My point is that the system does not help people on a low wage; this increases the amount of people on long term unemployment rather than having a low income job. With council tax, 20% tax on low earners and a loss of benefits in kind you are better off doing nothing than taking a job with a lower income. Not only does this mean people often subsidies there benefits with undeclared work it is also a disincentive to get a job, hence landing us in the situation Britain is in today. If more was done to help lower income earners, like getting rid of council tax on people earning less than £15k then it would encourage the long term unemployed to work and help people who are just entering the jobs market.

Your argument against that is that may rich people have no income so they don’t have to pay. For someone who seems to be socially liberal you seem to think it is perfectly alright for people to do nothing, instead of encouraging them to take up work and possibly increasing social mobility for themselves and their family.

I'm not saying its legal money. I'm not even saying it's a nice BMW, but there are a lot of people in this city who seem to have a huge amount more than they have contributed. You may think this is fair and expectable, people suffer for bad upbringings and low self esteem. This needs to be tackled, along with the way educational establishments often forget or discard people from these backgrounds and preventing social mobility from an early age.

I do think the currents system is very unfair on people who have very little, look at students and very low income earners. You have to live somewhere and I am in a lowish council tax band, but it is still unfair that I have to borrow to survive. Why work for low salaries when you are better off doing nothing? That is a very good question and possibly one of the reasons people who would be on a low income are now doing nothing at all. Maybe council tax should be measured on net wealth not the size of property? I agree people who earn more should pay more, but I think a proportion of that should subsidise people on a low income which in turn will help social mobility and the culture of long term unemployment.

What about people on very very modest incomes having to pay a stupid amount of council tax?

I have a very small flat in the city by small I mean the size of an average double bedroom. I am currently working in a year’s internship on a very low salary. Not only do I get the small amount of my salary that is over the none taxable amount taxed at 20% I also get screwed over on council tax.

I am entitled to no kind of government aid and have to borrow a small amount off my parents each month to afford to eat and occasionally go out. I see Mr Jonny Glasgow smack head with a free house, free booze and fag money and a nice BMW.

I am trying to improve my future; I feel my low income job will be worth it in the long run as it gives me experience and an opportunity to get my foot in the door. Hopefully it will pay for itself in the long run.
So people who argue for this unfair tax, do you think it is fair that I subsidies people who are clearly not helping society or themselves when I have to borrow to pay for accommodation, food and pay all my own taxes?

Blair hates Gordon so much he is going to lose him the election by campaining for him.

Vince came across as the only one willing to be slightly frank with the public, this made the other two look like camera playing idiots.

Labour bought that one in last year.

9000% tax on girls jeggings / legging over size 10.

Heavy pet in a public swimming pool.

In Surrey every man and his dog has one.

Planet x are really good value for money. Look at Ribble too. You don't need to spend loads, I race and train on an alloy bike that costs a lot less than that and it is more than suitable.

Liar, there was still snow going over the crow road just outside Glasgow today. As for the grit, my roady is now a horrible brown colour.

Just a few years back, still look better than the new ones.

Only if they are made from fresh King Edward potatoes and covered in the finest French brie

Bite to eat, 10 minutes back to work. No time for lunch.

If you can cap it, because it's going to go up a lot!

Go on!

You can use it for this once you've finished with it!

He's just to used to playing 18 holes.

Get one like mine!

CLASSIC CARS ARE NOT CHEAP

But they are as fun as hell and you grow very attached to them. It will open up a whole new world.

I highly recommend the MG, you can fix anything with a spanner, hell thats how BL put them together. You can always get parts and they are so much fun to drive!

PISTONHEADS

Whilst travelling in Peru our group found a dead body wrapped up in a carpet. It was on the side of a motorway bridge near a very dodgy slum area of Lima.

We go out of there pretty quickly!

A weak pound is good for the UK, it increases the price of imports building a stronger internal economy. A weak pound for a long period may rebuild some of the industry we lost and dreadfully need to get back.

8 at the moment. Hate the idea of leaving Glasgow in September. Have a great life, beautiful girldfriend and all my hopes and dreams in the city but there are always new things in new places.

Boycott fat people!

We had this in our house, we had 5 guests and my sister over a period of 3 years see the figure in the downstairs hallway. I never had a problem but the room always had a strange feel. It's gone now.

The bankers and I will survive, all the really posh people have house names!

Bite the bullet for the first few years, it will slowly come down. Trying to be a cheap skate with named driver etc means you will be in the same situation next year or whenever he gets his own car. They're the ones selling the product they know all the loop holes.

My road tax is £15 a year, on a car and a motorbike. Far cheaper than a shoddy tshirt!

4 miles each way, 38:13 with legs of steel!

Bloody hell trail rat, major grinding for you then.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-plan-drones

Will we have any kind of civil libities left in a few years?

I wonder when they will introduce the papers, neighbourhood policing and concentration camps.

Until deprived, uneducated people are not grouped together in the same uneducated and deprived areas breading uneducated and deprived children this type of problem will not go away. Ultimately this and the canal behaviour occurs because parents and society do not know how to or often care about bringing their children.
There is clearly a lack of security, love and attention given to children from deprived families at an age where they need it to develop. Until this fundamental fault with society is sorted this type of behaviour will continue, this is not a modern problem but I do not think technology has helped the situation. When parents believe that an uncensored television or violet games console makes a worthy substitute for their time, love and affection children of an impressionable age will grow up to think it normal to act in violent ways and show a lack of emotion, respect and passion towards other individuals.
The tenet areas of Glasgow are a perfect example of this; hiding and ignoring the underprivileged lead to a huge influx of crime and violence. At the age of 10 all you know is the environment you have grown up in, if this is dirty, deprived and volatile then this will seem normal. Until families like this are educated, lifted from poverty and accepted into society this problem will get worse.
It is clearly not the children’s fault, they knew what they did was wrong, but not the extent of their crime. They also are not aware of the extent of their sentence. The uneducated parents are certainly to blame because they created a volatile atmosphere whilst the children grew up, but should they be punished? Surly the way families like this are left to rot on the fringes of society plays a huge part in these types of crimes, so if you really want to ‘sort out’ these kind of children education and motivation would be far more helpful than hanging or jail.

General election coming up, Labour will save us from those awful made up terrorists!

Thin 5'10" and a tad over 10 stone.

Trainspotting, the book is so much better than the already great film.

Good question! Where are last years flashy carbon ones?

If I was that fat I wouldn't wear a coat either, seals survive.

My MGB GT, by a country mile.

I'm going to pour you a pint of concrete so you can harden the **** up!

Centre of Glasgow, just brown sludge left 🙁

Of course, road bike every day so far!