There's been rumours that it's actually even worse than that, that it might be Christmas before he's ready to play.
You’re like me I’ve got radio mag on tonight they are actually celebrating the anniversary of the take over of their club by a murderous regime. That’s lost on me too
This is just beyond words A state sponsored comedy festival where the acts are banned from criticising that State … … presumably the comedians are allowed to mock the countries where they actually live. Jimmy Carr, Jack Whitehall and some of America's biggest comedians are being criticised for performing at the inaugural Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. https://news.sky.com/story/why-top-...cised-for-performing-in-saudi-arabia-13446091
Why be surprised, Jimmy Carr was a beneficiary of a massive tax evasion (avoidance officially as he paid some of it back) scheme about 15 years ago and gig called out on it. A hypocritical [email protected] my opinion.
I don't mind them avoiding tax really, as long as they don't preach at people like the two loathsome Garys. Maybe this character did that too, but greasing up to islamic dictators is a good reason to loathe anyone.
Nobody likes it, but paying taxes is a moral duty. This is the country that's educated us, protected us (military), cared for us (NHS, social care), kept us safe (police, courts), looks after us if we lose our job (benefits), maintains our ability to travel around the country and will support you in your old age when you retire (pensions). It's not perfect, but it's better than most. By avoiding paying your (not accusing you, just a figure of speech) fair share you're shifting the responsibility to others, generally the ones who can't afford fancy accountants and tax avoidance scams. The net result is those who can't avoid taxes get hit more and/or tax funded services get affected. Reducing your tax burden legally through philanthropy or charity, I've no problems with that at all. As JFK said, ask not your country can do for you, but what can you do for your country. If you contribute and put in, I believe you should get something back. But avoiding paying your share because you don't want to? To c@nts like him I'd say, "Look into the eyes of the disabled pensioner and tell her to sell her house to fund her social care. The single parent claiming UC to go to a food bank to feed her kids. The police officer who's over stretched and having to let one set of delinquent chavs go so he can arrest a junkie trouble maker harassing people in the street in another part of the town. The stressed out doctors and nurses in the hospital, the teachers with oversized classes and no way of controlling the disruptive ones. Then explain WHY YOU don't want to pay taxes". After that when he then gets a payday from an oppressive regime, it shows he's a c@nt of the highest order.
Yes, there is no argument for paying no taxes. But there is also evidence, some of which I have come across myself of horrendous waste by the government when it spends money. This is to the serious detriment of the services you mention, though often actually done from their budgets and in their name. I once went to hospital with a knacked knee. Around '89 this. Six at night, put somewhere to wait for an hour or so, maybe less. A surgeon comes to see me, and after assessing me and asking me a bit about myself, agrees to operate in eight days time, which he did. Now the surgeon has lost that decision making capacity to an immense bureaucratic architecture. Today, I'd be waiting months while the system passed the papers around.
I agree, but it still doesn't excuse people like him, Gary Barlow, Gary Lineker, Kerry Katona, Ant and Dec, David Beckham etc from not paying a fair share. He paid 1% tax on £3.3 million. And it's people like us that have to pick up the tab. I just think it's greed and hypocrisy and one that most people in the country can't stand is hypocrisy. Anyway. I've had a few drinks with some mates on a day off and I'm probably a bit more argumentative than normal.
FWIW, I agree with you. Pay your dues, not what you think you’re owed …. too much focus and selfishness around Whatever it is that is driving the latter.
