Am I Rich And Over Privileged And So Jc Will Be Coming After Me?

[youngmafbog]

I was privately educated and spent my childhood in a seven bedroom house.
Now I earn £140,000 a year (plus expenses), live in a house worth around £750,000 house and have a pension pot pension pot worth over £1M.

It could be very worrying.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6199187/Jeremy-Corbyn-warns-rich-borrowed-time-Labour-government-coming.html#reader-comments

[Mamyalynne]

To return to the main thrust of the question , if the figures quoted put Mr Corbyn into the category of 'the very richest in society' as mentioned in the article - then yes any measures outlined would apply to him.

I'm not sure what that phrase actually means, like most of us here I know people who earn vast sums have houses worth more than the above figure and have all the trappings that go with their accumulated wealth - second homes,yachts and a plane for example.

It will as you say depend greatly on where the lines are drawn.

[hereIam]

Brilliant ymb, that made me chuckle and I LOVE the way you wound up a certain party on here (lol) !!

[mushroom25]

it may also depend where you are. here's an estate agent blurb for a house worth £700k. it's not a palace, it's a bog standard between the wars semi. people who live nearby aren't rich, they're ordinary joes. do they deserve to be fleeced by the labour party?
https://www.lawrence-rand.co.uk/property-details/EAS150292/greater-london/ha5/abbotsbury-gardens?n=10&;minprice=700000&showstc=on&;orderby=price+desc&instruction_type=Sale&;page=2

[Peter Pedant]

well done you
and you could never tell by reading some of your threads....

[spathiphyllum]

this is getting 2nd hand embarrassing now

[Mamyalynne]

Well go and give someone tomato advice instead.

[spathiphyllum]

All they need is a good banana

[youngmafbog]

It was only intended to be a bit light hearted, albeit with am underlying valid question.

[fiction-factory]

The only worrying one would teh £million pension pot. It's not a smuch as it sounds. The get the equivalent value of a state pension you'd need a pot of over a quarter of a million. A million pound pot might get you an annuity of £30000 a year in retirement which would make you comfotable but not rich. Pension pots worth well over a million are quite common place for those in good company schemes who also stuck away thousands in AVCs aevery year rather than blowing it.
As an aside, I thought you stopped earning £140K pa a while ago in a previous job, YMB

[fiction-factory]

Ah- see what you did there YMB- I hadn't seen the other answers as i'd just logged in after work!

[ichkeria]

I must hand it to you ymb: very amusing, and there are a few fish in that net :-)

[Mamyalynne]

Indeed there is an underlying valid question and some of us tried to engage with it too.

[ichkeria]

I can’t see a question: do you mean Jeremy Corbyn is coming for himself? That would be good wouldn’t it?

[jackthehat]

It would have been more obvious if some of ymb's own past comments weren't so similar to the facts he presented in the OP.

I do wonder how those wealthy Labour supporters and donors feel when these 'eat the rich' policies are trotted out...

[Spicerack]

I'm grateful for the simple things in life.
Like my four kids.
Especially the one I like.


Great post, ymb. ;-)

[Sqad]

LOl...I have just got it..............very good YMB.

[sanmac]

Ichkeria at 1711. Yes, and some of those who with great gusto swam into it are now futilely thrashing around in order to get out of it:)

[Sqad]

Mrs sqad is still laughing...........very clever she said........

[Theland]

I don't have quite enough to afford a top class gardener and housekeeper.
I have to rely on Romanian immigrants, but we struggle by.