True, fair point, I did say that the wealthy need to be highly taxed. My clarification is that “highly” should be “as high as ordinary people” in terms of percentage.
Wealth tax absolutely should not be called anything else. Certainly not anything that infers tax on achievement, effort, and winning. What about inherited wealth - is that someone gaining wealth through striving hard and succeeding? What about wealth passively gained from sitting on a house that goes from £500k to £3m over the thirty years someone lives there - is that success through hard work? What about putting your millions into a hedge fund so they can rip of everyone else and you gain massively - is that success? Its best to call it wealth tax.
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Here’s a question that David Lammy ought to be asked…
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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For a second there I thought you were calling him fat.
Who checks the checkers?
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All economics is made up. Economists only exist to make Astrologers look good.
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We’re not referring to draughts here
Who guards the guards is perhaps a more relevant translation. 
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Economists point out that there is only one pie and astrologers tell you there will be more pie tomorrow.
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No, Astrologers tell you there may be more pie tomorrow, Politicians tell you there will be more pie tomorrow 
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UK stops sharing some intel with US over Trump’s ‘drug boat’ strikes in Caribbean: report’’
The United Kingdom has taken the unprecedented step of pausing some intelligence sharing with the United States over fears of being implicated in potentially illegal strikes against vessels accused of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean, new reporting reveals.
A total of 76 people have been confirmed killed by the U.S. government in the strikes, which the White House’s critics say amount to extrajudicial killings. Those targeted are not afforded trials or any form of due process. The U.S. government has also designated top officials in Venezuela’s government as the alleged leaders of “Cartel de los Soles”, a group it claims is involved in the drug trade.
The Independent reached out to the White House for comment on Tuesday morning, but did not immediately receive a response.
A group of independent experts hired by the U.N. Human Rights Council acknowledged Trump’s justification, but stated in October that “even if such allegations were substantiated, the use of lethal force in international waters without proper legal basis violates the international law of the sea and amounts to extrajudicial executions.”
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”
----- Albert Einstein? Al-Anon? Narcotics Anonymous? Max Nordau? George Bernard Shaw? Samuel Beckett? George A. Kelly? Rita Mae Brown? John Larroquette? Jessie Potter? Werner Erhard?
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Hi
I voted for Starmer, he said all the right things and promised to get to work on them right away.
Ha won with a huge majority of MPs even with a very low turn out.
He was going to fix the system, govern for ordinary working people.
How wrong I was, he did not change the rules, snouts in the trough.
Free clothes, shoes, expensive concert tickets etc, including for wife and family.
He hadn’t changed the rules at all, his defence was he had obeyed the existing rules.
He scrapped the Winter Fuel Allowance without even doing a Financial Impact Assessment, claimed, wrongly that al Pensioners got the Maximum Annual Increase under the Triple Lock, you only get it if you are on the New State Pension, which most aren’t.
According to the Guardian, Starmer has now made 13 U Turns on 13 Public Promises.
He has spent vast amounts of time abroad sorting the affairs of others and has far too much of our money on things like Islands in the Pacific.
I don’t get £600 Taxi Trips paid for to a Medical Appointment, neither do I get home visits from a GP and an NHS Dentist is unobtainable here.
The list goes on and on.
He needs to stop those so badly advising him, cut out the trips abroad and focus on things he can do, quickly, here in the UK.
I don’t want another decade of Austerity or things getting even worse.
I want sensible actions taken to make things better for ordinary people as soon as possible.
Others may disagree, but I consider these to be rational, achievable objectives.
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I didn’t vote for him because I read the financial details of their manifesto which pretty much indicated that they did not have enough money for their plans. People were so desperate to get rid of the Tories that they blindly trusted Labour.
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I’m giving up on politics … Starmer is a joke and Badenoch isn’t much better. Trouble is… whilst once I quite liked Farage but I’ve gone off him too.
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when I see him on telly I always wonder whether he has bad breath. All those cigars combined with bad teeth.
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Who?
Starmer or Farage?
Cigars? I’m wondering too.
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His picture at the National Portrait Gallery is an example of many I’ve seen
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw252028/Nigel-Farage
Farage is just another of those entitled, privileged, upper class galahs that think they are born to rule but when it comes down to it actually prove that they are as useless as the ones that went before them and shouldn’t have been allowed to run a market stall. Yet remain favoured by the British voting class.
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Rhetoric from any doctrine can get overwhelming!
Aww!
Farage oozes sincerity…
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