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How are Labour doing after their first 12 months

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PINKIE said:
She didn't believe in Society

Her ideology was that we're all individuals competing with each other to get to the top

She genuinely thought that would raise standards, and those who didn't make it were feckless and lazy and deserved to rot
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But isn't that what you did?

You left the City and bought up property and set up a business as an individual, while moving to an area where people were poor by your own admittance and competing eventually for a lack of properties, because other individuals from the City were also snapping up the properties in their rise to the top - hence raising property values out of the reach of locals, and eventually a lack of properties due to City dweller purchasers, as that common theme played out across many a town and village in the UK. Your business does well off the back of it because it becomes a niche market and prices marked as though people are taking a piece of Cornwall home with them, so everything your Grandad probably hated about Thatcher. So in short you were also helping destroy those working classes as you called them, stealing a piece of Cornwall out of the mouth of the poor to pay for a three grand bike.
 
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Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased for you Pinkie, I just want you to see the hypocrisy of the things you say sometimes. You used your initiative and fair play to you, I just despair at your lack of self awareness sometimes, while putting on this facade of some warrior against the establishment - when in fact you are as much a lemming as everyone else when it comes to financially exploiting a situation for gain, and to the statute demise of others (ie those less well off) in the race to the top.
 
brb said:
Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased for you Pinkie, I just want you to see the hypocrisy of the things you say sometimes. You used your initiative and fair play to you, I just despair at your lack of self awareness sometimes, while putting on this facade of some warrior against the establishment - when in fact you are as much a lemming as everyone else when it comes to financially exploiting a situation for gain, and to the statute demise of others (ie those less well off) in the race to the top.
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Is now a good time to talk about an unassailable lemming? <whistle>
 
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FosseFilberto said:
Is now a good time to talk about an unassailable lemming? <whistle>
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Lots of teams falling off a cliff face at the moment, I wouldn't like to have a guess how it will turn out, but for a nuetral it keeps it interesting, even Chelsea v Everton was worth watching.
 
brb said:
Lots of teams falling off a cliff face at the moment, I wouldn't like to have a guess how it will turn out, but for a nuetral it keeps it interesting, even Chelsea v Everton was worth watching.
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Still ... at least Everton have a comfortable goal difference ... <whistle>
 
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brb said:
But isn't that what you did?

You left the City and bought up property and set up a business as an individual, while moving to an area where people were poor by your own admittance and competing eventually for a lack of properties, because other individuals from the City were also snapping up the properties in their rise to the top - hence raising property values out of the reach of locals, and eventually a lack of properties due to City dweller purchasers, as that common theme played out across many a town and village in the UK. Your business does well off the back of it because it becomes a niche market and prices marked as though people are taking a piece of Cornwall home with them, so everything your Grandad probably hated about Thatcher. So in short you were also helping destroy those working classes as you called them, stealing a piece of Cornwall out of the mouth of the poor to pay for a three grand bike.
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When I first moved here, it wasn't from London as I'd lived in a few other places, but I rented for years (probably paying off some local's mortgage :bandit:) and I was working for the NHS. I saved up for years for a deposit and by the time I could afford to buy anything down here, prices were almost as expensive as London anyway lol

I knew the bike would get a mention though <laugh>
 
PINKIE said:
When I first moved here, it wasn't from London as I'd lived in a few other places, but I rented for years (probably paying off some local's mortgage :bandit:) and I was working for the NHS. I saved up for years for a deposit and by the time I could afford to buy anything down here, prices were almost as expensive as London anyway lol

I knew the bike would get a mention though <laugh>
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Did you pay tax on the bike though :bandit:
 
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PINKIE said:
I wish <laugh>

I would have thought my second hand ebay trainers and tent accommodation would give some clues lol
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Secondhand trainers and tent accommodation isn't a clue to anything. Being savvy with money and tight with the pennies, should never be misconstrued for being poor or hardup. I would like to think someone who is travelling to Californaia/Nevada for a month is not someone that relies on a foodbank, but in todays world nowt no longer surprises me (in general I mean). I bought a £100 phone, 3-4 years later it's still going, I could have paid top dollar but why, what more would it have done, nowt, it's great and it's also less likely to be stolen.
 
Archers Road said:
@PINKIE s bike has really bent @brb out of shape <laugh>
He’ll go to his grave ranting about a three grand pushbike
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He didn't really buy a £3k bike, I thought secondhand trainers and tent accommodation would have been a clue. <whistle>

Anyway I like it really, it's always mildly amusing when ET pops up out the basket.
 
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brb said:
Secondhand trainers and tent accommodation isn't a clue to anything. Being savvy with money and tight with the pennies, should never be misconstrued for being poor or hardup. I would like to think someone who is travelling to Californaia/Nevada for a month is not someone that relies on a foodbank, but in todays world nowt no longer surprises me (in general I mean). I bought a £100 phone, 3-4 years later it's still going, I could have paid top dollar but why, what more would it have done, nowt, it's great and it's also less likely to be stolen.
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Very generously, most of the cost of the US trip has been paid for by my brother as a 50th b’day present.

Anyway, I’m not sure your interest in my finances is that healthy in all honesty
 
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PINKIE said:
Very generously, most of the cost of the US trip has been paid for by my brother as a 50th b’day present.

Anyway, I’m not sure your interest in my finances is that healthy in all honesty
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Much like HiaG probably never use to like the unhealthy interest you use to take in his lifestyle, but it never ever stopped you,

Anyhow my point was though, just because someone buys something off ebay or loves going camping in a tent with his mates, does not define them as poor - that would be like judging a book by it's cover, it's a trait that many a poor salesman makes. It's like the difference between if someone walks in in a suit or whether they just rock up in some casual stuff like jeans and a t shirt, it certainly don't tell you their annual income. Unless they are someone that likes to flash the cash, but even then you don't know if they are stealing it or have a credit card that is maxed out.....or maybe even avoiding paying tax, which would add considerably to someones disposable income, I'm not chatting about you, before you jump to conclusions again, other than challenging your definition of identifying someone who is poor. If I walk into a charity shop, it helps two fold, in giving them money to support their cause, and some times you might find an item that is either unique or a fraction of the cost if you bought it new, much like going on a Vinted App, not that I ever have. Personally me, I don't wear watches, I don't wear jewelry, I don't buy apple products, does that make me poor of course not.
 
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