Someone said I am not a communist...I assure them I am.

"Austerity is literally stealing from the poor to give to the tax avoiding rich."

Tax gap is 35 billion.  Let's make an absurd assumption that all of that is the rich in tax avoidance schemes (biggest item is VAT in shadow economy but let's pretend it's the nasty rich). 

Even if the rich cough up the £35 billion, the government still runs a deficit. 

So they aren't "literally" stealing from the poor to give to the "tax avoiding rich".

Very sad that in this day and age Wolfy Smith hasn't grown any wiser. How spiteful must you be to make a blanket statement about all members of a section of society? Imagine if it were black people or the poor he was talking about?

Ah well that was a mistake

But I still believe communism is the only hope for this world, well communism/socialism

Anything that creates a fairer world....and is strong enough to deal with the problems of our world, overpopulation, lack of food or energy resources, possible climate change, a lot to deal with

I suppose I am a bit of a Wolfy Smith, but it is not spite, I would to see more economic equality that is all

hang on ebul  communism/socialism ?? which one then? 
ah more economic equality is not communism  which is total

economic equality is more you Blairite philosophy  - an equitable society etc  or maybe a bit more left  of Blair etc

250,000? I wonder how many the real figure was. The usual method is to divide the hyped figure by 10

various agencies count and so do the police ,if pressed they will give it but as mentioned they will be reluctant as it did not look that many  ,they have a figure based on a head count ,people with clickers .As do press and other agencies ,prob agree a figure between them that suits all agendas

easy to count people on a march ,not so easy a large swilling gathering constantly on the move

Foyle because a forum member says it 'seems' that small investors won't be allowed to buy shares doesn't make it true.

I see your point treetop

But how do you know benefit is underserved? It is only the Tory government that says this, to enable them to cut benefits.
The money they save is then given back in tax cuts to the better off, no attempt has been made to clear our deficit.

It is hard for those at the bottom, those who say what austerity? are not at the bottom are they

I do not see this country or the world ever getting any fairer as long as we pursue these extreme monetarist economics.
We will not remove poverty.
Since I do not believe religious fanaticism is the answer either, what is left?

I see communism/socialism as our only hope.

amazon and apple and all the other IT companies that avoid tax by locating in low tax bases.
then simply up the point of consumption tax.

if they want to have a base here they become transparent or pay hefty fines.
we ahd these problems pre EU with he yanks....then being a larger union we had more clout.

dont bow down to big companies in fear of losing business....our tax laws cant be that bad as companies like to trade here and have done for years.
these big companies are simply trying it on.

close any loopholes.

I am not against those who start a business and who are succesfull, far from  good luck to them ,its the establishment /powers that be who tell you what you cant do while doing what they are telling you not to do but on a much greater scale  khoonts who I oppose ,people who feel  that they are comfortable now with a nice well paid job and everything is rosey may well be of a different mind in a year or 2s  time or sooner ,if you are an ordinary working man or own a small business  and not in the elite this mob will be after making it uncomfortable for you ,as said earlier watch fuel  prices go up petrol/diesel , it will just go up around a penny a week or 2 gradually so most motorists don't notice " they wont make the mistake of pushing it up by 5-10p in one hit"   " then we have those who are working but on lowish wages and claiming housing benefit  ,be very  surprised if they don't cut that next.
don't make the mistake that the government want to help the working class, they despise us .
akbula"foyles  just because you heard on a forum that shares wont be made to the smaller investor dosnt make it true "  true but lets just say I am not over confident bout getting any are you ?

Well I don't think I've missed out up until now Foyle. Lets wait and see before criticising.

Nowt like a chip on your shoulder to avoid your own shortcomings.

you simply can not beat fairness.

Surely the plan is not to crush the working class, but to turn the lazy scroungers into the working class.
People need to get off the jacksies and pay their own way!

No more free benefits. They should do community service and/or training courses and they should be mandatory before any benefits can be claimed.
I'd scrap child benefits too. Give them free meals at school if their parents do the above.

stow I would like to think that a large % of the unemployed would be happy to do some form of meaningfull unpaid work for their benefits obviously a percentage wont be happy at getting off their rses  ,but the problem is what work could they do that wont put already  employed people on the dole ,I think it was suggested that they could be made to pick up litter or clean graffiti from walls etc, but the double edged sword is that having people do these jobs for free will surely lead to those that are paid to do these jobs losing them