As Wenger would say, "I did not see it!" I have seen all the fall out over the popular social media sites. Hopefully Ed dealt with the situation well, because as a potential leader he will have to cope with all manner of opponents, no matter how deluded they are.

He didn't deal with it especially well, but he's in a lose lose situation.  Where if he goes for it, he's perceived as being aggressive against a well liked celeb but if he guards his tongue, he's derided as being weak.

 

What's quite stark is how the rich man's media reported it as a moral victory for those who oppose the mansion tax, while in reality, most agree with Ed.

 

Myleene Klass's arguements were straight out the Tory book of emotive b***shit.

 

She claimed that £2 million would buy little more than a garage in London (rubbish, even by London's property prices) and that these £2 million properties were owned by poor little old dears who'd lived in those properties all their lives.

 

It's a bit like arguing that if you buy your mobile phone at "Diamond Encrusted Mobiles r Us" you are exactly the same as any other mobile phone buyer.

 

 

 

 

She's just an opportunist and Ed unfortunately doesn't have the social guiles to stand up to her.

Even though I lean more towards Ed's position, I thought that Klass more than held her own with him (which is worrying) and she did make the point that some people are asset rich , but cash-poor.  The mansion tax is a good idea, but needs some tweaking.

True but there's 'asset rich: cash poor', then there's people with piles worth £2 million pleading poverty.  The average salary (before tax and living costs) is around £25k. That's 1/80th of a £2 million property. 

 

I do think in this country we're supposed to have a bleeding heart for the very affluent while having a heart of stone for the poor, who really need it.

 

Someone with such a property can sell up, go around the world, give their children a fat inheritance buy a £1 million pad and still have change.

Is this too small for Myleene's mythical poor as a church mouse 'granny'?

 

Doesn't look much like a garage to me.

 

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/pro...operty-48823073.html

She's a charlatan.

He's onto a hiding whatever he does, I reckon, I don't doubt that he could wipe the floor with her if he  worked on it, but she is  a 'sweetheart' and cutesy,so he wouldn't come across well and then be ridiculed for taking on a lightweight,if he does nothing, then he's running scared of a girl.

 

That is Ed's problem and I can see no solution to it,he's become a figure of fun and a target of ridicule,very few actually listen to what he says,he tries very hard but he has no gravitas.

 

 

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/...hiding-2014112092953

i kinda see what she's getting at

people bought houses cheap (few thousand)

now theyre worth a couple of million cos of where they are

 

but then there are the others

who are rubbing fat sweaty greedy hands hoping not to pay too much

 

swings & roundabouts

Jackson b,

 

He does struggle, but Blair had the nickname "Bambi" once.  Seems bizarre that the warmonger in general and darling of the Republican party was considered such a lightweight that Tories nicknamed him 'Bambi'.

thing is, that's hundreds of thousands of pounds of unearned extra wealth.  If you rented, you'd just pay your rent and you'd have no extra wealth.

 

These people could sell up and rent.  Then they'd be in exactly the same position as renters - only, they'd have £2+ million in their pockets!

 

Bear in mind that an average salary of £25k over, 55 years, works out at just £1,375,000.  Before tax and living expenses.

I don't know what Twitter you read, but Ms Klass is the butt of twitter jokes. Unless I'm reading this wrong.

There was also a Justgiving page set up to raise funds for the struggling Myleene.

I quite liked Myleene before this.  Don't any more!  Hear'say can leave the country if she can't pay her bit!