Awol Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 MPs are getting an 11% payrise after the next election. You're ****ing joking, right?! *googles* Wow. Although it's an independent body recommending this and not MP's you'd think they might notice this idea will go down with voters like the proverbial bucket of brown stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 after years of being suppressed. lol Which was the nod and a wink accommodation behind the expenses scandal. "Yeah the pay is crap considering the responsibility, but you should see the perks!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) Conclusion: the present growth is temporary. But that can't be true as Gordon ended boom and bust No politician can stop boom and bust as long as private banks have a stranglehold over the currency and are allowed to counterfeit it through fractional reserve banking and the generally fraudulent banking system, In the same way inflation and deflation are used to accumulate assets on the cheap. Edited December 8, 2013 by mockingbird_franklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 it's chicken and egg should our current crop of poor quality shit stains get a pay rise of 11%? absolutely not is £64k enough to do that job competently, represent 50,000 people well, advance the country and not just be a party sleaze ball? clearly not and an 11% pay rise won't increase the quality of MP's either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Anyway, the economy isn't all bad. Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer, with 2.2 million employees, 1.3 million of whom are in the U.S. It reported close to $120 billion in gross profit for 2012. Just six members of the Walton family, whose patriarch, Sam Walton, founded the retail giant, have amassed an estimated combined fortune of between $115 billion-$144 billion. These six individuals have more wealth than the combined financial assets of the poorest 40 percent of the U.S. population. linkylink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 And let's not forget that most of their employees receive food stamps, and subsidised healthcare and housing because Walmart pays a wage that it's impossible to live on. Still, you don't become one of the most profitable companies in the world by paying a fair wage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetrees Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 And let's not forget that most of their employees receive food stamps, and subsidised healthcare and housing because Walmart pays a wage that it's impossible to live on. Still, you don't become one of the most profitable companies in the world by paying a fair wage. If only they were interested in football and decided to invest heavily in clubs that occupied cities where their biggest grossing stores are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drat01 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Hang on a second the Tory party and it's supporters are telling us that all is great and doing fine now ...............then again in the real world (and ironically reported by one of it's biggest supporters in the media) the truth is that things are not as they seem http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10506966/George-Osbornes-claim-that-households-are-better-off-is-inconceivable.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Hang on a second the Tory party and it's supporters are telling us that all is great and doing fine now ...............then again in the real world (and ironically reported by one of it's biggest supporters in the media) the truth is that things are not as they seem http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10506966/George-Osbornes-claim-that-households-are-better-off-is-inconceivable.html It is very easily explained by the fact Gideon Osbourne is a complete Fucktard, with no moral compass that prevents the telling of blatant lies (but then a willingness to detach yourself from the truth seems a requisite trait to be a politicain these days) who I wouldn't trust to look after a kiddies piggy bank let alone the economy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 ignoring the fish for left wing likes post talking of moral compass , and OT but this did make me chuckle 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloBarnesi Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Can someone explain what the real world is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 No, but I can tell you it's ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drat01 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Can someone explain what the real world is? It's what IDS was trying to explain just in the HoC but ended up frothing at the mouth when he was shown up by all and sundry. He's probably still a bit miffed that he did not get an invite to go to SA because he is a failed leader :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Can someone explain what the real world is? It's a long running MTV reality TV show. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Can someone explain what the real world is? It's what IDS was trying to explain just in the HoC but ended up frothing at the mouth when he was shown up by all and sundry. He's probably still a bit miffed that he did not get an invite to go to SA because he is a failed leader :-) Didn't stop Brown getting invited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drat01 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Can someone explain what the real world is?It's what IDS was trying to explain just in the HoC but ended up frothing at the mouth when he was shown up by all and sundry. He's probably still a bit miffed that he did not get an invite to go to SA because he is a failed leader :-) Didn't stop Brown getting invited brown and mandella were good friends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 I guess we're getting close to interest rate rises as we're now down to 7.1% unemployment. Wasn't 7% the figure used as the point where they'd consider raising rates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 (edited) I guess we're getting close to interest rate rises as we're now down to 7.1% unemployment. Wasn't 7% the figure used as the point where they'd consider raising rates? Devil is in the detail, Consider, not definitely will, they need to inflate that housing bubble a bit more to make sure enough of the simpletons in amongst the british public feel wealthier and for them to start believing that Gideon and his merry mob of Dickwads are indeed the finacial messiahs they claimed to be rather than the clueless morons that they actually are, Edited January 22, 2014 by mockingbird_franklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 The media seem to be doing their best to make it all about the economy as we enter the last year before the election, but it can't be denied that Labour have led them in exactly that direction. I think Labour supporters need to change the emphasis away from what happens to be the growth figures this week and to remind people of what the consequences would be, if the Tories were handed a mandate at the next election. It seems certain that any such signal from the electorate would unleash a round of cuts and public sector job-losses, which would make the present cuts look like shaving-rash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 (edited) I thought it was established the day after the last general election it was all going to be about the economy in 2015 I said at the time that the coalition would basically spend 2-3 years cutting hard and then the last 18 mths or so trying to sweeten everyone up ( see minimum wage this week ) The average voter had the span of a goldfish and I'm sure all the parties know it This time last year you'd have said it was a nailed on Labour victory and Ed was already measuring the curtains for number 10 ... Now I expect he's wondering if his brother is going to come back and take his job in 2015 .. That Balls has suddenly gone courting Clegg clearly shows Labour have lost their swagger a little Could even come down to the TV debates swinging it .. Cameron learnt his lesson quite quickly last time after his disaster in the first debate and you assume he won't make that error again ... Ed isn't liked or trusted by the public and will have his work cut out to convince them otherwise ... All we do know is nobody will be spouting the " I agree with Nick" line this time around Edited January 23, 2014 by tonyh29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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