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Interesting that the person I tend to agree with most on here is Scottish. Must be something in the water up here after all..

Bumble

We can do better. We have the means, we just need the will. And that comes from an electorate that aren't apathetic to the status quo, who don't hate the poor and who don't venerate the rich.

You can advocate for a fairer system without advocating for communism you know? It's really pathetic when all you right-wing trolls immediately jump to sad socialism/communism tropes whenever anyone suggests that an egalitarian meritocracy should be something to strive towards.

Not everyone in society deserves to be rich, but no one deserves to live in poverty and we have enough money in this country to raise the living standards for everyone. Billionaires shouldn't exist, nobody needs more money than they can spend in a lifetime.

"Latest Government data released, show there are over 288 thousand properties in England and Wales that have been sitting empty for six months or more."

It's almost as if landlords and multiple property owners are so wealthy that they can leave properties empty for six months or more without it affecting their lives in any meaningful way. It's almost as if we live in a deeply unequal society where a small number of people can afford multiple homes while millions more can't afford just one. Not to worry, I'm sure it won't lead to social unrest at all...

"the money paid is well deserved for being the best and markets see that and reward accordingly"

That is a complete fantasy told by upper management to delude themselves into justifying obscene paychecks. The average UK chief exec earns 120x their average employee. They are not working 120x harder or are 120x more skilled than the vast majority of their staff. Anyone that's worked in a corporate environment knows that all to well.

Much like in politics, it's a small number of people that shape the debate and frame their greed as justified to the ever hopeful who eat it up, because maybe 'one they'll be rich too.'

It's a joke.

"better staying put for say 12-18 months to try to get a deposit on a cheap property"

I'd love to know where you can get a property in the UK after 12 months saving on minimum wage, which is what most young people earn from their first job.

Even assuming every single penny earned went into the deposit pot, you still wouldn't have enough in that time. And of course that's in a completely idealistic scenario.

Up 5% after falling 50% over the last year and it's got an article lol.

Ah skier1 how nice to of you to stop by with your "facts" backed up with zero evidence, as per...

Bumble

It's not lifestyle choices, it's simply a case of wages not keeping up with inflation. The purchasing power of the average wage has vastly diminished in the last 4 decades.

A TV, a mobile, a night out, these are hardly decadences. These are things everyone has had and done for decades. And I can assure you, people spending £200 on a night out are not the same people that cannot afford a house. I personally don't know anyone that spends that much on a night out, for my social circle £100 at the weekend is a lot. Even so, not doing that every once in a while won't magically afford you a house.

Even if (and it's a big if) someone spent £100 every weekend on a night out, they would have to save for nigh on half a decade to just afford a deposit on a one bedroom house.

Saying it's "lifestyle choices" really is naive at best and completely ignorent at worst. It's also completely anecdotal as you have absolutely no evidence to back up the claim that young people are worse with money now than they were 40 years ago.

It's just more "back in my day" crap.

Financial planning is absolutely meaningless if it's impossible to save any amount of money. Once you remove rent, food, energy, utilities, occasional social activities - most people have nothing left.

The majority of this country has no savings and lives paycheck to paycheck. Nobody WANTS to live that way, but when wages are **** and everything is expensive, you don't have much choice in the matter.

"left wing Russia"

That basically says all you need to know about Gate13Boy's complete and utter lack of understanding of politics.

Can anyone figure out what TFE's point is here?!

Taxation is not a communist system. Taxation is part of a functioning society, plain and simple. Late stage capitalism only serves the very top of society, which is why wealthy nations like the UK and the US are currently more unequal than they have been in a century.

Sooner or later the greed only leads to one thing and that is civil unrest. Would you rather the "politics of envy and jealousy" leads towards fairer tax burdens for the richest companies or would you rather it leads to a guillotine?

Pick your poison. If you want to be part of society, start looking at it. Oh who am I kidding asking a Tory to think about anyone but himself...

It's telling that people like skier1 would rather see millions of people struggle to heat and feed themselves than take money from the record-breaking profits of energy conglomerates. Apparently it's Communism to tax obscene profits. I guess it must be Conservatism to enjoy the poor being degraded.

I struggle to wrap my head around certain people's beliefs. How can anyone be such a massive piece of crap as to take the side of vastly wealthy companies swimming in gold over millions of his fellow countrymen struggling to get by?

I guess Tories just have no conscience. Soulless vampires all.

Most I've won is a tenner so count yourself lucky.

Investors also take note that a populace with no disposable income will have far greater impact on your portfolio than a windfall tax on energy companies. Unless of course you are only invested in Shell or BP.

I swear the short and narrow-sightedness of people on here in regards to a windfall tax is bewildering.

I'm fairly certain they all think liberals, communists and socialists are all the same. They don't quite realize we have been, broadly speaking, moving towards democratic socialist society for quite some time and they don't really understand what any of it means. They simply heard some right-wing idiot use it as a bogeyman term and now other right-wing idiots think it's an insult.

If they had a shred of brainpower behind their conviction they would realize communist, liberal and socialist are not interchangeable terms at all, but that would require educating one's self about people that aren't Tory voters...

Basically every governmental and multi-national organisation that deals with food, energy, etc are all ringing the alarm bells. But it's okay, because the Tory voters are here to tell us everything is fine. If we just stick our head in the sand, it will all be over soon.

I love how skier1 just spews random B.S. facts with zero evidence at all with such conviction.

There's no housing crisis, no one is starving, everything is fine, the poor don't exist, Brexit is great, bla bla bla.

Fella is living in a complete alternate reality.

Skier show me please where the minimum wage has increased by 55% since 2010?