[Smithy]

Do I agree that someone who earned every penny is his bank account can support a political leader of their choice? Hmmmm gonna say yes

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Do I agree that someone who earned every penny is his bank account can support a political leader of their choice? Hmmmm gonna say yes

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.

[Smithy]

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.

But it’s not the 70s, those aren’t the tax rates and ed wasn’t even born then? But thanks for the history lesson

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Smithy

But it’s not the 70s, those aren’t the tax rates and ed wasn’t even born then? But thanks for the history lesson

No, but you understand the thread of what I was saying, surely. You're an intelligent person.

Those aren't the tax rates now because we've been under a right facing government for years... and I include our time under Blair and Brown in that.

[DemolitionRed]

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.

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.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

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.

Were you there - doesn’t sound like it. You speak as though going to uni was the norm in the seventies when it wasn’t. Maybe it was in your world but not for the majority. Most people worked their way up into good jobs rather than walking straight into them with their nice free degrees at the taxpayers expense.

Most things worth having don’t come free or easy so why should a uni degree and the accompanying lifestyle be any different. School leavers struggled to get jobs even in London in the seventies so not exactly the free ride you seem to be implying. Just Sounds like those with a sense of entitlement want their nice free uni degrees with all the benefits but none of the pain.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

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.

Well said! I'm sick of hearing this 'take us back to the 70s claptrap' it's just anothe media driven mantra that some who are too ignorant will swallow if they aren't clever enough to research the fact that that is utter balls... What was the tory party like in the 70s? Old heath, what a barrel of laughs it was once he got in! predecessor to the milk snatcher and it was downhill from there .

[Christmas Dynasnow]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Do I agree that someone who earned every penny is his bank account can support a political leader of their choice? Hmmmm gonna say yes

earned every penny?

do you actually believe that or think anyone who is a socialist does?

[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Isaiah 7:14

earned every penny?

do you actually believe that or think anyone who is a socialist does?

He writes his own songs and is a big star in the Music Industry despite not looking conventional in the Music world.

His Music is not my favourite, but he is talented, and has definitely worked for his money.

[Christmas Dynasnow]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

He writes his own songs and is a big star in the Music Industry despite not looking conventional in the Music world.

His Music is not my favourite, but he is talented, and has definitely worked for his money.

worked for his money?

So by that reckoning a Nurse on say 30K a year has also worked for that amount of money?

what an insult

and hardly very socialist of you