If its within the law absolutely - I wouldn't want to pay more than I should nor would I want any member of my team doing so either - the fact you think its OK is bizarre but totally understandable given your views about rich people.

I would suspect BP actually lost money on its UK operation - they will be losing minimum $30 a barrel for every barrel they get out of the north sea.

Vodafone are a different matter - but unless you change the laws why would they not do it?

Tighten the law close the loop holes - its pretty simple - then they would have to comply

Please tell me what are my views of rich people?

Perhaps you need to read the post - off shore living stealing money from the needy!!!

No wonder we are so unproductive if 20% of the working population is disabled - really!!!

I know - how annoyingly inconvenient of the lazy disableds; what would you suggest we do with them all, to improve our productivity?

Same as the US, actually. Around 16% of the world's workforce overall has some form of disability.

Maybe the disabled should be culled to save money on disability benefits? Also if you are out of work maybe you should be put in a workers camp so you wont get 'Money for nothing' from the state. I'm sure no one else has ever thought of these ideas

HIV, being fat, allergies, stammering, Dyslexia, diabetes, cancer, skin conditions all come under the disabilities list of the Equality act. No wonder the % is so high.

With that in mind we have a disabled PM.

The idea behind the Act is to make reasonable adjustments so people with disabilities can be employed, rather than unemployed.

To quote a Daily Mail reader



What are my views of rich people?

So actually the number of people with mental and physical disabilities that prevents them from working is?

Does the 1.6m unemployed exclude those claiming disability?

You really need to seek professional help with this daily mail obsession.

I am keen on the world being a better place. The world would be a much better place without the Daily Mail. I would seek medical help but the heartless Tories have destroyed the health service....

You disgusting leftie snowflake.

Why would we want the world to be a better place when the privileged few can get rich off everyone else?

I’d just got used to[i liberal metropolitan elite[/i, which I quite liked.

I wish my cancer diagnosis was worse than it is so I don't have to work ever again .......... said no one ever!

Why don't you speak to disabled people and ask what they think instead of spouting absolute .

I like that one too - I often say it to myself as I sit in a hipster café drinking artisanal coffee from a hollowed out avocado, whilst reading the Guardian on my iPad.

That sounds like my life in Ilkley, where I maintain to the private school educated Mrs tigertot that i am still working class. She almost chokes on her goji berry & quinoa salad.

I will let you into a little secret, but keep it to yourself. If you work extremely hard you will get rich.

Tell that to my mate who came back from Iraq with severe mental health issues

I am sorry about your mate. Not certain that fits in with my comments about working hard. He is obviously not in a position to work hard.
I hope he gets proper treatment and the care he deserves. Worryingly I have read about several ex servicemen sleeping rough on the streets. That's an outrage and should never be allowed to happen.

I'll let you into a little secret, money isn't everything.
I'd take health and happiness over wealth every time, something that money cant always buy.

Very true, my posting was in reply to the assumption that only the privileged few can get rich.

I guess it depends on your definition of rich; it's obviously unrealistic that everyone in society can have boundless wealth - and as Wrencat has pointed out, many people don't want or expect that. But it's not tenable that the vast majority of wealth and power is so concentrated amongst a tiny group of privileged elites, whilst people who work hard and try to get on find that their efforts don't give them a decent lifestyle. With use of foodbanks at unprecedented levels and record employment levels existing alongside record numbers of people in poverty - something has to be wrong. And that's aside from the absolutely disgusting and degrading treatment of people with additional needs that has become the trademark of the Tory government and it's media mafia.

I sincerely hope that people vote for change on the 8th June - because as Mrs May pointed out just yesterday - as if she were the leader of the opposition and had no part to play in 7 years of government - enough is enough.