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I don't think I'm predicting any future, Only that the elected Politicians are best placed and most informed to make these decisions. Is that not part of Their job - To run the country so that we can prosper, be it in or out of europe?

Politicians lining their pockets is nothing new unfortunately. But it's funny that this argument wasn't rolled out in the Leave campaign?!

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

The banks should never have been (and should never be) bailed out for sure. The removal of the gold standard and the rise of centralized banking were all huge mistakes. As far as I am aware this simply happened out of greed.

If they weren't bailed out would "bad luck" have been enough for the people who would have lost virtually everything.
The money for the bail out was never in any social budget. Ok some may have been borrowed but shares in receipt I think have now covered what was spent with the interest.
In the long run it could be seen as an astute investment.
Austerity was needed as the cupboard was bare when the tories got back in 2010.
I think I read that in the last 6 months of labour they were spending for the sake of, giving out undeliverable contracts which had to be cancelled or renegotiated.
If they get back in it appears they are intending to carry on where they left off.
Then when they get slung out in 5 years we will be back to the future Marty.

Austerity is basically how the Gold standard works. The Gold standard has been and it won't come back, imo. It's a bit of a nonsense. Store of value?, yes. Anti-inflationary, yes, but not really fit for purpose.

This is capitalism's dirty little secret. In order to grow and create the millionaires you need to expand and how can you do that if you've basically done it to death in your country? Imperialism. Partly by war and partly by getting everyone to use your currency for transactions ($)

They should be footing a higher %, based on how much that group is worth.
Are you honestly telling me that losing Philip Green will be a major loss?
Let's just take Warren Buffett as an example to really nail this point. I personally do not care if he's a billionaire, well I do, but not because of his wealth, but the influence that wealth has.
This guy is proud of the fact that he pays 15% in taxes while his secretary pays 30%ish.

This is what happens here too. I separate corporation tax from personal tax. I would like to see corporation tax lower, but, if I earn £30k and pay 20%, so left with £24kish, how is it a good idea to allow someone to pay 10% on £5m?

If the total amount the top 1% pay is 25% of the tax pot, it's because they have all the money.

Who would I get to fill in the gap? Create new entrepreneurs, through tax incentives or funding incentives towards an agreed goal, being climate change, regional employment or whatever.

A large proportion of money concentrated in a small group and I'm even not talking about people on £250k a year, leads to corruption, i.e. George Osborne is the Editor of the Evening Standard. A paper, who in the last election had the owner literally urging his readers to vote Conservative.

Just look at the last 10 years. The FTSE has hit record highs and Corbyn is a candidate to be Prime Minister. How on Earth do you explain that? We should all be drinking champagne.