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The top 20% who are getting wealthier and the bottom 20% who are getting screwed. The middle is comparatively unaffected. You may be happy for the Top 1% to take ever increasing slices of national wealth at the expense of everyone else, but personally Im not. The wealth maker getting their rewards argument doesnt work either, the stats are legion.

Err because the facts, statistics and figures show it is. It has been for 30 years and continues to be. The most recent budget continued that trend.

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I've found his matter of fact, direct approach really refreshing, as I suspect many others have too. He has that 'trustworthy' aura about him and has echos of years ago when you had politicians you believed in. I suspect that rather than his policies will enable him to do well.

Wouldn't you have other more pressing things to think about on your deathbed? I love the film Fargo - fantastic blend of black humour and just the right amount of pathos. Cohen Bros best film imo. Three Colours Blue is fantastic too, moving, draws you in. Not so many laughs though... Cant nominate a book. Genuinely cant recall any that have moved me in the same way as film, shallow I know.

Dieppe town centre is worth spending a few hours in. Great seafood too. Newhaven not so much.

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No windows or chairs but with strips lights and plastic floor. Seems of requisite standard for them.

Thatcher was pragmatist driven by a deregulation doctrine - and she was largely right, sour medicine at a time when Britain had real problems. Cameron is an empty vessel by comparison, he is trying to apply what he think are Thatcherite policies in a totally changed situation. Modern politics is less about left and right but about old versus young. Cameron reprents the old because thats where most Tory votes are. The young are getting screwed. Despite what your average Ukipper and less sharp Tory think there is comparatively little benefit fraud or scrounging. Where money hemorrhages out of the economy is keeping house prices artificially high so tens of millions of mostly young working people struggle to pay rent, and in a totally unresolved approach to end of life care. The massive tax bill is in healthcare and pensions, not unemployment benefit. Modern medicine can extend the number of years we live, but mostly not the number of years we live in good health. Health spending is flat in real terms but demand continues to increase as people live longer with more chronic conditions, draw pensions longer and require expensive home or residential care. Three of of my family, all over 80 currently have cancer. Two are being treated aggressively with the object of 'curing' the cancer at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds in a hideous quality of life ruining regimen, for what? so they can die of something else next year? None of us is going to live forever so why struggle to squeeze out another few gasps on crap quality of life when you'd be better off with good palliative care and a more pleasant end - many, the luckier ones, actually die of a heroin overdose. We need to have a grown up debate on how we use nearly £300bn a year for healthcare, pensions and home care and on the real economic costs of not building 2million new homes. Demonising benefits claimants is a deliberate red herring.

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Its one of the reasons I wish we had PR elections - you'd get a much greater spread of views in parliament and more conviction politicians. I wouldn't want Corbyn to lead the Labour party, but would love him to lead a smaller party in a coalition.

Exactly that. We all make different choices - I kow I'm far happier doing what I do than I would be in much better paid careers. Somebody who supports my charity made £110m, kept £3m of it and is giving the rest of it away. The giving it away part is far more fun than the making it part.

I dont know much about how Blair got his worth - but assume much of it is through speaking engagements. The Charity I work for held an event in New York which was sponsored by Merril Lynch - they paid Clinton $400,000 to give a 20 minute speech at the event. Clinton donated the money to his foundation. Perhaps Blair doesnt.

Im not doing it, I think its unethical.

and both Brighton and Watford achieved that without needing to whore themselves around the far east and US

The limit was £50,000pa up to and including 2013/14 and you can take 25% of your pension pot tax free. Mortgage interest is 1.64%

You are mixing up and conflating two separate things. The issue is not what the headline tax rates are but the number of tax breaks and loopholes which make paying tax optional. Some rich people pay tax, many dont. Creative accountants and tax advisors can shelter their money easily and the amount wealthy people choose to pay is down to them - most choose to pay a nominal amount to keep HMRC off their back. Even middle class people can do it. Example I'm 52 and lucky enough to earn enough to pay tax at 40%. If I want to I can increase my mortgage and borrow £300,000 and pay that into my pension. The Government will then give me a tax credit for the past three years and the next three years meaning I pay no income tax - effectively they give me a free handout of almost £150,000 so £450,000 goes into my pension. When I get to 55 in three years time I can withdraw the £300,000 pay off the mortgage and keep the free £150,000. There are so many deliberately legal scams like that. It isnt accidental - its a way of persuading the plebs we are all in it together while the rich pay next to nothing if they choose.

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Not as bad as Donald Trump clearly leading in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination.

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If they are in any way competent (and that may be the rub) their support and income should see them get promoted out of lg2 easily and reasonably easily lg1 to the Championship. After that though its much, much tougher - in the Championship they will be competing against clubs with more money, grounds which dont need millions spent, proper training grounds of much higher standard, established scouting networks and, most importantly, the ability to outspend Pompey on wages and transfers in the same way Pompey have done to the minnows in lg2. The should be able to drag themselves out of the eye high **** sometime soon but getting out of the chest high stuff will be tough. Any thought of returning to the PL will be decades away, if ever.