howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Just one of the many,many reasons why we have never or ever will be
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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All in it together.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Nice to see lots of successful people in the Cabinet.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"successful people" Barry?
Successful as in succession? Being heir to?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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inheriting money is not being successful, working for it is.
Brian Dixon
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well said howard.silver spoons do spring to mind,not that im jealous but would be nice to have a spare million quid or two.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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There are a good number of self-made people.
Envy get you no-where. Far better to aspire to it yourself and in so doing benefit the economy.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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barry,envy dosent get mention,untill you did.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Yes, Brian - but that is what this is all about. Destructive, absurd envy.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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its ok if you got envy,but some dosh makes it easyer dosent it.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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I dont do envy but Barry which of the cabinet is self made?
And by that I mean someone who has made money in the private sector or run a business of their own
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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David - look at the backgrounds of just a few. No time to go all through the list:
Ken Clarke's dad was a mining electrician and he himself went into law before becoming a full-time politician.
Philip Hammond is a son of a civil engineer and he worked for Speywood from 1977 becoming a director in 1981 and has held a number of other directorships since.
Theresa May - a daughter of a clergyman who worked for the Bank of England and then was a financial consultant.
Even William Haig, destined for politics from an early age as he clearly was, worked briefly for McKinnon but made most of his money as a successful biographical author.
To suggest they were all born with silver spoons in their mouths is absurd. As I said, successful people.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Come off it barry look at the Milibands, both very wealthy, neither has had a job outside politics.
Blair was a lawyer like Clarke, a pretty average one, its the money they've made from the taxpayer thats made them wealthy.
None of them could run a whelk stall
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Come on David - look at Philip Hammond even if you do not want to acknowledge the personal successes of the others. The point is that they were not all born with silver spoons in their mouths as some people want you to think.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The ones set to inherit even more of daddies wonga aside, a property portfolio is a bit easier to come by when the public purse is there to draw upon.
The ft list with mini-biog...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7f197af8-5dab-11df-b4fc-00144feab49a.html#axzz1wAa7WEXTIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 13......``no time to go thru list``....no wonder why,had to cherry pick,desperate stuff.....
Ken Clarke.....our right winger has bad mouthed this gentleman from day one......
Hammond....Private Healthcare,nursing homes !!!
Hague......Public Speaking,2 books,news paper column....
May....not even in top 10 list ....desperate...
8 out of 10 had silver spoons.......
Our rightwinger should also right books he enjoys fiction not reality.....
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Speak for yourself Reg - I picked the top half dozen to look at on Wiki.
You ever increasingly prefer to warp the facts to fit your fantasy of life.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Par for the course...never keep to the thread...twist it to suit your propaganda.....time is up on that tactic....
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Barry, I haven't mentioned silver spoons. The fact is the very few politicians have made money prior to entering politics.