I heard an Estate
Agent on LBC today say that one of his clients had a property
portfolio of 1,000 homes. Average house price in London is £524,000
so their property is worth 524 million. That started me thinking
about the inequality in England. There are thousands of young
people who can't get started on the property ladder because the
prices in relation to wages have soared. Then I started to think of
some peoples wealth.
According to
Management Today, The Wealthiest 1,000 Britons own a third of the
nations wealth.
The Queen comes in at
around 500 million
The Duke of
Westminster comes in around 8 billion and owns 190 acres in
Belgravia.
Tony Blair maybe
around 70 million (not bad for a former Labour Prime Minister )
David Cameron is only
worth around 4 million, but his cabinet combined is estimated at
around 70 million.
Our GDP is 1,744
trillion divided by a population of 70 million is roughly £25,000.00
each.
Where am I going with
this ?
There are 1 million
people in this country relying on food banks. An old age pensioner
dies every 7 minutes because they can't afford to heat their homes.
I know of one 70 year old who has the state pension of £123.45 a
week and his rent to start with is £133.00 plus council tax,
television licence, electricity, water, insurance, adds another
£50.00 to this, so every week he is - £60.00, this is without food
and fun, if he can have any at all ?
So going back it seems
that there is gross inequality in Britain, what can we do about it ?
Do we need a revolution
?
Do we need to restrict
our housing stock to residents only like some countries ?
Do we need a fairer
distribution of wealth ?
Do we need to restrict
companies operating in England to English ownership so that these
huge multinationals can't shift the tax they should be paying to
other countries ?
Do we need to come out
of Europe and ask the spongers that come here for benefits to go home
?
Would you like a vote
on any or all of these ? The Roar Party is The Only Party that will
give you a vote on all important issues. We will put high speed
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letting them have E-voting on important issues. After all the people
turned out in large numbers when they actually had a vote in The
Scottish referendum.
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