Did it ever occur to you that 'the filthy rich bastard' might be a good person who didn't shaft anyone on the way up?
Or is that too nuanced for your simplistic world view?
Give me the details know a few lads who will relive him off theseLast weekend i was down on the lyn peninsular, staying in a village known as Cheshire by the Sea on a prestige holiday park where beach front chalets sell, and sell quick for £1.1m. I might add that i got a freebie off a customer in return for doing some maintenance whilst there.
I saw numerous situations, but one in particular, that does make me question the system.
I saw a chalet that i know to have cost £500k. The owner had a £250k speed boat, 2 jet skis (£30k a piece) and a mazeratti parked up, plus a little jeep for towing the boat and jet skis which cost £20k+.
Thats over a millions quids worth of kit/toys just parked up. Mentioned it to my customer and he said “yeah they are just there for when he comes down about 6 times a year. Half the site is like that”.
Now im pretty down the middle like most, im not a socialist, im just a working class grafter, but when i see a situation like that it does make me question that it cant be right.
If this guy has over a million pounds worth of ‘stuff’ just there for him 6 times a year , what else has he got? Whats his house like? A holiday home abroad?
How much brass has he got? Does he need it all?
The Warren perhaps? If so, you buy and then pay a rent for a chalet and then give it back at the end of the lease or renew. Prestbury by the sea. Full of the insufferable with more cash than sense and chocked full of entitled kids like Rock in Cornwall.Last weekend i was down on the lyn peninsular, staying in a village known as Cheshire by the Sea on a prestige holiday park where beach front chalets sell, and sell quick for £1.1m. I might add that i got a freebie off a customer in return for doing some maintenance whilst there.
I saw numerous situations, but one in particular, that does make me question the system.
I saw a chalet that i know to have cost £500k. The owner had a £250k speed boat, 2 jet skis (£30k a piece) and a mazeratti parked up, plus a little jeep for towing the boat and jet skis which cost £20k+.
Thats over a millions quids worth of kit/toys just parked up. Mentioned it to my customer and he said “yeah they are just there for when he comes down about 6 times a year. Half the site is like that”.
Now im pretty down the middle like most, im not a socialist, im just a working class grafter, but when i see a situation like that it does make me question that it cant be right.
If this guy has over a million pounds worth of ‘stuff’ just there for him 6 times a year , what else has he got? Whats his house like? A holiday home abroad?
How much brass has he got? Does he need it all?
Yep, and very few people are playing Premier League football because their daddy had some contacts. The people who do regularly get into the game through nepotism (i.e. agents) are routinely condemned by football fans.They’re being taxed heavily though and actually working. Of course the money they’re earning is mental but the premier league also brings in a fortune to the country. The very elite are able to avoid tax or pay very little and just snap up all new properties, forcing up house prices and rents. That’s plain wrong as if it carries on the country will end up completely on its arse.
It’s bad for many now but it will be far worse in 10/20 years as house prices will continue to rocket and government debt will carry on rising. When the government brought in stamp duty on a 2nd home they also added in the small print that if you bought 6 houses you didn’t pay any. The current chancellor bought 7! Do you think that’s right and fair?
I'll give you an example of a guy I used to work for in Blackburn. His name was Tony Cann and he was a serial entrepreneur. The company was called Promethean and it made smart whiteboards for schools. He always maintained he was trying to change the world through education. Not sure if that was true as it didn't explain all the other companies he'd founded that were much less philanthropic.You said it was easy to get rich with hard work. Which rich British people would you cite as positive examples?
It's not that easy to produce a new product, secure funding, take it to market and still retain a controlling interest and get rich.
Or you could exploit labour by running down terms and conditions and exploit others' hard work.
No, but you're also not making a choice to spend your entire life renting because you've been priced out of the city you grew up in. But that's what's happening. Why shouldn't someone be able to be a nurse or a postman or a binman and be able to buy a house for his family in one of the richest countries in the world on that salary? It was possible 50 years ago.If you chose to be a nurse or care worker you're not really pursuing riches are you? And I'm making no judgement on people's choices.
There are plenty of perfectly decent rich people. The problem isn't the people, it's the system. We congratulate super rich people for giving money to charity to pay for the services that can't exist because of all of the tax they avoid (and in many cases, are legally obliged to avoid if they're the director of a company).I'll give you an example of a guy I used to work for in Blackburn. His name was Tony Cann and he was a serial entrepreneur. The company was called Promethean and it made smart whiteboards for schools. He always maintained he was trying to change the world through education. Not sure if that was true as it didn't explain all the other companies he'd founded that were much less philanthropic.
When it came time to float the company he gave all the employees shares in the floated company. The longer you'd worked for him the more shares you got. There were people who'd been there for 10 years or more who were well happy. It must have cost him and his family a fortune, and he didn't have to do it.
I bet there's loads of Tony Canns out there who don't fit your 'rich bad poor good' view of the world.
In fact now that I think, the two guys who started the company I currently work for made a pile too when they sold out. Both extremely decent blokes.
With the obvious exception of vending machines, change is inevitable.No, but you're also not making a choice to spend your entire life renting because you've been priced out of the city you grew up in. But that's what's happening. Why shouldn't someone be able to be a nurse or a postman or a binman and be able to buy a house for his family in one of the richest countries in the world on that salary? It was possible 50 years ago.