sandwichsaint

Couldn't agree more - tax, who needs it? Need a policeman? £150 call out fee and £200 per hour or part of. Health service? Call the help line, only 38p a minute or join the online interactive service for just £12.99 a month. You want to see a real doctor, £100 for a 15 minute consultation, prices start at £250 for them actually doing anything. Hospital admission, £100 a day plus treatment. Maybe you could cover it all with private insurance if you could afford it? You could if you wanted to be like the USA which has the most expensive medical system in the world and the one with the most unequal outcomes. Education? A place at a bog-standard state school will set you back around 5.5k per child per year, plus extras (small bonus here though as the majority of families couldn't afford this so lower class sizes yippee! Though there might be an economic downside to withdrawing universal education and only educating those who could afford it?). Roads? Road pricing should do that ... Mway 75p mile, trunk roads 40p mile, urban driving 50p mile hey, no queues but an enormous add-on to the cost of anything you want to buy, sounds good to me. Benefits? No benefits at all, not child benefit, not unemployment benefit, not sickness benefit, not disability benefit, no nice tax reliefs. Pensions? No, none, provide your own or work till you drop. Forces? None, just private security firms available to the highest bidder and those that can pay. I think you need to stop and have a little think about what your tax actually pays for, most people in the current situation would think themselves extremely fortunate to be in a position to pay 40% tax .... you do realise that being in the 40% tax bracket puts you in the top 15% of earners and 50k puts you in the top 10% of earners? (and you don't pay '40% of what we earn', you have a tax free lump first, and then a lump at 20% too before you begin to pay 40%).

What happened to Germany's 1% after 1998? Nice graphic BTW, good to see that the French, German and Aussie 1% have managed to rub along on a broadly similar share of GDP for the last 40 years. Only in the UK and the USA have the bestest deemed themselves to be worth more than twice as much now as they were 40 years ago. On this graphic the remaining 99% of Brits shared about 92% of the national pie 40 years ago, nowadays the 99% get by on just over 80% of GDP. If you see Sid tell him.

AL getting rave reviews on RAWK this weekend, if Tadic moves to a top 4 club can I be the first to say he wasn't all that anyway?

Been there, done that, twice. UKC c1977/8 Canterbury Odeon + one year .... two storming gigs.

Pretty much this for those who are saying 'he contributed nothing'; he's pretty much dedicated his life since he was 8 or 9 years old to being a professional footballer, I'm sure his family (brothers/sisters etc.) have made massive sacrifices to support this. Everybody wants to do it, some people even think they could it, but it's given to very few to have the right combination of talent, support, opportunity, luck and above all determination and hard work to make a go of it. He's moved on, we've brought in Gardos and Toby with the proceeds and freed up a permanent place for Clyne, and with something to spare too - what's not to like? If I had been there last night (gutted that I wasn't) I would have panto-booed him every time he went near the ball and then given him a clap when he came over at the end. And that's it now, done.. I can't stand the way Theo and Ox come over after every game and we (some of us, not me) cheer them more than we cheer our own players, weird.

Watching Lambert at the moment is like visiting an elderly relative, painful. I'd like to remember him in his prime, smashing in Roy of the Rovers goals and encapsulating everything about the wonderful journey we've been on. His beetroot-factory-to-scoring-for-England journey is one of the best football stories for years with SFC at the heart of it. Fair play to him, he has set his family up for life and captained 'his' team, but nowadays I just pay a brief visit and leave with a small tear in my eye.

Hardly his fault. You'd have thought that somebody would have checked that they had a pair of shorts big enough before they wrote out the cheque.

Loving Big Ron's anti football-manager outfits. He always looks like an exec from a minor multi-national on a dress-down Friday, or a dentist on apres ski in Colorado, cool as fu-k our Ron. Anyone watching MOTD? Rio Ferdinand for 80k a week? No thanks.

Successive away wins! Big Ron must wonder what this PL fuss is all about.....

Glad we matched Swansea's tactics second half!

Goals from everywhere this season!

Getting going now, just need Long and Pelle to get on the same page.

Surely we need to change our mentality to the home team? Get control in the middle of the park (VW) and release the FBs to get fd and get some service into the front players. I don't expect RK to sit back for 45 mins and try and neutralise their 10 men. We will keep it tight for another 15 mins but then we need to stretch their 10 men to tire them and force mistakes.

Rattle off a win here and we will be second, a couple of goals on the GD and we will likely be top right through the weekend.

I hope that's the other way round!

If we get to HT at 0-0 we ought to go on and win this, RK has been very adept at fashioning changes and improvement in the second half.

First one wasn't far off a red on its own, thoroughly deserved.

Decent words, what's the tune?

Methinks the greeting-card copywriters' loss is the photocopying-and-stationary world's gain .

Mane, so we say He's got a good club with more pay and he's OK, Saints are on the up, Pompey are on the dole Think he'll score us another goal, Mane! Pink Floyd.

You might want to re-phrase that last sentence?

Keegan?

I'm in, never been able to get tickets for the Emirates but been to Highbury plenty of times. Wanted Arsenal/Fulham/Palace away (in reverse order) so can't really complain..... but we will need two of yesterday's second halves and their squad/youth X1 will need a massive off-day for us to go any further.

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£9.5m ... Les's final take-it-before-Friday bid.