There's plenty of people sleeping in tents and doorways around Liverpool city centre
Boris says it's only becase they enjoy camping, absolutely nothing to do with austerity
There's plenty of people sleeping in tents and doorways around Liverpool city centre
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That's the communist ideal. That doesn't work too well either.This isn't about a simple envy of the rich, nor about preventing people from accumulating any wealth, it is about a fairer distribution of the wealth a society creates amongst the people who create it.
One of my old feller's favourite books, JB. Sadly, I'm a squanderer.That's the communist ideal. That doesn't work too well either.
If anyone has read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist you'll know that the author said - if you gathered up all the money in the world and redistributed it evenly, it would take a very short time for it to end up exactly where it was. Those who save will save, those who invest will invest, those who squander will squander.
Very good book. I don't know where I fit in terms of my relationship with money; I do a bit of everything.One of my old feller's favourite books, JB. Sadly, I'm a squanderer.


No idea.Ok, so who changed election to erection
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There's a difference though between handing everyone out money evenly and ensuring everyone pays their fair share of taxes so that that money can be filtered into services which benefit everyone.That's the communist ideal. That doesn't work too well either.
If anyone has read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist you'll know that the author said - if you gathered up all the money in the world and redistributed it evenly, it would take a very short time for it to end up exactly where it was. Those who save will save, those who invest will invest, those who squander will squander.
Must be a Tory .... Bisc?Ok, so who changed election to erection?
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That's a point........where's Bisc?...............moving house?Must be a Tory .... Bisc?....
Yeh, I was just paraphrasing the book. Nice concept but would never happen, similarly everyone paying their fair share in taxes.There's a difference though between handing everyone out money evenly and ensuring everyone pays their fair share of taxes so that that money can be filtered into services which benefit everyone.
Are you suggesting I said him because I know he's not around to defend himselfThat's a point........where's Bisc?...............moving house?

Nooooooooooooo!Are you suggesting I said him because I know he's not around to defend himself![]()

It's over mods should close the thread and open it again in 4.5 years time.