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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  20 March 2013     15:55221212
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  looks like someone oop norf has cloned barry.
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21855744
• Guest 688

  • Registered: 16 Jul 2009
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  20 March 2013     18:06221289
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  If you take away these new opiates of the masses ,what happens next ?
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  20 March 2013     19:20221310
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  if you mean what replaces them john i doubt that yoga, tao buddhism, the arts etc will give as much pleasure.
• Guest 688

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  20 March 2013     19:38221318
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  It makes me wonder,Howard,because of the consumerist nature of our society how much those things add to a sense of social stability and even to some degree cohesion within a deprived area.if ,in a consumer led economy ,those reliant on benefits are not allowed to aspire,be that rightly or wrongly,might that not be a formula for unrest ?
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  20 March 2013     19:45221323
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  i would go with that john, each section of society has its own aspirations and aims. for want of a better word "chavs" need fake designer clobber and sportswear to "keep up with the joneses", not sure the benefit cuts will apply to them in a big way as it seems they will get increases but below the rate of inflation.
  
  the working poor are the worst hit with loss of tax credits.
• Guest 688

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  20 March 2013     19:48221324
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  That's right Howard,it should be an oxymoron 'the working poor'.
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  20 March 2013     20:23221333
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  If only the BBC could get even the name of the HA correct...
  
  http://www.eastlandshomes.co.uk/default.asp?id=
  
  'We are a not for profit organisation which operates for the benefit of the community.' Was, more or less, what the CEO said.
  
  The CEO is on £110,763 + £19,162 pension contribution.
  
  Bazz, darling perhaps you can help me here?
  The final salary pensions have various accrual rates of '1/60th', '1/70th' and '1/80th'. I'm sure this means something.
  
  For all this, the Financial Statement is not done in what I regard as the best way. In that the pdf they publish (link below) consists of photocopies of the hard copy:difficult to read and (surprise surprise) un-copy and pasteable.
  
  http://www.eastlandshomes.co.uk/article.asp?id=64&realcat=95
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  21 March 2013     15:22221473
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  a great wind up here and the t.v.people fell for it.
  
  
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2296893/Welfare-mother-Tracey-MacDonald-defends-right-buy-booze-cigarettes-ITVs-Daybreak.html