Whitey Grandad

Cruel, but not really fair. If he'd stayed would she have made it worth his while?

Please don't sully this site with his name. All he was interested in was filling his pipe.

Is it just me or does anyone else find that a bit menacing?

There is some anti-terrorism act that can be applied to almost anything, council offices, railway stations, my back garden, the list the goes on.

Yes, I always look at the way that other countries do things and usually I see a better method.

Yes, and me and Jimmy Carr to some extent, but not those who exist on benefits, it could be argued.

The same people who paid for your schooling.

Complete boycott the only answer. Only a prompt and unqualified apology might save them.

The money was put in without having the systems in place to control it.

I was thinking of the doubling of spending on the NHS (for one example) for around 30% improvement in services. Please don't ask me for a source, these figures come from 3 or 4 years ago. The problems all started with pollock Brown, thinking that you could make things better by throwing money at them.

That's a fair summary, except that public services should be far, far better than they are for the amount that we're spending on them.

To prove they're not a drinker? No, I don't know either.

Greed? What, wanting to keep more than half of what you earn? We are beyond the tax levels at which putting up the rates brings in more money

You must always have an unused one in the car, so if you do ever use one you will still have the spare.

I know that giving them money for nothing in return is not the answer.

I wasn't advocating that, merely pointing out the logical extension of the argument.

Hmm, pay them not to riot?

I read a great quote the other day: 'By the time I realised my dad was right I had a son telling me that I was wrong' I can't find the source, David Schwimmer?

In fairness (to me) I was referring to the rich in general. Jimmy Carr is obviously a special case. Why is it that everybody loves Ken Dodd and finds his tax arrangements a great laugh whilst Jimmy Carr is a target for vilification? Is it because he's not as funny?

But only 0% if it is spent, that might work. So might putting in a bank that could then lend it to entrepreneurial entrepreneurs.

Bloody heck! How much did they weigh? What purity was it?

I sometimes think that teenagers are genetically programmed to be obnoxious just to ensure that they are thrown out of the nest.

If true, we're in trouble.

The first of many, I would expect. Are they running scared already?

Hence the drive towards higher indirect taxation in recent times.