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Gewürzt
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Yeah completely, I just find it weird in a London based forum for so many people to be arguing that people might feel they need money to get by (even whilst recognising that the fact they need so much shows the system isn’t working well).
The people who this hits seem to be those who aren’t independently wealthy but who have done pretty well so have relatively high incomes. That seems to be a demographic we should want some of in parl.
Instead, we get a mix of (1) old money / already minted and hence full Thatcherite; (2) people who couldn’t earn more elsewhere; and (3) ideologues (which could be a good or bad thing, depending what ideals they are pushing)