UK Politics Thread X: Boris' Big Bonkers Brexit Bash

[Chan Island]

you are not the top few percent

even if you're actually rich, which i will assume you are not, you are still not the top few percent

In the country? My family are definitely in the top few percent.

So basically you want a comfortable aristocracy?

[Ostroeuropa]

Oh I'm not really interested in quality of life across the board, only the top few percent.

you are not the top few percent

even if you're actually rich, which i will assume you are not, you are still not the top few percent

Mate 2/3rds of the country don't have more than 1000 pound in their bank. I'm in the top few percent because I saved up 5 grand.
It's just that the jump between top 10% and top 1% is fucking massive, and the jump between top 1 and top 0.1 is even more bigger by orders of magnitude.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

In the country? My family are definitely in the top few percent.

So basically you want a comfortable aristocracy?

I definitely want protection for my inheritance. If they'd stop spending it that would be lovely.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

you are not the top few percent

even if you're actually rich, which i will assume you are not, you are still not the top few percent

Mate 2/3rds of the country don't have more than 1000 pound in their bank. I'm in the top few percent because I saved up 5 grand.

Seriously? Surely that figure changes a bit on student loans day.

[Chan Island]

So basically you want a comfortable aristocracy?

I definitely want protection for my inheritance. If they'd stop spending it that would be lovely.

Didn't you once mention your family rents out like 50 buildings? Your inheritance is surely already pretty considerable?

[Souseiseki]

you are not the top few percent

even if you're actually rich, which i will assume you are not, you are still not the top few percent

Mate 2/3rds of the country don't have more than 1000 pound in their bank. I'm in the top few percent because I saved up 5 grand.
It's just that the jump between top 10% and top 1% is fucking massive, and the jump between top 1 and top 0.1 is even more bigger by orders of magnitude.

for reference i am interpreting top few percent as 1%-3%

[Ostroeuropa]

Mate 2/3rds of the country don't have more than 1000 pound in their bank. I'm in the top few percent because I saved up 5 grand.

Seriously? Surely that figure changes a bit on student loans day.

I flubbed. It's savings, not strictly money in the bank. If the money is there transitoonally it doesn't count.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

I definitely want protection for my inheritance. If they'd stop spending it that would be lovely.

Didn't you once mention your family rents out like 50 buildings? Your inheritance is surely already pretty considerable?

A bit more than 50 buildings. 50 might be the commercial property side of things, which is rather small.

[Shrillland]

The DUP are currently saying no, so either they'll need to change their mind or Boris will need to give the old magic money tree a shake to rustle up another bribe.

So we are not quite at Habemus Papam yet?

Not quite. It still violates the Good Friday Agreement by requiring a simple majority of MAs.

[Ostroeuropa]

Mate 2/3rds of the country don't have more than 1000 pound in their bank. I'm in the top few percent because I saved up 5 grand.
It's just that the jump between top 10% and top 1% is fucking massive, and the jump between top 1 and top 0.1 is even more bigger by orders of magnitude.

for reference i am interpreting top few percent as 1%-3%

I think it's worth mentioning that even the peak of our society is fucked over because of just has comically lopsided our society is.

The top 1% have more in common with the bottom 1% than they d0 with the top 0.1

[Chan Island]

Didn't you once mention your family rents out like 50 buildings? Your inheritance is surely already pretty considerable?

A bit more than 50 buildings. 50 might be the commercial property side of things, which is rather small.

Holy moly. How many residential ones Then?

[Chan Island]

for reference i am interpreting top few percent as 1%-3%

I think it's worth mentioning that even the peak of our society is fucked over because of just has comically lopsided our society is.

The top 1% have more in common with the bottom 1% than they d0 with the top 0.1

Isn't it literally like 2000 people who own like everything? It's absolutely insane how lopsided society has become.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

I think it's worth mentioning that even the peak of our society is fucked over because of just has comically lopsided our society is.

The top 1% have more in common with the bottom 1% than they d0 with the top 0.1

Isn't it literally like 2000 people who own like everything? It's absolutely insane how lopsided society has become.

821000 households are millionaires.

[Hirota]

I know right? As soon as the XR protester on top of the train starts kicking out then violence is inevitable.

But the idea of posh idiots with too much time on their hands targetting electic public transport for primarily working class commuters in Shadwell is stupid and self-defeating.

The XR protesters are going too far. I propose they be rounded up and imprisoned for 100 years on a reduced calorie diet in the coal region. Their diet may be increased and their sentenced reduced by mining coal.

Well, that might be excessive, but there is something about rich Belgian Princesses and other assorted posh types having to walk a mile in working class shoes that would give any person with just some socialist leanings a warm fuzzy feeling.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Isn't it literally like 2000 people who own like everything? It's absolutely insane how lopsided society has become.

821000 households are millionaires.

Some of them might even be able to afford a house.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

A bit more than 50 buildings. 50 might be the commercial property side of things, which is rather small.

Holy moly. How many residential ones Then?

A couple of hundred, if you include student lets. Most of them are in shitty areas, but they do them up. Slum areas but not slum landlording practises.

[Ostroeuropa]

Isn't it literally like 2000 people who own like everything? It's absolutely insane how lopsided society has become.

821000 households are millionaires.

So they own their own home? Cool.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

821000 households are millionaires.

Some of them might even be able to afford a house.

I would imagine the vast majority of them are people who just happen to have owned a house in London for a long while and it's risen in value. They might be property rich but not cash rich.

[Hirota]

821000 households are millionaires.

Some of them might even be able to afford a house.

I own my own house, does that make me wealthier than most millionaires?

Although I did do the (unintentionally) savvy thing of buying my first shitty house in London in an area that started getting gentrified, so I was able to afford my tidy semi-detached with next to no mortgage.

[Ostroeuropa]

Some of them might even be able to afford a house.

I would imagine the vast majority of them are people who just happen to have owned a house in London for a long while and it's risen in value. They might be property rich but not cash rich.

Exactly. So it's not evidence against mass robbery by the ruling classes taking the wealth produced by the rest of us and leaving us with basically nothing, all while contributing nothing of value themselves.

[Chan Island]

Isn't it literally like 2000 people who own like everything? It's absolutely insane how lopsided society has become.

821000 households are millionaires.

Of which not all of them necessarily own anything, except maybe their own home.

But I stand corrected. 821000 households are the top 1%.

[Ostroeuropa]

821000 households are millionaires.

Of which not all of them necessarily own anything, except maybe their own home.

But I stand corrected. 821000 households are the top 1%.

Pretty much. They are told they are successful because they aren't subjected to landlords. That's their reward. Slightly less exploitation by the ruling class.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

I would imagine the vast majority of them are people who just happen to have owned a house in London for a long while and it's risen in value. They might be property rich but not cash rich.

Exactly. So it's not evidence against mass robbery by the ruling classes taking the wealth produced by the rest of us and leaving us with basically nothing.

I don't think people can really be blamed for investing in property. You buy a second house, rent it out, and it all starts from there. At some point you then quit your job and become a fulltime landlord, which my Dad pretty much does now.

[The Blaatschapen]

I think it's worth mentioning that even the peak of our society is fucked over because of just has comically lopsided our society is.

The top 1% have more in common with the bottom 1% than they d0 with the top 0.1

Isn't it literally like 2000 people who own like everything? It's absolutely insane how lopsided society has become.

Arise, ye workers from your slumber,
Arise, ye prisoners of want


Sorry, old habit

[Ostroeuropa]

Exactly. So it's not evidence against mass robbery by the ruling classes taking the wealth produced by the rest of us and leaving us with basically nothing.

I don't think people can really be blamed for investing in property. You buy a second house, rent it out, and it all starts from there. At some point you then quit your job and become a fulltime landlord, which my Dad pretty much does now.

The system can be blamed and then they as individual can be blamed if they defend that system. I don't object to them profiting while it exists if they admit it is wrong and should change