Jeremy Corbyn announces £10bn plan to scrap university tuition fees

[DodgyAgent]

wtf?

We used to have a lot of gold and oil. Companies and plutocratic elite made rich by it; but not the country. Hate to bang on about it, but the boomers have been a plague of locusts on this countries assets. As for ethnic diversity support - seems reasonable to me after slavery and the asset stripping British Empire.


Your words.

Seems pretty clear to me that we should be paying for the actions of our ancestors

[PurpleGorilla]

Cliche wail, Cliche wail. This is what the wailing left do all the time

Just try and talk us through what this means exactly with examples and solutions/alternatives A real lack of vision as to where we are heading in the uk is a problem

Isn't reinstating national service an example?

Ok how about this;

The NS (national service) will clean every park and footpath of little bags of dog tulip bags and issue on the spot fines. Then beaches, villages and towns; all the mess nice and tidy. Grow seeds and flowers, plant trees, and generally clean up the place.

I would move government out of London to the midlands. I would reduce no of MPs to around 250 with an elected House of Lords. I would have a single national police force and health service, and strip levels and management. I would make voting compulsory and introduce a form of PR. I would tax all companies trading in the UK. The Starbucks, the amazons. No BS - flat tax pay or leave. I would land grab from every country estate a few acres to build new homes, decent quality, not this wimpy cardboard crap. How about that to get things going?

[PurpleGorilla]

We used to have a lot of gold and oil. Companies and plutocratic elite made rich by it; but not the country. Hate to bang on about it, but the boomers have been a plague of locusts on this countries assets. As for ethnic diversity support - seems reasonable to me after slavery and the asset stripping British Empire.


Your words.

Seems pretty clear to me that we should be paying for the actions of our ancestors

The point i am making is we asset strip them then complain when they want to migrate here. Is that Fair?

[MicrosoftBob]

Scrapping the entire tax system would help, then have a flat rate tax for everything, no exceptions and no allowance or tax credits

[minestrone]

It is probably for the good of labour they get someone like him in charge for a while, they need to get rid of the utterly dull and unconvincing career politicians that are in charge just now.

Maybe he is a compete fruit bat politically and economically but he probably means what he says and doesn't need a room full of advisors to finish a sentence. People will appreciate that.

[tractor]

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Isn't reinstating national service an example?

Ok how about this;

The NS (national service) will clean every park and footpath of little bags of dog tulip bags and issue on the spot fines. Then beaches, villages and towns; all the mess nice and tidy. Grow seeds and flowers, plant trees, and generally clean up the place.

I would move government out of London to the midlands. I would reduce no of MPs to around 250 with an elected House of Lords. I would have a single national police force and health service, and strip levels and management. I would make voting compulsory and introduce a form of PR. I would tax all companies trading in the UK. The Starbucks, the amazons. No BS - flat tax pay or leave. I would land grab from every country estate a few acres to build new homes, decent quality, not this wimpy cardboard crap. How about that to get things going?

Why would you need to do that? You should simply force MOD, BBC, Network Rail, NHS and all the others to relinquish their unused land and build on it with the proceeds. Zero cost to anyone.

[tractor]

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Scrapping the entire tax system would help, then have a flat rate tax for everything, no exceptions and no allowance or tax credits

^This.

While governments are forever tinkering in order to social engineer, they will never, ever collect all the tax that is due.

All the loopholes closed in one fell swoop!

[DodgyAgent]

The point i am making is we asset strip them then complain when they want to migrate here. Is that Fair?

Example please

Presumably you would happily house a few of them yourself then?

[PurpleGorilla]

Example please

Presumably you would happily house a few of them yourself then?

Dust off an atlas of the British Empire.

Why do you assume the migrants can't house themselves using their own money and resources. Not all migrants are poor and illiterate.

Tell me DA, what is your vision. What would you do? Or is the country currently utopia in your eyes?

[DodgyAgent]

Dust off an atlas of the British Empire.

Why do you assume the migrants can't house themselves using their own money and resources. Not all migrants are poor and illiterate.

Tell me DA, what is your vision. What would you do? Or is the country currently utopia in your eyes?

I notice all your ideas do not involve you making any personal sacrifices. Furthermore I am not saying immigrants are illiterate (those in Calais are poor however). I would also challenge the basic premise of your (typical leftie) guilt ridden assumption that the British are responsible for all the negative things that people like you claim they are. I can study any map you like but I would like you to present an argument that supports the view that:

1. British colonisation was wholly destructive
2. That we ancestors should pay for the activities of our predecessors
3. That migrants should be assimilated into British society and more importantly how