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Absolutely. If rich people leave they can easily be replaced, but it is much harder to replace a doctor with 5 years basic study and years more specialist study, or a nurse with 3 years training and years of expertise.
Why this obsession with the benefits of wealth to those of us who don’t have it? Trickle down economics is a myth and I judge a country by it’s values and how it treats it’s vulnerable ,not how it treats it’s wealthy.
Agreed
Seconded; my thoughts exactly Hazel Murphy.
Why are we always subjected to this economic equivilent to ’emotional blackmail’ regarding the very wealthy fleeing when taxing them a teeny bit more raises it head? It does my head in.
The guardian has been carried away by hsteria, apparently caused by a football match. A headline declares unblushingly:
“Proper England: Selfless.”
Have I missed something over my life in Britain? Have I misremembered the last forty years of neoliberal economics, of Conservative and Labour politics, of financial crises and the public disgrace of major institutions; of wall-to-wall greed, incompetence and failure?
“Selfless” is not the primary word I would search for to describe the Britain or England I have been observing. ‘Selfless’ is a word I would reserve for the victims of British (or ‘English’) policy, and the recipients of the application of Britain’s casually cynical standards.
Much to agree with.
Ha!
Love it.
England – nick-named after an animal appropriated from another country – were lucky and everyone at street level out here knows it. Spain’s strikers were having an off day – it could have easily have been 3/4-1to Spain.
As ever, typical England – magnanimous in defeat; unbearable in victory – what was all that guff one of the players was saying about being ‘English’? Hmmm………not appropriate – sorry. Someone have a word please……………and what is this about not taking the knee?
Good points? The mid field battles in most matches put the male game to shame – combative, passionate, hard working, mostly fair and not always trying to kick the shit out of each other; loved the way they congregated after the matches for hugs and cuddles with the opposite side ( a bit like rugby) and the crowds were lovely.
So England’s women won a football tournament. Great. But if any of them were to get pregnant would they win on a creaking NHS maternity ward or get the support from the over stretched police if they were subject to domestic abuse? Would their elderly relative get the help they needed if they got dementia or would they end up being the sole carer or penalised for getting a benefit claim wrong?
Winning for your country eh? Don’t waste your time ladies. Isn’t it about time Britain ensured that their women folk won instead?
I am afraid quite a lot to agree with.
And the bullshit about being English – very clearly many have multi ethnic backgrounds.
This is exactly the question we should be asking politicians!
The sentiment returned on here is considerably different to the reaction on twitter !!!
So?
You may already know but the new party has included Stephanie Kelton in their line up!
‘We’re delighted to announce more speakers for the Peace & Justice Project Annual Conference in September!
UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese and UCU general secretary Jo Grady, alongside anthropologist Jason Hickel and international law expert Shahd Hammouri, have joined our exciting line-up of speakers and panels.
They join our founder Jeremy Corbyn, Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, economist Stephanie Kelton, author Gabor Maté, NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede and journalist Peter Oborne, and many more, for two days of discussion and debate on the issues we face nationally and globally, which will be taking place at the Blizard Building of Queen Mary University in London on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September this year.
Tickets for our Annual Conference are on sale now.’
As a Scot, I don’t begrudge the Lionesses their victory, but, as a sufferer from border-line tinnitus set off by high-pitched noise (something to do with 60 years of cymbals overtones), I’ll be ever so glad when the din subsides!
🙂