Well I will be at East Midlands airport tonight manning the phones taking donations ..... 
I have done this for the last four years I love it we have such fun talking lovely people on the phones and partying afterwards lots of booze and food we have visits from people we even had the league cup a couple of years ago bloody heavy it was too...the Man United players were not bad either 
Hope it pays well........ 
No pay .... Is a good night ... the people that ring in to donate mostly seem surprised to have a person on the end of the phone .. You get a lot of lonely people ringing and chat for ages it is lovely .. I had one elderly man a couple of years ago who was sobbing about the children and telling me all about his wife of sixty years that he had lost a few months previously ... we had a good chat and when I left him he was laughing ... It is things like that that makes the night ... 
I admire your efforts and those of everybody else that obviously works so hard to raiser money at events like this...
But...
I find the whole thing repulsive....
This is an event put on by the BBC - an organisation funded by the taxpayer that pays eye-watering amounts to its 'stars' and senior management...
You live in a country where the government pisses away eye-watering amounts of tax payer's money on foreign interventions, foreign aid, vanity projects like HS2 (£50 billion anybody?) and endless uncountable 'charities' and quangos that serve no purpose but to nanny and control your lives...
Instead of running the country, the 'politicians' *spits* that you have elected to represent you feast at the trough of public money while engaging in a two-year election campaign that will ensure that the same old lot are elected the next time to continue the same old process...
I can't help thinking that if all those hundreds of thousands of people that volunteer their time and give their hard-earned to this event spent a bit more time holding their politicians to account there wouldn't be any children in need...
...It sickens me when I hear all the amazing charity events that the British Forces put on to raise money for their injured comrades and their families - why do people that have fought for their country have to rely on charity for their welfare while the government is so profligate with tax payer's money...?
It has always been like this, one of the charities pleading for money on Forces radio this week was The British Limbless Es-Servicemen's Association (
BLESMA) set up after WW1 to help those injured men coming back into some form of 'normal' life...
Yet 100 years later our injured troops coming back from yet another pointless war in Afghanistan will still rely on charity donations by the tax payers that vote in the same politicians that sent them out there in the first place...
...and in 2013 despite Children In Need being on the telly box for over thirty years there are still children in need and the country is little better off in some ways than when it was first broadcast...
That is all....
*steps off soap box *
