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[Rebecca Loos]

AtW, I would have thought that you, as a Russian, would have known that not everything people spend their money on has got VAT or duty attached to it.

Some of it legal (baby products, milk, books)
Some of it less (contraband fags, drugs, fake Versace gear, cars "imported" from Germany - you know the ones with Lithuanian number plates)
If you're after anything like that, come to East London and your countrymen can sort you out, no worries

Recently the police found in Forrest Gate (East London) a Lithunian parallel economy, covering their own postal service, an illegal unregistered petrol station, and all services like hairdressing, groceries etc, none of it VAT-registered or even declared of course...

So I don't think GB sees everything that's going on.... some would say thank God! Not everyone wants to contribute to Whitehall pension funds

[DimPrawn]

Absolutely. Before the current government started doing it, I'd have thought only an idiot would devise a system where you have:

* one army of bureaucrats taking money away from you

* a second army giving it back, and

* a third army trying to sort out the mess created by the first two!

Gordon Brown clever? Do me a favour.

What's more fecking stupid? The reality you describe so accurately above, or the feckless morons that vote these cnVts in, again and again and again

[Chessplayer]

I would like to view a definitive weekly financial breakdown of how all the public sector money has been allocated & subsequently spent.
If my demands are not met then some unsuspecting Hirudinea of parliment will be kidnapped & tortured.

[AlfredJPruffock]

I would like to view a definitive weekly financial breakdown of how all the public sector money has been allocated & subsequently spent.
If my demands are not met then some unsuspecting Hirudinea of parliment will be kidnapped & tortured.

This snippet might be of interest.

From the Scotsman online ....


AN ELITE group of senior Scottish Executive civil servants are to share a taxpayer-funded "golden goodbye" of nearly £1.8 million when they retire, The Scotsman can reveal.

On top of pensions of up to £80,000 a year, the 16 civil servants will be given lump sum payments averaging more than £100,000 when they reach the age of 60.

Last night, opposition politicians called for the Executive's pension rules to be reviewed because of the growing disparity between the highest levels of the civil service and the rest of the public and private sectors.

The pension details of members and recent former members of the management group - the Executive's "board of directors" - have been published in the Executive's annual consolidated accounts for the year to 31 March, 2005.