Inequality

[Section_31]

Oh look

 

The billionaire brothers who bought Asda for £7billion were last night facing questions over their decision to transfer ownership of the British supermarket to a controversial tax haven.

Under the deal struck by Mohsin and Zuber Issa, who were made CBEs in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, the grocer will be legally controlled by a parent company based in Jersey.

[Elite]

1 minute ago, Section_31 said:

Oh look

 

The billionaire brothers who bought Asda for £7billion were last night facing questions over their decision to transfer ownership of the British supermarket to a controversial tax haven.

Under the deal struck by Mohsin and Zuber Issa, who were made CBEs in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, the grocer will be legally controlled by a parent company based in Jersey.

Must be great being rich. You can become a full time cunt.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Section_31 said:

Oh look

 

The billionaire brothers who bought Asda for £7billion were last night facing questions over their decision to transfer ownership of the British supermarket to a controversial tax haven.

Under the deal struck by Mohsin and Zuber Issa, who were made CBEs in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, the grocer will be legally controlled by a parent company based in Jersey.

Oh but if they were white tory donors that wouldn't even be a story. I saw this on the DM earlier. They are as guilty as anyone for creating a divide in this country. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Not much of a surprise to see people presenting evidence that the existing levels of inequality are making the impact of the pandemic much worse and that the Tory response to the pandemic will make inequality much worse. 

 

 

 

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

4 day week is only good if you retain your 5 day pay.

[SasaS]

3 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Not much of a surprise to see people presenting evidence that the existing levels of inequality are making the impact of the pandemic much worse and that the Tory response to the pandemic will make inequality much worse. 

 

 

 

 

 

Did they compare it with death rates in countries with even more of "preexisting inequality" than the UK?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

14 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

Did they compare it with death rates in countries with even more of "preexisting inequality" than the UK?

I've not had a chance to read the full report, but I don't think that would be particularly relevant.  There would be too many variables too adjust for in any international comparison.  

 

I'm not sure why you've put "preexisting inequality" in inverted commas.  If you feel the need to query that link, it might be better to question "led to" (from the Guardian headline); I suspect "contributed to" would be more accurate  (but, like I say, I've not read the full Marmot report yet).

[SasaS]

41 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

I've not had a chance to read the full report, but I don't think that would be particularly relevant.  There would be too many variables too adjust for in any international comparison.  

 

I'm not sure why you've put "preexisting inequality" in inverted commas.  If you feel the need to query that link, it might be better to question "led to" (from the Guardian headline); I suspect "contributed to" would be more accurate  (but, like I say, I've not read the full Marmot report yet).

It's one of those "terms". Everything is "preexisting" at the time you study it. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, SasaS said:

It's one of those "terms". Everything is "preexisting" at the time you study it. 

Fair point.  

It's a bit like when cooking instructions say "pre-heat the oven before putting the pie in".  Why not just "heat"?

[Colonel Bumcunt]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/15/childrens-commissioner-england-smacking-ban-rachel-de-souza

[Stickman]

But the good news is we got our country back...

 

So this is Christmas - for people at the Newcastle West End Foodbank

Heartbreaking queue seen as Lord Jeremy Beecham to raise the matter of spiralling demand for emergency food parcels in Parliament

It is perhaps the saddest sight of this festive season so far - people patiently queuing in the rain outside the Newcastle West End Foodbank to make sure they can have a meal on the table at Christmas.

It was the heartrending scene which greeted the foodbank's CEO John McCorry when he arrived there on Wednesday and moved him so much he asked for one of the volunteers to take a picture of it

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/christmas-people-newcastle-west-end-19519307.amp?__twitter_impression=true

 

 

[Creator Supreme]

1 hour ago, Stickman said:

But the good news is we got our country back...

 

So this is Christmas - for people at the Newcastle West End Foodbank

Heartbreaking queue seen as Lord Jeremy Beecham to raise the matter of spiralling demand for emergency food parcels in Parliament

It is perhaps the saddest sight of this festive season so far - people patiently queuing in the rain outside the Newcastle West End Foodbank to make sure they can have a meal on the table at Christmas.

It was the heartrending scene which greeted the foodbank's CEO John McCorry when he arrived there on Wednesday and moved him so much he asked for one of the volunteers to take a picture of it

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/christmas-people-newcastle-west-end-19519307.amp?__twitter_impression=true

 

 

Hurts my brain shit like this, how the fuck did we get to this?

 

I hope they all got a decent feed and had a good day anyway!

[Anubis]

Just now, Creator Supreme said:

Hurts my brain shit like this, how the fuck did we get to this?

Because politicians pay lip service to poverty compared to business and half the country (maybe more than half to be honest) don’t give a shit.

 

[Rico1304]

This thread?

 

 

[Pidge]

He's right. I've been incorporating rhyming vowel sounds into my flow for years and it's gotten me nowhere.

[Scooby Dudek]

Fuck you naysayers, the bosses are having to work longer;

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55551314

 

 

Bosses of Britain's biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker's annual wage, research claims.

By 17:30 GMT on Wednesday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full time workers, the High Pay Centre says.

Bosses' pay was flat last year, while average wages generally rose slightly.

That meant that FTSE chief executives had to work 34 hours to beat median annual pay, not the 33 hours in 2020.

The High Pay Centre think-tank based its annual calculations on analysis of disclosures in companies' annual reports, combined with government statistics.

High Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said chief executive pay is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker, up significantly from two decades ago.

"Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of the millennium or 20 times in the early 1980s," he said.

"Factors such as the increasing role played by the finance industry in the economy, the outsourcing of low-paid work and the decline of trade union membership have widened the gaps between those at the top and everybody else over recent decades."

[Rico1304]

9 minutes ago, Scooby Dudek said:

Fuck you naysayers, the bosses are having to work longer;

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55551314

 

 

Bosses of Britain's biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker's annual wage, research claims.

By 17:30 GMT on Wednesday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full time workers, the High Pay Centre says.

Bosses' pay was flat last year, while average wages generally rose slightly.

That meant that FTSE chief executives had to work 34 hours to beat median annual pay, not the 33 hours in 2020.

The High Pay Centre think-tank based its annual calculations on analysis of disclosures in companies' annual reports, combined with government statistics.

High Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said chief executive pay is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker, up significantly from two decades ago.

"Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of the millennium or 20 times in the early 1980s," he said.

"Factors such as the increasing role played by the finance industry in the economy, the outsourcing of low-paid work and the decline of trade union membership have widened the gaps between those at the top and everybody else over recent decades."

How long does it take a Prem footballer to earn the wages of a non-league player? 

[Mudface]

6 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

How long does it take a Prem footballer to earn the wages of a non-league player? 

Dunno, but the non-league players don't work for the PL players. 

[Section_31]

6 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

How long does it take a Prem footballer to earn the wages of a non-league player? 

To be fair football is an actual meritocracy, Ayn Rand would have wanked over football wages. Mo Salah is on more money than a Unibond league player because he's a better player, not because of the school he went to or who his dad is. In fact, it'd be funny to watch a football match that runs along the same lines as wider society, with Paul Dalglish up front for the reds and Neil Ruddock's best man in the dugout. Young players comeing for trials that actually have any skill would miss out on an apprenticeship in favour of Roy Hodgeson's grandson.  

 

 

[Rico1304]

18 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

To be fair football is an actual meritocracy, Ayn Rand would have wanked over football wages. Mo Salah is on more money than a Unibond league player because he's a better player, not because of the school he went to or who his dad is. In fact, it'd be funny to watch a football match that runs along the same lines as wider society, with Paul Dalglish up front for the reds and Neil Ruddock's best man in the dugout. Young players comeing for trials that actually have any skill would miss out on an apprenticeship in favour of Roy Hodgeson's grandson.  

 

 

Yes, because we have loads of 18 yr old CEOs who get parachuted in from school. 
 

There’s no doubt that some people get a leg up to start with, but to suggest that CEOs aren’t better qualified to run a company than the tea boy is mental. 

[Gnasher]

On 15/12/2020 at 09:17, AngryofTuebrook said:

Not much of a surprise to see people presenting evidence that the existing levels of inequality are making the impact of the pandemic much worse and that the Tory response to the pandemic will make inequality much worse. 

 

 

 

 

Couldn't agree more angry, also worth pointing out your beloved eu policy of preventing members not running a deficit of over 3% also produced a decade of low growth poverty and mass inequality, but let's brush that under the carpet whilst undertaking a large  dose of selective amnesia,

 

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/austerity-has-damaged-europe-vs-us-gdp-growth-2018-11

 

 

 

[Brownie]

I have my pay review soon, had a look at the pay deal agreed by Unite and my employer. Pay rise of £300, woo-hoo!

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Rico1304 said:

Yes, because we have loads of 18 yr old CEOs who get parachuted in from school. 
 

There’s no doubt that some people get a leg up to start with, but to suggest that CEOs aren’t better qualified to run a company than the tea boy is mental. 

There is no correlation between company performance and CEO pay.  That's fucking mental.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Gnasher said:

Couldn't agree more angry, also worth pointing out your beloved eu policy of preventing members not running a deficit of over 3% also produced a decade of low growth poverty and mass inequality,

Don't be a prick.

[Gnasher]

15 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Don't be a prick.

Well dont be a hypocrite. Nothing to say again on the eu policy of austerity yet flags up British austerity.