It ain't just the CE Nick, it's the whole of the UK yet you still drivel on like you were doing us all some great service pushing for Brexit. There may be two sides to the schism but there was only one side holding an axe on the 23rd of June so why cry about the divide?
Jeremy Corbyn - Not Not Labour Party(?), not a Communist (BBC)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
If it helps you to sleep easier at night then fine, but we both know what you have said and done on here and it certainly is not calling out xenophobia and it certainly is defending it when it suits you.
This is what you sowed. You can't expect others to forget that.
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A follow-up piece from the New Statesman concerning the railway privatisation ad:
Why I made the TSSA film about rail privatisation benefiting foreigners
http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...bout-rail-privatisation-benefiting-foreigners
I believe it was the best long term decision for the country, those living here now and in the future. I, and others, should be able to hold that viewpoint in the same way as many others on here. I can also regret the decline in respectful discourse on this forum, which is reflected elsewhere in British politics as you say.
I feel the need to blunt here. You are talking out of your ass, Fletch.
However those people who know me best away from the Caf, would require no such clarification in any event. *shrugs*
Unlike some hereabouts, i still believe that there exists plenty f common ground, topics which transcend both the EU and the Westminster consensus of recent times. Nor is it my intent to hold over other posters their support for Remain.
Why I made the TSSA film about rail privatisation benefiting foreigners
http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...bout-rail-privatisation-benefiting-foreigners
I believe it was the best long term decision for the country, those living here now and in the future. I, and others, should be able to hold that viewpoint in the same way as many others on here. I can also regret the decline in respectful discourse on this forum, which is reflected elsewhere in British politics as you say.
I feel the need to blunt here. You are talking out of your ass, Fletch.
However those people who know me best away from the Caf, would require no such clarification in any event. *shrugs*Unlike some hereabouts, i still believe that there exists plenty f common ground, topics which transcend both the EU and the Westminster consensus of recent times. Nor is it my intent to hold over other posters their support for Remain.
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Corbyn is changing his approach to the media it seems.
http://www.politico.eu/article/revealed-jeremy-corbyn-labour-plan-to-copy-donald-trump-playbook/
http://www.politico.eu/article/revealed-jeremy-corbyn-labour-plan-to-copy-donald-trump-playbook/
He's continually turned down appearances in the media though. Even turning down liberal stations/shows. He's like the anti-Mandelson.
If he had a strategy to engage with the media at all it could surely only help.
The problem with the Labour Party in two tweets -
London Labour Mayor
Jeremy Corbyn's campaign manager
Ideally if the Labour Mayor could get in line and back the workers, that would grand.
London Labour Mayor
Jeremy Corbyn's campaign manager
Ideally if the Labour Mayor could get in line and back the workers, that would grand.
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This is a very complex issue for Labour. On the one hand our history and links with the labour movement in the UK means that we're closely tied to the Unions in a largely positive way. Trouble is, it raises the concern that we'd be too close to the Unions if we ever get in power. Blair handled that particularly problem by having (intentionally or not) a rather cool relationship with the unions. However you get the impression that any union proposing a strike against a Corbyn led Labour Government would get the deal they wanted real quick.
I think thats a bit unfair as his position is always a conflicted one, as London Mayor he's representing Londoners first and i dont think many are in favour of the strikes. Especially not after today's chaotic fallout from it.
Not to be too blunt but he is the LABOUR mayor of London, if Sadiq has always had this inner conflict of supporting workers than why join the Labour Party. This is a guy who's always happy to tell us(In fact you can never get him to shut up about it) that he's dad was the common old worker on the buses.
He's not even being balanced. He's completely gone against the workers on strike.
Good.
Is he going for the unorthodox approach of borrowing Ozil's invisibility cloak?
In fairness that would be an improvement
Rather depends on the deal I would say.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...s-better-off-out-of-eu-with-managed-migration
It seems that he is becoming fascinated with the have the cake and eat it idea too.
It seems that he is becoming fascinated with the have the cake and eat it idea too.
It's not a bad idea in truth but I'm just not sure Putin is going to back him.
Considering he wants rid of Trident though, he probably will.
First time he speaks up in months and its to be a pale imitation of the Tories. Sigh.
What do Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have in Common?
Neither are too sure about what they want. Neither is able to communicate effectively and both have sizeable oppositions from within their own parties.
Those three things should get them a date on match.com
Neither are too sure about what they want. Neither is able to communicate effectively and both have sizeable oppositions from within their own parties.
Those three things should get them a date on match.com
Salary cap is a bad idea, unworkable and unlikely to win him any votes.
Its an idea I can see becoming toxic real quick. If you ask people if there should be a salary cap of £1m per year, many will start out saying yes, thinking of bankers and corporate CEOs and the like.
When you then point out this means capping footballers pay at £20k per week, which would lead to pretty much every decent football leaving the UK to play abroad and the decimation of the Premier League, people will change their minds real quick.
Back THESE workers you mean, not all workers. Or do you think there should be no negotiation whatsoever? Sadiq should simply agree to whatever the TSSA ask for?
And all the banks and major institutions
I'm not saying it's a good idea but the footballer issue is easily solved by allowing them to pro rata their earnings over the length of a normal working career.
He's doing such an awful job.
The idea isn't even workable.
That last tweet is exactly why taxation on the wealthy is unpopular. People vote beyond their own circumstances but also on their aspirations.
Terrible media work this, they need to stop allowing premature policy statements and saying it's just something we're thinking about doesnt make it acceptable . Its the right direction but such unworkable policy is surely detrimental to the cause.
Its a thought, but Im not sure the maths works out. Even if it were a a cap of a million a year, with players like Pogba earning £15M a year, after a 10 year career he'd be leaving with £140M of backpay owed to him, which would take 140 years to pay. Even if you consider a more modest (if that's the word) £5m a year salary, after a decade of earnings, a player would be owed 40 years worth of pay. Plus it assumes a) that the person never earns a penny after they retire and b) that the club will still be there, and still be solvent, in three or four decades time to keep paying them.
The only people these kind of things appeal to are, people who were already going to vote for him. Such nonsense isn't going to help him win an election.
I think I explained myself badly. What I mean is that the revenue could put a "footballer's clause" in the legislation for people whose lifetime income is front-loaded. If Pogba earns £15m over a 10 year career, that would be a lifetime earnings of £150m. If the cap is set at, say, £5m/year, they could calculate his "real" annual salary as 150/40 = 3.75m/year, so he wouldn't exceed the annual cap during his playing career. Obviously, that would be complicated by whatever he does end up earning after he leaves football but they could take that into account in his tax returns over the course of his subsequent career.
Corbyn is the like a lunatic version of Bernie. If you put a cap on salaries, CEOs will get paid through stock options and a multitude of other ways which make it even easier to dodge taxes.
Bernie is a very sensible politician. I don't recall anything this daft, coming from him.
He's thinking about the right problems, problems to which there are no easy answers. But he's looking for those answers in the wrong places. He needs to think about it much more creatively.
I think I said this before a few months ago but I read Paul Mason's book, a lot of people would consider him a loony leftie as well but at least he is trying to adapt left his socialist message to make it relevant in modern circumstances, taking things like modern technology info account.
I think I said this before a few months ago but I read Paul Mason's book, a lot of people would consider him a loony leftie as well but at least he is trying to adapt left his socialist message to make it relevant in modern circumstances, taking things like modern technology info account.
Read that as Paul Merson, on first viewing. Was most confused.
Yeah, I can't imagine he has the answers to the problems of income inequality. Or any of society's other problems, for that matter.
So in essence you'd have a working lifetime's maximum salary rather than an annual maximum salary? I guess the problem there is that most corporate CEOs and bankers and whatever others with telephone number salaries probably only earn for a short period too, so it wouldn't stop them earning those silly bonuses. Obviously you could have "right" and "wrong" careers that qualified for the footballer's clause, but we're heading deep into the moral minefield with that one.
as an American looking in from the outside, anytime I see any headline with something Corbyn has said, I can't help but thing "what an absolute idiot."
And I'm a Sanders supporter, so it's not like I have any conservative leanings.
A maximum wage cap ffs.
And I'm a Sanders supporter, so it's not like I have any conservative leanings.
A maximum wage cap ffs.