To think that the Sunday Times rich list is just YUCK?!

[toptramp]

Especially in the midst of a recession. I don't want to know that XY and Z has an amazing lifestyle thanks. Not good reading.

Don't read it?

Is there a non paywall link?

I'm not going to read it. I just don't want them to do it at all. I am going off the Times. India Knight wrote a really stupid article about how it is better to be posh but dim than a left wing intellectual. yawn.

I wouldn't know, it's in the recycling bin, unread.

YANBU I was just thinking myself how distasteful it is, especially in the current climate where people are struggling and benefits are being cut.

I think they should balance it out by doing a Sunday Times poor list - they could profile the 100 households in the country with the lowest income per head. I bet it would be very illuminating and very sad to read

I agree, v distasteful. I don't read it but find the whole premise dubious and horribly grovelling and deferential. Yuck. YANBU.

I did enjoy reading it. I am quite nosy on the quiet, so this allows me to be nosy! I actually came away feeling quite positive about a couple of things, for example the Duke of Westminster purchasing a stately home to be used to re-habilitate injured ex-servicemen.

And yes, I know he can afford it. But so can others and they don't do it

YANBU. I didn't read it but saw an article on the BBC about it. Especially sickening to read, two days after a double-dip recession was announced, that the majority have increased their fortunes compared to pre-crash 2008. I don't know anyone personally (and I know a reasonably broad spectrum of people) who is better off now than then. I'd like to think that if I was in their shoes I'd be donating the difference somewhere where it would do some good. Who needs a personal fortune of £billions?

I don't know, it's kept DP quiet for about two hours now.

I'm finding it hard to hate it.

lol at don't read it

the upper classes are generally arses these days (cameron at the helm) let's get like the french and revolt!!!!

About 9 years ago there was a parent at dd's school who was on it. I didn't know, but remember being really irritated/cat's bum face with one mother who went on about it and how much their family's wealth was.

Can't we discuss no. 164? Prince Jonathan and Princess Gesine who were adopted from a London orphanage by an Italian princess? Inherited £500m and live in a 1000 room mansion. Did they make that up?

Yanbu.

I worked for many years for someone who hovered around 10-15 on the Rich List. He employed about 40 people in this company, and a few others elsewhere plus a few in his household. He probably had no more than 60 people in his direct employment.

Did I earn an above average salary and enjoy above average perks?

Did I buggery.

They like to keep it close, these mega-rich you know.

You don't get rich by paying people more than you have to.

At least the fact that the rich are getting richer whilst the poor get poorer can you used against the Tories

Not really, the same thing happened under Labour as well.

Is there anywhere I can find it online without having to pay?

I like reading about those who are donating to good causes...

But I know for a fact that their figures can be waaaaaay out. Their research isn't as thorough as they'd like people to think so I don't put much credence in it.

My first boyfriend from school is in the list. He married the next girl he went out with. DH is better looking and nicer though

"... India Knight wrote a really stupid article ..."

No surprise there.

The times is more often than not a waste of newsprint

Sunday Times is obsessed with the silly over rich and the way they spend their money. It's full of articles about so-and-so who started their own business doing something stupidly frivolous and pointless and selling it to all their rich friends. The whole 'money make the world go round' ethic started to make me so sick that I don't buy it anymore.

At least the fact that the rich are getting richer whilst the poor get poorer can you used against the Tories

I think you'll find that 13 years of a labour government did absolutely nothing to redress this balance either and in fact during their stint in charge the gap just kept on growing.

I'm no Tory but anyone thinking that the labour party offer a fairer choice regarding the wealth gap is deluded.

Yeah, I don't get it at all. Other than if they published how they got their money and what they do with it. They should state how much tax they pay and how much they give to charity, that kind of thing.

They do, Marysbeard. Seeing the amount that some od them give to charity (and also which types of charities...children, arts, heritage etc).makes quite positive reading. It can be galling to think that individuals and families can be "worth" so much, but then the charities and good causes would be worse off without it, so there is some balance amongst the list.