"If you want to lift up the poor, you have to create wealth."
"How's that going?"
Podcaster and former Mumford & Sons member Winston Marshall discusses taxes with economist and Green Party supporter Faiza Shaheen.
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@David_Alcock1@StuartMaggs Exactly & those who underperformed running public services didn’t get massive bonuses, they got unelected. Also, most people were civil to each other, and no-one stuck knives in RNLI boats.
@DarrenBar88 Yeh, bloody Beethoven & his Eroica symphony, bloody Sibelius and Finlandia, bloody Britten & his bolshy War Requiem, they should’ve stuck to writing nice tunes
@RhonddaBryant If it helps, most so-called ‘rules’ were just made up by Victorian grammarians with an inferiority complex because English isn’t Latin. I reckon Humpty Dumpty’s approach is best.
@Mike_Batt Wow, you are indeed allowed to say “wanky elitist time wasting nonsense” & I am entitled to draw conclusions from the way you express yourself. I wish you well. Goodbye.
@Mike_Batt TBH I wasn’t being jocular. You don’t like complex music, fine, why slag it off? You make your contribution to music, he makes his. There’s room for everything.
@haveigotnews Indeed, and who has 25 years political experience, including holding significant cabinet posts, unlike the current guy whose been around for - checks notes - 10 years with - err - zero cabinet posts, which may explain a lot
@LindaLazarides@Simon4NDorset@DPJHodges I recommend Fowler’s English Usage, best wishes from me, BA Hons English, what are your qualifications in English Language?
@LindaLazarides@Simon4NDorset@DPJHodges You will find that the use of they as a singular pronoun, along with its inflected forms such as their, dates back to at least the 14th century. You’re welcome.