Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[Pickman's model]

Shock! Horror! The Daily Heil reveals the Leader of the Official Opposition earns a salary and is in line to get a pension when he retires! He even lives in a £600,000 house. Whatever next? I bet he has a comfy chair too! FFS. You call this journalism? I piss better journalism.


Hang on, didn't they run this story last year?

Oh, it was April. FFS.

Should be constantly pointed out that wages should be raised, so many people paid so little

 

[Pickman's model]

I liked custard when I was 12, I still do. Proves nothing.

More of a roobarb man myself

 

[agricola]

Socks not worn in Palestine until 1099

deus vult!

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Well, I voted for Mr Corbyn the Geography Teacher (I'm a Unite member)

He's pretty useless but my intent was to say "Not supporting neoliberalism at any price"

 

[brogdale]

I liked custard when I was 12, I still do. Proves nothing.

I agree. It proves nothing more, or less, than that my eldest enjoyed listening to RHCP when he was 12, but he was done with them within a year.

 

[Fez909]

No. Someone who earns that year in, year out: yes. But someone who has that for one year? And who knows where he'll be in another year. Next you'll be saying sharon shoesmith rich as croesus from her wrongful dismissal payout.

He'll be earning that for the next 4 years, I'd imagine. And he's got a year under his belt. So, 5 years @ £137k is £685k

A minimum wage earner would have to work 52 years to earn that. Someone on the "average" wage would have to work 27 years. Or it's 72 years of job seekers allowance.

I bet his mortgage is paid off, too. Most people either don't have a mortgage because they're renting, or they're still paying it. He's very well off/wealthy.

One year of his salary could keep me going for 6 years at my current lifestyle. Not too shabby. I'll take it.

I don't know who Sharon Shoesmith is, but I bet she's not sat at home with her payout thinking, "I'm not well off".

 

[Pickman's model]

He'll be earning that for the next 4 years, I'd imagine. And he's got a year under his belt. So, 5 years @ £137k is £685k

A minimum wage earner would have to work 52 years to earn that. Someone on the "average" wage would have to work 27 years. Or it's 72 years of job seekers allowance.

I bet his mortgage is paid off, too. Most people either don't have a mortgage because they're renting, or they're still paying it. He's very well off/wealthy.

One year of his salary could keep me going for 6 years at my current lifestyle. Not too shabby. I'll take it.

I don't know who Sharon Shoesmith is, but I bet she's not sat at home with her payout thinking, "I'm not well off".

Yes. You're repeating my point that most people are on shit wages and should be paid more. Do you want to add something new or are you just going to trail after me repeating what I've said?

 

[Fez909]

Yes. You're repeating my point that most people are on shit wages and should be paid more. Do you want to add something new or are you just going to trail after me repeating what I've said?

What is wealth if not a higher proporition of money/capital compared to your peers?

If everyone was paid more, then no, Corbyn wouldn't be wealthy. At least in UK terms. But we aren't, so he is.

 

[Pickman's model]

What is wealth if not a higher proporition of money/capital compared to your peers?

If everyone was paid more, then no, Corbyn wouldn't be wealthy. At least in UK terms. But we aren't, so he is.

To his peers. So how wealthy is he in comparison to other MPs and members of the house of Lords?

 

[Fez909]

To his peers. So how wealthy is he in comparison to other MPs and members of the house of Lords?

Bad choice of words.

Countrymen/women?

 

[Bernie Gunther]

 

[Dogsauce]

They've always been rubbish ffs. I bet you're one of those people who reckon the red hot chilli peppers were good until Mothers Milk too. Gross.

I could play the bass solo from 'Stone Cold Bush' on my headless 5-string bass whilst wearing a long sleeve RHCP shirt. Grossed out yet?

(Yes, I'd probably throw my younger self in the sea).

 

[Dogsauce]

Branson crashed his bike on purpose so as to goad corbynites into gloating about it on social media, thus getting themselves banned from voting by the NEC vetting committee. Sharp move.

 

[magneze]

Virgin v British Airways: was the Corbyn saga part of the old rivalry?

All about spoiling coverage of the Olympic medalists coming home on a BA flight apparently.

 

[nino_savatte]

I'm joining in the discussion in the thread.

Yeah, sure you are.

I'm not really interested in defining 'very wealthy', you're talking to fez about that. Corbyn apparently said he doesn't think of himself as *just* wealthy - he's wrong on that.

I find it interesting that you're more interested in seizing on that one aspect rather than recognising the fact that the article is essentially recycled mush from a previous article. Not only that, the subtext (that is to say the underlying discourse) of the article that because Corbyn is receiving an MPs salary and extra for his role as leader of the official opposition, he should be earning much less or he's a hypocrite, or to use the parlance that's much loved by the right-wing press, a 'Champagne socialist'.

But do you actually know what property prices are like in London? Oh and that is relevant.

 

[nino_savatte]

"You're very wealthy if you have an income greater than than 99% of the population" seems like a good 'yardstick' to me.

Subjectivity.

 

[nino_savatte]

Should be constantly pointed out that wages should be raised, so many people paid so little

Goes without saying.

 

[Fez909]

Subjectivity.

Wow.

Definte wealthy then?

 

[Sirena]

A friend of mine just had his Facebook page hacked somehow.

A big red meme appeared saying something like "I support Owen Smith because he wants a second vote on Europe'.

He deleted it but I have never heard of this sort of thing happening before. It credited him with commenting on the meme when he hadn't.

Curious....

 

[butchersapron]

Bollocks.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

 

[Brixton Hatter]

#LabourPurgeSongs

"WHEN THE CROWD SAY BO, DESELECTA"

"(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Stay in the Party)"

etc etc...

 

[butchersapron]

Oh jesus. Lord no.

 

[Wilf]

At a personal level he hasn't gone in for the usual enrichment that being a senior Mp brings, doesn't seem to have offshore accounts, isn't angling to be on the board of a multinational (lol). But he is very well paid in UK terms - wealthy I'd say. Not exactly a big issue, but it was a bit daft him claiming he isn't.

Edit: his salary takes him well into the 50p tax rate Labour wanted to restore in 2015 and, as mentioned, he has other financial benefits as an MP (not only pension but the 'readjustment' allowance or whatever they call it when he finally retires).

 

[tangerinedream]

I've been to the pub on a Friday night for the first time in a long time so I'm emboldened to say the RHCP are fucking awful. They are as bad as toploader. If not worse. I'd rather listen to a Timmy Mallet album as at least there is some humour in that as opposed to the fucking horrible alpha male kfc frat boy music. It's music to listen to in a Range Rover with the guys from work, driving to do some tepid 'extreme sports' whilst whooping and then getting blind drunk in the local pub loudly and with no regard for anyone around you and then crying and starting a fight with a stranger because your a man child who has unresolved emotional issues with your mother and can't handle the fact you've been dumped 8 months ago by a girl you only went out with for 3 months and you didn't really click with but was fit and had expensive tastes like you. You can listen to the sensitive songs whilst you sit in the hotel room with guys and carry on drinking some expensive spirit and then later you can drive dangerously home over the limit and hit a child because of distracting banter.

Anyway, that aside I do like the idea of the National Education Service. I wonder if there will be uniforms.

 

[toblerone3]

I've been to the pub on a Friday night for the first time in a long time so I'm emboldened to say the RHCP are fucking awful. They are as bad as toploader. If not worse. I'd rather listen to a Timmy Mallet album as at least there is some humour in that as opposed to the fucking horrible alpha male kfc frat boy music. It's music to listen to in a Range Rover with the guys from work, driving to do some tepid 'extreme sports' whilst whooping and then getting blind drunk in the local pub loudly and with no regard for anyone around you and then crying and starting a fight with a stranger because your a man child who has unresolved emotional issues with your mother and can't handle the fact you've been dumped 8 months ago by a girl you only went out with for 3 months and you didn't really click with but was fit and had expensive tastes like you. You can listen to the sensitive songs whilst you sit in the hotel room with guys and carry on drinking some expensive spirit and then later you can drive dangerously home over the limit and hit a child because of distracting banter.

Anyway, that aside I do like the idea of the National Education Service. I wonder if there will be uniforms.

engage somehow surely.

 

[The Pale King]

"Champagne Socialist" - a polite way of saying 'class traitor'.

 

[butchersapron]

Corbyn is most certainly not a traitor to his class.

 

[redsquirrel]

I've been to the pub on a Friday night for the first time in a long time so I'm emboldened to say the RHCP are fucking awful. They are as bad as toploader. If not worse. I'd rather listen to a Timmy Mallet album as at least there is some humour in that as opposed to the fucking horrible alpha male kfc frat boy music. It's music to listen to in a Range Rover with the guys from work, driving to do some tepid 'extreme sports' whilst whooping and then getting blind drunk in the local pub loudly and with no regard for anyone around you and then crying and starting a fight with a stranger because your a man child who has unresolved emotional issues with your mother and can't handle the fact you've been dumped 8 months ago by a girl you only went out with for 3 months and you didn't really click with but was fit and had expensive tastes like you. You can listen to the sensitive songs whilst you sit in the hotel room with guys and carry on drinking some expensive spirit and then later you can drive dangerously home over the limit and hit a child because of distracting banter.

Best post of the thread

 

[coley]

Bloke receives appropriate remuneration for the job he's doing 'shocker'
FFS.