Posts by BlairMacca
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Speaker: Listening to Coldharbour Lane, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Along with this one I have to say. Unfortunately I can see the BNP really running with this one
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This probably the best piece I have seen so far http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html?showComment=1312858926012#c2976450711685191503
They don’t know, because they were not watching these communities. Nobody has been watching Tottenham since the television cameras drifted away after the Broadwater Farm riots of 1985. Most of the people who will be writing, speaking and pontificating about the disorder this weekend have absolutely no idea what it is like to grow up in a community where there are no jobs, no space to live or move, and the police are on the streets stopping-and-searching you as you come home from school. The people who do will be waking up this week in the sure and certain knowledge that after decades of being ignored and marginalised and harassed by the police, after months of seeing any conceivable hope of a better future confiscated, they are finally on the news. In one NBC report, a young man in Tottenham was asked if rioting really achieved anything:
"Yes," said the young man. "You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?"
"Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you."
Eavesdropping from among the onlookers, I looked around. A dozen TV crews and newspaper reporters interviewing the young men everywhere ‘’’
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Jordan Carter (via NRT) has a good explanation here which Labour should push:
If you own a business and apply your energy and talents to make a profit, you pay company tax on that profit (28c in the dollar).
If you work hard as an employee – say as a nurse, or a callcentre worker, or a web designer, or one of those people who annoyingly applies parking tickets – you pay income tax (up to 33c in the dollar).If you sit on an asset for long enough and it goes up in value, you pay no tax on that unearned income when you cash it up.
That’s not fair.
http://jtc.blogs.com/just_left/2011/07/taxing-times-in-the-capital-gains-debate.html
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to David Haywood,
Apologies, I now realise your situation David (clearly you can tell I dont own my own house). Ok that really does suck then.
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Either way, it is a shit way for Tower to act, and it should be brought to the media they would love to jump on it I would think
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Im not right down with it, but isnt the government paying out red stickered and then they will negotiate with the insurance company?
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to Sacha,
Neoliberal magic beans ftw
"Homer, tell your child what you bought when I sent you to town to get some insurance.
Homer: Curse you, magic beans!"
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Hard News: Budget 2011: While you wait, in reply to Jimmy Southgate,
Except that student allowance eligibility was calculated on parental income, not value of assets held by your parents (or more likely the bank).
Well thats my point exactly, because those farmers would divert their income to make a loss on paper, while still raking it in.
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Hard News: Budget 2011: While you wait, in reply to Rich Lock,
Not to mention how many sons and daughters of farmers can claim full student allowances. It really used to grind my gears when friends of mine whose parents had multi million dollar farms would be getting full student allowances, while I would have to borrow, because my parents owned a business AND played by the rules.
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There’s not too many nurses, teachers and police officers that would earn over $100,000. My wife is a senior nurse manager and while she does earn a good income, its not over $100,000