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Apologies if I wasn't clear but bankers are paid obscene amounts only because they are (in theory) generating even more wealth. Their pay isn't and shouldn't be linked to fairness in a free market economy. I certainly don't think that they work less or more hard than anyone else. They are a...

Sorry - 1 last point that is very pertinent to this thread is that there are benefits to having immigration. There's no denying that the Indian shopkeepers changed our attitudes to when shops should be open. A little thing I know but it goes to show that sometimes a different attitude to the...

Maybe not but their skill (apparently) is in wealth creation and they create a lot of wealth that pays for the nurses and there's lot fewer bankers. That's the theory, anyway. Apologies - I've monopolised this thread. I think I'm done.

Let's be brutally honest here. How many of us have jobs that are crucial to the well-being of the nation? It's all getting a bit like Mark Twain's description of a bourgeois state where everyone ekes out a precarious living taking in each other's washing.

And I'm left with no-one to vote for. No wonder Iceland and Italy have voted for professional comedians. I want to vote - I want things to change but there is absolutely no-one I trust. Anyone who thinks Farage is the honest maverick he pretends to be is in for a rude awakening.

I pay maintenance too so get where you are coming from but the principle still holds IMO. I don't know the ins and outs of other countries' tax systems but if you work hard you are still taking home more money and the difference between basic and top rate isn't big enough to put you off working...

Actually - that's something that I think always gets missed when discussing the UKIP and BNP. They are single issue parties for sure, but we really need to scrutinise their other policies. I think Dimbleby missed a trick when he had Griffin on Question Time. Griffin's fiscal policy begins with...

I'd say there are several reasons. Firstly, almost every country operates a progressive tax system albeit with different rates obviously but the concept is generally acknowledged as fair. Secondly it's affordable as it penalises at the marginal rate but doesn't kick in at some considerable...

The AFL is just a front for the SWP. I remember seeing that written all over the place in the 90s in Brighton. Eveyone know's SWP is Welsh for soup though.

Does that have to be the alternative?

Any chance we can group all these type of political threads into one big one? There's currently 3 or 4 on the front page of NSC and it's really not what we're all about, is it?