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The big new from the US is that the California Senator, Kamala Harris, is reported to be quitting the race for the nomination. This come less than six months after moving to the favourite slot following her performance in the first TV debate.
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Oh was this a primus inter pares?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/dec/03/uk-six-richest-people-control-as-much-wealth-as-poorest-13m-study
Within three years there will be 263 more weekly services, with destinations including Walsall, Gobowen and Llandudno getting direct services to and from London Euston.
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/avanti-virgin-trains-london-west-coast-main-line-euston-birmingham-manchester-a9220776.html
As a vet’s son I know bullshit when I smell it. There simply are not 263 additional pathways for these trains. They couldn’t even find five daily for Cannock.
That is a pledge that could only be met when HS2 is finally opened, which is a lot more than three years away.
So the operators are one of stupid, mad, pig ignorant or lying. They are clearly not stupid or mad, and currently run a railway company. I’ll go with the ‘lying’ option.
Two of my other biggest lays aren’t even in the race!!
But that was both before and after he was elected.
Not in a pie you‘ll understand, just watching Labour being turned into it.
She was a strong candidate but I think there were serious weaknesses in her campaign organisation.
If you confiscated all of their assets (all £39.4bn) and gave all of it equally to those 14 million they’d have... a one-off payment of £2,800 each.
Corbyn’s promising a bigger bung to the WASPIS.
https://imgur.com/Y6NsnSA
Still not convinced. For them to be expresses, that’s still far more extra trains than he WCML can manage.
Long may it continue.
1. No one is suggesting confiscating £39.4bn from six people and giving 14m £2,800 each.
(2. Although as an aside, if they did it would improve the sum of human happiness in the UK immeasurably.)
3. Most of those 14m have no assets at all beyond the clothes they wear and the furniture they sit on - quite a few don't even have the furniture.
4. What is that £39bn doing exactly?
5. Why would anyone need more than a few million let alone multiple billions? what's the point of it?
6. Where precisely is the "simplistic nonsense" in the article?
It's none of your business. But once the Government decides they can confiscate 999 pounds out of every 1000 you have, property rights are dead and the entire economic system collapses. And that's everyone's business.
http://news.met.police.uk/news/london-bridge-terror-attack-statement-from-lukasz-388912
Bloomberg too disliked and entering race late, Sanders will get support but not enough to win. Buttigieg can't get any black voters, and Warren has peaked too soon. Which leaves err... Joe Biden.
He can stave off mental degradation till March but I reckon by the time November comes round it's going to be in full view - Trump whilst obese and not the picture of health himself has got most of his faculties...
PS A lot of this wealth is property - those owning it aren't going to be taking that out of the country when they leave.
Well on the basis of personal preference not likelihood of winning, that's me on the US Presidential. I started on Sherrod Brown and when he got nowhere switched to Kamala Harris.....
All I am looking for is a plausible centrist candidate who is under 70 years old. Is that too much to ask? Mayors of small towns need not apply.
It’s been the cry of socialists throughout the ages since time immemorial and it’s as much bullshit now as it was then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnAjoiKSFAw
There’s no good that can come to wider society by expropriating their assets.
God, you wonder how some BBC reporters get the job.
How about we start with 1% p.a. on wealth over a £3m. Just from the top 1% in other words, but since they own over £1.3tn that would bring in £13bn each year.
And they'd hardly notice it.
Mayor Pete strikes me as someone who could beat him. I think the black voters thing is a myth (rcs convinced me of that).
Jeremy Corbyn is well and truly getting into the Christmas spirit — he’s making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty or nice, Jeremy is coming to town.
Momentum activists could turn that into a Christmas number one. But who’s on the Labour leader’s list?
Well, he’s pretty clear about who’s been naughty. Indeed, he revels in pointing the finger at bad bosses, fat cats, bankers, hedge funds, polluters, privatisers, Tories (obviously) and of course, billionaires.
Corbyn sees billionaires everywhere. He claims they wrote the Tory manifesto, and that they paid for it. This seems like a poor deal
https://www.cityam.com/corbyn-cant-fix-your-miserable-commute/
You might be able to bring in a few extra billions (maybe tens of billions) a year with a 1-2% wealth tax (any more than that and they’d bugger off or do something else with the money) but again it’s not going to be transformative when spread across 14 million people.
What will be is affordable housing, help with childcare, good schools, stable families and good well-paid jobs.
For that you need a strong economy and a sensible Government following the right policies.
What proportion of the wealthiest 1% have all their assets tied up in their main residence? I'd guess none of them but if I'm wrong, they can always downsize.
This is, after all, akin to Swiss policy. The Swiss feel that a modest wealth tax is helpful in inducing the wealthy to invest their wealth profitably, seeling off land they don't need etc. I've not heard that people are fleeing Switzerland as a result.
Expensive mistake :-)
Now if we discussed income tax and council tax reforms at the same time...
I know a few of you are thinking envy tax etc. but honestly, I am comfortably off, not envious. I just think we need to address the inequality a bit more than we currently do.