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Listed below are comments made by mwj666 between Thursday, 5th February 2009 and Tuesday, 28th July 2009.

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Hard-core smokers 11:21pm on 28 Jul 2009 I WISH people would check stats before they print them... smokers will not 'probably' die early of smoking, the last figure I saw was 1 in 7 early deaths were contributed to by smoking, which hardly qualifies as 'probably'.

What it 'probably' means is that if anyone who smokes dies (and lets face it, we all do sooner or later) then de facto they must have died because they smoke which is rather putting the cart before the horse!
When we need politicians 4:15pm on 03 Jul 2009 They left an obvious option off the poll choices ... 'Drop the billions being spent, unapproved and unannounced, on transforming Britian into a micro-monitored fascist state run for the benefit of we-know-best pressure groups'.

For example: just who do YOU think is paying for the spy cameras that are springing up at a frightening rate on motorway bridges, traffic lights, road signs, mobile masts, fixed masts, Granny's zimmer frame etc etc to say nothing of the massive infrastructure that supports them and keeps track of everywhere we go and everything we do? Yes thats right, the poor old taxpayer is!

This isn't government spending as planned by Government (and voted on by the electorate) its government spending as demanded by (unelected) pressure groups - in this it's case the Police but one way or another all Government spending (and policy) seems to be aimed at appeasing one pressure group or another.

Can we go back to government by Government after the next election please Mr Cameron....
Why tax the rich? 5:58pm on 28 Apr 2009 I really don't understand all this 'it is only fair that the well-off contribute more' malarkey - even an elementary grasp of maths will make it clear that someone paying 40% tax on £100k per year is already contributing considerably more than someone paying 20% tax on £15k per year, not to mention all the additional taxes accrued when that money gets spent!

This has nothing to do with helping UK PLC out of its mess (which, before anyone says I am biased, I DO agree a small minority of the 'wealthy' did help create - but that doesn't mean everyone should get tarred with the same brush) and everything to do with 'playing to the gallery' with more than half an eye on new/old Labour getting stomped into the mud at the next general election.

On a more-or-less related topic they could very easily save much more money than this 'drive-the-entrepreneurs-abroad' tax farce ever will by scrapping the (totally pointless and ideological) identity card scheme and abandoning all their plans for recording ever more intrusive data on our everyday lives on yet more multi-billion pound databases - 'war on terror' my eye, any vaguely computer-literate terrorist worth his salt could get round every single Government 'anti terror' initiative in about 5 minutes flat.

PS - no I do not earn anything LIKE enough to get hit by the tax increases, or at least not THIS round of increases anyway!
'I've never joined Facebook because...' 4:28pm on 05 Feb 2009 'I never joined Facebook because....' I've got a life

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