Economics.

[Doggit]

I agree, so what's the compromise. Oddly enough, it was the civil service that used to do the job of advising the govenment if their ideas were workable, unfortunately, Labour dismantled them, and made them follow the policies they wanted to impose regardless of whether they were were workable. In politicising the civil service, they destroyed all the impartial business advice that was available.

 

[JohnD]

And Theresa not only refuses to listen to advice, but gets rid of people whose advice she doesn't like.

Rather like the Thatcher woman "Is he one of Us?"
In politicising the civil service, she destroyed all the impartial business advice that was available.

Gove sneers at anyone who knows what they're talking about "The country has had enough of experts."

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...service-four-days-after-leaving-eu-envoy-role

 

[EFLImpudence]

We cannot be sure if the politicians are inept.

The country may be being run in the way those in charge want it to be run.

The rich are getting richer, there are tax rules for them to allow them not to pay (very much), the poor haven't had a pay rise for nearly ten years.
It would seem to be ideal from a Conservative (ruling class) point of view.

That they could never achieve power without poor people voting for them is one of life's paradoxes.

 

[Doggit]

The country may be being run in the way those in charge want it to be run.

Well that goes without saying, but we know the economy isn't doing well, so that sort of proves that the way they want to run it, isn't the best.

The rich are getting richer, there are tax rules for them to allow them not to pay (very much), the poor haven't had a pay rise for nearly ten years.

Sorry EFL, but that a far too simplistic automatic cry from the left. There are those at the top, and those at the bottom, and there is a mass of people in the middle. The Tories don't work for those at the top, and the Labour for all they say, definitely don't work for those at the bottom. The only real rule that applies to this game, is that politicians do and say whatever they think they need to, to get get into power and to stay there, or get back in after the countries got fed up with their inneptitude.

The average salary is now about £26,400 yet politicians earn £74,000 plus expenses up to their arm pits. The so called rich you go on about are the top 1%, so the other 99% sit at varying levels below that, plus that 1% you deride pay over 50% of the tax take, so don't knock them too much. Doctors are on about £70k, and there are more local council heads earning way more than the PM, so what do you call rich, and how do you define the middle group that are also in the same boat. The rich have always got rich no matter who's in power, and they just put their money abroad and did even more fiddling when old Labour were in power. Thatcher lowered the tax rates at the top, and got more tax revenue in because they didn't have to hide it any longer, so should she have kept it up at Labours rates.

That they could never achieve power without poor people voting for them is one of life's paradoxes.

No it's not; it's all the people in the middle, added to the so called poor who are happy to work hard that vote the tories in. It's the poor that want to sit on their arses that vote Labour, and the middle classes that haven't shruged off their working class upbringing that vote Labour, and they then get in by the likes of Mandleson and Alistair Campbell, AKA the snobby islington set that think they know how to help the poor run their lives, because they know they can do a better job for them.

 

[motorbiking]

perhaps its because they'd rather have a job than be unemployed in a country on strike with its economy down the loo while all the rich commute in from tax havens.

 

[JohnD]

The country may be being run in the way those in charge want it to be run.

The rich are getting richer, there are tax rules for them to allow them not to pay (very much), the poor haven't had a pay rise for nearly ten years.

That's why the rich and powerful are relentlessly trying to destroy Corbyn.

They're terrified of him.

 

[motorbiking]

He has a very good chance of getting in, because his answer to everything is yes.

 

[EFLImpudence]

The Tories don't work for those at the top

The average salary is now about £26,400

75 @ 13,200 & 1 @ 1,000,000
How many earn less than 26,400?

I'm sorry, whenever I say rich, I really mean the wealthy.
I'll try to not do it again.

No love lost for the Blair Government - New Conservatives.

 

[JohnD]

his answer to everything is yes.

Wrong.

Have you had a secret offshore trust fund in Panama, Mr Corbyn?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/04/panama-papers-david-cameron-father-tax-bahamas
No

Have you claimed for a Duck House, Mr Corbyn?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Viggers#The_Duck_Island_Incident
No

Has your Close Personal Gentleman Friend been participating in official MoD meetings, Mr Corbyn?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Werritty
No

Have you pocketed £100,000 by a cunning tax dodge, Mr Corbyn?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hunt#Tax_affairs
No

Have you toured the country falsely claiming that the UK pays £350m a week to the EU, Mr Corbyn?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...in-gisela-stuart-referendum-bus-a7236706.html
No

Have you been repeatedly sacked for lying, Mr Corbyn?
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...n-sacked-for-lying-twice-before-a7105976.html
No

Did you promise to cut school meals and bring back grammar schools, Mr Corbyn?
http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...nifesto-pledges-quietly-dropped-queens-speech
No

 

[transam]

did u suggest or indicate that student loans would be written off mr corbyn

were u a supporter of the mass murderer Castro mr corbyn ?

Whats your stance on the Venezualian dictatorship mr Corbyn ??



are u a brexiteer Mr Corbyn

 

[Doggit]

That's why the rich and powerful are relentlessly trying to destroy Corbyn.

They're terrified of him.

Typical parrot comments. Please supply your evidence for this.

But if anyones trying to destroy him, it's because he's being backed by the likes of Unite, and they're the ones that will destroy the country. The likes of Len McClusky that earns £145000, and thinks it's okay to live in a council house that needed by the so called poor members he's supposed to be helping.

Of course, Corbyns inneptitude must concern a lot as well; he's never even held a minesterial post, and he's now leader of the opposition, and if that's not the a great example of the Peter principle, then I don't know what is.

Business have reaslised that Corbyn could get in, so are starting to cosy up to him, but the really rich don't give a damn who's in, because it'll be business as usual for them. It's those the middle to upper range that are worried because they can't juggle or fiddle things so much.

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

Yes or No answer game!

Whats your stance on the Venezualian dictatorship mr Corbyn ??

 

[motorbiking]

didn't Len get his union to buy his current place with an interest free loan?

So less rent subsidised council house and more rent free union paid for house. I presume he declares the benefit on his tax return.

 

[JohnD]

subsidies?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Assuming it is corect, this is the sort of thing I meant.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41266528

"The Bank of England has said that higher inflation and a pick up in growth could lead to a rate hike in "the coming months"."

As the cause, if true as stated before, is the cost of petrol and clothes (produced abroad) and a higher price because of the value of the pound, and not consumer spending caused by inflationary wage rises, then why does this make it necessary to increase interest rates?

This speculative increase in interest rates being enough to cause the pound to rise in value.