Andrew Gwynne, Labour MP for Gorton and Denton is standing down because of ill health. Thus provoking a great deal of speculation as to who will stand in his place.

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If we use the phrase working class tho less defined than it used to be ( manual labour) people here understand the phrase and our country is mainly made up of those ‘regular guys’ if preferred.Which is why taxes across the board need to go up as there will never be enough produced by just squeezing the very rich.

I think the majority agree on a progressive tax system as we have now. It’s the tweaks and loopholes that tend to be debated.

Where income is earned from wealth, I can see absolutely no reason why it shouldn’t be treated as income, with all earned and passive income added together and taxed accordingly. I can see no moral reason for not doing that.

I can see no reason why all taxes shouldn’t go up if we want better services.

No, neither do I. But including passive income with earned income would put tax take up too.

I understand Starmer and ministers use of ‘working people ‘.

The working class traditionally got their hands dirty and earned less than your average ‘white collar worker. I might be castigated for saying that often working class is used to describe benefit claimants.

I do have concerns, but my prime concern is the Reform Candidate to be honest.

GB News' Matt Goodwin has claimed non-white people cannot truly be English. He said if we'd listened to Tommy Robinson and the English Defence League, we would have "avoided some of the problems" we face today.

He complained about our civilisation being “drained away” by “people from inferior cultures”.

He's even suggested women should be told when they should have children

I looked at the detail of the constituency, and if he wants to win that seat he needs to button it quickly as there is a significant ethnic minority population.
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