Labour isn't Working - Thread 35

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A chat thread for those who don't like this Labour* *government. 💙

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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I think it's alas vine and hitchins.....I keep meaning to have a listen

Fighting inequality seems to drive so many poor Labour decisions. Interesting read from Neil Woodford which refute the inequality narrative with hard data:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lies-damned-inequality-neil-woodford-hxobf/

Just calculated how much NI I would pay if I wasn't retired from my pensions which I am taxed on. It was adding up employer and employee contributions £2400 per annum. £200 pcm.

It makes you think.

Gcse's are over for DD1 she has to go into a A level induction next week. After I finished my GCSE's I had little worry about the economy the government, my employment future whether I go to University, there were all just an inevitable pathway. The comparison with what DD1 DD2 and DS are going to have to progress though could not be distinct and they come from extremely privilege backgrounds !
They might be ok given their backgrounds. However, in a country where it is impossible to go out without fear, where poverty and decay is visible everywhere outside small bubbles !

Today’s TRIE is a bit of light relief, talking about politicians and their music/film choices (debating if Andy Burnham is the first “indie” potential-PM).

I was amused by Marina’s anecdote about Farage being totally uncultured!

Transcript:

“I once interviewed him and just honestly, for something, I think I've talked about this in the podcast before, but I'm going to mention it again because I think it is so weird.

I said to him, what's your favorite film? And he literally just couldn't, what was clear is not that he couldn't think what his favorite film would be or what would be a good film to be his favorite film, he couldn't think of the title of a film.

And in the end he said, what, you know, the person, and then he remembered Four Weddings and a Funeral, but for some reason he obviously didn't want to say that. So he said, you know, the guy who did that, so I said Richard Curtis. I was like, love actually?

He's like, yeah, love actually. I was thinking, there's just no way that your favorite film is love actually. There's just no way.

But also the fact that you couldn't even think of it. I mean, just say The Great Escape or The Dambusters or something.

Bridge on the River Kwai.

Come on.

That's easy.

He literally couldn't think of one. I believe he has zero cultural hinterland at all. I can't imagine.

I think there's some discourse about like why isn't he on Desert Island Discs? What would he authentically choose? You're telling me that guy ever listens to music, ever watches anything.

He doesn't exist. He doesn't have that. If you cannot name a film and then you literally can't think of the name of a film, it's ridiculous.”

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-entertainment/id1718287198?i=1000773761504