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Will Labour pledge to tackle the wealth divide?
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Labour, once the party of the poor, are now courting the Sun readership (average IQs in the range of dishwater) and promising to come down hard on the poorest people in our society, given the fact that 95% of this country's wealth is in the hands of the richest 5% of people, will Labour pledge to tackle this obscene financial divide, or will they press on with Tory ideology and drive even more children into a futureless life of poverty and hopelessness?
Hmm, I wonder.
Hmm, I wonder.
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Keep the poor poor and ply them with benefits - and keep em docile/voting Labour.
they'll probably be less strident in fighting the class war though............
People who constantly bang on about the wealth divide and millionaires seem to neglect the fact that on a world wide basis they probably sit within the top 5-10% of wealthiest people themselves.
These people spend all their time looking up at those who are wealthier than them with an envy bordering on hatred but never stop to think how lucky they are that in the grand scheme of things they themselves could be far worse off.
Such top and bottom % comparisons are meaningless. If the top x% suddenly overnight got richer or poorer , it wouldn't directly change things for everybody else.
If you control rents you stop unscrupulous landlords from ripping off housing benefit as well as putting more money in people's pockets.
Also massive crack down on tax avoidance/ evasion to bring more money into the coffers.
I wouldn't call my landlord unscrupulous (even though I do think my place is over-priced), he has a mortgage to pay on my flat & the one next-door which he owns also, of course he has to make some profit - or what would be his incentive? Philanthropy?
You should only be paid what the free market can bear for your level of productivity.
I didn't say ALL landlords were unscrupulous
Well the original minimum wage had the free-marketeers wailing at the swathes of job losses that would ensue
Your theory implies that there enough jobs out there to go round and that those jobs pay well enough to lift people out of poverty. Interesting that the people that argue like this are the ones that not only think the benefits system shouldn't exist but also that employers shouldn't pay a fair and decent wage. Interesting when you think that if they did over half the benefits claimed in this country would disapear as people wouldn't need them.
and they won't
It is not envy, I look down on them with pity, if they were clever they would not need so much money. If they were proper human beings they would delight in being able to share their wealth to help their fellow men and women.
Would I choose to swap, no way thank you
must suck to pay for someone elses mortgage.
So when we're having a debate about how many crumbs we give to the poor, the fact that there is a vast ocean of money at the top is an irrelevance?
As for your idiotic statement about envy, I simply understand the difference between envy and injustice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=okHGCz6xxiw#!
how will they tackle this "obscene financial divide" ? tax the rich more ? won't that make the rich pack up their bags and leave to another country where they''ll be very welcome ?
The trouble is that many people still have a very 1960's view of the world, its as if globalisation and the rise of the internet had never happened. If you are fund manager in the old days you had to be based in London and deal at one of the exchanges personally, nowdays you can sit behind a computer in any city in the world and operate. It may be unfortunate that this has happened from a tax raising perspective, but it is the reality - the higher paid you are, the more your ability to base yourself in multiple jurisdictions.
We want to attract wealth into the country and not loose the wealthy that we have by driving them overseas. If you buy a lottery ticket every week and you get lucky would you want to be demonized? I admire people like Lord Sugar who is self made, and they deserve their wealth. I am not jealous, and sometimes I think jealousy is at the heart of the attitude towards the wealthy.
But theres more to the uk then the south, london is not the uk