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Burger King's fries are nicer for a start

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2302559/Welfare-reform-isnt-hurting-poor-people-Its-trying-make-richer.html

[h=3]Result: the class group you most closely match is:[/h][h=4]Technical middle class[/h]This is a small, distinctive and prosperous new class group. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group: Mix socially with people similar to themselves Work in research, science and technical fields Enjoy emerging culture such as going to the gym and using social media

Apologies - my comment should have been made more as a generalisation. It was more geared at some of my facebook "friends" who will delight in a story about a Tory that supposedly argued the toss about paying a first class train fare yet not a boo from a goose when a non-Tory is caught with their pants down.

Whataboutery alert! Shame the previous government didn't think of that idea while they allowed the gap between rich and poor to grow at its greatest rate...

Stop dressing decent alternative ideas in gratuitous anti-Tory vitriol and I'll concede its a decent proposal What other private enterprise should we curb while we're at it?

Tomlinson, like all career Tory bashers, also glosses over the fact that Labour were in power for 13 years and chose to do sod all about plugging these "millionaire tax avoiding loopholes", not forgetting that Labour also gave "millionaires" a 10% tax break for best part of 13 years too. (Yes, I know I've broken one of the thought police rules there by harking back to the past when we should be sweeping all that's gone before us under the carpet - unless its bad historical Tory stuff of course...) I'd be happy to listen to alternative views on how to tackle the current problems but all you get is anti-Tory vitriol because that plays to their captive audience better than admitting that its a cross party issue.

Given Labour pledged to cut £8 for every £9 the Tories pledged to cut from state expenditure, maybe Ricky could explain what welfare and services they would have chopped so we have something to compare against in the interests of a balanced discussion...?

^This

Net revenue generator, surely?

I just had an evening meal for c.£2

At least I'm not the only one going off on an almost amusing tangent...

It would seem someone is masquerading as Kanu on Twitter saying that he has written off the money he was owed... @pn_neil_allen: Looks like @N****woK1976 is a fake account according to journos @oluwashina and @ToyinIbitoye. Guess those #Pompey claims can be ignored.

It's not a tax FFS...

You started it...

The richest 1% of society contribute c.30% of all tax revenues and the top 50% of the working population contribute 90%. How much more do you want to squeeze out of "the rich"?

If £57 isn't enough to "live on" (after all the bills etc have been accounted for) what amount should we be aiming for and how should it be funded? I know I'm pre-empting the spending pledges in Labour's general election manifesto here but just wondering what ballpark figures we're talking about here

Agree...just trying to put things into perspective, albeit in a slightly provocative way... (and, no, I'm not suggesting two "wrongs" make a right either...)

@premierleague: Mike Jones has been appointed referee for Reading v Southampton on Saturday April 6th. #RDGSOU

@NabilHassan79: Administrators PKF have completed their merger with BDO today. Business as usual on the #pompey front with Trevor Birch still at the helm.

Hmmm...

Oh-oh....the doom and gloom merchants aren't going to be happy about this... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21998652

Yep. Generous odds for a team just 4 points above the drop zone.

Indeed. I'm getting ahead of myself for once