An Evening With... Jeremy Corbyn

ruggedtoast

Wild_Rover wrote: »

Ahhhh - so Corbyn is a "boomer" - does that make him the enemy?

As for my views, well, Corbyn is the one who seems to believe that someone on 5 times the average UK 2016 wage isn't wealthy. I'd certainly claim that he is considerably more wealthy than me. Is he more privileged than me? Absolutely. I'm living on a pension - even when I was working, my salary was nothing like his, and my home is worth a lot less than his. Yet he says that he doesnt think he is wealthy. Do you agree with him? Do you think he is wealthy? Straightforward question, surely?

So how much extra tax, either on income or property (or both), do you insist that your leader should pay? Percentages, thresholds, bands, you know - these things that might give me a glimpse of the kind of society you want for everyone? Some specifics would be nice - or do you only like slogans?

If you don't think that someone with his income and assets ought to be squeezed until the pips squeak, I reckon that the vast majority of folk on this site - Labour supporters or not - are pretty safe from your redistribution of wealth. Wouldn't you agree?

WR

He's wealthy compared to me. And he's proposing higher taxes that will hit him in a couple of years (£150k plus). Or they would, the Tories are never going to raise tax on high earners.

The rest of you, who absurdly consider yourself the "squeezed middle" - asset rich and Agas stuffed with Victoria Sponges, should breathe a sigh of relief.

Or wasn't that what you wanted?

TrickyTree83

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Have you seen his latest scheme? Absolutely beggars belief:

http://metro.co.uk/2016/09/02/corb/yn-wants-to-ban-sexist-after-work-drinks-for-quite-sexist-reason-6105449

This man has absolutely no idea. Never mind the irrelevant issue of defending our country, let's do something REALLY important.

So it's sexist to allow anyone who wants to go to after work drinks to go.

But it's not sexist to assume that only mothers don't go to these after work drinks? What about the fathers who look after the kids whilst the mothers are at these events?

RuggedToast - this man and the people around him are utterly stupid. Contradicting their own policies, he has to be a Conservative plant, Agent Corbyn.

CLAPTON

it seems to be that all evening meetings discriminate against women

I trust Jeremy will make it a mandatory labour policy to ban any political meetings after 5pm

seven-day-weekend

ruggedtoast wrote: »

He's wealthy compared to me. And he's proposing higher taxes that will hit him in a couple of years (£150k plus). Or they would, the Tories are never going to raise tax on high earners.

The rest of you, who absurdly consider yourself the "squeezed middle" - asset rich and Agas stuffed with Victoria Sponges, should breathe a sigh of relief.

Or wasn't that what you wanted?

A) I have never in my life owned an Aga or baked a Victoria Sponge.
I am happy to pay more taxes if they are spent prudently and wisely, not on criminals and terrorists or inclusivity packages for one-legged black Albanian lesbians.

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ruggedtoast wrote: »

He's wealthy compared to me. And he's proposing higher taxes that will hit him in a couple of years (£150k plus). Or they would, the Tories are never going to raise tax on high earners.

The rest of you, who absurdly consider yourself the "squeezed middle" - asset rich and Agas stuffed with Victoria Sponges, should breathe a sigh of relief.

Or wasn't that what you wanted?

You just can't help yourself can you? Maybe if you stopped thinking in stereotypes you might actually understand why you are on a loser with Corbyn. I do not own, and never have owned, an Aga and it many years since I had a slice of a Victoria Sponge.

You see everyone who has the nerve to disagree with you as an enemy. That's why you can't win. Somehow I have the feeling that doesn't bother you as winning power outwith 'the party' is obviously not a priority for you. That's fine. At least you won't ever be disappointed.

Much though I'd like to stick around for this comedy gold, I have to go out now. Helping an educational charity. I realise that as I'm not a Corbyn fan, you can't understand why I do that, but as your views are a total irrelevance to the real world, it doesn't matter.

WR

CLAPTON

ruggedtoast wrote: »

He's wealthy compared to me. And he's proposing higher taxes that will hit him in a couple of years (£150k plus). Or they would, the Tories are never going to raise tax on high earners.

The rest of you, who absurdly consider yourself the "squeezed middle" - asset rich and Agas stuffed with Victoria Sponges, should breathe a sigh of relief.

Or wasn't that what you wanted?

nothing wrong with victoria sponge : a working class birthday treat : probably unknown to the rich, tax avoiding Corbyn born in a large expensive country house with a silver spoon in his mouth.

ruggedtoast

Wild_Rover wrote: »

You just can't help yourself can you? Maybe if you stopped thinking in stereotypes you might actually understand why you are on a loser with Corbyn. I do not own, and never have owned, an Aga and it many years since I had a slice of a Victoria Sponge.

You see everyone who has the nerve to disagree with you as an enemy. That's why you can't win. Somehow I have the feeling that doesn't bother you as winning power outwith 'the party' is obviously not a priority for you. That's fine. At least you won't ever be disappointed.

Much though I'd like to stick around for this comedy gold, I have to go out now. Helping an educational charity. I realise that as I'm not a Corbyn fan, you can't understand why I do that, but as your views are a total irrelevance to the real world, it doesn't matter.

WR

Perhaps while you are doling our education today you might spare a thought for the poorest GCSE students denied the opportunity of a 6th Form education due to your government's removal of the hardship grants, and those HE students from the poorest families who are denied the same.

Good day.

luckbox

Corbyn being blatantly sexist makes perfect sense to me. The man is stuck in a time loop from his 6th form days and these views were more normalised then. Absolutely no grasp on the workings of the real world and acceptance that things have moved on for the better.

ruggedtoast

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

A) I have never in my life owned an Aga or baked a Victoria Sponge.
I am happy to pay more taxes if they are spent prudently and wisely, not on criminals and terrorists or inclusivity packages for one-legged black Albanian lesbians.

Your callous dismissal of those less fortunate than you into crude stereotypes does you no credit.

Although for someone who worships Margaret Thatcher I am unsurprised.

seven-day-weekend

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Perhaps while you are doling our education today you might spare a thought for the poorest GCSE students denied the opportunity of a 6th Form education due to your government's removal of the hardship grants, and those HE students from the poorest families who are denied the same.

Good day.

Why does it cost their parents any more for them to go to 6th form or college than it does for them to be at school?