Chris, 28, Newcastle upon Tyne
OccupationAdvertising and marketing govt for a technical options firm
Voting fileAt all times Labour basically elections; at locals, might often throw one on the market for the Greens
Jake, 48, Newcastle upon Tyne
OccupationNHS scientific commissioner
Voting file Has at all times voted Labour within the UK; lived for a time in Canada, the place he voted Liberal
Amuse boucheTurned his entrance garden into raised beds, hoping for a considerable potato, leek and cabbage crop
For starters
Chris I had the barbecued onions with marinated garlic, pine oil and leek ash, then herb gnocchi, watercress, beenleigh blue. I’ve been to the restaurant earlier than – one in all my mates is basically into tasting menus.
Jake I’ve obtained a neurological situation, which implies my reminiscence could be very poor. So I may inform you what I had, however I’d be fantasising my good meal. No matter it was, it was bloody attractive.
Chris He’s happier with the present Labour occasion than I'm, and I feel in all probability extra vital of Corbyn, however he did say he didn’t suppose Corbyn was this commie antisemite tyrant. Which is at all times a pleasant place to begin.
Jake The Labour occasion strikes round, and I keep comparatively down the center. Generally they’re to the left of me and typically to the precise. We had been each extra within the points than the occasion.
The massive beef
Chris We talked about whether or not or not boomers ought to pay extra tax. He was extra on board with that common assertion. I used to be a bit extra reserved. For me, it’s not an age subject, it’s a social class subject and a wealth subject. I hate the time period “boomer”, anyway. It’s honest to say they could have had a greater run of it in sure social and financial frameworks: training; the housing market; much less wage disparity. However there are nonetheless folks inside that who reside in poverty and battle.
Jake When it comes to paying for housing, if something I got here throughout as perhaps slightly extra leftwing than him. I really feel strongly that one of many issues Labour must do extra of, and hasn’t carried out up to now few years, is be much more radical when it comes to inheritance tax. Child boomers have carried out extremely nicely when it comes to property costs.
Chris My argument towards that will be that individuals of the boomer technology who've slightly bit of cash, their children may not have some huge cash and are trapped by the financial cycle. I’m in favour of heavier inheritance tax for millionaires and billionaires, however not for folks leaving £5,000 or £6,000, which might be actually useful.
Jake There’s an terrible lot of luck concerned with inheritance. You don’t select your mother and father. I’m in all probability in favour of 100% inheritance tax. I do know the precise wing of the occasion wouldn’t prefer it, as a result of it hasn’t been by way of the Every day Mail check, however I’m of the view that we must always cease being so timid.
Sharing plate
Chris I’m completely in favour of legalising all medication. I don’t suppose there’s any such factor as unhealthy medication, simply unhealthy software.
Jake I had a view some time in the past that medication must be very closely policed. I’ve turn out to be extra liberal through the years. My rationale is that if persons are shopping for medication illegally, they don’t know what’s in them. I do suppose there’s a bonus to having them decriminalised, so you'll be able to break the hyperlinks between the patron and the legal community.
For afters
Chris We talked about Covid. I’ve obtained slightly little bit of a libertarian streak in me. There ought to undoubtedly be a masks mandate, folks must be vaccinated. I’m so removed from an anti-vax fool, however the concept of a authorities programme of forcing everybody to get a vaccine, in any other case you’re excluded from public life, appears slightly bit distorted to me.
Jake Maybe, unsurprisingly, given who I work for, I really feel fairly strongly about ensuring the whole lot is following the information. You actually do have to be led by consultants, fairly than going with some libertarian fetish. I suppose it’s formed by my expertise – I had fairly a severe well being subject that concerned me being in hospital for 3 weeks in 2020. There’s nothing like being in hospital as a affected person when there’s a pandemic on to make you recognize how severe it's.
Takeaways
Chris No matter niggles it feels like we had, he was a stand-up bloke.
Jake It was a little bit of a bromance, to be sincere.
Extra reporting: Naomi Larsson
Chris and Jake ate at Dobson & Parnell, Newcastle
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