Where's The Sense In Voting Labour?

[naomi24]

Labour intend hitting businesses and oil companies with high taxes. The result will be that the cost is passed on to the consumer meaning potential job losses and higher prices for everything, including fuel. The people least likely to be able to afford higher prices are the poor. Since concern for the poor is an on-going theme here, can anyone who is concerned for the poor but is nevertheless intending to vote Labour, rationalise their choice? Where is the sense in voting Labour?

[JimF]

No.

[naomi24]

What are you talking about then, Jim? I can't see anything unacceptable here.

[sunny-dave]

If the price rise is £10 across the board, but only a percentage of the population is getting £10 worth of extra income - then the problem is not the government policy, it is the money-grabbing businesses and high wage recipients who are seizing an opportunity to increase their margins and shaft the country?

Which suggests that the need is actually for more robust price-control and tax-enforcement regimes?

[JimF]

The post at 17:12.

If you genuinely can't see anything offensive about that, I can only conclude that you agree with it.

[diddlydo]

Naomi -it does answer your question re the sense in voting Labour.

[New Judge]

//If I take £100 off one rich person and give it to the ten poorest people then they ARE better off//

It is a well known fact that you cannot make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. Your analogy is simplistic and it doesn't quite work like that.

[fender62]

vote labour= 1970's + whole new wave of migration incoming
thye do love open borders, and the third world.

[naomi24]

SD, no shareholder is happy to see his investment depleted - and understandably. You don't put your money into a savings account and rejoice when the interest rate drops - do you?

diddlydo, you haven't answered the question.

As for the offence, I can hack other people's opinions. This, hopefully, is a grown up discussion. Snowflakes and the precious need not contribute.

[johnny.5]

I have never seen interest rates so low as they are now under a conservative government
I have never seen so many people using food banks as I have now under a conservative government
i have never seen so many people in work with out any disposable income as I have now under a conservative government


I may need to see a shrink

[Jackdaw33]

If I were struggling at school I would vote Labour as I would only have to study one textbook: Higher maths by D. Abbott.

[naomi24]

If SD is waiting for Labour to become the party for the working man I fear he may have to resign himself to never voting again.

[TheDevil]

There was recently a man who ask'd a question about his 80K earnings. He said under a labour government he'd have to pay 40K a tax.

It was rather amusing.

[naomi24]

A man. Right.

[AuntPollyGrey]

I would hazard a guess that many staunch Labour supporters think business owners and employers have a stress free luxury lifestyle that has been bestowed upon them by benevolent parents . Many small to medium businesses, who will be targeted in Corbyns' 'Wealth Sharing' have men/women at the helm that have invested heavily in their education, work 18 hours a day and invest most of their profits back into the business. Take a £100 from them and give £10 each to the workers -yes the workers will have £10 to spend however they wish -the 'boss' will have £100 less to invest in new business and perhaps create new jobs. Basic economics - socialism has never and will never work. Potential labour voters should be made to sit through documentaries of the 1970's havoc Labour caused. I'm not choking on my silver spoon in the home counties either - grandparents were miners in the seventies and even they did not agree which way Labour was going regarding the Unions and Scargill.

[TheDevil]

"A man. Right."

Well yes, the man was a conservative voter and evidently he didn't even know how the tax brackets work. LOL.

[naomi24]

How can that^ be so difficult to understand?

[naomi24]

^That to APG.

[dannyk13]

TD, How did you know his voting preference?

[naomi24]

TD, oh, I see. A man didn't understand how the tax brackets work. And?