Gary Lineker's boy been had up for drink/driving - wants a job like Dad's got!

[5129frederick]

Page three of the Daily Mail is carrying the story of Gary Lineker's boy been had up for drink/driving.  OK, not so much over the limit, but told the judge he can't get a job, but wants one as a sports/football pundit in television, just like his Dad.  

Dear God, I ask you!   Working behind a till at Sainsbury's or pushing a broom on the factory floor like I started out not good enough for him - oh no, he want's to step into Daddy's shoes and rub shoulders with the rich and famous.  

He not only looks wet behind the ears ...

"Dad, why can't I be a director?"  Give me strength!

[rose2008-2008]

Maybe he ought to give Walkers crisps a ring then and ask them for any vacancies?. LOOOL

[millielilac]

He gets by on pocket money ftom his mum....apparently she is paying the fine too.....

[evoman3957]

Some of these reprobates need to get out from behind their computers and play the game of "living in the real World ".

[023mjc]

Boot camp! That'd show 'em.

[rose2008-2008]

Give him a Suit and a desk,, send him in for a few days to think up a few more crisp flavours and then he can pick up his cheque for a few thousand when hes done that. Thats how it seems to go,, if your someone famouses son or daughter, or your a relative nobody, who has a reality show of your life shown for a couple of weeks, next thing we see you living in a mansion earning millions just for showing your face in a club opening or putting your name to some consumer brand or other!!.

[saasher2012]

Perhaps if Mummy stopped funding him the little darling would get a job, oh no, course he won't we will take over the job of funding this spoilt brats lifestyle !

[5129frederick]

Yes, but isn't this a typical attitude to so many people who have super rich Daddies?  I mean, one of Blair's kids decided to set himself up as a "talent scout" during the heart of the and hired himself an office in Brazil, I think employing helpers.  Daddyor his company,  paid for it, of course.  I don't envy these people, because they're so detached from reality.  It's usually the girls though who put on airs and graces as they waltz through one society event after another being waited on hand and foot.  If they do decide to "work" at all, it will be as an assistant in some high class estate agents or an equally haughty far removed from reality auction house:

"What am I bid on this magnificient Gainsborough...  £320,000.00, Sir?..."  No thank you.  I'd prefer to push a broom round a factory floor.

[suzieseaside]

I can't blame a kid for wanting to use any advantage they might have because of the status of one of their parents.

I blame the parent for allowing them to be spoilt and not encouraging them to develop their own talents and work ethics.

[evoman3957]

It's laziness..........YES, is a complete answer in itself and requires no quantifying. NO, ALWAYS appears to require an explanation and to be backed up. So for an easy life, guess which one so many parents choose. People who think bringing up children is going to be easy, are the very people who perhaps shouldn't have had them in the first place.

[lhasa.two]

I think it's in the nature of children to push and push for something, wise parents keep on saying no but today it seems many cave in after the first ask... I was always taught - and I use the expression myself sometimes -  that 'No' is a complete sentence. 

[rose2008-2008]

When i was young NO meant NO and woe betide me if i asked again!!!. We were satisfied with a few gifts at Christmas and so forth. Now your made if you have a silver spoon inyour mouth when you pop forth into the world. Live off daddy and mommy!!!. Lets go shopping and having our nails done every day and not work at all!!. Grrrrrrrr and yes i probably am jealous somewhat but working gives you pride in achieving SOMETHING!!!.

[papko]

To paraphrase Warren Buffet 

 " You dont pick the England football team , on the children of the previous England  team " 

 A Good argument for revision on inheritance tax , one ancestor has eceptional talnet , and accrues some great wealth , and his progeny are not a patch on him , but get the benfit for generations 

[upthecreekyetagain]

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@papko wrote:

To paraphrase Warren Buffet 

 " You dont pick the England football team , on the children of the previous England  team " 

 A Good argument for revision on inheritance tax , one ancestor has eceptional talnet , and accrues some great wealth , and his progeny are not a patch on him , but get the benfit for generations 

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A bigger argument for a revision on 'Gift Tax'.

If gifts to children in a year over the value of say the "minimum wage" were taxed at the parent's tax rate then more thought might be given over "allowances" etc.

The bank of mum and dad of even the average parents takes one heck of a hit.

[papko]

Well done Creeky 

 i had not thought of that