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Typical class warfare brick from Labour.

Rich = Bad

Let them continue........they are playing into the Tories hands for 2015 and will make themselves unelectable.

The bottom line is once the economy is on the rise again people will want small government and will want to keep their spoils of the capitalist dream.......and there's only one party in this country who ideologically stand for that.
 
things are just kicking off so it's difficult to make a decision yet, but I quite like the look of big brian paddingdong (not like that!). haven't delved too deep on the policies yet but i like the fact he's had a normal job which will have provided him with great insight into many of the social issues that need to be tackled in london, also in his favour, is the fact he's not Boris or Ken, who have both had their chance and achieved very little.

let's face it, spending ?ú1.4million / bus when you could get a conventional double decker bus for ?ú190k, whilst continually hiking up travel costs is a pretty stupid policy, and from a tory in times of austerity as well!
 
Yossarian said:
Corinthian Casuals or similar.:-"

Livingstone really is beyond the pale:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/d...tone-the-labour-partys-own-nuremberg-defence/
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You never know that could actually work in livingstones favour if the muslim vote turn out for him.

Of the 2 jewish people i know neither are doing that well for themselves, maybe it is the circle i move in. But down here one of the jewish guys i did not even know was jewish for the first year of knowing him, never came up in conversation.

I think this image of jews as rich guys who buy and sell gold is a bit out dated.
 
The thing I always remember most about Livingstone being Mayor when I lived in London was the way he introduced the Congestion Charge.

In the 8-12 months preceding the introduction, you couldn't move in London for roadworks - one article I read (I think it was in the Standard) put the increase in roadworks over that period at 400% of standard. Red Ken puts in a new congestion charge, takes away all the cones and then claims the massive reduction in traffic/journey time is entirely down to him taxing those who have no other option.

It's that kind of thing that puts him on my Piers Morgan list.
 
scaramanga said:
The thing I always remember most about Livingstone being Mayor when I lived in London was the way he introduced the Congestion Charge.

In the 8-12 months preceding the introduction, you couldn't move in London for roadworks - one article I read (I think it was in the Standard) put the increase in roadworks over that period at 400% of standard. Red Ken puts in a new congestion charge, takes away all the cones and then claims the massive reduction in traffic/journey time is entirely down to him taxing those who have no other option.

It's that kind of thing that puts him on my Piers Morgan list.
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Mayor Boris Johnson publishes tax return showing he earned ?ú1.7m

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, took the rare step today of releasing his personal accounts for the past four years to show that he had paid full tax on earnings of just under ?ú1.7 million.

Mr JohnsonÔÇÖs campaign team published a letter sent to him by his accountants, Begbies, confirming that he earned a total of ?ú473,280 last year and paid tax and National Insurance of ?ú213,749.

The figures show that Mr Johnson, who has a weekly column in The Daily Telegraph and is also a successful author, earns more than ?ú300,000 a year on top of his annnual salary of ?ú130,000 as mayor.

Altogether, over the four-year period, he earned ?ú1,699,257 and paid tax and NI of ?ú684,719.

The decision to publish the figures shows the depth of Mr JohnsonÔÇÖs anger at claims by Ken Livingstone, his Labour challenger in next monthÔÇÖs mayoral election, that Mr Johnson channels his freelance earnings through a company to reduce his tax bill ÔÇö as Mr Livingstone himself has admitted doing.

Mr Livingstone repeated that claim during a live radio debate this week despite having been personally told by Mr Johnson at an earlier hustings that it was not true.

The mayor was so angered by the smear that he accosted Mr Livingstone in a lift at the LBC radio studio in London and accused him of being ÔÇ£a f****** liarÔÇØ.

Mr Livingstone had promised that he will make his own earnings public once the other candidates have done so but his campaign director, Patrick Heneghan, said today that he would not be doing so until Mr Johnson also made his wifeÔÇÖs earnings public.

ÔÇ£The only way to answer all the questions about this issue and to move the debate on the real issues facing London is for full household income disclosure,ÔÇØ he said. ÔÇ£This should apply to all the candidates equally to avoid any further questions about the income and tax affairs that may or may not be applicable to them through their households.ÔÇØ

So he paid EVERY fudging PENNY.....let's see Livingstone's affairs!! :)
 
?ú213,749 tax an N.I. from ?ú473,280. That's ridiculous, and probably won't count employers N.I. either. Add on top of that all the indirect taxation and no wonder hardly any one has got any money to spend!
 
Does his job and writes a column and some books........the hatred is disgraceful.

This shows the UK is now anti-wealth, regardless of how it's made.

Bloke is a politician and writer and pays a 45% tax rate and they still try to defend Livingstone who pays 15%!!
 
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I think it's hilarious (and sad) that people seem to think that writing his column seems to interfere with his job. These the very people that have the time in their own jobs to sit around responding to newspaper articles all day!
 
WookieD said:
I think it's hilarious (and sad) that people seem to think that writing his column seems to interfere with his job. These the very people that have the time in their own jobs to sit around responding to newspaper articles all day!
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More details of Red Ken the proper socialists tax affairs:

OK, here's how it works in the broadest terms. Ken's company received, I believe, an income of ?ú238,646 last year. If he had paid this to himself as income within the year--as Boris does--he would have paid tax of ?ú105,476.96.

Instead what he has done is (very sensibly and legally) this:

1. Paid himself a salary of ?ú5,700. This means neither he, nor his company has any liability for National Insurance, (but he does receive a credit towards his old age pension as if he had paid his stamp). That saves about ?ú17k right there.
2. Because he pays himself less than ?ú100,000 he receives his full tax-free allowance, (unlike Boris who receives none).
3. Because he pays himself less than ?ú150,000 he avoids the top tax rate of 50% and doesn't care if it is abolished or not.
4. The rest of the money is his to do with as he wishes. If his wife is a director, she will have received the same deal as Ken. If she was paid a ?ú90,000 salary, as I believe, to compensate for no longer being on the GLA payroll as his "assistant", then she will have paid ?ú31k in tax and NI. Either arrangement ensures that she gets to use her full tax free allowance for further savings. This splitting of income for tax avoidance has been challenged by the Inland Revenue (Arctic Systems) but they lost the case.

That leaves around ?ú50,000, which he may be using to pay staff, or putting into pensions for himself or his wife.

So he's saved around ?ú40,000 in tax.

Perfectly legally.

OK, he might have to pay the accountants ?ú2-3k as well but I reckon that's money well spent, don't you?
 
Ken's campaign has been rudderless for weeks now. He keeps focusing on the tax affairs of Boris Johnson, yet: is that what Londoners truly care about? I don't think so. He's weak and brings no fresh imputus; it's the same ol' brick which he was spouting when he was last Mayor and the same ol' brick that meant Boris won last time out.

His problem is that he thinks the Mayor is 'his job'. It isn't. He had a long enough shift at it, and proved to everyone how utterly brick we was at it. Time for a change and new ideas. I don't use a 'Boris Bike' but it's innovation like that which Boris brought to the fore which was lacking when Ken was Mayor. Likewise, the forward-thinking cable car scheme across the Thames; it's rather whacky, but it's cool, fresh and it works. The same could be said of his plan for the airport in the Estuary. He also brought back the Routemaster; but improved it - greener, brighter, a cool bus for a cool city.

You didn't get none of this under Ken. All you had was bricky Congestion Zone increases and crap bendy busses. His 'negotiation' with the Tube unions was 'hmmm...okay, I give in'. Weak as fudge - no balls at all.

Boris aint perfect and could easily be ousted with a credible alternative. But Ken Livingstone ain't it.
 
Leeds Spur said:
Typical class warfare brick from Labour.

Rich = Bad

Let them continue........they are playing into the Tories hands for 2015 and will make themselves unelectable.

The bottom line is once the economy is on the rise again people will want small government and will want to keep their spoils of the capitalist dream.......and there's only one party in this country who ideologically stand for that.
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UKIP it is then!
 
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