Tim Barnes

In our dreams :( With the exception of maybe a replacement for Allen the rest of the ITV team will likely move over to the BBC and if anything I fear MORE Hamilton arse licking not less

lyrics as opposed to song title but there was a hideous dance record a few years ago that included the lyrics "I'd rather jack than Fleetwood Mac" can't remember the artist but remember the song Alvin Lee formerly of Ten Years After had the line "Well - go tell Madonna, she don't do nothin' for me I love that rock and roll music, play it like it used to be" in his Play It Like It Used To Be Beatles - Ballad of John and Yoko

n****** With Attitude became NWA Even though they didnt change their name the stupid Guardian reading Radio 1 bosses turned Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine to Carter :manson: not a name change as such but censorship gone mad

While it is not aimed at anyone here there is something about the mentality of Brits that I can't get my head around People that have set up businesses and have made a massive success of their lives through taking risks are sneered at and called "greedy" "fat cats" and so on, in sport losers like Henman and Eddie The Eagle are revered as heroes whereas the likes of Andy Murray, Stephen Hendry and dare I say it Lewis Hamilton and so on are labelled "spoiled brat" "arrogant" because they have a single minded determination to win things, it is really something inbuilt in the British mentality I can't get to grips with, entrepreneurs and risk takers and single minded sportsmen should be looked up to as opposed to be sneered at

Sure the people you mentioned deserve more money than they get and they do work hard but with the exception of the public sector and civil service every company in this country that employs someone was started by a risk taker, an entrepreneur and I think having taken the risk, many companies were set up with property and so on as collateral I believe the system should reward not penalise entrepreneurs and risk takers so I would have no objection at all to the man that took the risk and mortgaged himself to the hilt to set up the factory paying the same rate of tax as the factory workers he is employing, fair reward for risk taking

God, hope not It would be embarrassing beyond belief to see a man who is nearly 80 years old strutting around with a 44 Magnum Sure Bruce, Sly, Ford etc have made follow ups but they are 20 years younger than Clint

Along with the even better Dragon's Den this programme is the best thing on TV

I do think there should be a flat rate of tax for everyone, it is for me the best system for a number of reasons 1) Easier administration so that it keeps Whitehall costs down, there are so many different tax brackets and tax codes and tax allowances, a simple one off right across the board tax rate of say for arguments sake 25% would save millions in Whitehall 2) A flat rate of tax would help retain high earning Brits who are thinking of plying their trade abroad and also help encourage overseas professionals to come here and trade 3) It would mean less penalising of hard work and success, where is the incentive to set up a business or go to medical school for 7 years only to find the government taking 40% of the money + NI ? 4) More disposable income higher up the food chain will filter down right across the board and lead to more jobs in the retail, automotive and leisure sector 5) A low tax rate for the rich would mean less incentive to defraud the inland revenue Originally I would like to have seen income tax scrapped altogether and replaced by a much higher rate of VAT to make up for the lack of income tax but that is not practical

I don't think it should be based on ability to pay that is penalising success and penalising those who work hard for a living, I think the principles of the poll tax were a good idea and maybe a tweaked version of that where everyone has to pay something regardless of income would be fairer whereas your idea Scott sounds too "soak the rich" for me

Whoever wrote that article was clearly either drunk or needs to be checked for alzheimers, there is as much chance of Ferrari having Kimi and Alonso as team mates as there is me being the next pope. Ferrari was absolutely ripped apart by internal strife when Prost and Mansell were team mates and didn't get on, LDM vowed after Prost / Mansell that he would never have 2 strong drivers in the same team again hence why over the years we have seen Schumacher and now Kimi with weak team mates and even in the mid 90's there was not 2 superstar drivers, it is not the Ferrari way 2 superstars in the same team is a recipe for disaster and Ferrari know that and Alonso / Hamilton and before that Mansell / Prost, Raikkonen / Montoya and so on has proved it If Alonso joined Ferrari it would be at the expense of KIMI not Massa

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It is time that a system was bought in where unemployed people do community work in return for their benefits or and maybe a bit extra on top or get no money at all, I don't want to spend my tax money on keeping people sitting at home doing nothing so community programs where unemployed people are putting something back into the community instead of take take take is the way forward

Nothing we can do about it recessions are a global thing, America is in dire straits atm so it will naturally follow that we will get recession too As the saying goes "when America sneezes everyone else catches a cold"

I would not mind paying as much as I do in council tax if the money was being spent in a way that benefits the whole community such as better street lighting, more security, improved leisure facilities, more school books and so on but it seems to be spent in this area anyways on housing illegal immigrants and various crackpot schemes and tons of "outreach co-ordinators" Despite the rise in council tax I am seeing no improvement whatsoever in improved facilities in my area

This is so fattist Surely underweight kids are at as big a risk if not more than overweight kids so if fat kids are at risk of being put into care surely unduly skinny kids who aren't getting enough food should be too Think its unfair to pick on fat kids here

They could hardly do a worse job than Brown tbh but yes a sad reflection of the country we live in

Hideous :o utterly vile medley

How would who is entitled to it be clarified though ? In Consie's article there was a case of a Belgian philosopher who chose to die and it stated he was in the EARLY stages of alzheimers which is in conflict with what you say about latter stages of illnesses, if such laws were bought in it would more likely be the Belgian model than your advanced stages of terminal illness And also what happens with people who are not of sound mind and cannot make such decisions for themselves rationally ? or people who have had tracheotomies or people who are mentally ill....it would set the wrong sort of precedent if families were allowed to decide the fate of a senior relative and indeed open to massive abuse of the system I am debating the issue too with someone on MSN atm and she said that her grandfather wanted to die because she felt she was a "burden on the rest of the family" because she had Parkinsons Disease, sorry but again not wanting to be a burden on relatives is not enough grounds for me for euthanasia While no one likes seeing a relative suffer there are just too many pitfalls and risks of abuse of the system for this to be workable ethically

I don't believe the issue should be about religion, I am as anti religion as you can get but still believe in "natural" life and people being kept alive till they die a natural death, me included I don't think religion should be a factor in the whole thing

I have an arrangement with my family that if I was to be in a situation where I am in a coma and severely brain damaged after say an accident and unlikely to come out of that coma that I be denied food and water so that I can be left to die but if I was conscious then no matter what the illness or condition was and no matter how traumatic its effects I would go "full term" and die a natural death I watched my father go down from 16st to 7st with cancer that started in his lungs and spread to his stomach and he stated that under no circumstances would he ever be euthanised and I have the same attitude

No I disagree However dreadful some people's suffering are no one has a right to play god If we simply allow humans to be put down it makes us no better than cats and dogs Plus I can see the system being abused too with families getting rid of relatives to save on care fees, to get hold of their money if they are wealthy and so on While I can see some moral arguments in humans being put to sleep it is to me ethically wrong

Great news, no more ads :cheer: Hope they don't wheel out senile old Murray though to do the commentary he has been embarrassing beyond cringworthy over the years, Allen is 100 times better than Murray ever was but I hope Croft or Legard get the job

Found her very dull tbh, fair comparison with Dido they are both boring as f**K If I had to choose a song of hers as a fave I would go for Sweetest Taboo but even then it was hardly inspiring stuff

Just shows that Chelsea are scum I hope the next mobile phone inserted up Cole's backside has been dipped in a sample of the ebola virus

Jeff Healey RIP - While My Guitar Gently Weeps Superb version and my fave Beatles cover, even more of an achievement given he was blind MJh3KaIKDAw