Children in Need

[andypaul]

Don't get me started on chuggeeers like when one in a high street goes how you want to help kids in the third world to the wife and me? I said we do her family live there, shut him up quick.

[joebloggs]

what about help joe fund

just the war in Iraq is costing the tax payer £1bn-a-year

and
The total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to be $1.6 trillion (£770bn) – double the amount President George Bush says it will cost.

A report entitled The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War says the true cost of the wars is almost double the $804bn the White House has requested for military operations in 2008.

The report, prepared by Democrats in Congress, says an average American family of four has already paid more than $20,000 to fund the President's military adventures.

[Alan]

The total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to be $1.6 trillion (£770bn)

Bloody Hell - that's even more than Keith earns (I think!)

Al.

[Gavanddal]

What annoys me about Children in Need is that you see loads of ordinary people who have raised many a few hundred quid by maybe doing a sponsored walk or something and holding up a cheque and then there's the multi-millionnaire celebrities who appear on the programme who have "given up their time for free!" How about seeing then actually holding up cheques showing how much money they've actually given. Then maybe they don't, perhaps they feel that giving their time is enough.
Seeing multi-millionaires appealing to ordinary people to give cash is immoral.
Between them all they could easily top the £19 million given by the public.

Just my thoughts

[andypaul]

What annoys me about Children in Need is that you see loads of ordinary people who have raised many a few hundred quid by maybe doing a sponsored walk or something and holding up a cheque and then there's the multi-millionnaire celebrities who appear on the programme who have "given up their time for free!" How about seeing then actually holding up cheques showing how much money they've actually given. Then maybe they don't, perhaps they feel that giving their time is enough.
Seeing multi-millionaires appealing to ordinary people to give cash is immoral.
Between them all they could easily top the £19 million given by the public.

Just my thoughts

One person i spoke to was telling me they had read that Terry wogan actually got paid for the show if thats true its even sicker.