Its the same over here Glen. We have a growing number of people who've decided its far too much like hard work to get a job and they'd much rather claim benefits and stay at home...

So anyone who earns a wage gets totally clobbered with the taxes to plug the HUGE budget deficit that clown Brown and his dark-eyebrowed sidekick have run up, which currently stands at about £1.2 TRILLION if I remember right.

I wouldnt mind paying the taxes so much if the services were any good, but they're really not! If you want to see a Doctor you wait days for an appointment, the police wont turn up when you call them unless you've actually been shot, the schools are useless (every single person I know who works in a state school says it really is as bad as the papers make out) and if you step outside after dark you get stabbed by some drug addled hoodie.

I live in Pimlico, which is just down the road from Belgravia (just about the most expensive place to live in the world apparently), and its by all means a "nice" area to live. I came out of the house the other week to find the still smoking shell of a Mazda RX8 in the street and a couple of policemen milling around.

I asked one what happened. "Kids.." was his reply. Kids. KIDS!?!? Seriously? A good time for the youth of today is torching a £30k car? And the schools that we pay tax for and the police that we pay tax for cant stop this?

I agree with you totally Glen. Those who put the most in usually get the least out and are last in line when they need something. And usually end up paying some sort of "means tested" fee on top as well.