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How much did Diageo make and pay profit on? I know the company made £2bn profit for six months.

A profit is a surplus. Making a profit in this country should mean they are liable to tax. Does your income tax take in to account personal expenditure?

Surely, if the Daily Mail could, they would come up with a new caviared pizza leech everyday of the week, but they don't/can't. I guess one of the dangers of a welfare state is that it is difficult to cater for every Tom, Dick and Henrietta.

They certainly are being vilified. I've always thought that encouragement was the best form of tactic. I do think we are broken Britain and I don't think I have been coerced by the press to believe that. We are a consumer society and generally, very lazy (generalisation alert)*. *That includes...

Is there any weighting when it comes to MPs and their benefits? I know one has to declare savings when procuring job seekers allowance. Same for MPs?

I got myself in to a pickle in London. Ended up eating beans and pasta for a year and growing a mountain of debt. In hindsight, I should have taken assistance offered and would have been bettered off than being self-employed. I do think that IDS was ill-advised to say that (understatement), but...

It's a lot more than other countries, assuming they get free prescriptions, housing benefit, free health care and so on. Granted, it is not a lot, but how much should someone who is able to work be given?