Lostintheplot - The Blog

The 22nd already? Wow. More unbelievable stuff from the Mail now. Especially in this letter from Danielle Dieppois:

The French have an extra income tax called CSG (contribution sociale généralisée), the wealth tax (impot de solidarité sur la fortune), stamp duty at around 8% and heavy tolls on all motorways.

All of which the Mail has resolutely refused to print with accents. Bloody foreigners

B. Barratt has a letter about Children In Need:

Further to Steve Doughty's criticism of the BBC's Children in Need charity, I'm disgusted with this sham. Knowing how much it collected last year, I wrote to the BBC for a list of beneficiaries.
Thinking the money would be going to children's charities, I was appalled to read how very little was actually going to children.

What? Did some go to drugs charities to help parents get off drugs so their children don't have to fend for themselves and go to school in old, dirty clothes with no lunch because they have no money for food? Or maybe some went to an animal charity to provide very depressed children with a day out looking after animals, something proven to help. Perhaps some went (gasp) to a charity which helps immigrants to integrate better into the UK, so that their children aren't bullied at school for being out of touch with society. And maybe some even went abroad to pay for teachers ensure that children get education. Or to invest in clean water so that they don't die. TWAT.

And finally, William Richards:

Is David Blunkett Boris Johnson's hairdresser?

I'm liking this 'substitute David Blunket for blind man' thing. Not.Mail,