AAAAGH Reform. Are people ignoring the racist?

[Peasnbeans]

And that he's no economist skills yet promising the impossible. And a racist. And mysoginist.

If Mumsnet is full of women, how is no-one talking about Reform and limiting women's rights?
I know I'll get flamed for this, but it is a boiling frog situation! Jump out!
And I didn't choose the AIBU board but I looked down all the Current Threads and this didn't feature.

We will need to agree to disagree.

I feel for these people on an individual level but uncontrolled migration is harmful to the UK.

The BBC and other media certainly have a Farage bias. Perhaps they think featuring him makes good TV. During the election he kept saying that he should be allowed to debate alongside the main parties. And who could blame him in the delusion?

A very small wealth tax (1-2% on assets over £10million) applied to those at the very top of distribution would only affect 0.04% of the population and could raise up to £22 billion a year.

Most of our wealthiest people have significant ties to the UK and are not just going to flee on mass if they're made to pay 10-20 grand a year.

You can call it a left wing trope, but how on earth are you okay with public services crumbling and kids going hungry in this country when a few individuals are sitting on hoards of private wealth?

How do you justify scrapping the basic provision we give refugees when this is going on?

I really don’t see why this is controversial. The top 1% includes billionaires but also people earning from about 230k upwards. Those at the top end can well afford it.

Open your eyes.

Of the two hotels I mentioned one is exclusively for males (Metropole) and they are see outside smoking - poverty? Whaaat?

The other in Hoylake is 99.9% male. My friends have seen 2 women since it was opened to migrants.

Over the other side of the country Skegness was using 5 hotels for migrants.

You can see someone smoking at 2.27 and these people are in poverty?

Really?

If it is such a good solution why hasn't any one of the successive Labour Governments implemented it ?

Ummmm what successive Labour Govts??

btw the wealthy pay, proportionately a lot of tax because the average worker has, in real terms, seen their wages fall over the last decade or so, the rich have seen their wealth sky rocket.

You still haven't said what the super wealthy bring to this country or is it "trickle down economics?"

We haven’t had one for 14 years. 🙄

Yes but we did have one for the 13 years before that, with two different Labour PMs. So the question still stands.

No it doesn’t because if they had done it Cameron would have reversed it in a heartbeat just like he got rid of the 10% band.

If it’s so easy to stop immigration why haven’t they?

Because up to press no Government has had the cojones to come out of the UNHCR and make laws that benefit our citizens

What has this got to do with anything? Are you assuming that all leftwing people are Labour enthusiasts?

Because those Laws benefit all of us!

You & me included!

Yup.

Where did I say I was ok with the public services crumbling and kids going hungry?

If I were you I’d be writing a letter to Rachel Reeves and ask her what happened to the last Labour government that tried taxing the wealthy further than they were prepared to pay. Better still, you could write to all the UK billionaires and explain why you think they should pay more tax and see what response you get.

It would help if the government wasn’t squandering many billions on pointless schemes and poor management though.

I'm not sure how to respond to someone who thinks that 'Rebel News UK' is a reputable and unbiased source of information.

Then you are massively incorrect.

i don’t agree with you on the ECHR but if you think it’s a matter of balls, apply the same logic to your own question.

OK
If it's a problem for you then don't bother, I don't mind.🙂

It's too late at night to be trying to solve conundrums,

So I'll take my cojones elsewhere.

I will just leave you with a quote from the article I linked that you probably didn't read:

Here’s another example of life in hotels. I was working with a woman seeking asylum who was heavily pregnant.
Her room is on the second floor with no lift. It’s too small and she struggles to shower. She told us that she recently drank water from the tap of a hospital bathroom while waiting for a midwife appointment, because she doesn’t have a water bottle to carry water from the hotel around in.
Why couldn’t she buy a bottle of water? Because she’s been waiting months for an ASPEN card, a pre-paid bank card that holds her £9 week allowance. The only money she can access.
I’ve seen families wait several months to get an ASPEN card. That’s months dumped in a hotel with no money whatsoever.

But sure, you saw a video of some men smoking outside of a Travelodge so clearly they're all on holiday.

Goodnight.

Out of interest, what ‘pointless schemes’ do you think the government is funding?

There’s quite a few but that would be a big derail to the thread and we don’t want that do we?

What are your thoughts on the effectiveness of simply ‘tax the rich’ as an economic strategy?