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I was mostly referring to increasing the minimum wage. Although labour uses zhc as another stick, not all people actually want anything different. Students being a great example. There has always been casual labour and as a student myself I did it. Ban it and these people will lose out...

Just basic supply and demand. Increase the price of a commodity and all other things being equal, demand reduces.

???? Not voting labour is selfish? Echoes of Caitlin Moran's c**t tweet.

Cannot agree with any of that. How can someone paying 60% in tax and ni pay less of their income in tax than someone paying nothing, or at the lowest band?

It will be a mixture, clearly. If he raises taxes the take may not reduce, or may not reduce for years as it filters through. But we would never know if the take would have been higher had he let them be. In all honesty, business will up sticks just on the election through fear of what he will...

This food bank stuff is just being used by labour to grab power. For starters, nobody is dependent on them as visiting them is limited , they are intended as emergency stop gaps due to cash flow issues. Secondly, the increase in usage can at least partially be explained by the Tories allowing...

Have a moment more. Clearly only a fool would claim that a multi variable function had an effect entirely from one variable changing. However, the relationship between tax rate and take is known to not be monotonically increasing. And it makes sense intuitively too. The higher the rate the...

Can find or google yourself. I'm out and about so can find later. The economic theory is called the laffer curve.

The last time corporation tax rates fell, the take increased and so did income tax take. Laffer curve in action. However McDonnell knows loads more than me about economics so it will all be fine.

As he has pledged that all economic consequences of doing them are now illegal, it will all be brilliant.

Clint, no free ride for the Tories from me. Nor for the liberals. Nobody is perfect, there is no such thing as perfect. After all, it's by pointing out the blemishes and promising paradise that the miserablist Corbyn is gaining popularity. However, as you point out, there are mistakes and...

I think he will become pm. He will achieve enough in 5 years for the Tories to return. What I'm looking forward to most of all is hearing how labour reinvent themselves, talk down the country and blame everything on the Tories next time. I think they will remain hard left now forever. Edit...

Nationalise the press to stop fake news.

Private companies banned. To be funded by private companies paying just a little bit more.

- freedom fighters to be given a seat in government and honoured with statues and street names. - land to be redistributed through taxation system. Inheritance tax to be 100% to finally take land away from Norman invaders. Land then used by the state to build more houses and cooperative...

- fifty percent of premier league income to be distributed to other leagues . Five to be promoted from each league but none to go down - tony Blair to be exiled to middlesborough - free Pilates classes for all citizens. - beer coupons, entitling holders to a free pint. Nationalised pubs. -...

- free iPad for every albino - every day to be the first day of spring - a new nationalised chain of not for profit supermarkets. - new mini.in wage of 40,000 per year. Maximum wage of 50,000. - ten new Harry Potter books - paid maternity and paternity leave until youngest child finishes full...

You would think that a man who recognises none of the constraints of the real world could come up with some more imaginative stuff than that.

I very much hope to be proven wrong, but this game has all the hallmarks of a classic Sky Blues manoeuvre: two convincing victories against top clubs; a much easier game at home; climbing the table; crowd increases... what usually happens next is an inept defeat.

It's not just the push, there is a tangle of legs also. I wouldn't be surprised if the fall was genuine, and even if an exaggerated fall its clearly a foul.