'Screw the Market! Socialism to the Rescue' says London's Major

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Spiffor
OTOH, London is largely rich enough to care of the transportation of its poor if it so wants. It's the richest city in Europe, remember.

Richest? Doesn't bloody feel like that. It may have some of the richest people, but it also has some of the lowest living standards in real terms.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Flubber
Why oh why would the UK EVER attack Ven. ??

Let me count the ways.

Weapons of mass destruction, human rights abuses, liberating the people from an evil dictatorship, introducing much needed market reforms, combatting terrorism, arresting a leader accused of alleged crimes against humanity, pre-empting an attack on a neighbour, saving the kittens...

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Richest? Doesn't bloody feel like that. It may have some of the richest people, but it also has some of the lowest living standards in real terms.

That's a problem with how you share wealth, i.e it's a political problem that you guys can and should solve. There's plenty of wealth in London that could be redistributed, if your pols had any balls, if your poor organized, and if your rich weren't so greedy.

There's much less wealth to be shared in Venezuela.

[Main_Brain]

To all Title-haters:
'Death to America' was already taken and I had to make you look

BTW Total Cost of the 8000 Public Buses in London is 100 Million Pound/year

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Spiffor

That's a problem with how you share wealth, i.e it's a political problem that you guys can and should solve. There's plenty of wealth in London that could be redistributed, if your pols had any balls, if your poor organized, and if your rich weren't so greedy.

There's much less wealth to be shared in Venezuela.

I agree that there is certainly much less overall wealth in Venezuela.

In my view, the problem with living standards in London all stems from house prices, and the supply and demand equation. Lack of new housing outside London, due to 'green belt' NIMBY dogma coupled with 'propertied classes' of government and media enjoying their booming asset value. Allied to this is the failure to economically regenerate other parts of the country.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


So you're not exactly in orchard country, then. Bromley? Orpington?

Very good, very good. Bromley is a borough that doesn't actually want to be part of London, but is as well off as it is because of London. Talk about ungrateful

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Flubber



I call bullcrap

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Spiffor

OTOH, London is largely rich enough to care of the transportation of its poor if it so wants. It's the richest city in Europe, remember.

The Venezuelian worker doesn't have an access to the same mountain of tax money than the Londoner, so this priority is absolutely not straight.

So if wealth is being exploited from the poor in a country the poor there shouldn't get help from other countries?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


The workers of the world have no country.

So communist wannabes have essentially no constituency or accountability to their people, ehhh?

Explains much of communism's repleat successes in the past.

[Kidlicious]

0.1/10

[DinoDoc]

Facts are not trolls.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Facts are not trolls.

If you call them facts they are definitely trolls.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Kidicious


So if wealth is being exploited from the poor in a country the poor there shouldn't get help from other countries?

Anyone can help who they want when they want.


Its just funny/odd for a country with much less relative wealth and many more intensely poor people using national resources to assist the (much better off) "poor" of a much richer nation.

He wasn't giving food or shelter here-- Its a cheaper bus ride

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


Very good, very good. Bromley is a borough that doesn't actually want to be part of London, but is as well off as it is because of London. Talk about ungrateful

The same is true for Sevenoaks. Sevenoaks ain't in the slightest a part of London, so what's the point you are making? It's not as if withdrawing from the administrative auspice of London will make Bromley better off.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


So you're not exactly in orchard country, then. Bromley? Orpington?

Well, I live about five minutes from a strawberry farm.

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