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Originally Posted by martyh

The rich don't get protected as such they are valued and encouraged because they provide all the work for you and me to do so we can buy stuff



So do i ,i take every legal means at my disposal to pay less tax as do you and every other worker in the country



OK then ,how about these

: Dr Chai Patel, founder of Priory Clinics, who was nominated for a peerage which was blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission, lent £1.5 million;

Sir David Garrard, a property developer, who lent £2.3 million. Both Sir David's and Mr Townsley's nominations for seats in the House of Lords were also blocked by the commission;

Andrew Rosenfeld, who was a partner of Sir David in London property group Minerva, lent Labour £1 million;

Rod Aldridge, who lent £1 million, is the chief executive of IT technology giant Capita;

:: Richard Caring, the clothing tycoon and owner of the fashionable Ivy restaurant, who is worth a reported £300 million, lent the party £2 million;


:: Gordon Crawford, founder of London Bridge Software, who is reported to have made a personal fortune of more than £1 billion from banking and credit management software, lent the party £500,000;


:: Professor Sir Christopher Evans, the founder and chairman of Merlin Biosciences Ltd, lent £1 million;


:: Nigel Morris, the co-founder and former president of Capital One Financial Corporation and a governor of the London Business School, lent the party £1 million;


:: Sir Gulam Noon, the curry tycoon who helped make chicken tikka masala Britain's favourite dish, lent £250,000;


:: Derek Tullett, a veteran City figure and founder of the money-broking firm which bore his name and was bought by Collins Stewart Tullett in 2003, lent £400,000;


:: Lord Sainsbury, the science minister and member of the Sainsburys supermarket dynasty who is thought to have donated more than £6 million to Labour since 2002, lent £2 million.


All of whom pay exactly the right amount of tax demanded by HMRC 'cos if they didn't they would be in jail or prosecuted for tax evasion.

I hope you're not expecting Arthur to change his own unique view of reality...