11-01-17, 12:44 PM
(11-01-17, 11:04 AM)slappy link Wrote: [quote author=midden link=topic=21647.msg249616#msg249616 date=1484126673]
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I can`t believe he gets paid £138,000 a year, socialism doesn`t half pay well!
Would you rather pay him £138,000 to rob the poor to feed the rich?
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Average wage in UK is £26500, I personally don`t believe you can consider yourself a true socialist if you are paid more than 5 times the average wage.
And I know what other people are paid makes Corbyn look like a pauper and that there are way too many others earning minimum wage but what is the solution? Civil unrest, government overthrown by ballot box or force just puts another group in who then just carry on doing the same things and nothing significant changes, " welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss" is as true today as it ever was.
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That is so true , that is why I think we need a re think / overhaul of our political system because the adversarial system that we have imho creates problems instead of solving them as it's the same story who ever is in government ... the basic principle is government says black opposition says white and never the twain shall meet and every issue that affects the taxpayer becomes a political football to be kicked from one side to the other in an attempt to win voters with no politicians being able to answer a question directly or speak freely for fear of upsetting a voter or group of voters ( I don't like farage but he didn't give a shit and in some ways that was refreshing ) I also think the not so subtle voting message from the people ,was we want change ,but how can you change the system when there's no decent alternative and so we ended up with trump and brexit.
I totally agree with the statements from Celticdog on HS2 ( and crossrail) and Scandinavia ,moreover on Corbyn he is too late for his time and he seems to forget that after Wilson a socialist led Labour Party couldn't get elected until the chuckle brothers tony and Gordon came along with their bastardisation mixture of a left wing /middle ground slightly right of centre "we are labour but is ok to make money " politics and we all know that ended with the country financially fucked and his toniness rolling in wonga pretending to be the new messiah touring the Middle East trying to save the world.
Trouble is the current government aren't doing it either but call me Dave fucked em over beforehand so it's the poisoned chalice and Mays gulping from it not drinking from it ,but...... could have been worse it could've been Boris " picaninny" the buffoon Johnson at No 10
The trouble is the political system that needs change can only be changed by the politicians in the system that needs changing....... as was previously said welcome to the new boss .... same as the old boss ,with the add on same as the future boss.