"We have given the assets of this country to very wealthy people and created a tax system that makes it voluntary for them to pay tax. If you do that, ordinary people will get poorer and billionaires will get richer and ordinary people will not be able to buy homes and have families."
Gary Stevenson on Question Time last night.
Needless to say, he was very popular with the audience. The politicians and Bruce - not so much.
@fkamiah17 i've only recently come across him, but he seems like good people.
fascinating to search about him though:
either stuff about his activism, or stuff from financial folk saying he was a shit trader anyway
@moonrabbit That's why he retired at, like 31 or something and was the world's most successful trader in 2011 I suppose
The establishment hate it when a commoner sees behind the curtain don't they.
@fkamiah17 and worse, tells other people what he sees
@moonrabbit While wearing a tracksuit and speaking with a common accent, no less.
Not to mention paying *all* his tax.
@fkamiah17 good heavens!
@moonrabbit He's completely impervious to all the bedwetting hate he's getting though, because I imagine I know what cunts they all are from up close
@fkamiah17 god yeah they must largely be utterly dreadful and not really to be considered much
@moonrabbit I worked at the London stock exchange very briefly, so I can also verify from close quarters that they are, indeed, colossal and irredeemable cunts
@fkamiah17 ooh are you an economist like rachlae reeves isn't?
@moonrabbit Nah, just a "jack of all and master of none" opportunist who smelled a bit of easy money then ran before I got contracted in and lost my soul