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Why does Labour hate aspiration?
With more attacks today on wealth creators it seems clear now that Labour hates success, it hates and attack anyone who tries to better themselves. In the last government, it hit both the rich and poor with income tax rises, now it continually attacks business. Why has Labour become a party that hates anyone who succeeds?
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This. They feel that the state should be the ones in control and that they know what's best for you.
And the less they can be controlled....
Businesses and the rich are not weath creators.
Consumers are!
If there is no one to purchase a product, there is no business.
Is the OP making stuff up?
I passionately detest Labour but my guess is that they prefer successful businesses that treat their employees well, rather than treat them with disdain and look to exploit them to solely further the wealth of the businesses owners and not of wider society.
That is not to say that the other parties don't aspire to this as well.
The problem is those who don't want the state meddling with their affairs,who want to create their own wealth, choose their own medical insurance or decide what education fits themselves better.
Labour are all about the authoritarian state. Well, the peons anyway. The upper echelons of political power never follow what they teach.
I think its just white aspiration that labour hate.
Labour haven't attacked wealth creators.
Russians aren't white?
Ironically the better they do the more they need the state apparatus to stop the poor stealing their wealth.
You only need to compare the sentences handed out for violence against the person to those for stealing etc to see that the state apparatus is focused on protecting property.
I hear that Ed Miliband just spends his evenings rubbing his hands together and laughing at all the pain and suffering they are going to bring after the election.
If you are insisting on a Cartoon.....let's have a proper Cartoon.
Maybe you could argue that they hate White Male Aspiration?
And the Top 1% paying 30% of all income tax, investing and spending in the UK etc. obviously doesn't achieve that?
(GHF - Also rhetorical).
The Conservatives who are controlling and nannying, the Conservatives who gift vast sums of money to foreign countries during tough economic times, the Conservatives who pull you down to favour their rich pals - rich pals who pull the strings of the Conservative Party...
I will concede that Labour were once the anti-aspiration loons, but not any more.
I think everyone wishes the state to enforce the law and to allow people to retain their property.
You appear to think that poor people are more likely to commit crime. I don't think that's a nice thing to say.
It's just that, in this context, there are more poor people than rich ones. So if a rich person gets robbed by a random person that person is more likely to be poor.
Yeah, farm labourers though they were the wealth creators before the tractor came along.
Now its just the farmer.
Yes but in the 21st century... the laws are in place to protect anyone who has something stolen. I know that in your and my rather well off middle class circles we don't spend any time with the poor but I think you'd be surprised at how many things poor people have these days! Even things worth stealing and locking the doors for!
Nah, that wasn't what you were saying before at all