Captain Haddock
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'Banned'? I thought TED had not posted it because it was rubbish? Chris Anderson, curator of TED 'the live TED audience had given the talk mediocre reviews'.
'Rich people do not create jobs' per se is of course absolutely correct.
However the fact that 'people who create jobs tend to become rich' seems quite reasonable to me. Why else would they bother?
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Now HERE'S a video worth watching!
Matt 7:16?
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Keith Sansum1
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Still is this a caring govt?
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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The Bishop wrote:British Medical Journal a decent enough source for you?
Sorry to be a bore but unable to find link to this BMJ report. Grateful for link. Tks.
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We face this position at the mo of trying to pay off debt this Govt handling it worse than the previous one.
This Govt very divided and knives out for the leader.
In opposition Corbyn surprized many including myself, but he still didn't win.
Will people really go that one step further and elect him into number 10?
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Weird Granny Slater
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Captain Haddock wrote:Sorry to be a bore but unable to find link to this BMJ report. Grateful for link. Tks.
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/11/e017722'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
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Captain Haddock wrote:Sorry to be a bore but unable to find link to this BMJ report. Grateful for link. Tks.
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/11/e017722
Isaiah 29:11
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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The Bishop wrote:
Isaiah 29:11
Excellent! Most amusing. Not a verse I remembered.
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Brian Dixon
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he with out sin may cast the first vote.
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Brian Dixon wrote:he with out sin may cast the first vote.
...and there was me advocating everyone using their vote. Mr Dixon, you've scuppered my utopia with idealism!
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Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42096806
From BBC Economics Editor, Kamal Ahmed: It was Lord Adair Turner, the former head of the Low Pay Commission, who put it succinctly. "The UK over the last 10 years has created a lot of jobs, but today real wages are below where they were in 2007," he told me earlier this year. That is not the capitalist system delivering its promise that over a decade or so it will raise all boats, and it is a very fundamental issue."
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Just worth remembering that austerity is a total misnomer; furthermore, those that believe the Tories as being the best party to sort the economy, borrow less and pay back debt ought to look at the evidence. (Courtesy of Richard Murray: data for the House of Commons library.)
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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And this ONS graph shows how poverty rates would have been in the past if we measured them by today’s standard.
Do learn to sing along. You'll feel a lot happier!
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Captain Haddock wrote:And this ONS graph shows how poverty rates would have been in the past if we measured them by today’s standard.
Is this graph only looking at the worst paid (Absolute low income)? (As opposed to the worst off.) Additionally, how come the graph doesn't show the era of austerity? 2007-8 is nothing compared to 2008 to date.
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£39 billion of austerity still to come.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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a pittance keith compared to 50billion plus offerd before hand.
now if the was at the pre brexit at 1.51 euros to the pound it would hearer 20 billion quid.
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Polly squawks so Radders has his two pennyworth! Worth a read IMHO
http://raedwald.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/debt.html"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Meanwhile, Craig Mackinlay sticks up for his constituents, the worse hit in Kent for social deprivation.
https://theisleofthanetnews.com/south-thanet-mp-calls-for-a-new-lottery-to-pay-for-a-120m-royal-yacht/
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Nationally, Thanet is ranked at 21 out of 326 authorities placing it within England’s 10% most deprived of authorities." Source: Indicies of Deprivation Headline Findings, October 2015, page 3. Entitled: The English Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD 2015): Headline findings for Kent
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Austerity/Aushmerity
The median UK household disposable income was £26,300 in the financial year ending 2016 (2015/16); this was £600 higher than the previous year and £1,000 higher than the pre-downturn value of £25,400 in 2007/08 (after accounting for inflation and household composition).
Median disposable income for the poorest fifth of households rose by £700 (5.1%) between 2014/15 and 2015/16; in contrast the income of the richest fifth of households fell by £1,000 (1.9%) over the same period.
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