I started this blog to stand up for what I believe in as a person. George Osborne delivered his statement, taking aim at the ‘Rich’ However he didn’t really do that did he? The following is a quote taken from The Guardian Website.

“The Resolution Foundation said the main measures unveiled on Wednesday would mean the poorest 10% would lose 1.2% of their income, while the richest 10% would lose just 0.2%.”

This is an absolute farce and joke to every hard working person striving to keep a house over their head. Below is an email I sent to various government people in order to get an explanation on why the rich remain rich, yet the poor are hit hardest. It’s not about taxing either two of these bands, let’s take aim at the footballing world. Because someone on £20,000 + a week AFTER tax doesn’t need to worry.

08 December 2012

To Whom It May Concern,

Recently George Osborne and the Conservative government released their autumn statement declaring that they would hit the rich hardest while cutting many other areas to bring down our debt. Some of things cut by the government are vital to this country, yet a minority of people are still not hit. We even still give aid to “the poorest countries” yet we cannot maintain this as we heading in the same direction.

Take for example the football leagues here in this country. Looking at some of the figures are absolutely astonishing, yet they seem untouched. In August 2012 it was revealed that footballers pay has increased a massive 1,500 % in the past twenty years, yet the average person is lucky to see a ten pence increase a year.

From another source here are a few figures:

Average Premier League wages have reached £22,353 a week – before lucrative bonuses – or £1.16million a year.
Average Championship earnings are £4,059 a week (£211,068 a year), less than a fifth of players one division above.
In the bottom division, League Two, their weekly pay of £747 is not much more than the national average.
League Two earnings are also 30 times smaller than those in the Premier League
Roberto Mancini is currently the highest paid manager in the English Premier League, taking home just over £7.5 Million for managing a FOOTBALL TEAM. Not a hospital, police force, government schools, just a football team kicking a ball around for ninety minutes.

Wayne Rooney

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney is the English Premier League’s highest paid forward, with a massive £250,000 a week salary. After tax he is still earning an obscene amount of money along with bonuses and various other royalties.

Yaya Toure - £190,000 a week.

John Terry - £130,000 a week

Fernando Torres - Earned £13.9 Million this year

Sergio Aguero - £15.7 Million this year

I could go on forever about all of the footballers earning a wage which you cannot condone. One report revealed that the average pay an hour for a footballer was £822 compared to a nurse on just £15 an hour. A nurse looking after patients cares for them, acts as a counselor and has seen many horrors. They are in the front line, we depend on them yet we give them injustices like this.

By the end of the year the government is cutting the army by a massive 20%. Their is not enough money to support them, yet people like Wayne Rooney are paid £250,000 a week! For one week that could potential keep twenty people in a job for a year. It could pay for more nurses or more policemen to patrol our broken streets.

People are losing faith in this country and it’s not hard to see why. We are being cut to the brink, event’s in Greece must be a example of what the people think and feel. We must avoid these situations ourselves, for one day those scenes may be on the streets of London.

While you can hit some of the rich with taxes who some have only got rich because they have invested in this country to make it great. However it’s not fair that the footballing world remains untouched when their is so much money at stake. Take a look at some of the debts of the clubs, if that was any business it would be closed down. Take a look at comet, woolworths and all the small shops that have closed over the years because of the climate.

If we look to rebuild this country we have to look the greed of others. We are sitting on a ticking time bomb, we must act now before it’s too late. Cutting the vital resources, make the poor even poorer and rich even richer is simply wrong.

Regards