This has not been Gary’s position to date, and I warmly welcome the change of heart because I think it is necessary and because it makes the prospect of effecting change very much higher.
It also creates a much stronger common ground between us because we both absolutely agree that inequality is the fundamental cause of many of our problems in the UK and that government action to tackle this is essential, with taxation being by far the most effective tool available for this purpose.
If The Sage of Ely thinks you’re onto something then you should realise that you’re wrong.
I’d ask him how he can rule out the proposition that inequality is a fundamental consequence of many of our problems, but it would be rather pointless, wouldn’t’t it?
High taxation cures inequality because all the high earners bugger off.
(As you would).
Always amused by the assertion (as though it came from the very heavens) that inequality is a problem (never mind a big problem).
Under this emoting (can’t go with thinking) if one bloke works the weekend shift while another goes on holiday, the fact that the first one now has more money is wrong.
Good to see him back to the usual spite and envy. I was worried he’d gone over the edge with the “humble” stuff. Someone must have pressed the reset button.
I don’t apologise for being so angry
Posted on March 19 2025
Neither do I Richard, neither do I. I don’t apologise for my anger with you – wanting to see you suffer a long painful demise into penury and dribbling senility for the harm you have caused by your parasitic career of spiteful, racist, fascistic blogs and policy proposals.
Self harm if you must but harm yourself only, not the rest of us.
Or ideally, fvck off to your country of roots, Ireland, and confine your rantings to that place.
What I find vaguely amusing is he’s found a niche.
If he focused on being a polemicist and making Left wing arguments, he’s actually getting a fair bit of traction on Youtube.
The problem is he seems to think that he presents proper solutions, rather than polemics. That’s where the disconnect lies. Ah well, if it makes you happy?
Like anthropogenic climate catastrophism, equality is a religion.
“I don’t apologise for being so angry”
Performative, virtue-signalling anger!
Inequality includes the vastly greater number of hours worked, on average, by men and their shorter lifespan (which is only partially a consequence) compared to women. More pertinent is the massive inequality of hours worked by different types of men – hard-working men compared to idlers. The “city slickers” (most of whom are actually quite unexceptional in their appearance and behaviour) that he hates earn a lot of money by working very long hours under pressure doing work that is beyond his competence.
Inequality in ability is the main reason why David Beckham and Tyson Fury and Ben Stokes are richer than Murphy. “Government action to tackle this (inequality) is essntial” – so Keir Starmer must either magically enhance Murphy’s abilities or put shackles on Ben Stokes and hamstring Tyson Fury while taxing David Beckham at 99.9% (oh and *all* the Spice girls likewise lest one of them might slip Victoria a gold ingot to help David out).
I didn’t realise Gazza had a position on inequality. I thought mostly he was positioned on top of geriatric whores.
‘with taxation being by far the most effective tool available for this purpose’
Well, I just had to read that bit to know it was bullshit.
Making everyone equally poor won’t fix anything.
If the Sage of Ely thinks that climate emergency and carbon taxes are good things then you should realize…
I didn’t realise Gazza had a position on inequality. I thought mostly he was positioned on top of geriatric whores.
I think our host is (somewhat confusingly) using Gazza to refer to Gary Lineker, not Paul Gascoigne.
Gary Stephenson