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Originally Posted by dan_geoghegan
What is his attitude on cats tho ????
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Originally Posted by dan_geoghegan
What is his attitude on cats tho ????
Lets put it this way, if you need a new fur coat, Kev's yer man.Quote:
Originally Posted by BladeTriple
Someone plese tell me - If we are in this mess because we paid such a massive amount to bail out the banks - the reason for which in any other business would have probably been deemed criminal -
Why don't the banks pay it back now they can afford massive bonuses?
Why are the tories and their sidekicks blaming the bank fat cats criminal gambling failures on labour?
If we are to get our cash back from the banks, how long will it take and what effect will that have on any needs for these massive tory cuts and tax increases?
Remember - 20% VAT from january - It was the tories who raised vat from the original 8%, then 10% then 15% then 17.5% and now 20%.
Party of low taxation???? What short memories people have!
By the way ken - whatever misgivings you may have about our involvement in Afghanistan to start with - the fact is we ARE involved - our countrymen ARE there - facing all kinds of hardship, injury, and their lives. They are our countrymen fighting for their country and deserve all the support we can possibly give them
Personally I am fed up with being taxed not only in my pay packet but every time I fill my tank,open my energy bills, buy a pint or a smoke, and not to mention vat that is added on many things I buy.
Then to see my taxes spashed around on a benifits culture really goes against the grain.
I do support our brave troops 100 per cent that's why like millions of others I will continue to campaign to bring them home. It breaks my heart to see so many young lives lost in a futile war we can never win.Quote:
Originally Posted by JAYJAY
As a point of interest the amount of missing cash owed to the treasury from the rich club dodging taxes is ten-fold higher than the amount lost in benefit fraud. No one more pleased than me to see that Vince Cable has got them in his sights. Go get em.
The government, the people, now own Northern Rock, why are the millions in profits not being plowed into the economy? 100% the bankers are to blame for the world recession, but the government targets the benefits system, why is that? As for CB claiments being scroungers, ffs they would have to be pretty bad at maths to think they can turn a profit having kids.
Lets put it this way, if you need a new fur coat, Kev's yer man.[/quote]Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_geoghegan
Please specify colour on the order form. Tabby Cat or Ginger Tom ;D
You are right the vast majority aren't scroungers, but a sizeable minority of those on state-handouts are. Come to where i live, a couple just across the road with no-jobs are on their fifth kiddy. No sense of social responsibility, though they are a bit miffed as they won't get a maternity grant this time and the money they got for other four kept them in cider and fags.Quote:
Originally Posted by pilninggas
Vote Labour: Each election win comes with a free war! (p.s. i support our troops, not nu-labour b-lox).
Lay off of the new government, they really can't do worse than the last shower-of-****e. :P[/quote]
As a socialist Red Tories, Blue Tories are both fair game to me. Commenting on the financial mess, Cameron said "We are all in this together." He should have said, you are all in this together. When he raises tuition fees it will be the kids from poor backgrounds who won't go to uni. Won't make alot of difference to kids from rich backgrounds because like Cheri Blair did, Mummy and Daddy will buy them a flat in the city where they are studying.
Well said Ken on both your last posts.
I too want to see our troops home but I also don't want to see the sacrifices that have been made by our fellow countrymen and women to be seen as wasted - that would be a travesty. I don't make any pretence of having the answers so -like you - I give them 100% support and do what I can to raise funds for the benefit of the injured and families of the fallen. I strongly feel that we should ALL be doing that.
As for the scroungers - I just don't know how they do it!! I lost my wife when my 3 children were still very young. The state increased my family allowance by 60p per week - the sum total of my benefits because I was a widowed father and not a widowed mother!
You are right the vast majority aren't scroungers, but a sizeable minority of those on state-handouts are. Come to where i live, a couple just across the road with no-jobs are on their fifth kiddy. No sense of social responsibility, though they are a bit miffed as they won't get a maternity grant this time and the money they got for other four kept them in cider and fags.Quote:
Originally Posted by monday21
Vote Labour: Each election win comes with a free war! (p.s. i support our troops, not nu-labour b-lox).
Lay off of the new government, they really can't do worse than the last shower-of-****e. :P[/quote]
As a socialist Red Tories, Blue Tories are both fair game to me. Commenting on the financial mess, Cameron said "We are all in this together." He should have said, you are all in this together. When he raises tuition fees it will be the kids from poor backgrounds who won't go to uni. Won't make alot of difference to kids from rich backgrounds because like Cheri Blair did, Mummy and Daddy will buy them a flat in the city where they are studying.[/quote]
Who brought in tuition fees in the first place? I went to uni in 1996 and (thank-god) my fees were paid, but the last lot didn't like this one bit (unless you were, like Blair, Scottish) and made sure anyone at Uni had to pay. I'm working class, have done bum-jobs, been self employed and now work in the public sector and know hand-on-heart that the last government hated those who want to get on in life. Self-employment taxation was far simpler in 1996 than it was in 2001, but labour hate those with a sense of free-enterprise.