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Originally Posted by Osem
Yeah but May's a loser and everyone really wants Corbyn...  |
I don't know that everyone does want Corbyn. I think people have had enough of being told that we need cuts in public services (especially schools and hospitals, although PFI has caused a lot of those issues), public service employees should expect pay rises to be capped to 1% and that "we are all in this together" by a group of people who were awarded a 10% pay rise the year before last, then 1.3% last year, and have been awarded a further 1.4% pay rise this year, and have essentially given themselves billions of pounds to do up their own office building.
Regardless of the rights or wrongs of raising an MP's salary that much (and I can see that the reason they probably did it is to ensure that that the good MPs don't leave public service and go to industry), and I realise that Parliament actually does need the alterations and renovations planned, but it does look to the electorate like there is one rule for the MPs and one for everyone else. The same could be said of Euro MPs and the European Parliament
I suspect a lot of people voted for Labour because while Corbyn hasn't said he is going to stop MPs giving themselves larger and larger salaries, he has talked about ending Austerity.
I think a lot of people voted for Brexit for the same reason. They see the EU as a group of politicians that are only in it for what they can get. They would have a point, and that is something the EU needs to address if it is to survive.
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Originally Posted by denphone
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If that chart is right, Theresa May could have buggered up the Tories for a long time. Put bluntly, the Tories have done well in the older population. The trouble is, the older population are, in general, going to die before the younger generation where, quite frankly, Labour are walking all over the Tories at the moment.