The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[rascal]

I hope SNP put candidates forward in England just so I can vote for them for the luls

 

[toffee matt]

Cant see UKIP getting many actual seats though. Plenty of votes, but only a few outright wins. But they may only need 2 or 3 to hold sway I guess. And lob in the DUP, (forgot about them), and you could be right.

Interesting times, but potentially lethal in its finality.

It's pretty hypocritical of the Snp saying that they'd never deal with the conservative's though considering they used the tories to prop up their minority government in holyrod intill 2011.

 

[Clint Planet]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/15/coalition-helped-rich-hitting-poor-george-osborne

You don't say.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The transfer of income from the poor to the affluent was partly due to changes to benefits and tax credits which make them less generous for the bottom and middle of the income scale.

The what now? Since when did the receipt of welfare become an income? It isn't a job, you haven't done anything to earn it, it's given to you. This is the same nonsense that brands things like the bedroom tax as a tax. Being given less of something you've done bugger all to earn is not a tax!

People who work earn an income. A large chunk of their income is then taken from them and distributed via welfare. If less of that original income is taxed than previously, it isn't stolen from whomever the recipient might be because it isn't their money to begin with!

And yet you have this constant rhetoric that the rich are taking from the poor. It's madness. They're not going into the pay packet of someone on the minimum wage and saying "I'll have a bit of that, thank you very much".

We still live in a society whereby the wealthiest pay the vast majority of income tax, with the bottom 10% of earners contributing around 0.6% of the total income tax raised in the UK. Indeed, the bottom 50% of earners only contribute just over 10% of the total income tax generated. What's more, I think I'm right in saying that the bottom 70% in terms of income receive considerably more in state services than they actually pay for in taxes.

So really, the 'transfer of income' is largely going one way, just as it always has.

 

[chicoazul]

The what now? Since when did the receipt of welfare become an income? It isn't a job, you haven't done anything to earn it, it's given to you. This is the same nonsense that brands things like the bedroom tax as a tax. Being given less of something you've done bugger all to earn is not a tax!

People who work earn an income. A large chunk of their income is then taken from them and distributed via welfare. If less of that original income is taxed than previously, it isn't stolen from whomever the recipient might be because it isn't there money to begin with!

And yet you have this constant rhetoric that the rich are taking from the poor. It's madness. They're not going into the pay packet of someone on the minimum wage and saying "I'll have a bit of that, thank you very much".

We still live in a society whereby the wealthiest pay the vast majority of income tax, with the bottom 10% of earners contributing around 0.6% of the total income tax raised in the UK. Indeed, the bottom 50% of earners only contribute just over 10% of the total income tax generated. What's more, I think I'm right in saying that the bottom 70% in terms of income receive considerably more in state services than they actually pay for in taxes.

So really, the 'transfer of income' is largely going one way, just as it always has.

Thank you for your vote Mr Wayne.

The Conservative Party thank you for placing your confidence in us.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Thank you for your vote Mr Wayne.

The Conservative Party thank you for placing your confidence in us.

Have you finished shining my shoes yet Azul?

 

[chicoazul]

Have you finished shining my shoes yet Azul?

You bummed me when I was nine years old you Farage excusing Nazi monster.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

You bummed me when I was nine years old you Farage excusing Nazi monster.

Bumming the poor is what I do (sorry @RAFUH the mean man made me say these things)

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

The what now? Since when did the receipt of welfare become an income? It isn't a job, you haven't done anything to earn it, it's given to you. This is the same nonsense that brands things like the bedroom tax as a tax. Being given less of something you've done bugger all to earn is not a tax!

People who work earn an income. A large chunk of their income is then taken from them and distributed via welfare. If less of that original income is taxed than previously, it isn't stolen from whomever the recipient might be because it isn't there money to begin with!

And yet you have this constant rhetoric that the rich are taking from the poor. It's madness. They're not going into the pay packet of someone on the minimum wage and saying "I'll have a bit of that, thank you very much".

We still live in a society whereby the wealthiest pay the vast majority of income tax, with the bottom 10% of earners contributing around 0.6% of the total income tax raised in the UK. Indeed, the bottom 50% of earners only contribute just over 10% of the total income tax generated. What's more, I think I'm right in saying that the bottom 70% in terms of income receive considerably more in state services than they actually pay for in taxes.

So really, the 'transfer of income' is largely going one way, just as it always has.

Of course it is an income. It's money incoming to yourself or your family.

 

[The Esk]

The what now? Since when did the receipt of welfare become an income? It isn't a job, you haven't done anything to earn it, it's given to you. This is the same nonsense that brands things like the bedroom tax as a tax. Being given less of something you've done bugger all to earn is not a tax!

People who work earn an income. A large chunk of their income is then taken from them and distributed via welfare. If less of that original income is taxed than previously, it isn't stolen from whomever the recipient might be because it isn't there money to begin with!

And yet you have this constant rhetoric that the rich are taking from the poor. It's madness. They're not going into the pay packet of someone on the minimum wage and saying "I'll have a bit of that, thank you very much".

We still live in a society whereby the wealthiest pay the vast majority of income tax, with the bottom 10% of earners contributing around 0.6% of the total income tax raised in the UK. Indeed, the bottom 50% of earners only contribute just over 10% of the total income tax generated. What's more, I think I'm right in saying that the bottom 70% in terms of income receive considerably more in state services than they actually pay for in taxes.

So really, the 'transfer of income' is largely going one way, just as it always has.

I don't have time now to counter this fully but will return to it in due course.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Of course it is an income. It's money incoming to yourself or your family.

Not according to the dictionary.

"money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments."

I don't have time now to counter this fully but will return to it in due course.

*gulp*

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

Not according to the dictionary.

"money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments."



*gulp* lol

That's rather subjective as to the dictionary that you're using, as I found:

the amount of monetary or other returns, either earned or unearned, accruing over a given period of time

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Mine was from the Oxford English so nuh

 

[Coach]

Could someone tell me how to put people on ignore because I have finally had enough.

I have never put someone on ignore before because I think it is important to listen to all sides - even EFCNIKs. However, I consider this person to be much more unpalatable than NIK and no longer wish to see the tripe he comes out with.

 

[Clint Planet]

So really, the 'transfer of income' is largely going one way, just as it always has.

And yet the rich continue to get richer and the poor, poorer. It's almost as though you're talking rubbish.