Staggering wealth gap in the world - Gulf royal buys entire London car park

Original post by Good bloke

Quite right! This space had only been lying unused and unwanted for a few years. It is a travesty that such assets should fall into the hands of people that will use them when they could be preserved in a state of charming neglect for posterity.

How will the local inhabitants stand the prospect of having to fill the spaces left by his cars no longer being parked in other car parks?

What is worse, it could encourage him to bring in and use these cars on British roads, burdening British insurance companies with profits they don't want and the DVLA with VED it would rather went elsewhere. The local petrol stations will be distraught at the possibility of having to fill his tainted vehicles.

Shocking!

Yes because that's exactly what we need. More noisy, unreliable, heavily polluting vehicles in London.

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username1022139

Original post by Fullofsurprises

It certainly is not silly to question it. They are corrupt monarchies, installed by the British and Americans, to play the role of local controllers in the oil machinery. They enjoy oligarchical profits in tandem with little democracy and plenty of human rights abuse, backed up by our weapons systems and money.

Yes, it needs questioning.

If you had read what I had written, then you would have realised that I am not commenting on whether the wealth had been distributed to the right people. In fact, all I am saying is that their wealth is legitimate and was gained through market demand.

Even so, before you go on some beguiling rant, you should be able to support your points with reason and evidence. It is not helpful nor productive to list a load of unfounded accusations, especially in suggesting Arab monarchies are a "British and American..." plot purposed to manipulate the oil-market.

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Original post by cbreef

Yes because that's exactly what we need. More noisy, unreliable, heavily polluting vehicles in London.

It is shocking isn't it? These cars will be driven for as much as twenty miles every year and add significantly to London's bad air quality. The increase in local garage business of a pitiful one service a year for each vehicle just isn't worth the trouble.

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Original post by jake4198

Even so, before you go on some beguiling rant

How dare you gainsay Fullofsurprise's perfectly reasonable and rational arguments. She only adds to the force of her discourse when she eloquently insults people and it is all completely justified by the travesty being perpetrated by this criminal who is trying to foist his money on innocent British taxpayers by the foul means of inheriting it and spending it on follies.

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username2053059

Original post by Good bloke

It is shocking isn't it? These cars will be driven for as much as twenty miles every year and add significantly to London's bad air quality. The increase in local garage business of a pitiful one serve a year for each vehicle just isn't worth the trouble.

Well if they're only being driven "20 miles a year" then some of those economic benefits of yours are cancelled out.
But personally I don't believe they'll only get driven 20 miles a year, probably quite a lot more than that actually, therefore it'll only contribute to the deaths caused by air pollution

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Original post by cbreef

Well if they're only being driven "20 miles a year" then some of those economic benefits of yours are cancelled out.
But personally I don't believe they'll only get driven 20 miles a year, probably quite a lot more than that actually, therefore it'll only contribute to the deaths caused by air pollution

You have a point. Collections of valuable cars are notorious for the amount of traffic they generate from the cars in the collection, and their owners are famous for their reckless behaviour when driving them.

In this case it is particularly ominous as he only has 80 of them, and he could probably drive every single one of them every single day. Shocking!

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username2228735

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Ah, the classical solution to the wealth gap: tax the wealthy more. Rather than introducing more taxation, why not try and make the current system work?

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Fadel

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Didn't you all want capitalism?

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Lh030396

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Original post by Fullofsurprises

To store his collection of 80 supercars.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4207026/Gulf-royal-buys-Knightsbridge-car-park-21million.html

It's a 130 space underground car park in Kensington.

Clearly the nondom system, the tax system, the luxury tax system and the planning laws are not working.

We need a radical change, with proper levels of taxation on the super rich and high rates of adverse taxation on the global class of oligarchs and plutocrats who want to make London their private playground.

I never understand why people have supercars in London. The traffic is so effing slow, you're not exactly going to be picking up speed...

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Lh030396

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Original post by the bear

the guy must be an extreme clunge magnet

Depends. 80 supercars may be compensating for falling short in a certain area...

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Lh030396

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OP

Original post by cbreef

Well if they're only being driven "20 miles a year" then some of those economic benefits of yours are cancelled out.
But personally I don't believe they'll only get driven 20 miles a year, probably quite a lot more than that actually, therefore it'll only contribute to the deaths caused by air pollution

Unfortunately, most of that 20 miles a year consists of blasting it round London at insane speeds with apparent total immunity from prosecution. Policeman approaches. Diplomatic passport waved. "Thank you sir, that will do nicely sir, please continue to terrorise the streets". It would be too much of a leap to assume that the Met are repeatedly instructed not to interfere with the driving antics of obviously very rich drivers, as it may cause harm to the inflows of cash into money laundering accounts in the City.

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OP

Original post by Lh030396

I never understand why people have supercars in London. The traffic is so effing slow, you're not exactly going to be picking up speed...

Yet amazingly, they manage it.

Central London in summer is made almost unbearable by these ridiculous people and their 'cars'.

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username2053059

Original post by Fullofsurprises

Yet amazingly, they manage it.

Central London in summer is made almost unbearable by these ridiculous people and their 'cars'.

You know there are purpose built tracks to drive these machines on all over the place but no, they'd rather blast through the crowded streets at twice the speed limit :congrats:

. It's basically their way of saying "Look how good I am peasants".

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OP

Evidently this one isn't a first. Sheikh Makhtoum of Dubai has been trashing Battersea to build a 114-space car park next to the heliport, entirely filled with Rollers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3025200/Sheikh-build-six-storey-car-park-London-114-luxury-cars-five-star-accommodation-chauffeurs-staff.html

The post isn't about abstract issues in capitalism, it is about the reality of glaring inequality on a vast scale being acted out in our city. Most of us don't want this and the democratic thing would be to ban this kind of activity, where billionaires pay no tax here but make extensive use of our public spaces, not least the roads.

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OP

Original post by cbreef

You know there are purpose built tracks to drive these machines on all over the place but no, they'd rather blast through the crowded streets at twice the speed limit :congrats:

. It's basically their way of saying "Look how good I am peasants".

It is the modern equivalent of the fox hunt trashing the peasant vegetable field.

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Reformed

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Original post by Fullofsurprises

To store his collection of 80 supercars.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4207026/Gulf-royal-buys-Knightsbridge-car-park-21million.html

It's a 130 space underground car park in Kensington.

Clearly the nondom system, the tax system, the luxury tax system and the planning laws are not working.

We need a radical change, with proper levels of taxation on the super rich and high rates of adverse taxation on the global class of oligarchs and plutocrats who want to make London their private playground.

not really anything to do with the tax system. all to do with the oil system - ie the fact we in the west bankroll the arabs in the only industry that they hold any assets in,

the sooner the west makes the switch to promoting electric over combustion engined cars, the sooner this arrangment will end

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OP

Original post by Reformed

not really anything to do with the tax system. all to do with the oil system - ie the fact we in the west bankroll the arabs in the only industry that they hold any assets in,

the sooner the west makes the switch to promoting electric over combustion engined cars, the sooner this arrangment will end

Yes, it's oil and the way the profits were divided by western interests that creates these insanely rich families and the deep inequality in their own countries. It's our tax system that is engineered to allow them to float their boats here, with effective immunity from our laws (especially our traffic laws) and the distortions they cause to the London economy.

It isn't ultimately these spoiled idiots that are the problem, but our own governmental system and the way it has caved to billionaire interests.

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