I think you are drifting rather wide of the mark. Let’s take 50% tax on higher income earners and not mess around with the income at the lower rates or even deductable expenses, so, based on Moggy’s figures, you would be looking celebrity incomes of £148 million.

A few US movie stars might make 20 million a movie but in the UK who do you think will be earning anything like that sort of money. A large percentage of Cowell’s income is derived in the US anyway.

Now if you were talking about footballers you might be nearer the mark………..;)

I do recall, with great plesure and amusement, photos a year or two ago of headless camera posts, videos of exploding cameras and cameras with lens covers………..keep up the good work you naughty bunch of anarchists!:diablo:

Agnostic.

So where does the money go from the fines imposed as a result of speed camera activity?

I respect your opinion, Moggy, but would part company with you over doing good stuff. I suppose they mean well in their own terms, as we all do, but the “green” agenda is anathema to me so, for me, they do not even mean well.

I don’t disagree with either of you, notwithstanding Moggy’s patronising comment. Of course we are all guilty of rubbish driving from time to time. But in the context of this debate, that is not a defence, is it? The fact is that we could avoid taking the risks we often do and so avoid that feeling in the pit of stomach together with the “Phew, just made it” comment to ourselves.

Like many things in life driving involves risk, and the correct calculation of that risk is often the difference between an accident and no accident.

Greenpeace certainly don’t do irony. Bunch of green plonkers – or is that personal abuse?:diablo:

This did, in advance of You Tube pulling all the Hitler parodies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ