Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Mandatory, Don't Worry About What THEY Want, Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me, George Orwell Had The Right Idea, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, I'm serious!, Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful, Unreasonable Demands — Tags: Robin Rawlings — Ben @ 11:35 pm
I’ll leave the discussion of this charming little petition in your capable hands, folks:
by Robin RawlingsAs a tax payer I fed up seeing my neighbours who don’t work watching their 40″ plasma tv’s, I can’t afford one and I work and pay tax so why should lazy people contributing nothing to the country get more than hard working people. We should force them to work if they don’t work, by building workhouses and then sending them to workhouses.
Filed under: I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, My Other Car Is Another Car, Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British — Tags: Fed Up Citizen of UK employee — Ben @ 4:57 am
by Fed Up Citizen of UK employeeWe in the UK are hit with more taxes than almost every county in the developed world, although we have the worst maintained roads in Europe and also when it snows, we are told there is not enough salt/grit for the roads (Road Tax) or even the pavements (Council Tax).
What do we pay the road tax and council tax for?
We the people have had enough, we will not accept any excuses this time.
I agree with Fed Up Citizen! We should always have a storage of salt and grit! Even though the UK only ever gets hit with a snowstorm like this once every, I don’t know, three or four years!
Incidentally, Fed Up Citizen must of had some really cruel parents.
Filed under: "Making Britain Great Again", Are You Kidding? We Can't Afford That!, Duplicate Petitions, Exclamation marks!!!!, I Have A Sense Of Perspective: Problems That Are Far Away Appear Small To Me., I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, What A Dick, Xenophobia — Tags: Barbara Steffensen — Ben @ 7:41 pm
This is a beautifully moronic petition. I love it. It’s like a snapshot of every racist, xenophobic, “Put Broken Britain First” petition I’ve read over the last year.
by Barbara SteffensenPeople of this country are already taxed to the hilt. They do not need to pay more tax so that Britain can be seen to be a leader in world events. Charity begins at home. We need to take care of our own British people first before looking at other nations, especially considering the debt we’re already in.
Filed under: Can't someone else pay the tax?, Duplicate Petitions, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? — Tags: Rhea — Ben @ 8:02 pm
by RheaWe need this to stop some abusers of the system from receiving an income solely for having children.
We are experiencing a population boom in this country which we can not afford and which is bad for the environment. We need to stop – as a society – effectively incentivising people for having large families. If they wish to have more children than two they should fund them entirely themselves and not expect taxpayers to do so.
I’ve raised counter-points to this argument before. Simply put: What happens to large families who are legitimately in need of actual benefits? Do they just allow the “excess” children to starve to death?
Filed under: I AM TALKING!, I Have A Sense Of Perspective: Problems That Are Far Away Appear Small To Me., I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, Presumably The Prime Minister Is Not Too Busy, Reject Rednesday, Rejected Petitions, That'd Be Nice, The Nasty Television Upset Me!, What A Dick, What A Load Of Bankers, Young, Dumb, And Online, spelin an grammer — Tags: James Harris, Jonathan Hall, kennerz of kennerz, Kimberley Petts of Fareham college, Ms S Winter-Smith, Theresa — Ben @ 4:07 am
It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time to pick at the Reject Bin and see what the British Government had too much common sense to allow the public to sign.
by Jonathan Hall (rejected)This elite ninja force (which should be named NINJA: National Interest Ninja Japanese-y Awesomeness) would take on most of the killing people-type jobs the armed forces have to do so they could concentrate on shouting at people.
I believe this would greatly reduce the government’s spending on defence, thus freeing up more money for education and health.
Brilliant.
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Filed under: Don't Worry About What THEY Want, Duplicate Petitions, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, Racism, Reject Rednesday, Rejected Petitions, Xenophobia, spelin an grammer — Tags: Allan Howard, Jessica Wilson of Citizen, marc mcfarlane of hgv driver, Mr McCormick — Ben @ 8:25 am
Ready for a smattering of rejected petitions on the submit of racism, xenophobia, and general douchebaggery? No? Well tough, because they’re here.
by Jessica Wilson of Citizen (rejected)I would like a Law passed to enable this to happen, i am fed up of ethnic races moving to Britain and expecting us to conform to their religion, education etc, if they cant abide by they way we live and our Laws, send them back to where they originally came from.
More after the jump. (more…)
Filed under: I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, The Nasty Television Upset Me!, Unreasonable Demands, Unworkable Ideas, We're ENGLISH not British! — Tags: Tim Hunter — Ben @ 3:43 am
by Tim HunterWe should not have to pay a compulsory TV licence any longer to fund the left-wing biased BBC, which is playing a major part in destroying English culture. The BBC’s existence is yet another example of the English being treated as second class citizens in their own country. The BBC’s presenters are overpaid and they are steeped in London’s trendy elite culture.
The EBC would be a low-cost operation. It would be based outside of London and recruit a totally new set of presenters. These presenters would be paid more modest salaries and would be more reflective of the many different regions of England.
Clearly you have no idea how the television side of the Entertainment Industry works. All those “trendy presenters” you’re complaining about? They’d just move to ITV and Channel Four where they’d actually wind up getting paid more money. Shocking, I know. Also, there’s no such thing as a “low-cost” television operation outside of L!VE TV, and we all know what happened to them.
Also: What the Hell do Wales, Scotland and Ireland do?
Filed under: I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, Maybe... but not for THAT reason, Young, Dumb, And Online — Tags: Anna Billson-Page of Liberal Party — Ben @ 2:49 am
by Anna Billson-Page of Liberal PartyThe voting age should be reduced to 16 – not just to widen democracy but because it is an anomaly that young people who are old enough to pay tax to the government have no influence in electing that government.
Any ten year-old who’s walked to the local corner shop with a couple of quid in hand planning to buy sweets is technically a tax payer. Your logic is flawed.
Filed under: I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, I Have A Sense Of Perspective: Problems That Are Far Away Appear Small To Me., I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, Lies Damn Lies And Nonsense Statistics, Stop Spending My Money On Things I Don't Understand. — Tags: Cary Thornton — Ben @ 6:55 pm
by Cary ThorntonI have paid taxes for 42 years and have never been to the South Pacific. I find it incredible that I can sit in North Yorkshire and see the effects of so called “global warming” without going to the far side of the planet.
My petition is to STOP so called “explanatory visits” to anywhere outside the U.K. by members of both houses in relation to this wicked and unproven diagnosis – the prognosis of which is entirely unfounded and unproven.
But if you offer to take Cary with you next time, he wouldn’t mind.
Filed under: "Making Britain Great Again", FREEDOM!!, I Am A Brain!, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, It Says So In The Daily Mail, Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British, Unreasonable Demands, Unworkable Ideas — Tags: fiona mizzi — Ben @ 6:40 pm
by fiona mizzisince may 1997 we the british public have been subject to a barrage of bad laws. many a knee-jerk reaction to the plight of an individual citizen, single incident or pressure from minority groups who don’t care who they affect as long as they get their way. mostly ill thought out restricting our freedoms further. lets turn the clock back and get rid of them and be free again.
So basically, you don’t like some of the legislation brought in over the last year, so you think it should all be repealed. Right. Just checking.
Filed under: I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, Rejected Petitions, What A Dick — Tags: Craig Golby — Ben @ 8:14 pm
Here is an increasing problem with the ePetition website – people assume that just because a Lot Of People have signed something that the Prime Minister is then compelled, nay forced to do it, whatever it may be. That’s not the case. Look at this:
Finally a petition that the Government and Number 10 can agree to.
I have signed up to 6+ ePetitions since the site was created, and when Prime Ministers response comes through on each one, they are brushed off.
So here is one that they can finally agree to.
See? This self-entitled goit is under the impression that just because his name is one of thousands on a petition that the Prime Minister should be doing… something about whatever the petition was about. But y’know what? That’s not how petitions work. It’s not a mandate or a decree. We the public do not have the power to force the Prime Minister to do anything.
One of the most popular petitions on the site is this one demanding that the NHS stop using 0845, 0870 and other such “fixed rate” phone numbers. Yes, lots of people have signed it because in their tiny little minds they think that, hey, why should I pay to speak to my hospital on the phone? They don’t stop to think about where that money actually goes, and what it actually funds. They don’t particularly care whether or not a hospital gets new beds or operating theatres (unless, of course, they’re the ones who have to go into hospital at which point they feel entitled to complain about everything they get that they don’t actually pay for). All they’re concerned with is saving a few quid on their phone bills.
So you see, Mr Golby, just because a lot of people want a thing to be so does not mean that it is the Right Way of Doing Things. There are an alarming number of people in the UK who want to see a cessation of all immigration and who, going one step further, want to see all immigrants deported. Because they’re wankers. Does that make it right? Does that mean that if a petition were to be started up asking for all immigration to cease (and there are a few of them) that gets a significant number of signatures that Gordon Brown is compelled to stop all immigration? No, it doesn’t. Because that’s not what a petition is, you zebra’s rectum.
Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants, Couldn't If He Wanted To, Don't Worry About What THEY Want, Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me, George Orwell Had The Right Idea, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, It Says So In The Daily Mail, It's Not Gay If Your Balls Don't Touch, Not Government Business, Presumably The Prime Minister Is Not Too Busy, Rejected Petitions, What A Dick — Tags: Keith Jones — Ben @ 12:00 pm
What would we do without the increasingly mad Keith Jones, eh? I have no idea what he looks like, but I imagine a curmudgeonly old man, maybe with a ridiculously ornate moustache. His hair is thinning. The only footwear he’s worn for the last twelve years are a pair of tartan slippers his grandchildren bought him one Christmas partially as a joke. He has only the vaguest of ideas how the real world works and he thinks he’s figured out how to solve all of its problems.
And it’s through brilliant ideas like these.
What these people are allowed to do is not ‘get married’. What they do is covered by a civil agreement and it should be illegal to use the term ‘marriage’ to describe the condition.
Let’s make it illegal to use a word that means a thing it means. There’s no way that can lead down a dangerous path at all.
Failure to support the indigenous population on this point will SURELY put the final nail in the coffin of Gordon Brown and his scottish cronies on the cabinet.
I actually think this petition would have been approved were he not such a cocky gobshite in the descriptive text. Not to say I support the petition, but Keith has a wonderful way of just being hilariously self-righteous that means that most of his petitions get rejected. I bet he thinks he’s Make A Stand, too. Tch.
I shudder to think what would happen if Keith Jones ever found this website. I imagine that the sky would crack asunder. Or something.
Filed under: Exclamation marks!!!!, I AM TALKING!, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, It Says So In The Daily Mail, Not actual justice -- just what I wanted. Which is basically the same thing., Really REALLY Bad Ideas, Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British, This Is What We're Outraged At This Week, What A Dick, Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children?, Young, Dumb, And Online — Tags: Anita Foss, Baby P, Facebook, Katie Betambeau, Stuart Bizley — Ben @ 7:36 pm
The barbarous nature of Britain’s public becomes fully apparent when you look at this petition which, in a break from our usual source, is currently up on Facebook’s “Causes” application.
Stop the evil bastards getting a new identity when they leave jail they should suffer just like baby peter did!
Positions
1. Muderers!!!
2. Sick!!
Categories
Human Services, Public Safety Disaster Preparedness and Relief
Description
This is a petition to stop evil steven barker and tracey connelly from getting new identity’s when they leave prison. They should suffer just like poor baby peter did.
I honestly don’t understand how peoples’ brains work most of the time. What do they think this new identity is for exactly? Do they think it’s a reward? A prize of some kind for their horrid crime? There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that what they did to their child was horrific but what the public would do to them is even worse. They’re being given new identities to protect them from the sort of people who post comments like this:
Lets hope the lot of them don’t come out alive. Lets hope they get tortured to death – scum. We shouldn’t even waste tax payers money on them. Instead of testing on animals – lets use these type of people instead – at least it will be a little justice if nothing else.
Anita Fosssend em to texas and let have a leathal injection sick cunts what they did was just sooooooooooooo soooooooooooo wrong makes u think how they were brought up sick sick sick sick cruel arseholes they deserve to die cos when they come out they will do it again if i see em i will kill them myselfffffffffffff
Katie Betambeau
But perhaps my favourite comment on this petition is this one, which is a real spEak You’re bRanes worthy comment if I’ve ever seen one:
As everybody knows this government is a load of codswollop.. troublesome youths who vandalise things get let off..no one will learn,this is just a small problem that we, as a society face. This prime example of Baby Peter is truely horrifying, the more Judges we have which are leinient will mean more criminals get let off with only a slap on the wrist. Government needs to STOP giving out our taxpayers money to illegal immigrants and to put money back inot funding facilities for severe punishments- as logn as people know they will get away with these such things it will get worse.
Gordon brown and every other primeminister we have had are total twatfaces..surely one of them atleast ONE OF THEM should have realised what this country is becoming..
A LIFE FOR A LIFE, The murderers should be beaten to death by member of public like the “Olden Days”, people would think twice about commiting a crime!
The evil, lowlife bastards!
Stuart Bizley
Aren’t people great?
Filed under: ...Or Else!, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, Rejected Petitions — Tags: Mr Martyn Keith Brewer — Ben @ 12:21 am
What on earth do you think we are simpletons? Will you never learn. Secrecy promotes suspicion. Suspicion feeds mistrust. Lack of trust does not get you re-elected.
Understand?
Yes! Abusive language! That’ll make the Prime Minister do things!
Filed under: I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, What A Load Of Bankers — Tags: Robert Maher — Andrew @ 3:42 pm
I especially love how he throws in the bailout as if that makes any sense. “I own one millionth of a percent of this bank! How dare you treat me this way‽ Don’t you know who I am‽“
Filed under: Don't Worry About What THEY Want, I Am A Brain!, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, I Sure Hope There's No Way This Can Be Misinterpreted., I'm Keeping The Whole Class Back, I'm serious!, Please State The Nature of the Medical Emergency, Really REALLY Bad Ideas, Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British, Unworkable Ideas, What A Dick — Tags: Keith Jones — Ben @ 10:29 pm
And now, the latest edition of “Keith Jones Presents: Thoughts From A Taxpaying Pensioner Without Political Affiliation”.
Tanning salons cause skin cancer. That is now official. People who use tanning salons to cause skin cancer should not then be able to obtain treatment free on the NHS. Nobody who self inflicts any condition requiring medical treatment should receive treatment on the NHS. Taxes paid into the NHS should be reserved for people who contract medical conditions naturally – we already have enough of those, without taking on responsbility for everybody who makes an active choice to damage themselves.
Right. And people who smoke and then get lung cancer shouldn’t get treatment either. And, hey, nobody has conclusively proven that mobile phones don’t cause brain tumours, so if you’ve ever used a mobile phone or if you live near a mobile phone mast you shouldn’t be able to get any form of treatment. Actually, people have been complaining about power lines and so on over the years as well, so let’s just prevent anyone who uses electricity from getting medical treatment for anything.
Wow! Look how much money we’ve saved for the NHS!
Filed under: Don't Worry About What THEY Want, Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, Unreasonable Demands — Tags: Mr. Graham Mills Stevenson — Ben @ 10:21 pm
Choice is not an issue, alcohol is a killer, a drain on resources, a money pit for this country. If I hadn’t had the option to buy alcohol in a supermarket, a bar, at the age of 18(legally), I would not have had to rely on the generosity of state assistance to continue to aid me in trying to recover from alcoholism. I am sure that many a member of the house and the public would agree that the legal age for the purchase and consumption of alcohol must be raised. Money from tax does not equal money for treatment, most cases start at an early age, make it harder to access the substance
Because, y’know, people in the UK are loving a lot of the other “Nanny State” initiatives right now, am I right?
Why should the entire country be penalized just because you had no bloody self-control as a teen? Do grow up, there’s a good chap.
Filed under: George Orwell Had The Right Idea, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, Racism, We Don't Take Kindly To Your Type Rahnd These Pahts, We're British, Dammit!, What A Dick, Xenophobia — Tags: Joanne Lawrence — Ben @ 7:25 pm
When Immigration/Police officers find illigal immigrants/assylum seekers they should be micro chiped. At present while they are being investigated they are freed from custody and requested to report to a particular police station on a regular basis. They never do. This way the system can keep better records on how many we have in our country at any given time and know where they are if/when deportation is required.
And remember to spay or neuter your illegal immigrants.
Filed under: Gibberish, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, We Don't Take Kindly To Your Type Rahnd These Pahts, We're British, Dammit!, Xenophobia, spelin an grammer — Tags: ian hardy — Ben @ 7:52 am
we the tax payer cannot support all those who are not working or take from us in the form of wages people on benifits should have a cheque book issued by the Government so they can buy food and clothes from state set up shops and stop the spending in the pubs and smoking we should not have to fund this how long can we fund before it all runs out and there is a melt down of our once rich commerce etc we need more money spent on education in the real world to create job opportunities
Ian Hardy clearly doesn’t know what taxes are for.
Filed under: ...Or Else!, I Deserve Free Money!, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, It's Just A Little Request..., That'd Be Nice, spelin an grammer — Ben @ 5:47 pm
stop taking income tax on overtime worked. we work overtime to earn extra money to live and pay our bills and for the extra things we need and the government has the cheek to tax that as well, so we are still no better off why don’t you have done with it and just take the lot!
Income Tax, in case you are unfamiliar with the concept, is Tax on your Income. When you work overtime, you earn more income, and therefore you are taxed upon it. This is not a difficult concept.
Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Free, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, This Is What We're Outraged At This Week — Tags: Keith Jones — Ben @ 5:14 pm
Sigh. Hello again, Keith.
The number of people who have been left penniless because of government policy over the last 12 years means that many who wish to put themselves forward to challenge the corrupt Members of Parliament currently occupying seats in the House of Commons simply cannot afford to do so. There have been many utterances by socialist politicians about ‘lowering the bar’ so that more people can aspire to be MPs (some even argue that is why they were given tax free allowances and unrestricted access to taxpayer pounds in the form of ‘expenses’ in the first place) but the deposit – and the possibility of losing it – continues to put many people off. Removing the deposit is the only way that corrupt elected representatives being replaced by honest elected representatives is going to be achieved in this country.
Because, AS ANY FULE KNO, the only man that can be trusted is a man with no money whatsoever.
Filed under: I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, I'm serious!, Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? — Tags: Sian e Hall — Ben @ 6:48 pm
Low income families cannot pick & choose their schools, because they are largely driven by where they can afford to live.
Higher income families are often squeezed out into private education by overcrowding towns & therefore schools.
A much better system would be to open up schools to becoming competitively competent by making all schools compete for their own income as fees.
Low income families who cannot afford schooling can be helped with benefits.
The government continually devise more tricks, such as abolishing sibling priority, to squeeze well off families into using private education. This is unfair & underhand.
You want to improve the educational system by gimping it? That’s inspired lunacy, that is.
Filed under: Apostrophe's, Hug A Granny, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, Presumably The Prime Minister Is Not Too Busy, Stop Spending My Money On Things I Don't Understand., Technology. Tamed. — Tags: Angry Taxpayer, Mr Michael Jones — Ben @ 5:09 pm
The government has announced it wishes to bring Broadband to every household in the UK. It wishes to help subsidise this by introducing a 50p per month tax on every landline in the UK. Why should I, as a broadband customer already paying £25 per month pay even more to provide low speed broadband to areas where people may not even want it. Why should OAP’s who need their landlines as an essential safety measure pay to subsidise broadband. Let the companies who stand to make the profits from this scheme pay for it.
It’s 50p a month, you dick! Even OAPs can afford that!
“Superfast broadband” should only be allowed to describe super fast broadband. i.e. Sweden’s 1gbit lines are “superfast”. Their 100mbit download and upload lines for about £15 are “fast” BT’s plan of 60 down / 5? up isn’t superfast. It’s not even really that fast. “Semidecent broadband” would be a much more honest term to use.
This is a very serious issue.
Filed under: I AM TALKING!, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, It's Just A Little Request..., Really REALLY Bad Ideas, Unreasonable Demands — Tags: dale gratton — Ben @ 8:44 pm
Simply theft from your monies that you work for and already pay TAX on. No to any form of annual taxation.
I get the impression that Dale doesn’t quite understand how Council Tax works.
Filed under: Dear Gordon - I was born without a sense of humour..., Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, In Soviet Russia Petition Signs You, Oh Yeah? Let's See You Write A Better Petition!, Presumably The Prime Minister Is Not Too Busy, The Sad Clown — Tags: Mr Toby Dore — Ben @ 3:58 pm
I find it offensive that Police CCTV vans have a sign saying “Smile! You’re on CCTV” on the side of them. The implication is that the public are predisposed to committing crime and are only stopped from doing so because of the fear that they might be caught.
The vast majority of the population are not only law abiding, but go far beyond what is expected of them in order to make this country a pleasant place to live. The Police exist to serve us, not to treat us all as potential criminals.
I believe that these signs should be removed from all Police CCTV vans.
