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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