Markwadsworth

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• Rent v Tax v Cost of Services - You Know It When You See It.

  From the comments here: I suggest that the payment for queue jumping is not rent, but the premium paid for convenience and saving time. Would you classify the... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2017 DEBATE

• More Debunking of Piketty.

  This time from a hard-left perspective, from Jacobinmag.com: The bulk of Piketty criticism has focused, rather boringly, on whether the rate of investment retur... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: NHS Charges for Queue-jumping; Rhyme and Reason

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Is it acceptable for the NHS to allow patients to pay extra to jump the queue? Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2017 DEBATE

• "The Number of Passenger Journeys Has Doubled Since Rail Privatisation"

  From The Guardian: The number of train journeys made each year has more than doubled since the late 1990s, according to a new report. About 1. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2017 DEBATE

• Social Care Costs: The Homeys Are Muddling up Two Entirely Separate Topics.

  From The Guardian: Dilnot, a former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said that by refusing to implement a cap, the Conservatives would be leaving... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2017 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  From The Daily Mail: A widowed teacher with arthritis froze to death in her garden after she fell and neighbours failed to respond to her cries for help, an... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2017 DEBATE

• YPP (London) Meet-up, Tomorrow Friday 19 May

  We'll be at The Brewmaster from 5.20 onwards or so - if you think you'll turn up later than 6.30, please get in touch [email protected] or 07954 59 07 44. Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2017 DEBATE

• Theresa May, Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Jeremy Corbyn

  We've looked at Jeremy Corbyn's waffle, now let's look at Mrs May's bizarre deliberate blurring of the fundamental difference between rent and earned income. Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2017 DEBATE

• "Tory and UKIP Voters Are All Thick" Vs "Universities Are Hot-beds of Leftie...

  

  Click picture for full article: Another goodie from the BBC: We know that almost three million extra people turned out to vote in the EU referendum [compared... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2017 DEBATE

• If Only Corbyn Talked About RENTS Instead of Waffling on About PROFITS

  Corbyn was on the telly just now, muttering about the "obscene profits" made by privatised utilities. By doing so he misses the point and lays himself open to... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2017 DEBATE

• Refundable Bottle Deposits 2

  Re last weeks Fun Online Poll, on the subject of refundable bottle deposits. The Surfers Against Sewage website that promotes this, says the following: The... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2017 DEBATE

• Big Dope? WTF?

  Peter Hitchens in City AM re the Lib Dem suggestion that we legalise cannabis: No. This cynical and rather ignorant proposal is another triumph for the... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Recyclying & NHS Queue Jumping

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: It would be a good idea to charge refundable deposits on... Glass drinks bottles - 13 votes All glas... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2017 DEBATE

• YPP Manifesto - New Draft

  The old version is (or was) here, I think we ought to tie it all in better from the start, once you understand the basic principles all the detailed policies... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2017 DEBATE

• NHS - Disbelief

  Exhibit 1 No doubt we'll get the usual 'NHS funding crisis', 'Tory cuts' wailing. But what about this?.. And this? And this? And this? There is a lot more of... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2017 DEBATE

• Wheeler Dealers - a Good Illustration of Price Setting Mechanisms

  We know that these programmes became more and more staged with each successive series, and the numbers don't add up etc, but there is still a lot of truth in... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2017 DEBATE

• Something for LVT Man to Sort Out...

  A goodly mixture of economic myths and dog-whistling in this clip, but nothing that LVT wouldn't sort out. If all those super-rich were paying super-high LVT... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2017 DEBATE

• Fox News

  Having considered this article at great length, I have concluded that fox hunting is not an effective form of pest control. According to a BBC study here,... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2017 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (413)

  

  Just when you thought he couldn't possibly trump that for stupidity (click to enlarge)... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Bank Holiday Monday Weather & Refundable Deposits

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Is it fair to say that it normally rains on a Bank Holiday Monday? Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2017 DEBATE