If Corbyn gets in

[DimPrawn]

Voting Labour, sort of like banging one's head against a wall - It feels so much better when you stop.

^ This

[BrilloPad]

Its a pity really as he has some great ideas that would remove a lot of inequality.

A shame he would encourage the work shy and provide no motivation for those who want to work hard and move their way up.

[DodgyAgent]

Its a pity really as he has some great ideas that would remove a lot of inequality.

Such as ?

[original PM]

Such as ?

You having more money than someone else because you got off your arse and earned it and they did not that is an inequality

just because you had some drive and ambition why should you be rewarded for it?

fookin socialist idiots!

[d000hg]

You having more money than someone else because you got off your arse and earned it and they did not that is an inequality

The person working 12 hour shifts lugging bags of sand in B&Q is hardly slacking off. Why do they deserve to be living hand-to-mouth, relying on benefits top-ups?

I know it's nice to imagine all the poor people are lazy benefits scroungers but you do realise that's not actually the truth, right? Both demographics exist.

[DodgyAgent]

The person working 12 hour shifts lugging bags of sand in B&Q is hardly slacking off. Why do they deserve to be living hand-to-mouth, relying on benefits top-ups?

I know it's nice to imagine all the poor people are lazy benefits scroungers but you do realise that's not actually the truth, right? Both demographics exist.

So why dont you share out your money to the hard working lower earners?

[original PM]

The person working 12 hour shifts lugging bags of sand in B&Q is hardly slacking off. Why do they deserve to be living hand-to-mouth, relying on benefits top-ups?

I know it's nice to imagine all the poor people are lazy benefits scroungers but you do realise that's not actually the truth, right? Both demographics exist.

Obviously I am aware of that - problem is many people are able to lug bags of sand around because it requires very little in the way of education therefore many people can do the job so it has limited value.

If that is the only job you can do then you need to cut your cloth accordingly.

I recall a while back a bit of a thing going on at 'Next' where by the shop floor workers were complaining about not getting pay rises - but as the MD says he gets 100 applications for each position so why pay more....

Rightly or wrongly in this world there are some jobs which do not pay well and if you want more from life you need to train to get a job which does.

[Jog On]

He's actually got some documents online outlining what he actually intends:

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.ne...pdf?1437556345

The way I see it is worst case scenario = inside IR35.

I'm glad the tories aren't so aweful! Oh hang on a minute...

If Corbyn can actually hit the super rich and corporations to pay up I'll gladly pay more myself.

[d000hg]

So why dont you share out your money to the hard working lower earners?

a)How do you know I don't b)that's part of what taxes and the welfare state do c)why don't you try coming up with a sensible argument for once?

If that is the only job you can do then you need to cut your cloth accordingly.
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Rightly or wrongly in this world there are some jobs which do not pay well and if you want more from life you need to train to get a job which does.

But being in a situation where you are working full-time and still basically in poverty, that's inequality. Working - even an unskilled job - should allow you some standard of life.

[original PM]

£37.5 hour week on minimum wage gives you approx. £250 before tax.

so lets see

rent for a small bedsit - £100 p/w
food for a week - £30 p/w

there you go £70 approx. left to spend on beer

but then is poverty living with not much left over after the bare essentials

or is poverty not being able to afford sky, an iPhone and a foreign holiday once per year?

because if it is the later most of us over 40 grew up in poverty so you can see why sympathy is pretty minimal