Who do you consider rich?

You are definitely rich if you have enough money to donate to a political party and then by pass the democratic system by getting what you want.

What's that meant to mean?

Oh, my heart bleeds. ???? hGave you got a picture of that?

Joseanne

The trouble with any scholarship at an independent school it that it doesn't stop there with all the added extras.

Oh, my heart bleeds.

Joseanne

The trouble with any scholarship at an independent school it that it doesn't stop there with all the added extras.

That’s true, and also, when my daughter was offered a scholarship, it’s continuation was dependent on her achieving a certain level each year. We decided it would put too much pressure on her, because we couldn’t afford to keep her there if she had a blip year.

The trouble with any scholarship at an independent school it that it doesn't stop there with all the added extras.

annsixty, we consider 'rich' those who have a lot more money than we do! If we really don't need the money, we should just give it to charity.

Germanshepherdsmum

I think Johnson got a scholarship to Eton. I don’t think he’s particularly well off.

He was a Kings Scholar, which is full fee paying. Both his brothers also went to Eton. I don’t think families who aren’t particularly well off tend to send three sons to Eton?

I think Johnson got a scholarship to Eton. I don’t think he’s particularly well off.

The rich are people such as Johnson and his ilk. Those that went to schools such as Eton or Harrow. These people are so detached from the rest of us and have no idea how ordinary people live.

In a country as rich as the UK, we shouldn't feel grateful if we can pay our bills after a lifetime of working. It should be a given that we can do that, and have something left over for treats.

everything is relative. i consider myself rich when i don't need a hand out to pay my bills. but then i don't buy cups of coffee , expensive clothes etc .

Rich not worrying about buying what you want when you want,

We pay Prince Charles more than £22m a year. That's more than six times the combined salaries of all democratically elected heads of state in Europe. Same with queen.

Queen had a transparency law changed to hide her embarrassing wealth.

The Sovereign Grant currently is £85 million can only go up not down.

RF transport fleet of jets helicopters train all cost a lot of public money day in day out and very polluting.

^To whom do you give it anyway?
Charity, a family you know, your own family maybe.^
I think the OP asks a valid question here because there is no point giving it away to be spent on the "wrong" things. As far as my second home is concerned I'm considering offering a free week's out of season holiday (with the £400, which amounts to 50% of the rental charge) to any family with a poorly child.
I'm not rich, but I can afford to be generous and to give away the money.

I don't know kircubbin but it seems unlikely will receive anything as all the food and power would be provided by the home and included in the fees paid. I haven't heard about the £100 shopping card, maybe there is some way of reinstating that? Don't know who 'she' is. If his wife or partner presumably she will receive these benefits but I really don't know.

Wrong thread probably.

Asking for a friend. He has gone into a home. Will he be entitled to any of these benefits as they are paying for the home themselves? She had already lost the £100 shopping card we were given in N Ireland as she said he didn't go shopping!

Apologies in first. Sorry everyone.

But I'm not one of the "but I'm rich in friends" people. I have got lots of friends and a large extended family, but I'm not rich. Not compared to Elon Musk. Gracious acceptance of my humble lot, and gratitude for it, has never been my modus operandi.

To be rich you need to be truly happy with your life and content with what you have. It's not about money at all for me. I have an extremely small income but I feel rich with wonderful family and friends around me

Thanks Dickens.

Time for this again.

... good post volver.

Until people decide that a more equitable society will be better for the country as a whole, economically, socially and politically, then we're stuck with individuals like Anders Holch Povlsen, and that lady in the news who has £12.36 in her bank account to last her until June.

People are up in arms about the huge energy cost hikes (hence the current government action) because it's hitting them where it hurts, but we're still remarkably, passively, indifferent to the huge wealth enjoyed by some, and the stark poverty experienced by others. But hardly surprising I guess when the RW media (owned by those with huge wealth) continually encourage us to blame each other for the state of the economy.

If only those benefit scroungers would get a job and those 'illegal' immigrants be housed in a shoe-box (or better still, sent packing) instead of being put up in 4 (or is it 5) star hotels and being allowed to jump the housing queue landing them 5-bedroomed houses in a desirable area; and of course, if poor people on a tight budget learned how to cook from scratch on 30p... there'd be plenty of funding available for state spending -right? .

And of course the huge wealth enjoyed by the above-mentioned was all achieved by "hard work" and we could all be millionaires if we just worked that little bit harder.

We'll not see a more egalitarian society any time soon...

Thanks Doodledog

Blossoming

My rich list.

The Queen
Rishi Sunak
Jacob Rees Mogg
Michael Gove
Nadia Zaharia
Priti Patel

It was Michael Gove that interested me, so I looked him up. About £3million, apparently.

But I find it a bit difficult to worry about that when the richest man with interests in Scotland is Anders Holch Povlsen. He's worth £6.5 billion - 13 times as much as the Queen - and owns 21 estates across the country.

James Dyson, that man of the people vacuum inventor, could finance the Chancellor's latest scheme and still have half his fortune left.

Working out where "rich" starts and "not rich" ends will drive us all bonkers. I don't get activated about whether the "rich" will get the £400, or even if they get it for each of their homes. I'm more worried about moving to a progressive tax scheme.

Cross posted, but yes, Dickens. My feelings exactly.