Whitey Grandad

How much?

The problem with the 'scroungers' is that there are so many of them. £26,000 take-home is a hell of a lot of money, there are plenty of hard-working families on much less than that. As for overcrowding, the evidence is all around us. Official figures put the UK population at over 60 million but I remember when it was only 50 million. This figure is an underestimate. Some supermarket estimates put it at nearer 80 million. Immigration and emigration records at ports and airports stopped in the early 1960s so the government figure is a wet-fingered guess. I don't see why you quote 77% on 5.8% of the land? Cities are the most efficient method of housing people in high densities so you would expect something like that. There is not enough land in Britain (note that includes Scotland) to feed more than about 22 million people so spread us all out and we shall starve.

If there's money to be made then it will happen. The problem with just cutting down unilaterally on emissions is that the Chinese will bugger it all up. It's no good being holier and poorer if it was all for nothing.

We could end up with a frozen planet.

Don't worry, it was just a jerk reaction.

Yup, I agree with all of that.

Nothing wrong with tax avoidance. It's not even illegal.

The reason we're short of housing is because the country is grossly overcrowded, mainly due to net immigration although many would like to deny that. Another big factor is the increase in the number of single-parent families. I only chose Tony Blair because he is an easy target. Instead of staying in politics and serving the community that put him where he is he buggered off at the first opportunity. There are plenty of others of all political hues. I have no problem with anybody passing on wealth to their children. What really irks me is the number who have decided that they will live off the state, which basically means they are living off their fellow citizens.

Why use a greek word when a german one does the job perfectly well?

No I can't and yes I do.

What type of land are we talking about? Arable land, pasture, central city?

I noticed in the Football League rules that a club that is relegated from The Championship will receive parachute payments. Does anybody know the amount?

Some of us? Is there anybody here who is not affected in the slightest by even the smallest, niggling, uneasy scintilla of doubt?

Yes, that is an overall figure which may have been boosted by those that ended up there without too much stress and may have been reduced by those who have fallen back at the last. Without more details as Patrick Moore might say, "we just don't know".

Is this new?? I don't think away goals count in the playoffs. They certainly didn't at Pride Park.

Sure, why not? You're just jealous. Are you happy that Tony Blair, to take just one example, has got filthy rich whilst screwing over the rest of us?

The amount of land per person is much higher there.

Not exactly pantomime. I have relatives who lived in the country and suffered such behaviour in the early part of the last century. And for the record, take away everything from what you call the rich and it would make very little difference to the tax burden. What's worse, some people having a lot of wealth, or lots of people living off the state all their lives?

Opens midnight of the last game of the season according to the Football League's own rulebookand the Premier League is the same, so who do you choose to believe? Please don't ask me what happens to teams in the playoffs. Don't forget that other countries have different start dates for the window.

9 times out of 24 in the Championship (or its equivalent). There was some discussion on this on another thread. 3 out of 8 or 37.5%. But that is an overall figure that does not take into account the psychological effect of leading all season and falling back at the last hurdle.

Nutshell.

Denmark is completely different to England. The population density is mucvh lower than here for a start.

The state needs to find ways of reducing expenditure rather than dreaming up yet more ways of stealing our money from us. It's no different from the robber barons going to the peasants' cottages and taking anything they fancied.

That would be extreme in the least. The problem with inheritance planning and saving for your old age is that you don't know when you are going to die. What would be the point of working that bit extra if the state could pull the rug out from under your feet at any time. What's comforting is the thought that if you do have to leave this life early your children will have the benefit of your hard work. Under your scheme nobody would ever bother to lift a finger if they thought that it could all be taken away at a moment's notice. What the state needs to do is reduce its spending to half what it is at the mmoment and cut overall taxes to around 20 to 25% and then the economy (that's you and me) can flourish without this millstone round our necks that's draging us under, to mix my metaphors.

If that were true the earth would have gone to some extreme and stuck there sometime in the last 4 billion years. There have been several extended periods when we have been an icy lump.