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Originally Posted by Livia
I think it's great, so long as he pays his 98% tax, that's what top rate earners were paying under the Labour government in the 70s, which is when Corbyn was at his Reddest.
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Lets look at what Corbyn was doing in the 70s... politically that is. He had a seat with Haringey Council so he was only involved in local politics, making sure local stuff ran smoothly. He wasn't running, or having anything to do with the treasury.
As for him taking us back to the 70s. Were those the times when you could come through uni debt free and walk straight into a guaranteed a good job? Where they the times when houses only cost 3 times your gross salary? and were those the times when if you were on the lower pay scale, you could rent a council house; a house you could keep for life without having to pay exhorbitant letting fees and worry about being kicked out after a year? Were those the days when a two parent family could afford to have one parent not going to work so they could raise their children? The times when utility bills were kept in line with wages and when people didn't use food banks and even the poor could afford to travel by train?
This is what Corbyn means when he says he wants to take us back to the 70s and its a darn sight better than the Tory's who have taken us back to Victorian times.