Comments on: What should Labour do?

By: GeoffH

GeoffH — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:32:44 +0000

“the top 10% of households own more wealth than the rest put together”

And the top 10% income tax payers contribute more than half of all income tax revenue.

So what’s the problem?

By: Johnathan Pearce

Johnathan Pearce — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:44:21 +0000

You forgot to mention a land value tax.

Oh, wait a minute…….

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Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:17:09 +0000

[...] the top 10% of households own more wealth than the rest put together”. Right-wing blogger Tim Worstall kindly points out the risks of capital flight. One way around this is to target the tax at land, [...]

By: GeoffH

GeoffH — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:28:29 +0000

Masters degree to ‘work in an early years setting’?

Motherhood requiring a Masters degree sounds like a great way to eliminate the chav class over time. It’d have to go hand in hand with compulsory abortion and/or sterilisation for the uneducated that attempted a bit of freelance breeding.

Sounds very ‘Swedish’ to me.

By: Falco

Falco — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:23:43 +0000

What should Labour do? Never darkening our doors again would be a start.

By: Serf

Serf — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:23:34 +0000

The girl who helps look after my kids has no special education, but is absolutely brilliant.

After doing a masters degree, who the f**k would want to be a baby sitter?

By: Brian, follower of Deornoth

Brian, follower of Deornoth — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:37:04 +0000

They just don’t get it, do they? They still think there’s loadsamoney out there, if only they could get their hands on it somehow.