C'est la vie Robbie?

“A lot of it is about being in the Right Place at the Right Time (as our Robbie was).
So good luck to them all.
Soothsayer2 says "few daft pop songs to reel in the millions" believe me if I thought I could do that, I would be singing like a Canary!”

“Why wouldn't the likes of Cheryl Cole, Simon Cowell 'Sir' Elton John and Sting (the music millionaires of the day) want to contribute? After all, how many mansions can one have?

The answer is lots...if you have a combination of luck, hard work, charisma...and more hard work.

Ordinary Johnnies making good... and good luck to them too. None were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and so we should aspire, rather than conspire.

The ability is in all of us, despite our humble beginnings or social class.

We hear of many bemoaning our inclement weather, yet we see none of our unemployed out there shifting snow and making a contribution? Why should they when the benefits of sitting at home are more attractive than securing a job on the minimum wage?”

“Smithy your sweeping generalisation is absurd. Most of the population work long hours with monotonous jobs and get peanuts for doings so. Others inherit their obscene wealth, some make a few daft pop songs to reel in the millions. The system is perverse. You talk about a scrounging minority. Most of us are getting less and less services in the community, the elderly dare not put their fires on. Those who served in the war cannot get benefits. The money from taxing the mega rich would improve public services for all you oaf”

“Is it not Morally obscene for someone to work their balls off and have to hand over 20/30/40/50/75% of THEIR earnings to support the feckless?

If you can get something for nothing we might as well all get on the socialist gravy train....except it doesnt work like that! SOMEONE has to work hard and pay for the £200 billion welfare bill! Paying 75% is digraceful and makes working utterley pointless and reduces any aspiration, its bad enough paying basic rate.

This is what is wrong with this country, and to some extent the world. People always think someone else owes them something and that they should not have to work for it. It is a particular problem after 13 years of Labour social degeneration in this country.”

“Talk about misinformation. Potteruleok you mislead and spread scare stories so others might think that to tax the mega rich is a Communist thing or something else sinister. What is sinister is your negative spin on something you obviously know nothing about. For some to have multi Mansions and others to be homeless is morally obscene; that is the truth of the matter. It is logical to tax them.”

“Seriously, have you looked at France recently??

You think life is bad here then in France its 10 time worse since the mad Socialist loon got into power.

Unemployment is rising, taxes are rising, tensions are rising, debt is rising.

It is exactly the same as WILL happen here when the state dependent sheeples vote Ed Milliband and is socialist circus into power in 2015.”

“Potterruleok
I agree with you 100%, no mention of the Bamfords (JCB) or Branson (Virgin) etc who employ thousands of people and keep familys in homes/food.”

“So is Raftery advocating this idiotic socialist mandate from the borderline commy French president's 75% tax on the "rich" ?? The socialist government, whether in Britain or France pray constantly on the masses by taxing them to death then returning their own money back to them in the form of entitlements and government spending. They pay you not to work, to have babies (usually our of wedlock)anything that will keep you voting for them while anybody who dare do something for themselves and maybe get rich from it are punished for doing so. What happens to a country when all this takes effect ? Lazy people, low moral standards, low pay, less jobs, the collapse of the middle class, no pride and when a worldwide recession comes about, no money which really makes the lazy masses angry because the government, who is dependent on taxes, has to make huge cut backs due to lack of money. Cut backs mean less money for the free loaders, less money for the government in general to hand out. So the "rich" are an easy target. How dare they have money, how dare they work for themselves and make millions while the lazy masses sit around with their hands out. So lets tax them to death and give the money out to those free loaders to keep them happy so they will vote for them again.”

“Which is worse, a rich hypocrite who wants to improve the living conditions of the poor whilst living in luxury, or a rich person who couldn't give a toss about the poor whilst living in luxury?”

“Many of these people in showbusiness or general celebritydom are hypocrites. Many say they are left wing and preach left of centre values and politics yet have a number of mansions or expensive cars etc. Even the most hard core of leftists are as bad eg Arthur Scargill and Billy Bragg who reside in mansions yet preach socialism. At the bottom of all this is hypocrisy and greed. American Michael Moore is another with a series of mansions around the world. There are no genuine working class heroes anymore and the ones that purport to be are frauds.”