politics
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Yesterday’s headlines were rife with claims that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that people with shares do not count as “working people”. If that’s what he meant then that is absolute rubbish. Apparently people with assets are “not working people”. The types of asset owners mentioned in the press were landlords and share owners.… Read more
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I’m very lucky. I earn more than the average wage. And yet as a single parent I’ve been struggling in this cost of living crisis. But it’s not about me, it’s about all of us. Every single person form the “middle class” and downwards. We’ve all been having a hard time – surviving not thriving.… Read more
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A colleague at work asked an interesting question the other day. He was quite sensitive of the fact that politics is personal and potentially quite divisive subject, so he didn’t expect us to have to answer, but he asked anyway; “Do you consider yourself left wing or right wing?” My immediate reaction was: “Well I… Read more
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With less than two weeks to go until the election we now have a letter from 5,000 small businesses pledging their allegiance to one party and it’s the blue party again. Furthermore, that letter is once again published in The Telegraph where, this morning, the newspaper’s website calls it a “boost for David Cameron”… Read more
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As a Brit I must say I find American politics fascinating, it’s like a circus show. Whilst we have 3 main politic parties, with only 2 usually battling it out, the US 2-party track is a peculiar beast and particularly odd because, from my point of view, it simply polarises opinion. Although George W Bush… Read more
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I’ve been thinking about the current worldwide price rises in food, oil and energy and in the cost of living and credit going up. It’s happening in a lot of places in the world and for months the UK seemed to be largely unaffected, especially since the USA seemed to bearing the brunt of the… Read more