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Depends what you consider to be a days work. 8 hours? 10? 12? Or the more usual builders day consisting of turn up an hour and a half late, do a bit of half hearted moving stuff around/drinking tea/sucking in air through teeth for 4 hours, then "we're just off to the builders merchants for...

I'm assuming this is a BG service contract type deal? If so, cancel it. Today. For what you've paid BG over the past 10 years you probably could have had 2 new boilers out of the same money. Like all insurance/extended warranty schemes, it's a total rip-off. Your premiums are used to...

But that's just the point, we don't all pay the same - far from it. Those who pay the most in get the least out, that's closer to communism than it is to capitalism.

By the same argument, all prices charged for all products and services should be based on an individual's income. So, you'd be happy for Tesco's to charge you twice as much for your weekly shop or your tankful of fuel as they'd charge a lay-about on benefits would you? And BTW, your...

It's irrelevant how much wealth a "rich" person has earned. Why should any one person pay a hundred times as much as another into the system, when they're actually receiving far less from it in return. A "rich" person is likely to have substantial savings and so wouldn't be able to get...

Rubbish. The top 1% of earners in the UK pay almost 30% of all the income tax the government receives. Another 35% of the total tax take is paid by those in the higher rate band. Overall, 90% of all the income tax is paid by the top earning half of the workforce. The poor don't even...

The only real answer is to abolish all income based taxes, both personal and corporate, and move to a purely consumption tax based model. VAT may well then need to be 30 or 40% and levied on all purchases, but if income tax and NI are abolished then who cares? Then it becomes much more...

Yes, it can be - but the M42 Eastbound all the way round the south and eastern sides of Birmingham often comes to a complete standstill for mile after mile, and the M6 back round the north side can be even worse! At a fiver each way for only 27 miles of decent road the M6 toll is just a rip...

For a run from Portsmouth to Manchester I assume you'll be using the M40? If so, then I personally would turn West at the top of the M40 and take the M42 to the M5, then up the M5 to join the M6 at J8. I've always found that to be a quicker route than taking the M42 eastbound and going all...

Migrants as a group may well pay more in tax than they claim in benefits - but taxes need to pay for one hell of a lot more than just state handouts! They also need to pay for schools, hospitals, policing, defence, the bloody EU, roads, railways, prisons, courts, all the other people who work...

So how do you explain this quote direct from the HMRC website? "You are probably employed if you: have to do the work yourself work for one person at a time, who is in charge of what you do and takes on the risks of the business can be told how, when and where you do your...

If the bulk of your work is for one customer or company, and are paid a weekly wage by them, then HMRC are likely to consider you to be employed by them. Your employer then has responsibility for your employers NI contributions, your Health and Safety, your PAYE, your holiday pay, your sick...

So you'd be happy to have been paying insurance premiums of nearly £500 a year on something only for the company to wash their hands of you as soon as there's a problem would you nickso? They will have known what make, model and approximate age the boiler was when they took it on. Having...

You've still been paying for cover on it, and by taking your £40 a month the insurance company have accepted responsibility for fixing it. It's up to them to get it fixed, regardless of what part it needs or how "difficult" it is. Having said that, there's no way that I would use one of...

If you've been paying for a cover contract on it then I'd say it's down to the company to get it sorted one way or the other - even if that means they have to replace the thing - otherwise, what have you been paying out each month for?

Tell them you're going to sign the properties up to a tariff from an electricity supplier which sources at least 10% of it's energy from renewables?

Take accommodation costs out of the equation, along with council tax, insurance, transport costs, prescriptions etc., and add in nearly the same again in tax credits then yes, I could live on Mr Bennett's income. Not comfortably, but like I said I wouldn't starve and I wouldn't freeze...

The £53 a week comes from a question posed by market trader David Bennett, 51, who works between 50 and 70 hours a week and earned around £2,700 last year. His income works out at around £53 per week. He works 50+ hours a week for £2,700 a year???? Someone is hiding the vast majority of his...

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I reckon one of these would do the trick!