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Somebody I know works as a pa to a trader in the city. She’s competent at what she does but no exceptional skills. She earns £90k pa, essentially because it’s relatively small beer to them so why not? There should be a link between top wages and lowest, because currently the culture rewards those CEOs are most effective at screwing down on those at the bottom in order to reduce costs. If there wax a link they would be more motivated to find other ways of increasing profitability.

Jeez man up. You’re a right wing slightly bigoted Tory who consistently slams everything coming from non tories. Everybody who reads your posts knows that. I don’t know get why you persist in trying to cultivate some kind of tolerant open to persuasion persona.

Why do you still try to position yourself as politically neutral when your own posts discredit that? Shroppies post was accurate. Johnson’s rush to get out of the EU come what may will leave us desperate and dependent on the US providing some kind of trade fig leaf. Their will be a price to pay for it, most likely including some access to the NHS. Deriding him as dogma driven momentum puts you in an unflattering light

We can go back 500m years if you like but I dont see the relevance to now. CO2, nitrous oxide and methane are all better insulators than pre-industrial air. Chuck loads of it into the atmosphere as we have done for the past 200 years only and you will get climate change. I've never understood the argument that because natural climate change occurs we shouldnt do anything to stop damaging man made change. Indeed managing man made change now is invaluable preparation if we ever need to deal with the effects of some kind of sudden natural climate event.

The NHS gets fantastic prices on drugs and equipment because it functions as a single purchasing consortium - usually around 10-40% of what a patient in the US would pay. Where drugs expenditure per person in the UK is around £300 pa in the US it's around £850, despite lower survival rates. If the NHS paid for drugs at US rates it would need an extra £36 billion pa just to standstill. Breaking up the consortium to allow US pharma to claw back that £36bn in additional profits is what this is all about. To that end fter the election expect to see some kind of 'joint venture trial' announced by the Johnson government. It will encourage big US healthcare and venture capital companies putting in low ball bids to run flagship NHS units at below costs. It will be billed as super efficient US healthcare (which if you know anything about US healthcare is a sick joke) giving a much needed shot in the arm to the 'mismanaged' NHS. Once they've got the contracts they'll erode the NHS' purchasing power and start to increase charges. Its a ruse been used time and time again with things like privatisation of rubbish collection, rail and water.

You used a doctored version of the original to show what you wanted. How very GM.

I think what has changed is that at one time there was tight regulation to protect the public against corporate excess and abuse of a dominant position in the market. Now the mega corporations have the whip hand and people have been demoted from citizens to consumers

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Why? What happened?

Disraeli succeeded by distancing himself and denigrating other Jews. He did whatever was necessary to become leader, just like Johnson

That image shows the gulf between who people want to support and who they actually vote for come general election time. The small parties get squeezed under FPTP, not news I know but that graphic demonstrates it.

Their own fault for being old or disabled

This sadly. In 2017 Corbyn was recently elected leader, the policies weren't as extreme, the LDs were in the naughty corner and he was up against a Tory leader so wooden she made him seems engaging. None of that is working in their favour this time.

Agree, which is why the honours system should be taken out of the hands of politicians and into some kind of independent body.

I'm estimating from your language you're between 75 and 85. Am I right?

Doh. 1. 60% of health and social services are consumed by the over 65s - exactly the group who pay least tax. 2. Immigrants are overwhelmingly of working age. They pay the tax the funds the NHS and many of them staff it. Successive governments have used immigration as an easy sticking plaster for all kinds of structural problems in the UK education system and economy and to keep companies who demand low wage workers happy. It aint going to change anytime soon no matter who you vote for.

Nah. You get fooled repeatedly. As Brexiteers were warned reducing EU immigration wont make any difference because the government will just let in more non EU nationals. Under the Tories non EU migration has doubled since 2013. No doubt you also buy the line that they're all super skilled workers adding to GDP but in fact the large majority of visas issued are for family members of people already here and unskilled students who don't return home.

That's true - but simply makes the point eloquently that much of what people blame the EU for is actually the result of UK Government policy or the way it applies EU law - such as not imposing restrictions on freedom of movement as other states do.

Apparently so Tame, apparently so!!

Never in the field of dunce baiting have so many informed people "back on on ignore" been responded to so consistently by one so clueless

That's odd. I could have sworn one of themes of the leave debate was Britain had to get out because we couldnt stop Turkey, Ukraine and Kazakhstan joining.

The frequency of natural phenomena varies depending on the state of the earth. Cut down forests on hills you get more landslides, plant more trees you get more rain, take too many fish from the ocean you get more jellyfish. One isnt unaffected by the other.

It's equilibrium, Einstein and CO2.

Why do you think he specifically negotiated a clause allowing extension of the implementation period? He is the swamp. The dawn light arrives very slowly in your house

Very well. You said no deal I said Norway. Its still five years or so till its finalised but you can pay up now based on the way its going. Even if the Tories get re-elected no deal has been ruled out and we're probably stay in the single market and customs union during an implementation period which gets extended for years till its all quietly dropped. You're likely to be dead before five years are up, so maybe leave the £50 to charity in your will?