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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/11/george-osborne-budget-plan-mistake-revealed George Osborne's sums questioned by the organisation that provided him with the figures!

http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/FACompetitions/TheFACup/Fixtures.aspx

I know who Bradley Smith is. At least BBC have the rights to Moto GP, so he should be on their radar.

4th Qualifying Round: Bath City vs AFC Totton Dover v Eastleigh Heybridge Swifts or Farnborough v Salisbury Also, Paulton v Chippenham

Gah. Was hoping for another 7pm game! Oh well.

Although I still feel Cav should win, I have two more suggestions: 1) Dario Franchitti - after a year out he has returned to Indy Car and won the Championship. 2) Phil "The Power" Taylor. Another amazing year, but this time he has won ALL five major ranking events (not sure how many times he has done this, but quite rare), the World Championship, UK Open, Las Vegas Desert Classic, World Matchplay and World Grand Prix. An amazing year, and he has taken darts to another level. He probably won't even get mentioned by the Beeb.

Considering it's got nothing to do with the government, one can only assume you are just an attention-seeking mong.

I have never said I should pay less tax. I have been talking about the poorest in society, those living on the minimum wage, who earn about £11,000 a year. Those are the tax levels that need reducing. We should do it by raising the allowance on which people don't pay tax from the current £6,700, to about £10,000. This would take millions of our lowest earners (not me!), out of tax altogether, putting £700 back in their pockets. We should close some of the tax loopholes that the super-rich enjoy, and we should change Council tax to a Local Income Tax, so that it is a fair not arbitrary taxation. I don't believe that is communist, I believe that is fair. In no way would it mean the rich end up taking home the same amount of money as the poorest - that is far from fair either.

3.45 Salisbury Poppet's Lovein

Bath City won 4-1 away at Bishops Cleeve with a solid, if unspectacular performance. Shock of the round was probably Paulton Rovers beating Newport County, who are currently top of Conference South. 4th qualifying round draw today.

Unlikely to be on tele, because they can't confirm that date yet. The preceeding weekend is FA Cup 1st Round weekend, and I'd imagine there is a very good chance of Charlton or us having our game moved to the Sunday for televised coverage. That would mean the JPT game would likely be moved to the Wednesday.

Yup. Everyone who is poor is leaching. Even those who work full-time in a minimum wage job (which would get them about £11k p.a.). Damn those leachers. What? They're doing the best they can? Never? Surely all poor people are just leaching off me? I'm off to find a tax loophole. Your attitude is exactly why many people hate the Tories.

I'll agree with that!

Probably going to miss it. How annoying. Maybe there will be a repeat at midnight, or something.

What I do know is that they sold over half their starting XI from last year, brought in a totally new manager, and gave him until the first week of October. That is ridiculous.

1) Income tax is one of the fairest taxes. However, sadly we rely on high levels of indirect and unfair taxation, which hit the poorest the hardest. That is unfair. What was also worse was that Gordon Brown scrapped the 10p tax rate (one of the best things he introduced). Many of the poorest in society were surviving just because of that rate. 2) The Council Tax is the most remarkably unfair tax in this country. It takes NO account of ability to pay, and ruthlessly takes from poorer people based on old house valuations. It is unfair. Many pensioners are finding that their modest family home is now falling into Council Tax bands D, or even E, and many clearly don't have the ability to pay that level of tax. It is time the Council Tax was scrapped, and replaced with a fairer Local Income Tax, so rich people pay more. 3) One of the most laughable things is better off people whinging that they might have to pay some tax. Boo hoo. You are so much better off than some of the poorest in city that you just don't know it. I earn less than £20k per year, but even I know how lucky I am compared to many others. Your attitude to jobs stinks as well. Many people work very hard, but are simply unable to do jobs that aren better paid. There is nothing wrong with their work ethic, but they do what they can do. They are continually being shafted by successive governments, because the better off get away with tax loopholes, and whinging about tax.

Re: Cameron "There is less to him than meets the eye."

Justice has to be seen to be done.

^ Bit OTT!

This group included 0 Tories. Not one of them a) saw it coming, b) had any idea what to do to try and minimize the impact. They would still make cuts NOW and throw this country back into recession.

Pathetic.

Ridiculous. Football is pathetic these days.

I agree with both of these points, although of course I would point out the Labour today are not what Labour have tradionally stood for. You are, of course, right that the gap between rich and poor has got worse, and that is largely because Labour ran scared of implementing the reforms that were needed at the time. In terms of the levels of ruinous mess, as much as Alistair Darling isn't my favourite person, George Osborne was hopelessly out of his depth in responding to the financial crisis, and I dread to think of the state the country would be in now had he been the man making the decisions. Of course, had it been Vince Cable...

Oh ye of little knowledge. Firstly, the higher band of income tax only comes into effect on earnings OVER that level. However, we suffer lots of indirect taxation. You have highlighted one great one. Council Tax. It is the most unfair tax ever, based on a totally flawed system of house valuations. In cases, pensioners on the state pension (through virtue of living in a family home used by the family over generations, which has increased in value) are forced to pay the same as some on hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. That isn't right, nor is it fair. It is not a society I enjoy living in. The Tories, and morally dubious people such as yourself and colinjb, might have an "I'm alright Jack" attitude, but if the country was left to run like that it would fall apart (in many cases it is still only now we are suffering the wrongs of the last Tory government). I certainly will do all I can to stop your selfish attitude prevailing.

Time to scrap all our nuclear subs and save £70billion. Thats a public sector squeeze I'm in favour of.