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March 28, 2007
Sorry?
Antonia Bance is complaining because Oxford will not be a unitary authority:
...and the county council gets to carry on redistributing tax money away from the city to the rural hinterland.
A strong argument, don't you think? London should become a unitary authority as well perhaps, to stop tax money being redistributed away from the city to the rural hinterlands of Wales and Scotland. Excellent idea. Perhaps the SE also? Or England?
It's just slightly odd to see the argument coming from a member of the Labour Party. I thought redistribution was what they were for?
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Redistribution TO is what they are for, not redistribution FROM.
Posted by: dearieme | Mar 28, 2007 12:03:55 PM
Tim,
Redistribution from rich to poor is different from redistribution from poor to rich, surely this isn't that difficult a concept.
Antonia is objecting to money being redistributed from the (relatively more deprived) city to the rural areas which are some of the most prosperous in the whole country.
Labour Party members (most of them, anyway) support redistribution from rich to poor, not the other way round. It's like the difference between, say, Robin Hood and Maggie Thatcher.
Posted by: donpaskini | Mar 28, 2007 12:46:07 PM
They like redistribution from Tory (or increasingly LibDem) areas they cannot win control of, to Labour voting areas.
Of course, the fact that they end up redistributing money from poor to rich doesn't matter, so long as the rich vote Labour (look at Gordo's tax cut/hike policy)
Posted by: Tristan Mills | Mar 28, 2007 1:39:03 PM
Tim,
Getting elected is what they're for.
Posted by: Martin | Mar 28, 2007 1:43:48 PM
For a reasonably bright man, Tim, that really is a silly post. Can't be arsed to engage, long day at work.
Posted by: Antonia | Mar 28, 2007 8:42:58 PM
"Democracy is an advance auction in stolen goods" - H.L.Mencken
Posted by: AntiCitizenOne | Mar 29, 2007 12:25:39 AM
