Why the reluctance to answer questions and face the real electorate ?

The actual percentage of very rich is how you chose to define it Jalima. You could talk about 'the richest 5%' or 'the richest 1%' or even, if it was relevant to your discussion the richest 50%.
not sure why that post was aimed at me

I have not said anything about the very rich although I do know of two very rich men who have somehow managed to abrogate their responsibilities to former partners and to their children for very many years.

And, on the subject of family breakdowns causing poverty, there are a lot of women, such as myself, who find themselves in straightened circumstances in old age due to divorce in later life.
Tegan yes, women who find themselves on their own at pension age too.

GGMK2 Does that include property wealth? ie in the form of a home?
Which would skew the chart considerably if so.

Just to answer the second of Jalima's questions, earned relates to work. Therefore earned income, either cash or in-kind benefits, received in exchange for work or service.
again, I don't remember asking any questions, I know that I'm getting forgetful but am quite worried now.

except for the questions in my post of Sun 04-Jun-17 21:11:48

If it's ONS statistics, it includes the value of your house.

That'll be a problem for May with the dementia tax. The median in the whole of the north from Yorkshire upwards is less than one year's care. Half the people have assets of less than £150,000. I wonder if she had worked that out.

Thank you.
However, I am still wondering what questions I am supposed to have asked to receive the answers I did

Sorry Jalima. Those two posts should have been to Jane10. She was just above you and I obviously didn't look carefully enough.

Oh! Thank goodness, thought I was getting more forgetful than usual even though I ate fish 3 times this week.

I'm sorry if someone has already put this on. This was what - Peter Kirkham, former Senior Investigating Officer, the Met had to say in an interview on Sky News.

"The police service is in crisis because of the cuts. They're being dragged from pillar to post. We hear talk of extra police officers on the streets. They're not extra. They're police officers who've had their rare leave days cancelled, they've had their 12 hour shifts, that are now routinely extended to 16 hours, they're being drawn from other areas."

Can you ignore that. I am not doing very well tonight - wrong thread. Will put it on the right one

Go to bed, GracesGran. You'll feel better in the morning.

I've just made three mistakes in typing those two sentences.
I think I ought to take my own advice.

Lovely, this. Real Mayhem.

www.indy100.com/article/theresa-mays-edinburgh-ruth-davidson-general-election-2017-visit-campaign-7773801

Went to a removal firm!

couldn't make it up could you? She's SUPPOSED to be campaigning to win the election yet she wont face anyone who isn't a died in the wool tory and out of sight of everyone else......what on earth is going on.Now I KNOW most of you dont like/actively hate Nicola Sturgeon BUT you should look at her campaign ,out on the streets meeting young and old ,speaking to anyone who wants an answer and GIVING answers to questions ,not waffling not surrounded by burly security men and smiling at people who are in the main happy to see her .I know which style I prefer and its not Ms May's

May has had a disastrous campaign. If she wins in spite of her poor showing, I hope her majority is slashed so she knows there are millions who don't approve of what the Tories are about to do. She's made it about Brexit and with it a whole raft of social reform will go through by default.

Where have her 'Team' been in recent weeks? She seems to have been flying solo.

paddyann; I have been in awe of Nicola Sturgeon ever since the referendum.

Tracy Ullman captured her perfectly!!

Anyone want a laugh?

voxpoliticalonline.com/2017/06/06/this-video-clip-should-end-the-tory-election-campaign/