Why can't there be an additional element of tax where the taxpayer could decide what the money would be spent on - a bit like the green discs in Waitrose. This would be true democracy. Also a large proportion of money donated to charity could be ring fenced so that it couldn't be spent on fat cat salaries and fancy offices.
As long as the money doesn't go on the same weird stuff that Waitrose green discs go on. I swear every time I get one I have to choose between 'Horse riding for the terminally Irish' 'Community break dancing lessons for the over 80s' and 'cage fighting for local toddler groups'.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
There’s plenty of money in this country, just ask the ‘fat cats’ what their salaries and bonuses are.
and ask your local MP how much he makes with other work. Mine manages to squeeze in over £500,000 whilst claiming to be a full time MP. Ha ha, as if. Pigs in a trough.
Why can't there be an additional element of tax where the taxpayer could decide what the money would be spent on - a bit like the green discs in Waitrose.
As long as the money doesn't go on the same weird stuff that Waitrose green discs go on. I swear every time I get one I have to choose between 'Horse riding for the terminally Irish' 'Community break dancing lessons for the over 80s' and 'cage fighting for local toddler groups'.
I laughed out loud at that w.edges. Nearly choked on my tea I know what you mean - we have them at our local A*da too, and I often feel like handing them back to the checkout girl. Hardly ever anything I'd want to contribute to.
On a less curmudgeonly note [is that allowed?] the No 1 single this Christmas is totally ridiculous, but they're giving all the proceeds to charity. Timely, I think.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
You’ve managed to be very curmudgeonly while I was away yesterday. Well done i quite like the W’rose green tokens ... the choice of charities usually includes at least one that I know from my work provides real help and support to disabled/disadvantaged/vulnerable children and/or struggling families ... often charities that I turned to in my job when seeking support for cases that didn’t quite meet LA criteria in these days of austerity. Very often the name and description of the organisation doesn’t show the real picture of the valuable work they do ... just saying
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
On a less curmudgeonly note [is that allowed?] the No 1 single this Christmas is totally ridiculous, but they're giving all the proceeds to charity. Timely, I think.
It does show just how ridiculous and pointless the charts are these days, but I do love the fact that a song with the line "We built this city on sausage rolls" can beat the established performers, with all their record company resources, to No1.
It is this PC world with H&S the Police Fire and Ambulance services are not allowed to go into danger??? I had three months as a Regimental Policeman in the Army with a short trundgeon and nothing else six of us were expected to break up the Saturday Night dance bust up and we did. We once marched over fifty men up through the woods to Otley Camp after sorting out the trouble and never lost one of them. A Police force is meant to be aggressive to wrong doers, Firemen and Ambulance people are supposed to be able to do their work without fear yet pictures in the local papers show children throwing stones at them and stealing from their vehicles without fear. One Policeman in our village when I was young kept the peace, sorted out trouble makers and had us kids in total fear not only from him but if he told our parents we got even more trouble, it was rumoured he once threw three drunks in the Village pond to sober them up, I can see the Lawyers queueing up if that happened today. This tap on the hand don't be nasty to the culprits often caught red handed, the fear of being taken to court instead of the wrongdoer because you breached their human rights has put the law in the hands of the wrongdoer, in time we will see local defence volunteers walking the streets with pick axe handles to defend our own property. Either that or a Civil uprising against the stupidity of the PC world. Frank.
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I know what you mean - we have them at our local A*da too, and I often feel like handing them back to the checkout girl. Hardly ever anything I'd want to contribute to.
On a less curmudgeonly note [is that allowed?] the No 1 single this Christmas is totally ridiculous, but they're giving all the proceeds to charity. Timely, I think.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
i quite like the W’rose green tokens ... the choice of charities usually includes at least one that I know from my work provides real help and support to disabled/disadvantaged/vulnerable children and/or struggling families ... often charities that I turned to in my job when seeking support for cases that didn’t quite meet LA criteria in these days of austerity.
Very often the name and description of the organisation doesn’t show the real picture of the valuable work they do ... just saying
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I had three months as a Regimental Policeman in the Army with a short trundgeon and nothing else six of us were expected to break up the Saturday Night dance bust up and we did. We once marched over fifty men up through the woods to Otley Camp after sorting out the trouble and never lost one of them. A Police force is meant to be aggressive to wrong doers, Firemen and Ambulance people are supposed to be able to do their work without fear yet pictures in the local papers show children throwing stones at them and stealing from their vehicles without fear.
One Policeman in our village when I was young kept the peace, sorted out trouble makers and had us kids in total fear not only from him but if he told our parents we got even more trouble, it was rumoured he once threw three drunks in the Village pond to sober them up, I can see the Lawyers queueing up if that happened today.
This tap on the hand don't be nasty to the culprits often caught red handed, the fear of being taken to court instead of the wrongdoer because you breached their human rights has put the law in the hands of the wrongdoer, in time we will see local defence volunteers walking the streets with pick axe handles to defend our own property.
Either that or a Civil uprising against the stupidity of the PC world.
Frank.