The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[daylightrobber]

You said it was intended to stop the wealth gap from widening. It will not, as the issue of the wealth gap is that the very very rich are getting even richer. Having over £350,000 in assets does not make you wealthy. The average house price is £272,000. So "Yeah, ok!".

When you're dead, you don't have anything other than your legacy.

 

[Brennan]

When you're dead, you don't have anything other than your legacy.

Uh huh...

 

[bring the ghost on]

Having over £350,000 in assets does not make you wealthy.

I'd feel pretty wealthy with £350k worth of assets in my name.

 

[Brennan]

I'd feel pretty wealthy with £350k worth of assets in my name.

Not really relevant though.

The issue is the top 10% having a massively disproportionate amount of the wealth. People with amounts of £350,000 don't fall anywhere near that.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

To use it in a manner which prevents the wealth gap widening.

Many parents die at an age when their children are of an age that they should be fending for themselves. I know that I'd rather my folks spent the lot and enjoyed it, rather than worrying about what to leave their kids.

As would I, but frankly what anyone else chooses to do is none of our, nor anyone elses, business.

 

[Clint Planet]

I highlighted this to show the alarming rise in food banks more than anything else.

Labour may have been embarrassed about foodbanks, but Conservatives have no shame about them.

Bang on.

 

[Seanjd]

And rightly so, I'd rather have a government that is prepared to take the bad publicity (and it has been very bad for them) but keep open an avenue of help for those that need it, than one who would keep it hidden in order to stop themselves looking bad, that is where the shame in this should lie.

Would you rather have a government who issue mass sanctions and delays on benefits causing the unprecedented rise in food bank use, though?

 

[daylightrobber]

As would I, but frankly what anyone else chooses to do is none of our, nor anyone elses, business.

I think that the state has every right to limit those choices for the good of society.

 

[Clint Planet]

 

[Clint Planet]

Just to point out this isn't just about the top 10% as Brennan made out or the top 1% or whatnot.

 

[daylightrobber]

It amazes me that so many people are suckered into aspiring to be at the upper end of the wealth scale when the reality is they're being played for the benefit of those who are in that top 20%. What is it that makes the masses who genuinely do have the power to change things ignore the plight of those in the bottom 20%? Selfishness? Greed? Fear?

 

[daylightrobber]

Also, that figure for private pensions is truly staggering. How much of that is subsidised by the tax payer?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think that the state has every right to limit those choices for the good of society.

Right on comrade.

 

[Clint Planet]

Right on comrade.

Looks like you're stuck in a "fixed" mindset, Bruce.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Looks like you're stuck in a "fixed" mindset, Bruce.

Haha. I just think it's strange that a powerful government is attractive, just so long as they're doing things you agree with. I'm not sure I can agree with that, and it surely doesn't give you any grounds to then complain when that same powerful state does things you don't agree with.