Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[jal123]

It could be worse lads, you could all be losing a fantastic local MP to a promotion, and getting a flump headed, back hander, student flat loving, redrow dwelling cretin, or Jeremy corbyns son 'seb' parachuted in to deal with your local issues.

 

[roydo]

In many ways, corporations are the job destroyers. And people are the wealth creators.

Eh? Dont get that, even a little bit.

Surely the two are in the same game? Apple gets founded by some Merican geeks, Apple employs loads of people, loads of people buy Apple gubbins, Apple persuades same folk to buy their next gizmo.

Apple mucks about with tax mind, with you on that.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

Those of you singing the praises of the Cuban Healthcare system - didn't you get the memo? As everyone knows the NHS is the envy of the world, so much so that no other country is copying it. However if the Cuban system is so wonderful perhaps we should shut the NHS down and restart it under the Cuban model, after all the British are famous for their ability to queue in an orderly fashion

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

Corporations don't pay tax, only people do. So the tax has to come from the employees or the customers of a company, or both.

 

[ToffeeTim]

In many ways, corporations are the job destroyers. And people are the wealth creators.

Only in warped political ideologies that ignore economic reality.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Well, I got an A in my Home Economics A Level but I admit I never pursued it, academically, beyond that.

I know enough to point out that it is neo-liberal monetarism and capitalist recklessness that caused the Financial Crisis, though, and it has so far been ameliorated by largely Keynesian measures. I am also clever enough to note that since the Crisis, it has been the poor and not the super-rich who have footed the bill. Now call me old-fashioned, but that just doesn't seem right to me.

Mate?

 

[Clint Planet]

Mate?

Wish I had.

 

[Clint Planet]

Shrödinger’s Conservative discovered: simultaneously votes Tory and bemoans everything being awful

October 4, 2016
Written by Neil Tollfree

A new type of voter, nicknamed Shrödinger’s Conservative, has been discovered, who will always vote Tory and yet constantly bemoans the lack of investment in parks, poor public transport, and problems with the NHS.

“They are the living embodiment of Shrödinger’s famous thought experiment,” said Simon Williams, professor of dubious analogies at Oxford University.

“They will vote Tory because they consider the Tories the only party capable of competent rule. But simultaneously they believe the country to be in a perilous state because of poor governance and corrupt self-interest.”

Whilst in the case of Shrödinger’s famous cat the box could theoretically be opened in order to discover which of the two opposing states the feline was in, there is seemingly no equivalent ‘box’ for Shrödinger’s Conservative, as their natural state seems to be to hold the two opposing views at the same time.

“Perhaps reason is their box?” continued Professor Williams.

“If the Shrödinger’s Conservative applied reason to the situation, they would understand that they are holding two seemingly opposing views in their head, and by using reason they could open the box and discover whether they truly support the Tory party, or whether they actually believe the country to be in its current dismal state because of six years of rule by the Tory party.”

Professor Williams does however consider a third option.

“They could just be completely [Poor language removed]-thick.”

 

[roydo]

So Professor Williams concludes that folk that dont agree with him are thick.

Great. I will deffo vote with him then, just to prove him wrong.

 

[Clint Planet]

So Professor Williams concludes that folk that dont agree with him are thick.

Great. I will deffo vote with him then, just to prove him wrong.

It's satire, mate.

 

[roydo]

It's satire, mate.

Haha! Soz mate, missed that!

 

[jal123]

So Professor Williams concludes that folk that dont agree with him are thick.

Great. I will deffo vote with him then, just to prove him wrong.

lol

 

[magicjuan]

Taxing and punishing the people who provide us with jobs and livelihoods is a bizarre ideology. One of the many reasons I think the LABOUR Party has lost its soul.

Then unfortunately you are either naive, uneducated or a wum, because your statement cannot be taken seriously.
Do you know the words societal infrastructure? Start there.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Then unfortunately you are either naive, uneducated or a wum, because your statement cannot be taken seriously.
Do you know the words societal infrastructure? Start there.

Punishing job creators wrecks economies. Let them provide jobs. Don't stifle them. Taxing them more severely is hugely naive and counterproductive. I've tons of respect for anyone who goes into business and tries to make something of themselves. Business owners are decent, honourable people, but Corbyn simply sees them as groups to exploit.

 

[JonS]

Punishing job creators wrecks economies. Let them provide jobs. Don't stifle them. Taxing them more severely is hugely naive and counterproductive. I've tons of respect for anyone who goes into business and tries to make something of themselves. Business owners are decent, honourable people, but Corbyn simply sees them as groups to exploit.

I'm not in favour of taxing or punishing the small business owners but the anti-competition sharp practice corporations I would regulate and tax into reform or out of existence.

And I think it's pretty obvious the trickle down theory doesn't work - witness the vast number of jobs I've mentioned that were previously decently paid with decent terms that are now minimum wage minimum security usury for the corporations profits