howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
thought this would resurrect itself, the blues were talking about this a year or two back.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19715623Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
This is another very bad idea.
I refuse to believe that wealth tends to make British people less British, or the least bit less entitled to everything that the State has to offer and that all pay towards.
It is not beyond the wit of man to include tick-boxes in the relevant forms whereby one could accept the offer of one or more of these (or other) universal benefits or decline one or more 'at this time', subject to an annual review.
Politics and the media have had some recent success in making our Nation's present sorry pass a class/wealth war, helped by some on both sides (of Parliament and the press) getting their excuses in first.
Blame, it appears, can be as addictive as any Narcotic.
While minds are a-storm; from East to West, from North to South and from Top to Bottom, with the un-concerted effort to come to terms with the recent past, the present and the future - the future of us all - weaning ourselves from this core folly must be of paramount importance.
N.B.
Saving coppers from this cannot be regarded as justification for shaving the least well off amongst us down to nothing but coppers.
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
- Posts: 62,352
#3
i doubt whether much money could be saved once the costs of employing staff to means test is taken into consideration.
i see many people that have not seen 60 for well over 10 years hand over money for their prescriptions in the chemist, others pay full fare on the bus when they are entitled to travel for free and i know of one well off couple that donate their heating allowance to a homeless charity each year.