Politics, The Election May 2015

[thebish]

The Daily Telegraph on the Tories £5.8billion social housing stock sell-off...

"..dumb, economically illiterate and – even worse – morally wrong."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... wrong.html


why do these last minute election bribes NEVER apply to me?

thousands of pounds free childcare for kids? not when mine were small - we got nowt
inheritance tax bribe? I'm too poor
massive cash giveaway to buy a house? I don't live in housing assoc. housing

[Gary the Enfield]

The Daily Telegraph on the Tories £5.8billion social housing stock sell-off...

"..dumb, economically illiterate and – even worse – morally wrong."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... wrong.html


why do these last minute election bribes NEVER apply to me?

thousands of pounds free childcare for kids? not when mine were small - we got nowt
inheritance tax bribe? I'm too poor
massive cash giveaway to buy a house? I don't live in housing assoc. housing

Me either, although I thought they also mentioned raising the 40% income tax threshold to £50,000 which surely benefits a few? Similairly, where people on minimum wage work less than 30 hours a week they would be exempt from Income Tax. Was that the tories too? I'm starting to get befuddled with who's offering what.

[Bijou Bob]

Love them or loathe them, the UKIP manifesto launch this lunchtime was very impressive. They ticked every 'White van man' box, pished off the Scotstoun with a promise to reform the Barnet formula and it was all costed. After the debate, I thought they were dead in the water. Possibly not anymore.

[Bruce Rioja]

why do these last minute election bribes NEVER apply to me?

And how come I'm always in the paying seat?!

[thebish]

The Daily Telegraph on the Tories £5.8billion social housing stock sell-off...

"..dumb, economically illiterate and – even worse – morally wrong."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... wrong.html


why do these last minute election bribes NEVER apply to me?

thousands of pounds free childcare for kids? not when mine were small - we got nowt
inheritance tax bribe? I'm too poor
massive cash giveaway to buy a house? I don't live in housing assoc. housing

Me either, although I thought they also mentioned raising the 40% income tax threshold to £50,000 which surely benefits a few? Similairly, where people on minimum wage work less than 30 hours a week they would be exempt from Income Tax. Was that the tories too? I'm starting to get befuddled with who's offering what.

not me - I only earn half that...

[thebish]

why do these last minute election bribes NEVER apply to me?

And how come I'm always in the paying seat?!

cos you're rich!

[thebish]

Love them or loathe them, the UKIP manifesto launch this lunchtime was very impressive. They ticked every 'White van man' box, pished off the Scotstoun with a promise to reform the Barnet formula and it was all costed. After the debate, I thought they were dead in the water. Possibly not anymore.

when you say "costed" - those "costings" rely on some pretty wild assumptions - eg. £9bn savings from withdrawal from EU...

they claim these figures are all backed and approved by the Centre for Economic and Business Research... yet, the CEBR adds the caveat (over the EU figure) that "it cannot comment on how EU policies towards Britain would change as a result of withdrawal." - which is surely the crucial factor!! UKIP's figures seem to be based on the idea that nothing would change in our trading relationships with EU countries... I reckon it fecking would!

also - no mention of how we would replace the funding that currently comes from Brussels... surely we wouldn't still expect to receive all the grant aid?? would we???

[Bruce Rioja]

why do these last minute election bribes NEVER apply to me?

And how come I'm always in the paying seat?!

cos you're rich!

I might be if I wasn't picking up every other feck*'s tab.

[CrazyHorse]

why do these last minute election bribes NEVER apply to me?

Typical bloody socialist. Me, me, me, me, me.

[thebish]

why do these last minute election bribes NEVER apply to me?

Typical bloody socialist. Me, me, me, me, me.

[Harry Genshaw]

why do these last minute election bribes NEVER apply to me?

Both the main parties keep appealing to "the hard working people of Britain"

What about the idle feckers like Bijou Bob? What are they doing for him? Extended episodes of Homes under the hammer?

[bobo the clown]

^^^ massages. Don't overlook the massages.

[Bijou Bob]

I'll have you know I dusted and polished today, finished the ironing, walked the hounds AND sent a work e mail. Productive day in my book. And I only cost 3 nurses, which seeing as Ed is promising another 20,000, is easily affordable.

[Hoboh]

I'll have you know I dusted and polished today, finished the ironing, walked the hounds AND sent a work e mail. Productive day in my book. And I only cost 3 nurses, which seeing as Ed is promising another 20,000, is easily affordable.

[Hoboh]

So our friends in the EU (Spanish) are busy using cheap migrant workers living in appalling conditions to undercut our farmers, great this in it all together club EU isn't it?
No wonder their youth Unemployed are shipping over here is it!
Freedom of movement is a tool of greedy employers and a convenient way for governments to rid their self of a problem!!

[thebish]

So our friends in the EU (Spanish) are busy using cheap migrant workers living in appalling conditions to undercut our farmers,

are they leftie ones?

[Hoboh]

Nick Clegg
This man will stop at nothing to be in a government, seems he has now changed his underwear and no longer will object to an EU referendum, more proof if needed of just how unscrupulous the man is.
Are the Lib Dems dead or hibernating, they must be letting this clown ruin their party.

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[Abdoulaye's Twin]

So our friends in the EU (Spanish) are busy using cheap migrant workers living in appalling conditions to undercut our farmers, great this in it all together club EU isn't it?
No wonder their youth Unemployed are shipping over here is it!
Freedom of movement is a tool of greedy employers and a convenient way for governments to rid their self of a problem!!

There is an answer to all this, but unfortunately most folk only consider their pocket and convenience...

Buy British produce and the supermarkets will soon get the message.

Stop using Amazon and they might reconsider zero hours contracts.

Stop buying coffee from Starbucks and they might reconsider their tax arrangements.

Stop eating KFC and the NHS might not need ever increasing amounts of money.

Don't like kraft fecking about with creme eggs? Don't carry on buying them then.

And so on...

Problem is, people grumble them carry on as normal. Will you refuse to buy those Spanish tomatoes? Bet within a couple of weeks you'll just pick them up without looking where they come from...

[Gary the Enfield]

So our friends in the EU (Spanish) are busy using cheap migrant workers living in appalling conditions to undercut our farmers, great this in it all together club EU isn't it?
No wonder their youth Unemployed are shipping over here is it!
Freedom of movement is a tool of greedy employers and a convenient way for governments to rid their self of a problem!!

You've never been to Wisbech have you?

The amount of immigrants (many illegal) that are used there and the surrounding area to harvest vegetables is disgraceful. They sleep in barns, derelict houses and sheds with no running water, heating, lighting etc. and then hand pick the cabbages, sprouts etc. for long hours.

Must be an EU directive.......

[Hoboh]

So our friends in the EU (Spanish) are busy using cheap migrant workers living in appalling conditions to undercut our farmers, great this in it all together club EU isn't it?
No wonder their youth Unemployed are shipping over here is it!
Freedom of movement is a tool of greedy employers and a convenient way for governments to rid their self of a problem!!

You've never been to Wisbech have you?

The amount of immigrants (many illegal) that are used there and the surrounding area to harvest vegetables is disgraceful. They sleep in barns, derelict houses and sheds with no running water, heating, lighting etc. and then hand pick the cabbages, sprouts etc. for long hours.

Must be an EU directive.......

The authorities were and still are clamping down on that sort of business and it hardly helps matters that we cannot imprison all illegals until the end of investigating their claims for asylum.
The Spanish and French on the other hand with large swathes of agriculture seem to be doing this en masse with little or no official intervention and it undermines the level playing surface of the so called EU.