Ooh, you've got me all interested now because a former colleague of mine has two restaurants over there. It wasn't called No Patio or No Patio Vas was it? Long shot I know but as you mentioned it

Because it was the current Tory PM who was showing hypocracy on a massive scale.
It hardly surprising then for it to be other Tories in the firing line.
Surely even a Tory nut like you can see the logic there?

Or roughly translated you don't want to risk finding out that your opinion is in conflict with the facts. Typical of you.






When you want your dummy back let me know. It went whizzing past my ear but I think I saw where it landed.

I think you're probably a bit butch to pull that look off successfully, but fair play for giving it a go.

Frankly, I'm disappointed that Jimmy Carr felt the need to apologise. It's not like he's routing all his income through his tax exiled wife and then having the cheek to advise the Government on saving money.

After reading this thread I have come to the conclusion that Standee may also be using the K2 tax scheme.

He also steals chalk from primary schools to 'get his money back'.

Seriously though, we live in a welfare state where we're all expected to contribute, via our taxes, to help provide for societys most vulnerable. If a person doesn't want to comply with that concept, then the UK isn't the place for you to be trading.

As said previously, it comes down to pure greed, and it's this greed that annoys the rest of us who pay our way.

If only standee's parents never wanted kids eh? Who paid for your education

The key issue that someone alluded to above, is that bankers, comedians and even Standee can attribute a large part of any success they have to the fact that they are based in a stable political and social environment. One which needs a government to provide the flower bed from which they can grow and flourish and one that provides the manure (eg an educated workforce) to assist that growth. All those things need paying for, via taxation. This is something market fundamentalists forget or chose to ignore as they start to attribute their success to their ability alone. The question is would Fred Goodwin or AN Other Hedgie be so wealthy and egotistical if they'd been born in Angola 50 years ago? No. So, to people who want to take and never give I say you are just mind numbingly stupid scum.

Jimmy Carr could try telling us that if he has to pay tax, like rest of us, he won't be as funny and he'll eventually have to move to a country that doesn't ask him to pay tax and be funny there.

Can I assume you are using the right words, but not necessarily in the right order?

It's interesting that you equate an educated workforce with the word manure. Fertiliser might have been a better choice of words.
But perhaps that says something about you.

100% agree.
It's only take 11 years to get you to this point

It was a sarcastic analogy aimed at another poster who has demostrated utter contempt for many human beings.

what gives you the right to say when the thread should be locked? What are you some sort of thread nazi. Bloody little hitler

They're not all the same: [url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-billionaires-who-do-pay-their-bills-including-james-dyson-and-jk-rowling-7873607.html?afid=afJames Dyson & JK Rowling pay their whack[/url

In 2006, Dyson contributed £9m of the £14.7m that was paid by the 54 billionaires in the UK at the time.

As for Rowling, in completely contrary attitude to Standee's, she said: [i"A second reason was that I am indebted to the welfare state... When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major, was there to break the fall." [/i

[url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/voices/2012/06/tax-avoidance-isnt-left-or-right-issue-its-cancer-eating-our-democracyGood to see HMRC has got its priorities right[/url

[iOver the last few years HMRC spent £633,000 on publicity around tackling high-end tax evasion, compared to £17.5m on publicity around tackling benefit fraud.[/i

No it was this one [urlhttp://www.izzysbeachrestaurant.com/[/url, you know how most pubs here do a "Two for £10" Sunday lunch ?

Well Izzy's is "Two for 110 euro", but its worth it

You're a fully grown man and you weigh ten stone
If it was survival of the fittest you would be stored in my bedside cabinet as an emergency toothpick.

I'm incredibly butch, but also a bit fey when I want to be.

It also makes me look a bit like Rick Stein from a distance, which is most useful when you walk into a restaurant...

I wouldn't define Cameron as "sucessful" in the sense that he has succeeded at something. He inherited wealth from his father ( a tax avoider) and married wealth ( daughter of another tax avoider) He was educated at a school that claims charitable status in order to avoid tax. Neither he (nor Osbourne nor any of this sordid lot) has any right to condemn someone for avoiding tax.
You're right though. A proper Labour government would have done something about it, but they didn't dare to be a proper Labour government, because four election defeats largely engineered by the [iright-wing[/i bias in the media, taught them that basically they couldn't and still remain in power.

Quite.

Why - do you like cooking?

I can turn my hand to a wonderful Vesta Chow Mein...

I've refused to be drawn on Cameron in the past, simply for the obvious reactions of ''oh you're just jealous'' blah blah. But that's it now, the man is a weasel, a useless, out-of-touch, bandwagon-jumping, hypocritical piece of turd. I almost choked on my own tears of laughter when he described it as 'morally wrong''.. even before i read some of the posts on this thread regarding his inheritance and so forth.

What a complete bag, he needs getting rid of

The country has become far too socialist? ... after Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown and now Cameron?
Bloody hell, I have heard everything now.

Survival of the fittest within a species involves a lot of them dying.
Unlike your stated beliefs, I believe in civilisation.