An Evening With... Jeremy Corbyn

seven-day-weekend

ruggedtoast wrote: »

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.

I do not worship Margaret Thatcher. I wasn't even a Tory voter in her time. I think she had many very good ideas, and also some very bad ones.

One thing she did have however, that Corbyn, will never have, or even recognise, is leadership qualities, which is what enabled her to be a successful PM.

westernpromise

Wild_Rover wrote: »

Hi Rugged.

Quick question - you really seem to have it in for folk you consider wealthy. Given that your Dear Leader appears not to consider himself wealthy, on a salary of about £138,000, a reported pension pot of £1.6m and seemingly owning a £600k property, at what level of income and asset ownership do you consider "wealthy" to begin? Is he a parasite on the neck of society too?

Careful with the answer now, I'm sure you wouldn't want to contradict your Dear Leader. If JC isn't "wealthy" on that level of economic security, he must be unbelievably incompetent with his own finances. Frankly, if he's not wealthy enough to attract your wealth envy, it will be a long, long time before you can criticise many contributors to this site, let alone demand extra taxation from them or presumably, go for the next logical step in the "envy" stakes, the confiscation of assets.

WR

Khorbiyn's annual income puts him in the top 2% of all earners
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/503396/Table_3_1a_14.xlsx

That's not considering the value of his final salary pension scheme. Most of those who are as rich as Khorbiyn have to spend a big chunk of their earnings on pension contributions. Even then they'll never get a benefit as generous as his, from us, the people he hates.

westernpromise

Wild_Rover wrote: »

Corbyn is the one who seems to believe that someone on 5 times the average UK 2016 wage isn't wealthy.

It's other people's money that obsesses the left. They can't stand that it exists and they want to take it and spend it.

Thrugelmir

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Although for someone who worships Margaret Thatcher I am unsurprised.

Mrs T at least showed that drive and commitment could get you places from humble beginnings. A totally different background to Corbyn who was privileged enough to go to a fee paying junior school. Nor completed his degree course.

westernpromise

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Or they would, the Tories are never going to raise tax on high earners.

Either ignorance or a flat-out lie:

Almost half of Britons pay no income tax while the richest are now shouldering the biggest burden on record, a new analysis has found.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said that the proportion of working-age adults who do not pay income tax has risen from 34.3 per cent to 43.8 per cent, equivalent to 23million people.

Over the same period the amount of income tax paid by the richest 1 per cent has risen from 24.4 per cent to 27.5 per cent, meaning that 300,000 people pay more than a quarter of the nation's income tax.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/26/nearly-half-of-britons-pay-no-income-tax-as-burden-on-rich-incre/

this is so easy

ruggedtoast

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Mrs T at least showed that drive and commitment could get you places from humble beginnings. A totally different background to Corbyn who was privileged enough to go to a fee paying junior school. Nor completed his degree course.

So did Hitler.

ruggedtoast

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I do not worship Margaret Thatcher. I wasn't even a Tory voter in her time. I think she had many very good ideas, and also some very bad ones.

One thing she did have however, that Corbyn, will never have, or even recognise, is leadership qualities, which is what enabled her to be a successful PM.

So did Hitler.

ruggedtoast

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

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?

Yes.
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seven-day-weekend

ruggedtoast wrote: »

So did Hitler.

He also was true to his principles, a voice of the people, a vegetarian and teetotal, like Corbyn.

seven-day-weekend

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Yes.
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I said 'why does it'?