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why should the working class play fair

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Rathgar · 16/03/2022 20:21

politicans dont

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MichelleScarn · 16/03/2022 20:22

Who do you define as 'working class'?

Ops1 · 16/03/2022 20:26

What do you mean by play fair too?

ButtockUp · 16/03/2022 20:42

Yep, given that most people work for their money, what exactly do you mean by working class?

'Play fair' at what exactly?

deadlanguage · 16/03/2022 20:59

What do working class politicians do?

Toottooot · 16/03/2022 21:00

Fit div yi mean?

MichelleScarn · 16/03/2022 21:01

Ah are you coming to it from a Wolfie Smith viewpoint?

blockbustervideo · 16/03/2022 21:17

WhatConfused

WeeOrcadian · 16/03/2022 21:18

Huh? Have you been at the methylated spirits?

PurpleThursdays · 16/03/2022 21:21

I'm guessing it means abide by the rules, pay your way, work hard for what you have when politicians gives themselves a hefty pay rise and expenses for lunches and second homes.

If I did 10% of the wrongdoings Bozo has done, I'd be in prison by now.

MrsTerryPratchett · 16/03/2022 21:30

Well that's a very wide topic! Any specifics?

ArabellaStrange · 16/03/2022 21:30

It worked then

why should the working class play fair
FindingMeno · 16/03/2022 21:40

Absolutely.
Time for change.
Shame people didn't recognise that when we could have had an actual socialist for pmSad

RobotValkyrie · 16/03/2022 21:57

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The rat race does indeed suck.

However I'll never stop believing in, and fighting for, fairness.
Whoever gives up on this has truly lost.

JimmyDurham · 16/03/2022 22:54

Who says they do?

MrsTerryPratchett · 17/03/2022 00:06

OP fucked off?

I'd say there's a difference between a very poor person nicking 'lecky like we did from rich companies and a 'working class' plumber who earns a shit ton fiddling their taxes.

Hawkins001 · 17/03/2022 00:10

@PurpleThursdays

I'm guessing it means abide by the rules, pay your way, work hard for what you have when politicians gives themselves a hefty pay rise and expenses for lunches and second homes.

If I did 10% of the wrongdoings Bozo has done, I'd be in prison by now.

Who's to say it's wrong ? How are the rules laid out ? Who decides what the pay rises are ect ? Or have people just assumed it's the politicians themselves ?
Hawkins001 · 17/03/2022 00:12

"The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has set and administered MPs' pay since 2011"

www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/pay-mps/

Hawkins001 · 17/03/2022 00:13

It seems two minutes on google show it's not mps themselves who set the pay rises

PurpleThursdays · 17/03/2022 07:08

Morally they dont need them. It's a moral wrong when so many are going through a tough time.

And when I mentioned Bozos wrongdoings I was referring to the the laws he has broken since getting into power. The legal wrongs.

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