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Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning everybody, welcome along. It's Thursday the 23rd of April.

Why is it that every so often I get a text up on my phone?

And I keep thinking, I'm sure, has it been three months? It can't be.

It's VAT. You need to file your VAT, blah, blah.

And I'm thinking, I'm sure we only paid it a short while

ago. It seems to come around a little bit quickly at the moment, but then I suddenly realized

they send you the notification, but in fact, it's not due for about another month and a half.

So, so that's okay. I can live with that. I put it on the back burner at the moment. It's very

interesting. I was reading one of the columnists today, and I think it was

Rod Little, and he was talking about various bits of, you know, people sort of fire off in their

columns about all sorts of things. And he was talking about Richard Branson, who's basically saying to

the government, you know, I want 500 million, otherwise all these people are going to be unemployed.

And he said, that doesn't about rich, isn't't it somebody asking for 500 million who's got like apparently three or four

billion pounds and he's not paid a penny in income tax in this country for 14 years why should

he's not paid into the system why should he get the money and the answer is because that's how

these people survive they survive on other people's money. Mind you,

everybody's laid into old Victoria Beckham, who apparently has gone into, ooh, and somebody

said, you know, to be honest with you, she's flogging clothes to nobody who really cares anymore.

And again, she couldn't manage a water pump, I don't think. She certainly couldn't manage the

business. And they keep throwing out, or don't worry, she's couldn't manage the business and they keep throwing out.

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