stop interfering. |
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| Oddball | Sep 5 2015, 01:02 PM Post #54 |
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Methinks that RJDs concept of fairness is somewhat adrift of the majority. Fairness is a concept that can be up for reasonable debate, but within the parameters of morality and ethics might i suggest? |
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| disgruntled porker | Sep 5 2015, 01:04 PM Post #55 |
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Older than most people think I am.
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How come the article is dated 1996, but it is on the front page of today's Independent? |
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| disgruntled porker | Sep 5 2015, 01:08 PM Post #56 |
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Older than most people think I am.
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I think for some, morality and ethics are not even part of the equation where accumulation of wealth is concerned. |
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| RJD | Sep 5 2015, 01:45 PM Post #57 |
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The "so" is not a statement of attitude it was a question. I think you might understand what the squiggly thing (?) at the end of a sentence means. |
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| RJD | Sep 5 2015, 01:47 PM Post #58 |
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Best prove that you can substantiate what you crystal ball says about my opinions. You to seem to have forgotten what a ? means. Based on JohnofWales statement the question was begging. |
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| RJD | Sep 5 2015, 01:52 PM Post #59 |
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I note the ease by which you form opinions, others require much greater rigour, but there we go. There are thinkers and some who only think they are capable of thinking. I have posed the question dozens of times and those who cannot think have yet to provide an answer; "if we agree to shift £20b PA from top to bottom etc. etc. etc. Still no answer from the Usuals only the constant whinge, the whine that started before the beginning of the last century. Hence I presume it must just be envy at work. |
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| Lewis | Sep 5 2015, 04:30 PM Post #60 |
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Of corse he wouldn't, to him the Telgraph and the Daily Mail are the gospel. i tend to ignore him most of the time. No point at all trying to reason with him, you only get the same old sound bites and childish insults anyway. Edited by Lewis, Sep 5 2015, 04:30 PM.
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| Steve K | Sep 6 2015, 02:54 AM Post #61 |
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I can't answer that because as shown below IT MOST CERTAINLY WAS NOT. ![]() Perhaps you were confused by the media practice of embedding the current days date in the banner of archive articles John's article was from 1996. As was posted up just recently we are far from being the most unequal in the world.
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