My mate jailed

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Originally Posted by husky03

My bro lives in Thailand and has resident status there, but if he commits a crime where he would go to jail he knows he's on the first plane out the country onces he's served his time-he therefore ensures he lives by the Thai laws-i'd like to see that happening here.

wow didnt know that. wish they would adopt that law here...
that would solve so many problems....

he's not allowed to own property apart from a flat,can't get any credit, and is charged a higher rate on a mortgage than a Thai-His mrs is Thai and everything is in her name-the coppers are very wary of doing foreigners but when they do they hammer them-should be the same here.

Originally Posted by Red Herring

You're right, I'm sure the smuggling charge had no bearing on the sentence..... If he wants to continue not paying tax perhaps he ought to go and live in North Africa? The entire structure of our country is being slowly eroded by this take take take attitude and I have no problem with seeing someone who has clearly been cheating the system for some considerable time paying the ultimate price. If you can't live by the rules of our society then be prepared to be excluded from it.

I agree totally with this.

Your friend is a criminal, he chooses to live in this country and therefore should live by this countries rules. I bet if he became Ill or needed the assistance of the ambulance, fire brigade, police etc he would not hesitate in ringing them even thought he hasn't paid a penny towards the service.

I hate paying taxes as much as the next bloke, however I wouldn't mind at all if the money was spent on the correct stuff. Just imagine how good our roads would be if we didn't have the huge problem of immigration... but this is another discussion, sorry.

Back the the subject in hand. Send him down and take the money he has avoided paying. Although he'll be out in a month for good behaviour... stupid legal system.

Originally Posted by The Guru

Now thats a statement.

I bet you'd tell traffic cops to "go catch real criminals" as well.

If the Police do not pursue criminals (and this man is one) they get stick. and then People like you come along and give them stick for actually doing their job anyway.

Damned if the do damned if the don't.

Where did I give the police stick for not doing their job? I'm the first to defend traffic cops over speed cameras. I know which i would prefer to be locked away - a paedophile or a guy who didn't pay tax. You must have some bizarre outlook on life if you see it the other way.

Originally Posted by svdemon

Where did I give the police stick for not doing their job? I'm the first to defend traffic cops over speed cameras. I know which i would prefer to be locked away - a paedophile or a guy who didn't pay tax. You must have some bizarre outlook on life if you see it the other way.

What's wrong with locking them both away? The Paedo and the Tax Dodger?

Originally Posted by Bedhead

What's wrong with locking them both away? The Paedo and the Tax Dodger?

Not enough prison spaces as some peeps don't pay there taxes.

Originally Posted by bluefishman

Not enough prison spaces as some peeps don't pay there taxes.

Throwing more of 'em into jail should discourage a few from commiting crime in the first place.

Been thinking, there are hundreds of old ferries and cruise ships scrapped every year, why not convert some of them to prison ships and anchor them off the coast, cheaper than building jails on land.

On the subject of Prison spaces, what happened to Prison Ships?

They are getting rid of Invincible soon enough, she'd make a great prison. Stick her out in the North Sea and fill her full of scum (after removing everything that could be used to escape, of course). Cheap and no one's going to want to go back

EDIT: Great minds think alike Mr Bedhead!

Prison ships sound like a great idea until you factor in the fact that this is britain so the cons would need to each have a 40ft yacht in order to escape in the event of an emergency otherwise their health and safety would be compromised!

I keep hearing that this country is in recession then I realised it can't be seeing as we just spent £7 million on bringing the pope over for a visit.

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Originally Posted by gruntygiggles

It wouldn't matter if you only paid 2%....it's the principal....and by not paying that tax, however much it is, you'll be better off, so it stinks knowing that you pay and adhere to the law and others don't bother. Just think what you could buy yourself if you never paid your tax!

Er. I wasn't condoning tax evasion

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