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I think we’ve been here before but yes, I’d give a shed load to charity if I ran an online betting company. It would allow me to sleep a bit at night.
 
Alex S said:
I think we’ve been here before but yes, I’d give a shed load to charity if I ran an online betting company. It would allow me to sleep a bit at night.
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Indeed, and the fact is, she does. She is not forcing anyone to use the services of her business, in the same way Diageo doesn’t force me to drink their whisky.
 
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What difference does it make how much does McCluskey earns? If you dislike him, would you dislike him less if he earned less? Would he be worth more if your personal opinion of him was higher? If you dislike him and you’re not a member of a union, how do his wages impact on you?
 
ks.234 said:
What difference does it make how much does McCluskey earns? If you dislike him, would you dislike him less if he earned less? Would he be worth more if your personal opinion of him was higher? If you dislike him and you’re not a member of a union, how do his wages impact on you?
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Indeed, I've never heard anyone here raising the salary of a right wing union leader. I think people generally have little idea of the size of some of these organisations, they're paying around £50 m in salaries alone for which the GS is responsible. I certainly don't think any of my former bosses would have taken favourably to having to be elected every 5 years!
 
This is the new world that we live in now. I am incensed and outraged on behalf of someone who I have never met or likely to meet who happens to be in the Union which I am not a member of I hasten to add who is working really hard but does not earn a fraction of what McCluskey earns and is never likely to be in a position to rise to the top and thereby earn this amount. Furthermore the person on behalf of who I am outraged and incensed at this anomaly does not even know that there is such a disparity in their respective earnings. But I feel better for making this point public. My self righteousness makes me feel warm inside and hopefully I will get some more Likes and Thumbs Ups from a lot of people who I have never met.

Gee everything is good in the world again.
 
SteveT said:
This is the new world that we live in now. I am incensed and outraged on behalf of someone who I have never met or likely to meet who happens to be in the Union which I am not a member of I hasten to add who is working really hard but does not earn a fraction of what McCluskey earns and is never likely to be in a position to rise to the top and thereby earn this amount. Furthermore the person on behalf of who I am outraged and incensed at this anomaly does not even know that there is such a disparity in their respective earnings. But I feel better for making this point public. My self righteousness makes me feel warm inside and hopefully I will get some more Likes and Thumbs Ups from a lot of people who I have never met.

Gee everything is good in the world again.
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Outrage about outrage, it's the new thing.
 
doctorf said:
The only Labour government in recent times was Tory lite.
Has it occurred to anyone in the LP or on PFM, that the uk public do not want a socialist government?
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If by "the UK public" you mean comfortably-off people over 50 living in England and Wales, which I suspect you do, then yes this has occurred to us. It is a problem.
 
gavreid said:
Incidentally, Dave Prentis (Unison) was on £111,869 in the 2017 accounts

Here's a list compiled by the tax payers alliance from the returns to the Certification Officer - you can see that McCluskey is far from the top despite the fact that he runs the biggest union.

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.n...04861689/Trade_Union_Rich_List.pdf?1504861689
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Anyone earning over £80,000 was defined by McDonnell as being in the top 5% of earners ie 'The Rich'. Aren't the Rich parasites on decent hard-working people according to left-wing folklore?
 
gassor said:
Anyone earning over £80,000 was defined by McDonnell as being in the top 5% of earners ie 'The Rich'. Aren't the Rich parasites on decent hard-working people according to left-wing folklore?
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I'm just stating the facts, I'm not saying what's right or wrong - as I've said previously.
 
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