£700,000 per week

Aye Thatcher did a good job on how people value others. The poster must love Philip Green, Donald Trump and Fred Goodwin. He probably has a soft spot the Burmese military junta and Assad because they are rich. Bizzare.

 

The highest paid 3,000 people in the UK pay more income tax than the bottom nine million.

Without all those rich bankers and the like down South the North of England would be ****ed, so would Scotland and Northern Ireland.

London and the SE is subsiding the rest of the country, hence the idea of the Northern Powerhouse to try and address that.

 

Singers/bands etc are usually paid a certain amount by a record company to produce an album which is why you have a lot of failures that still manage to do well for themselves.

It'll be different for Adele given that she's already very successful and no doubt receives the vast majority of the profits from her albums and touring.

 

I'd rather have lower entrance fee tbh.

 

London and the South East are able to subsidise the rest of the country because London is the capital, therefore the City is there, therefore the HoP and HoL is there and the law courts and yada yada yada ad infinitum.

Move the Stock Exchange to Birmingham and the Courts of Law to Newcastle and the Palace of Westminster to Yeovil and you'll soon see a change.

Since the BBC was forced to move much of their infratructure/programming from London to Salford, there has been huge investment in TV/digital media/radio and internet in the Greater Manchester. Not just from BBC, but ITV and numerous other independents, Apple and other Global corps.

 

I got fed up of hearing about the value of these financial services to our economy a few years back and thought I'd try to work out how good they really were for the economy, so without claiming to be an expert, here's what I found (and I'm doing this from memory btw, so happy to be corrected):

In the 20(max) years that the London Financial Svs had been thriving prior to 2008 crash, the sector was paying around £15bn tax on profits per annum.
So in twenty years, £300bn to the Treasury.
Then in 2008 what turned out to be a house of cards collapsed and Taxpayers bailed the sector out to the tune of £800bn.

On that basis I think we need to bust the myth that they are the Uk economy's most valuable asset.
And if your thinking the personal income tax paid by the people employed in the financial services sector is another contribution to the treasury, consider this:
the 'Creative Industries' sector is now bigger i.e. contributes more revenue, than the Financial Services sector (and most of its employees pay their tax

I wish our politicians would recognise the misdirection and propaganda that surrounds the value of the sector. If they did they would have far less excuse for the gross over investment of taxpayers money into the Capital.

stay passionate about the north!

 

Never going to happen so do you want the player or a behind the scenes boardroom suit to get the money?

 

Ok. I think I misunderstood the way the conversation was going here. I think I tried to account for it but it got lost a little. Obviously whatever a person puts in financially is irrelevant compared to what they do in terms of their commitment to society (as in, a nurse will pay a significant proportion of their wage over their lifetime as tax, fairly, but the contribution a footballer makes will far outstrip that). That's where the the argument of socialist utopia can come in. It's a pile of ********, and where I was trying to agree with you. (Jimmy) While the nurse really feels the impact of what they pay, the footballer doesn't even notice it because they earn so much that what they're left with is still such a massive amount. Following on, all the problems for those who have little money are disregarded because they can't be comprehended.

It's a symptom of how things are going these days, the view of 'I'm alright, so...', and the assumptions that if someone is in trouble it's probably their fault somehow.

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But, on the positive side, we did win today. Sam keeps on scoring, despite fears of him not being up for it in the Championship!

 

I don't "evaluate a person's value" at all. I find that rather sinister and a little bit fascist, if I'm honest. The logical conclusion of such thinking is that you'll eventually get to the end of the list, find the people who are of no value to society and then you can **** on them because you're a "better person". My point is simply if we're going to say that nurses and neurosurgeons are better people than the rest of us, the people who pay for nurses and neurosurgeons clearly are next in line. I'm sure there's some utopian dream where everybody is a nurse and thus brings value to society, but with nobody to pay for it it won't last for very long. You silly ****.

 

Gotta love a peson with absolutely no self knowledge. A pompous ' I don't evaluate a person's value' followed by sweeping statements evaluating a person's value to society. I'm also fond of small dicked keyboard warriors who are abusive on the internet it shows great intelligence and makes you value their opinion so much more. Jog on kitty.

 

When you accuse people of having sympathy with the Burmese military Junta and Assad you relinquish the right to complain about getting abuse back. If you don't want to be called a **** don't act like a ****. What a filthy hypocrite.

 

I thought greed was good. I thought those who were rich were worth more. Why put moral judgements on that? Some dickwad calling me names on the Internet has zero impact on my life I'm not precious and it reflects on them not me. It's like being savaged by a dead sheep.

 

It won't happen with a dismissive attitude that's for sure.
All the best changes start with just a few voices amid acceptance of status quo