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Express

Posted by sim-o

March 11th, 2010

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Categories: Express Watch, Front Pages |

12 Comments

  1. Original Paul

    That is the outcome of their Inheritance Tax “crusade”.

  2. Smogo

    “Leggy blonde”? “Leggy blonde“??? This is 2010, right?

  3. NH

    it’s funny how they criticise the Government for not dealing with the deficit and then criticise every attempt to do exactly that.
    Public services and Public sector workers can go fuck themselves so long little Matilda and Johnny can get all their inheritance.

  4. Roisin

    “Leggy Blonde” and “Ugly Stretch Marks”…another classic woman demeaning front page then.

  5. Steven

    Ok, let’s not have an Estate Tax (sorry, ‘Death Tax’) and see where it gets us. Here’s an example of where we’d be…

    2010: Man dies and leaves house to son, who already owns a house, so rents inherited house out.
    2030: Son dies and leaves both houses to his son, who already owns a house. He now owns 3, so lives in one and rents out the other two.
    2050: Son dies and leaves both houses to his son, who already owns a house. He now owns 4, so lives in one and rents out the other 3.
    2070: Son dies and leaves both houses to his son, who already owns a house. He now owns 5, so lives in one and rents out the other 4.

    At this point the rental income from one house pays the mortgage of the bought one, so he no longer works as the income from two of the other rental propeties pays a living wage, and the last one pays for another house to expand the portfolio.

    Society has now lost a productive member of society who exists soley as a member of the new ownership class and is born into a life where his descendants exist purely to profit off others without doing anything of worth themselves.

    Fastforward 500 years and due to this cycle of inheritence and using rental profits to expand house buying exponentially, and you have single families in control of entire boroughs in towns, able to ‘tax’ their ’subjects’ by unilaterally raising rents accross the boards.

    This consolidation of the majority of wealth in a tiny proportion of hands will also allow them to buy up local businesses and service providers and control prices and wages in a similar way.

    Welcome to the return of Feudalism! Something I believe the Mail and its readers would desire as they see themselves as those who’d become this new aristocracy.

  6. TedB

    Hang on where’s the “NOW” on this story…. did the type setter put an ‘e’ in the first word by accident… we need to know…. NOW!

  7. Dave C

    They will get nothing from me,I’m just not going to die.
    So there.

  8. Jake

    Typical Mail/Express

    Moan none stop about the government doing nothing to help old people.

    Moan none stop about the governments move to help old people.

    Like the CCTV/Crime paradox.

    Claim Labour are soft on crime, and not accept that crime has shot down since CCTV technology.

    You read the MAil – they call councils “nazis” for using CCTV to catch people who break motoring crimes.

    They say things like “hard working people, who have broke no other laws, are being treated as criminals through CCTV”.

    Nope. They are criminals. Socially acceptable criminals.

    It’s like the Mail defending “Valium” for so long. As it was the drug of choice for white, middle class mums

  9. pstu

    Could we have Cleese described as a leggy brunette (or leggy silver fox now I guess?) He’s apparently 6′4″. But does height only matter with women?

  10. christophe

    There’s nothing ‘fawlty’ about that sexy silver senior, phwoar, not half.

  11. Stevie H

    Bev Callard’s breakdown isn’t “secret” at all, it’s all over the fornt of one of the trashmags at the moment.

  12. NJH

    I suppose, on the bright side, it’s not the worst Dirty Des rag to be objectified in. Bit surprised JC is a Express icon though; I don’t know this for sure but I can imagine them decrying Python as silly student weirdness and Brian as sacreligious.

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