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Russel Brand with Ed Miliband on the trews news out today. I bet @scaramanga is jizzing in excitement.....
I think that Cameron's response to it was (for once) spot on.Russel Brand with Ed Miliband on the trews news out today. I bet @scaramanga is jizzing in excitement.....
I think that Cameron's response to it was (for once) spot on.
Brand is a joke - a pious, junkie tw4t one at that. Thesaurus-based humour never was and still isn't funny. Even the Americans don't like him any more.
I'm not sure what Wallace's angle is on this. I assume he thinks Brand can make him look marginally less silly by comparison. He probably thinks that Brand will go relatively easy on him as to attack properly would probably lead to a Conservative government. He's probably right on both counts.
I don't see any real votes being won here though. The people who agree with Brand politically are simpletons that didn't vote anyway. Brand has just given them an excuse to pretend they've made a political decision to vote whereas really they'd just rather watch Jeremy Kyle/TOWIE.
Absolutely. Someone I rarely agree with - Ed Balls - had Brand right when he described him as a "Poundshop Ben Elton"Brand lost all credibility when he started to espouse the "don't vote" rhetoric.
And yes I agree, beyond the big words and punch lines he doesn't offer any practical ideas.
An own goal for Ed and a clear indicator of his deep lying Marxist mindset. A bit scary.
Brand lost all credibility when he started to espouse the "don't vote" rhetoric.
And yes I agree, beyond the big words and punch lines he doesn't offer any practical ideas.
An own goal for Ed and a clear indicator of his deep lying Marxist mindset. A bit scary.
Quite.Yeah, it's a shame he's taken the Labour party back in this direction.
His "Britain does well when working people do well" line that he constantly rolls out is annoying me too. One, what does he mean by 'working people'? The implication behind the actual words, i think, is that by 'working people', he means people that would have in the past been described as 'working class'. Not sure, but appears to be the case, when you consider the policies and rhetoric he attaches to the tag.
It seems to be a whole load of 'let's kick the banks, big business and the rich and Britain only does well when the brickies, plumbers, miners, factory workers, nurses and postmen do well.'
It's like he's implying that people like Richard Branson and Alan Sugar don't work hard and nor do the traders in the City or lawyers.
He's got it all wrong. It might be unfortunate for some ("the world we live in and all that etc"), but Britain does well, when its big companies do well, when big business does well, when the rich get richer, confidence is high and the banks lend more as a result.
A strong economy based on strong performance by big companies supported by robust central regulation to prevent malpractice is the best compromise. it's only the big companies that do the kind of business that really makes a huge economic difference. Big deals, big construction contracts, big mergers and acquisitions. One massive contract can guarantee work for 5,000 people, who then have more disposable income, who then spend more in local businesses, or on home-improvements, so the brickies, plumbers, shop keepers and factory workers have more jobs and more business, get paid more and so on and so forth.
No issue with giving people help - I highly support it and will always champion it.
I do have a problem with policies that reward lower or specific demographics disproportionately to others. Housing incentives are geared towards the lower end, when the problem is huge in the middle
And this is the crux of it.. disproportionately. The ones who privately rent and aren't given help of any description are the ones who feel this is unfair. To give a 100k discount to a social housing tenant is far too much.
that's a sweeping statement, not all
of us private renters feel like that
all I want the government to do is stay the hell out of my way, help those that can't help
themselves and light a fire under those who refuse to
Absolutely. Someone I rarely agree with - Ed Balls - had Brand right when he described him as a "Poundshop Ben Elton"
A strong economy based on strong performance by big companies supported by robust central regulation to prevent malpractice is the best compromise.
it's only the big companies that do the kind of business that really makes a huge economic difference. Big deals, big construction contracts, big mergers and acquisitions. One massive contract can guarantee work for 5,000 people, who then have more disposable income, who then spend more in local businesses, or on home-improvements, so the brickies, plumbers, shop keepers and factory workers have more jobs and more business, get paid more and so on and so forth.
I think what the Conservatives are offering is close. They don't really understand what an efficient tax system with suitable incentives is either but they're far closer than any alternative.I think this is what most people would want. The question is: which party would anyone trust to bring this about in reality?
That's because there's a massive difference between doing the right thing and playing politics.Strange, that the Coalition keeps talking about how the Economy is driven by small businesses and that it has been them that has created the 'upturn in the Economy'. What you say there sounds absolutely plausible; but if it is ACTUALLY what has happened/is happening why hasn't Cameron/Clegg been stating this in their Election campaign? Surely, if really true, it's an easy vote winner?
This is an election gimmick at the very least, albeit a very poor one that doesn't relate well to the majority of private renters.
If they are helping the social housing demographic, shouldn't they also be helping the private renters?
Nobody will ever get elected on a manifesto of "We're going to look after big business because without them, none of you would have jobs". Not because it isn't true or because it doesn't work - purely because successive Conservative governments since Thatcher have allowed the left to take the political arguments into their battlegrounds and have done nothing to keep the electorate informed of true cause and effect in the economy.
I think this is what most people would want. The question is: which party would anyone trust to bring this about in reality?
Strange, that the Coalition keeps talking about how the Economy is driven by small businesses and that it has been them that has created the 'upturn in the Economy'. What you say there sounds absolutely plausible; but if it is ACTUALLY what has happened/is happening why hasn't Cameron/Clegg been stating this in their Election campaign? Surely, if really true, it's an easy vote winner?
If we allow businesses and wealthy people to pay no tax, then they will create more jobs. Then if we do away with the regulation of business, they can create more jobs still. Do away with any employee rights, and they can make even more money and create even more jobs. Because the only way to be successful is to create as many jobs as possible whilst creating as much wealth for rich people as possible. This is why it must be so much worse to be a poor person in Sweden than in the United States. I'd certainly rather be living in a rough part of a major US city than the rough part of a Scandinavian one. Those at the bottom of the pile in Scandinavia are made dangerous by a system that doesn't totally abandon them, whereas US inner cities are peaceful places, where everybody feels the benefit of the torrent of wealth that pours down from the very richest.
There is a balance to be had. As I said, there needs to be robust regulation of big business (and of any business), but with big business you can be more robust with the regulation as they have the capital and resources to absorb large fines and enforcement measures, if necessary.