If he were really an important player in that he wouldn’t be hoarding enormous sums of money as opposed to using that capital to try and make it happen.
. Most of his wealth is in shares ie value left in the company.
On this saw this the other day, and not sure it’s the winning argument it’s presented as. This fundamentally feels like tax evasion to me, I assume Musk and other billionaires do similar.
I think most just sell shares inc bezos
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans $5bn share sale - BBC News
In February, Mr Bezos announced that he would sell shares in technology giant worth around $8.5bn.www.bbc.co.uk
ps just to clarify I do think the wealth of these people is just obscene.
What is preventing them from making a direct contribution to the Treasury?I think billionaires of the Musk level is a policy failure, but even so I’d just like them to pay an equivalent tax rate to everyone else. They must be the only group with a lobby group asking to pay more tax.
What is preventing them from making a direct contribution to the Treasury?
The tentacles of Blair and Obama still reach into the wheels of government.Great to see Blair is back and advising Starmer from the sidelines.
Posted the other day when he first popped up post-election victory that I hoped this wasn't going to be a regular thing but he's been doing the rounds again this morning and now Streeting is giving a press conference from the Tony Blair Institute Future of Britain conferenceGreat to see Blair is back and advising Starmer from the sidelines.
Posted the other day when he first popped up post-election victory that I hoped this wasn't going to be a regular thing but he's been doing the rounds again this morning and now Streeting is giving a press conference from the Tony Blair Institute Future of Britain conference
How on earth was Thames Water allowed to pay out £158 in dividends in March and then plead poverty today? The system is so loaded.
If you were being cynical you’d suggest that they’ve taken all of last year’s profits out as one last hurrah before dumping it and the government to pick up the pieces. Read in an earlier article about how they’re going to run out of money next year and last year they made a profit of… checks notes… £158M. Share holders can’t lose can they. Load it full of debt to pay dividends while taking all the profits out to boot, invest fuck all and when it inevitably goes tits up it’s someone else’s problem.They've managed to persuade the country that having control of your own water supply is commie wokeness
They've managed to persuade the country that having control of your own water supply is commie wokeness
She was a big fan of Pinochet...Just looked and apparently it’s just us and Chile that have privatised water. Just shows how mental Thatcher was.
She was a big fan of Pinochet...
Irony is a lot of t's owned by other state water companies!
Half the postal companies too for that matter.Same with the rail and energy. It’s almost like government is where capacity for building and running infrastructure should naturally accrue.
How on earth was Thames Water allowed to pay out £158 in dividends in March and then plead poverty today? The system is so loaded.
Same with the rail and energy. It’s almost like government is where capacity for building and running infrastructure should naturally accrue.
Didn’t it come out last year that pretty much every boss Ofwat has ever had was either a former director of a water company or went on to be a director of a water company when they left? I think the current Ofwat boss is the former from memory.Got to ask WTF have Ofwat been doing during all this (fuck all)
Farage makes prick of himself on day 1
What saying?Tice all over the shop as well.
Tieing himself in knots over PR
Long may it continueThey’ve learned fuck all from the GE
No, they're mentalists.Discussing if Reform/Tories are far right is so passé, the question is are the Greens left wing?
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What saying?
France also uses a majoritarian system, just over 2 rounds of voting.Said something like only us and Belarus have first past the post post in Europe and that's not a good luck but also wants us to leave the EHRC, which would put us alongside Belarus and Russia
Yeah we’ve grown up with it so know no differentFrance also uses a majoritarian system, just over 2 rounds of voting.
How would PR improve our democracy and governance? To use this election as an example, Labour would’ve needed to enter a coalition with the Lib Dems and Greens to form a government.
Hypothetically, there could be a situation where the Tories, Reform and Lib Dems could prevent the biggest party from forming a government, which happened in Spain recently.
Then in government, these smaller parties can exert undue influence on policy making. For example, in Scotland where the Greens held unearned influence on a handful of policy areas as the very junior partner of the coalition with the SNP.
I didn’t vote for a Labour government but the country decisively favoured them as the majority party. This election in particular produced distorted results, however, the Labour government can crack on with their agenda without needing to be held back by multiple junior parties.
It’s not perfect but I don’t envy PR systems at all. Our political culture is very different too as the one of the only major western democracy to have never had its democracy overthrown.
The country didn’t decisively favour Labour. Only 20% of the electorate voted for them, 34% of total votes cast and less than 10 million put an X against a labour candidate.France also uses a majoritarian system, just over 2 rounds of voting.
How would PR improve our democracy and governance? To use this election as an example, Labour would’ve needed to enter a coalition with the Lib Dems and Greens to form a government.
Hypothetically, there could be a situation where the Tories, Reform and Lib Dems could prevent the biggest party from forming a government, which happened in Spain recently
Then in government, these smaller parties can exert undue influence on policy making. For example, in Scotland where the Greens held unearned influence on a handful of policy areas as the very junior partner of the coalition with the SNP.
I didn’t vote for a Labour government but the country decisively favoured them as the majority party. This election in particular produced distorted results, however, the Labour government can crack on with their agenda without needing to be held back by multiple junior parties.
It’s not perfect but I don’t envy PR systems at all. Our political culture is very different too as the one of the only major western democracy to have never had its democracy overthrown.
The country didn’t decisively favour Labour. Only 20% of the electorate voted for them, 34% of total votes cast and less than 10 million put an X against a labour candidate.
17.4 million voted for Brexit which the left wing has never been able to accept,
on reflection a fair comment, have edited original post.There was a large section of 'the left wing' who voted leave and a large section, many on here including myself, who voted remain but have said they would not vote for a party calling for a second referendum.
So that's just a generalisation.
Still the most popular party. How would you feel if a Labour government was beholden to a Green/Lib Dem minority elected by an even smaller % of the electorate.The country didn’t decisively favour Labour. Only 20% of the electorate voted for them, 34% of total votes cast and less than 10 million put an X against a labour candidate.
17.4 million voted for Brexit.
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