howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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£53 a week? Those were the days...
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...1967, that is.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
He should be made to live on that for at least three months, a week or two would not be enough. £53 is plenty of pocket money if you are living at home and your parents are paying all the bills and buying the food but not for any other youngster who has to manage on their own.
I doubt there is one MP from any party or top civil servant who has ever had to really struggle and managed to live on sweet F all in the past.
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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Rent, council tax, gas, electric, 2 lots of water bills, food, all essentials. TV licence, phone, car/ public transport, perscriptions,birthdays, christmas, easter, clothes, only if you win the lottery!
I'm sure we have all seen the MP's who took part in the TV stunts, lasting for just a week on a limited budget. I noticed they had suitcases stuffed with warm clothes, plenty of toiletries and surprise, surprise, open doors to all sorts of projects, due I'm sure to the film crew in tow.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
such an out of touch pratt.i will give a week living in a 2 bed flat and having to pay bedroom tax.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Perhaps IDS is preparing the way for a haircut, to then say: "you have enough to live off".
@watch this space...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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am i the only one that sees ids and shapps enjoying all this?
we constantly see them making snappy comments on the bedroom tax and other benefit changes as if they are getting one over on the poor.
all this from two individuals that have been economical with the truth about themselves up until now.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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to true howard,i'm with you on this.is the death penalty making a come back perhaps.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Shapps, is that the chap with 58,000 followers on Twitter?
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
But im sure that this will come back to bite them at the next general election
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,707
They really are the nasty faces of the nasty wing of the Tory party
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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It's all part of labours grand plan and so far it's succeeding.
Create a section of the population dependent on welfare benefit by promising, and delivering, more and more in welfare cheques so that come the crunch they can turn round and say "Hey look at those nasty right wing, fascist tories they're really nasty aren't they?"
Yeah well that will work for so long amongst some of the population but it's nothing more than a sugar hit electorally.
Having said that both, in fact all, the mainstream parties play the same game. It's nothing new and as We see in the press and on the television it's dog eat dog out there with wreckless talk of stringing them up and all sorts of other nonsense.
The public have been had.
It's all just a grand political game.
I listen to phone in shows and as soon as they mention the topic du jour it plays out like a B-movie where you know the plot from start to finish.
Stand back everyone and think for a change.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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.........and I should add this little snippet from todays Times. It's behind a paywall but luckily I managed to sneak the first paragraph:
Britain's second toll motorway is to be given the green light in an attempt to stimulate the faltering economy with capital spending.
Ministers are set to revive a decade-old plan to ease congestion on the M4 in South Wales as part of a multibillion-pound road-building scheme.
George Osborne has agreed to underwrite the £1 billion project, which is expected to be announced by the Chancellor in the spending review in June.
The thing is that the headline reads as follows:
"£1bn plan to put Britain on the road to recovery".
All I've got to say is that with growth plans like this it's time to pray, stock up on beans and pasta and make as many friends as you can.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
So philip your saying all the present situation is ok
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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He's not saying that at all.
Roger
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Thankyou philips secretary
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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PhilipP wrote:It's all part of labours grand plan and so far it's succeeding.
Create a section of the population dependent on welfare benefit by promising, and delivering, more and more in welfare cheques so that come the crunch they can turn round and say "Hey look at those nasty right wing, fascist tories they're really nasty aren't they?"
Yeah well that will work for so long amongst some of the population but it's nothing more than a sugar hit electorally.
Having said that both, in fact all, the mainstream parties play the same game. It's nothing new and as We see in the press and on the television it's dog eat dog out there with wreckless talk of stringing them up and all sorts of other nonsense.
The public have been had.
It's all just a grand political game.
I listen to phone in shows and as soon as they mention the topic du jour it plays out like a B-movie where you know the plot from start to finish.
Stand back everyone and think for a change.
Spot on Phillip, some misguided fools think that when Labour get back in its the land of milk and honey.
Get real people, it was Liam Byrne, the outgoing Labour Minister who left a note saying the money's run out, we haven't seen the start of it yet.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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but david, the mouse is doing such a great job
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
- Posts: 2,594
Stop being so tribal Keith - what is your solution?
The highest rate of tax under this useless bunch is higher than it was under Labour.
You have no solutions just whinging, an awful lot of people are in for a massive shock.
My council tax and business rates are up, I can bleat all day but I've got to accept it.
If you can come up with a viable alternative I'll listen but all you do is moan.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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What exactly is IDS defining as living on £53 a week? if that includes rent water gas electric council tax food and clothing he should be made chancellor because he is a financial genius!
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