No, that is a worry. Honestly, it is. I have no concerns about Corbyn having a hesitant finger on the button. I do worry about crucial elements of our national security being in DA’s hands. Not enough to put me off voting, though.

I agree on that last point. And I never could spell phallusy.

But aren’t those three out of ten the very same despised ‘liberal elite’? Or is that yet another failed attempt to identify this most shadowy of villains?

‘None of my friends’. What do you guys do, payday loans? Ok, I’ll turn that one around.. who did you know that killed themselves because of a Labour government? Seriously.

“All I know is…” – a very telling phrase.

People usually get better off. Demographics don’t always, and are not now. Compare today’s twenty-five year olds with how today’s forty year olds were when they were twenty-five. That is the difference between the individual aspiration model and the long-term societal. Not that I expect you to have got past the first long word.

You have chosen a handy part of a graph and proven no relationship. You know that really. Go on, expand that out over the last 40 years – dare ya!

You also know that family income versus expenditure depends on far more than income tax bands and rates – and it has declined.

There is no evidence that raising corporation tax reduces the take. It has been reduced by successive governments since 1973, and the take has fluctuated up and down with the economy ever since. You will find that previous to 1973 the effect of raising corporate tax was always to increase the take.

The theory has been that being a low-corp-tax place to do business would attract companies, regardless of productivity, R and D or government / EU investment. In fact it only worked where those things were in place, like the Cambridge bubble (R and D, Gov/EU investment) or Nissan Sunderland (Gov/EU investment and productivity). On its own, super-low corporation tax keeps company directors happy, and of course when they get together they agree to state they will take their business elsewhere if it goes up a couple of points. The question must be asked – where?

There is a lot of myth-making around at the moment, not all of it honest.

I do have children and I will vote Labour – mainly for that very reason. That and not wanting my daughters growing up in a country where they are deemed stupid for not being wealthy.

Ryan, how’s that? As somebody else has asked, what are we mere ordinary folk worrying about the cost of education, the cost of a home, the cost of our energy, missing about the higher Brexit argument?

The two most questionable political developments of the century so far have arisen from a direct appeal to the bungalows amongst us. Not wishing to be counted among them, please enlighten me, Ryan.

Yes. I can’t argue with that. It does have to come from somewhere.

There is a subtle difference though – Corporation tax is paid on profits, VAT is just paid.

Note that Starbucks worked that trick to negate profits and avoid corp tax because Lux corp tax on intelectual property and licencing is 5.7%.

This they would have done whatever the UK rate, unless it was 5.7% or less!

When you go into a negotiation you should have an idea of what specifics you are asking for from a deal. (In fact, there are two mental lists one needs in any negotiation – what you go in asking for and what you are aiming to really get). Either way, there would be little point going to the big EU table and demanding a ‘better Britain and lots of – I dunno – stuff that makes me look strong by getting it’ from them – though that seems to be May’s plan at the moment.

This is 2017. The ‘poor’ have jobs. On an international scale everyone has low tax.