Politics

Nick Glegg

What a fucking asshole. Some strange drugs that boy imbibes.

 

That's "Clegg", I believe

What's he done now to upset you? Supporting outrageous nonsense like
votes for women, a state pension for all, or similar, is he?

 

Worse.

The little tinker had the audacity to say rich people ought to pay a higher
rate of tax.

Even worse. He suggested that any[1] extra revenue should be redistributed
to poor people.

[1] note, this is my word, chosen carefully as I'm anticipating the "Hog
going overseas speech."

 

whilst this sort of thing sounds "moral" to some people, if you take
it too far, you end up with a situation like Sweden.

 

Blonde hair, blue eyes and fearsomely expensive beer?

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Hog Daniels?

 

Or like the USSR, where everyone was equally poor except for the
politicians.

 

[Nick Cleggg]

I've had a look and haven't seen the definition of rich being used in
this case. I seem to recall one of the opposition parties before
making a similar suggestion but their then definition of rich was
anyone on >£30K IIRC.

 

I certainly heard mention of anyone who earned over the basic rate
threshold. So what's that? £37k-ish?

 

He's an atheist which is his only redeeming feature.

 

You forgot the incredibly cute girls

Alice.

 

Is it that high? <FX google> £34,800 this year according to the
infernal revenue. So not actually the rich then? Pretty much everyone
I know with the exception of those just starting their careers.

 

We only see the cute ones, they have pig-muntering uglies with arses
the size of Luxembourg too.

 

Functioning public services, a healthy balance of payments and high
quality manufacturing industry?

 

no, I mean where it's not worth your while becoming qualified/skilled
at anything, because their taxation system means that you end up with
a take-home pay only very slightly higher than an un-skilled
labourer.

 

That's definitely not my experience of Sweden. The friends and relatives
I've got over there who work hard and have good skills seem to be doing
very nicely for themselves.

 

fair enough. I just read an article about it a (good) few years back.
Conceivably:

a) the situation has changed
b) I completely misunderstood the article
c) I have a garbled memory of it
d) maybe it was a different country entirely
e) all of the above.

 

It sounds a bit like Norway - they're the _truly_ humourless cunts with a
hand deep into your pocket. But even there, there's definite differences
between the pikeys and those with a modicum of get-up-and-go.

 

The median wage last year was just under £24k.

 

Is he?

Hmm ok I'm sober now so I may revise my opinion of him ever so slightly
in light of this information.