Recent content by Mucca Mad Boys

Bring tinnies on the train and a meal deal costs about a tenner from WHSmith at New St. Train ticket probably a £8-10 too. £30 for football tickets was relatively normal 10-15 years ago for an adult, its one of the few things that hasn't risen with inflation, everything else, has. Look at your...

No, quite the opposite. It is not a serious policy and will almost definitely not raise the sums it claims because assessing wealth is far more complex than assessing income. The countries that have repealed wealth taxes found it administratively burdensome for low tax yields, for example...

Having been around home nations at these major tournaments, they have no love for us so will always wish them the worst.

It’s not a binary choice. What’s stopping a government addressing both? For example, there are 4 million people on UC that have never worked, it’s effectively UBI by the back door. Welfare dependency keeps people in a life of poverty. Likewise, the tax burden being the highest it’s ever been...

The critique was on the concept of a wealth tax. It promises to reduce ‘wealth inequality’ but in reality, even the most optimistic outcome barely touches public expenditure. The cost of migrant benefits and hotels totals around £13.5bn a year. Considering the total welfare bill is set to raise...

Understand that ‘the left’ is a catch-all phrase. In any case, @chiefdave has expressed admiration for Polanski and iirc, called his winning of the Green Party’s leadership before he was on my radar. So it’s fair to conclude that at the very least, he’s a centre-left. I’m sure he can speak for...

Where’s this come from?

Out of his arse.

Do you believe a wealth tax would raise that per year? Check in with France and Norway. Besides, that 2.1bn figure is a nonsense. The cost of hotels alone is 1.5bn a year (and rising) and foreign born nationals are claiming 1bn a month (and rising), with 27-37% of non-EU ILR holders on UC. At...

This will be interesting… how are Mussolini and Trump’s governments similar?

From that, it’s plain to see that you and others on this thread have no understanding of fascism outside of v vague labels. You compared Trump to Mussolini… Mussolini was a socialist before being expelled from the party for supporting Italian intervention in WW1. So how is Trump like Mussolini...

Completely missed the point. There’s a lot to admire about FDR but he was accused of being fascist, to socialist/communist. But of note, in the section, that in the 1930s there were those that viewed fascism as a ‘third way’ between communism and capitalism. This is certainly how fascists...

Brush up on your history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt

Yes. Would you prefer it if everyone to the left of Tony Blair was called ‘communist’ or ‘Stalinist?’ … Or constant euphemisms to ‘1930s Russia’ whenever Zach Polansk mentions a wealth tax…

Apparently there wasn’t any according to the lady at ticket office I spoke to.