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diddlydo | 22:07 Sun 03rd Nov 2019 | News
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Farago won't stand in election. I wonder why!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50280848
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When did all the petty immature name calling start? You look like a bunch of primary kids!
^ Haven't noticed.
Ummm who has called who a name?
Read the exchanges between between Gulliver and TTT and anyone right of centre actually.
Diddleydo, //And seeing that Naomi mentioned private education and private health insurance - both should be abolished so the rich can appreciate (or not) what they've bought out of.//

That’s clever! Force high earners to use state schools and the National Health Service - and impose an even greater burden upon those facilities. Smart move! Do you ever really think about what you’re saying?

Thing is Diddley the majority of high earners have been educated at state school and have been raised with the NHS taking care of their medical needs so never imagine that they don’t know what it’s all about. They do. Few were born with silver spoons in their mouths – they’ve simply got ambition and determination. And I’m not just talking about men in suits here. Take a manual worker – a painter and decorator, or a builder for example, perhaps poorly educated but determined to do something with his life, so he starts a one man business by advertising his skills in corner shops. He’s a grafter, he works all hours, his business grows and he soon needs to employ someone to help – then someone else – then someone else…. you get the idea? He’s now a high earner and not only that, he’s the bloke who’s providing jobs for the people who are only interested in working fixed hours and getting their pay at the end of the week. And you begrudge the grafter his success? Why?

Incidentally, high earners aren’t necessarily ‘rich’. Because they’re paying high taxes, mortgages, school fees, health care costs, etc, many of them are actually pretty skint. The politics of envy, eh? How blinkered they are.
Great response Naomi...alas we both know it will fall on deaf ears.
Thanks Deskdiary. No harm in trying. :o)
Yep. Very poor, such as the homeless, I think, do need to be looked after better... but that depends on the priorities of governments rather than a lack of tax.
Great story about the 'grafter', Naomi.
Let me finish it for you.
The Government then imported millions of people who could/would do the work at a third of the price.
The End.
^Oh dear ...
I don’t know about you, Naomi, but when I joined my state highschool we were put into sets. People like diddly and spicey weren’t in my set and I’m sure they weren’t in yours. I’m sure you didn’t waste your time with them then, so why start now?
I've always been keen on education, Zacs. ;o)
The more we "import" people, the cheaper we can get... purely due to the extra competition for jobs. It does give a false impression, and reduces wages, for British people.
... for everyone, actually...
Bit wasted in some cases. I suppose it’s mildly amusing to see them floundering around for answers and, in failing to provide any, coming up with ever more ridiculous comments (or insults if it gets to much for their cerebral capacities).
I'd hardly be in your set, Zacs. We didn't do gardening in my school.
No, I bet. All those sharp objects!
Twatchers' stance when closing down industries was well known and publicised at the time. She said closing down these industries won't cost the Tories any votes because these people don't vote for us anyway. Naomi, you and others clearly can't see how vindictive this ogre of a PM had become. There are some really unnecessary comments on this site. I appreciate that there are varying views, but the way some people respond isn't necessary.
Gentlemen, please!
^^^you mean like 'cleverly' and 'funnily' turning the first part of Thatcher's name into a coarse word for vagina?

How witty of you.

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