I can’t let this go unchallenged.
That young man was, in my opinion and based on the video below, the clear victim of an assault.
The video shows, for reasons that are entirely beyond my comprehension, the officer steaming directly into the victim.
The officer made no effort to prevent the attack or apprehend the men who had just administered the violence.
What I see in the video is the officer using speed and aggression at the moment of peak danger and confusion against the victim.
The victim then controls himself the moment he realises it is now a police officer attacking him and not one of the multiple men who were attacking him a fraction of a second earlier.
In my opinion Birmingham Police should drop the charges against this young man and ask the officer why she went for the victim on the ground and not the attackers!
A 10:1 pay ratio, whereby the highest-paid employee earns no more than ten times the lowest-paid?
You know what?
Deal.
Let's light this candle.
However, if we want equality then EVERYONE pays the exact same rate of tax. Impose a 70% marginal rate on the minimum wage worker.
Because it's fair.
But the top 1% of UK taxpayers now pay 33% of all income tax Everyone screaming tax the rich, but let that sink in That’s just 500,000 people contributing £93.8 BILLION in the 2024 tax year
A £150k earner pays £53,460 in tax
A £25k earner pays £2,486
It takes 21 people on £25k to contribute what one person on £150k does
So when Labour talk about ‘making the rich pay their fair share’, they already are
Keep hammering high earners, entrepreneurs & business owners, & they’ll KEEP leaving
Dubai, Monaco, Portugal are all rolling out the red carpet
And the budget looks like it will only get worse The UK doesn’t need higher taxes, it needs spending wastage cut, better incentives to build & invest & a full cultural shift AWAY from the politics of envy
Imagine someone showing you this when we lost 3-0 at Wigan, when someone launched the cabbage at Bruce, when we lost the Playoff Final to Fulham, or when we only just scraped survival on the final day.
Just fucking mental to be honest