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katie1997

katie1997

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huncamunca Wrote:

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> should take more care when dressing.Or get his

> Butler to check him over before leaving the house


Brilliant - have to agree with you there huncamunca, sooooo funny. It must have been the Butler's day 'orf....


PS. Couldn't resist responding, George Osbourne is one of my bugbears.......grr (6)

DJKillaQueen

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They think the savings will come from getting some of the unemployed into work but they haven't factored for the new unemployed that are goig to arrive when the public sector cuts hit. They also can't legally reduce the base rate of basic benefits....so JSA/ Income Support/ ESA....anyway so they only way they can cuts benefits is by taking people off more expensive benefits and putting them onto cheaper ones whilst taking away additional benefits from some like DLA and so on.


Every government talks tough on benefits and then the reality sets in. Fraud and the excessive bills for families with lot's of children apart, there's not a lot you can cut. The biggest section of the welfare bill goes to pensioners and state pensions (around 60% of the bill). The no. of pensioners is set to increase, so whilst additional benefits like winter fuel allowance/ TV licence/ travel passes can be means tested, any savings will soon be swallowed up by growing numbers of pension claimants.


It's a timebomb that can't be fixed without massive investment in job creation.


Nick Cleggs constituency in Sheffield sees the unemployed outnumber available jobs by 8-1.....you can't demonise the unemployed when there aren't the jobs for them to look for. Pity that Sheffield Forgemasters won't be getting the grant now that would have created those much needed 3000 secure jobs.


Oh and the outfit is very funny.........lol...........

dita-on-tees

dita-on-tees

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my nearest big town from home is Middleborough, I knew we'd be fked when the election came through, statistically that was proved today. This government has 17 millionaires in the cabinet, do I feel that your average person and their needs will be adequately considered and fulfilled...... errr no. The wastelands of 3 generations of unemployment (created by thatcher) is about to be compounded by cuts in the only stable employer in the north east- the civil service - with the cuts in benefit (some of which may have been ration) you create a large chunk of the country without hope, who cannot produce and will ultimately become a cost.


as for GO, oh hes just a large throbbing sea oh sea kay. A blue suit, really, with yellow. I went to university with these people their grip on reality is a tight as a...

dita-on-tees

dita-on-tees

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yeah but at least IKEA*** will give me the basics of what I vaguely want and providing I have my own spanners and a some spare 'bits", I can fk it up myself, this coalition is full on MFI. shit design, wonky in implementation and will need be to replaced in 5 years with something more substantial....


*** in fairness to ikea i once drank myself through a parental visit then was saved by ikea through meatballs and that never end fizzy drink facility, i even bought some sort of cupboard stacking device.


only this coalition could include something so clearly wrong as danny alexander.

katie1997

katie1997

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HAL9000 Wrote:

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> The OP may be referring to GO appearing to be

> flying at half-mast (at the bottom of the page) -

> although it might just be the shiny lining of his

> jacket catching the light - it's not clear.


HAL - indeed they are (well that's what I thought) referring to ' the graphic at the end of the article', that's what's so funny.


Gosh, I didn't *read* it, I only looked at the pictures ;)

katie1997

katie1997

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dita-on-tees Wrote:

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> I didnt even notice it, though I would rarely look

> at the trouser region of a Tory. There's nothing

> there of interest for the likes of me


Interested enough to read the thread tho? and that's what the thread is about ...

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