Sandro Raniere

Going back to JFK it would be best if everyone just moved on, news full of JFK tonight No point dwelling on the past, everyone should learn from the past but focus on the future

More simplistic soak the rich nonsense which in reality would raise very little revenue and instead drive the rich out of America Instead taxes need cutting for the rich, as has been shown in UK, the lower the tax rate for the rich the more willing they are to cough up and pay their share and the more foreign investors will move there Sanders is a dinosaur

I have no objection at all to a member of parliament claiming expenses for their office staff, perfectly reasonable, as long as they are claiming for the exact amount the staff were paid, and don't pull fast ones like 'hiring' their wife as a secretary

They have office staff / secretaries who handle the emails though? I would not imagine for example Cameron sitting at a laptop going through emails from constituents complaining about potholes or complaining they spent 5 hours in A+E, the secretary would handle the emails, bar the absolute life or death ones, same goes for the majority of MP's

Its a lot easier than it was 20 or even 10 years ago There is little need for face to face meetings with constituents in the electronic age when everyone has email or VOIP services etc All someone has to do is email an MP now, something that was not possible 15 years ago

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Compared with Maggie though..... Maggie will always be my fave PM, but Clause 28 certainly wasn't her finest hour

I am not gay and all those things labour did were done and rightly so BUT Cameron has put his entire career on the line for gay rights, membership of the tory party has dropped by 1/3 since he took power and by far the biggest reason given to constituency associations was gay marriage He has gone against the will of huge numbers of his own mp's, huge numbers of party members and so on, stood up to the dinosaurs in his own party, so he does deserve credit there Gay marriage may well be the difference between winning the next election and losing the next election, huge numbers of tories will never vote for them again because of it. Whereas Labour have always been the party of the minorities in the UK, i doubt many deserted the labour party over gay rights

Given you are a gay man i am surprised you gave a lower rating to the man that has done more than any other PM on gay rights, than you did to Maggie who bought in Section 28 Cameron is a useless sack of shit ngl but really thought you would rate Maggie lower

Yet again Miliband is shown up as being a cynical opportunist with no meaningful policies of his own At the tory conference IDS said he will stop benefits for the under 25's What do labour announce today? that they are going to stop benefits for the under 25's, pathetic, even if the policy does have some merits it just shows labour as copycats as opposed to a party of principle setting the agendas

That is why the Republican party haven't had the most votes in an election since Bush Snr won, or did his idiot son get the most in 2004? cant remember, but the GOP is unelectable because of the Tea Party and religious nutcases The GOP need to modernise or they will be out of power for a generation

Another one then, Bob Crow Earns a 6 figure sum a year but lives on a council estate Not to mention many single people on very good incomes who live in small terraced houses because they dont need anything bigger because it is just them

The current system is not perfect but unless we go to a 2 party system then no one will have the majority of the public on side

Wrong The headmaster of a local school (£70k a year+) lives in a run down 2 bedroom house that he inherited off his parents, if you saw the house you would assume he was a roadsweeper or something, it is 2 bedrooms and not in a particularly nice area, but he is a well paid head teacher People dont always live in massive houses if they are high earners

Whoever has a majority under the first past the post system has a mandate to govern from the British people Has there been any elections in modern history where a party has got 50.1% of the vote?

I would be totally against that tbh It would be used for totally wrong reasons, people snooping on their neighbours to see how much they earn etc, plus potential burglars could check out the affairs of someone who lives in the house they are thinking of robbing, kids could see how much the dads of other kids are earning and bully those kids if their dad earns more etc

I don't know if they are declaring it for tax, of course they should, but i have no means of knowing plus if i asked them at the time they would likely say yes they are anyways. If i supply someone with a gun i know they are going to use it for illegal reasons, different

I don't think we need a second chamber at all, extra costs and no real purpose, we have a house of commons and that is all we need MPs plus standards watchdog to hold them to account if they get up to anything dodgy

I am not a policeman or a tax inspector, if a tradesman tells me 'can do it for £200 cash' then its not my job to ensure he is declaring it, whether he does or not is a matter for his own conscience/moral code, i would hope he is declaring it but its not my place to ask.

If their tax affairs are going to be listed so should the affairs of every tax payer as every tax payer is paying the amount legally required by the law so i cant and wont condemn the wealthy for carrying out their legal obligations like every taxpayer does. Tax EVASION (totally illegal) should be dealt with severely

I am against an upper house anyways, get rid of the lords altogether, its a place where old farts go to kill time while waiting for god and a means of rewarding party donors, would be more than happy to see whole thing scrapped Clegg was in favour of changing the boundaries, the whole thing was going to to through till he had his hissy fit, lib dems were committed to boundary reform

And it is not just the rich who do it too We all pay window cleaners, builders, taxi drivers, plumbers, handymen etc in cash in hand, it is not my business but i bet a good many of them do not declare it all or indeed any to the taxman

If they were dodging tax they would be in court, what they are doing is using completely legal methods to minimise their tax exposure, broken no laws at all Should the laws be changed? maybe, but they are acting within the law so should not be named and shamed

While you make valid points, and i don't for one moment disagree with you about inequality in America, they do have a much different attitude to aspiration and enterprise than we do There are 2 types of wealth to me - Deserved wealth - a guy setting up a business, a guy having a great idea, a guy changing the way we use the net, those kind of things should be celebrated, people like Zuckerberg etc should be cheered from the rooftops, such people deserve every penny they get Undeserved wealth - a company that has exploited and abused its monopoly status to fleece consumers, CEO's or utility companies, bankers that risked other peoples money, inherited wealth like the Ecclestone girls who live off daddys billions while not doing a stroke of work The people in the first group are absolute heroes, the people in the second group deserve no appreciation at all

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