A reminder that on this day in 1989, Arsenal’s dramatic title win only had 2 mins of post-match analysis.
30 secs from the studio, the trophy presentation, a quick word with Tony Adams, then it was off to News At Ten.
ITV did not mess about in the 80s.
“It’s up for grabs now…”
THE most exciting and significant end to a top-flight season ever happened on 26/05/1989.
Liverpool, the champions, the masters, at home to Arsenal — the new kids on the block. No title for 18 years, George Graham’s young team with no fear.
All Kenny Dalglish’s men had to do to win yet another title was avoid defeat by two clear goals at Anfield to their rivals.
To put that into context, no team had won at Anfield by two clear goals since Everton in February 1986 — three years earlier.
As injury time ebbed away, Arsenal were one up through an Alan Smith goal. Surely time had run out?
MCFC have been punished, twice, for egregious financial cheating (2014, 2020). They await a verdict on 115+ more counts, on which their lawyers are stalling. There is NO doubt they're a brilliant team with an all-time great manager. But they are cheats.
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Mick McCarthy - It Can https://t.co/h0Tabcbkx0 via @YouTube@Argyle you could have just used this for every press conferences since Scheuy left , saved some time
"Half of the welfare budget that is spent in Britain is spent on in work benefits. That is a direct subsidy for low wages so the corporations who've been screwing this country for years can get higher profits"
Eddie Dempsey at Durham last month
🇬🇧 UK’s hottest pop economist, Gary Stevenson, says he was Citigroup’s most profitable trader.
His Bitcoin take? Satoshi is secretly selling coins to fund ads and PR to pump the price 🤦♂️
Camilla Tominey humiliated on #BBCQT
Gary Stevenson explains how we have given away national assets to rich people, so we should tax rich people
Camilla Tominey dismisses the call to tax rich people by saying everyone pays taxes
Gary Stevenson explains to tax the rich on their wealth
Camilla Tominey says taxing the rich doesn't work, then cites European efforts to do so, she cites Norway
But Norway haven't scrapped their wealth tax - In 2021 Norway raised the wealth tax from 0.85% to 1.0%, and to 1.1% for the richest. Their wealth tax brings in 34.5 billion kroner (about £2 billion)
Gary Stevenson answers citing the second home stamp duty tax brought in by the Conservatives which has a loophole exempting those who buy 7 homes or more at once citing Jeremy Hunt
Fiona Bruce says she doesn't know if he did or didn't buy 7 homes
In 2018 Jeremy Hunt bought 7 flats in Southampton, doing go he made use of the loophole and saved over £100,000 in stamp duty tax. Not only did he do this, but Hunt didn't initially declare the purchase. This was a big story, surprised Bruce didn't know about it
Gary Stevenson then explains how these loopholes mean rich people avoid paying tax, and its everyday people who end up paying more
Camilla Tominey now humiliated over the idea of a wealth tax, then shifts her position wondering if wealth taxes will go to the poorest and not train drivers who are better paid
She's trying to compare millionaires with non millionaires to suggest that we shouldn't tax more millionaires
This is like saying, can you guarantee that leaving the EU will drop immigration. Well it could have, but it didn't because the people who convinced others to Brexit, like Boris Johnson, increased legal immigration to this country
She also knows that tax today is specifically allocated to specific causes, so she's trying to create a reason not to tax the rich
In reality, the way any tax is allocated to spending is down to any specific government policy, so it isn't whether we do or dont have a wealth, it's whether government choses a policy that allocates the additional income that is earned
But also, and this is the crucial part, she started saying that wealth taxes don't work, and then she ends saying that you can't guarantee that they will go to those who need it the most - these are two different positions, and the second one nullifies the first as its an admission that wealth taxes could work but she dismisses them because they may not go to those most in need
If a wealth tax, helps society in any way, it has worked e.g. fixing potholes that benefits everyone, including the poorest
The extent to which people go to to dismiss wealth taxes on the rich is astonishing, tragic, and it is only our society that loses out by not doing so