[jambutty]

I will donate 10% of my weekly income to a charity if you will do the same.

Maybe Xmas has come early for you Cyfr and you’ve been sampling the falling down water and you cannot comprehend that ‘weekly income’ means income coming in each week. The heating allowance is an annual allowance.

However, yes, I will include the £200 heating allowance – that is £3.85 per week providing that the challenged will also include any annual bonuses that they might receive.

A few years ago I wrote to Gordon Brown making the same challenge/offer. The response was conspicuous by its absence. In fact over the years I have written to numerous celebrities making the same challenge but not one even had the decency to respond.

The point is that some people are happy to receive wage increases in percentages but when it comes to paying out in a percentage of their income the shutters come down and they don’t want to know.