When we moved to a bigger house 9 months ago we fixed our mortgage for 5 years just in case. There's no way we could afford double figure interest rates like last time.
Hang'em all.
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>Get with the **** programme - cuts to the public sector directly affect the private sector as well.
public sector is going to get hit hard regardless of who wins, wake up and smell the coffee.
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Due to the size of our debt and the fact that it will have to be paid off eventually we are all going to get shafted, long and hard and probably without the courtesy of a nice dinner beforehand.
I think the only thing we are actually voting for is who will be first in the queue.
PPP debt and the public sector pension debt means our actual debt adds up to 90k per household some boffin said last night. Even if he is wrong, even if he's out by 50% we are still up the shitter by 50 odd K per household.
As a country there's no more going down the pub, no more lunches out it's sandwiches from now on, no more home improvements, no more big flashy cars, no more going off with our American friends for a fight in the curry house.
Bottom line were are staying in watching TV and eating tesco value for the next five years miniumum until we are out of the shit.
Blair, Brown, Clegg makes no odds, what has to be done has to be done. Even the ones who think they are being truthful soon realise that the world conspires to make them liars, who'd be a politician eh!
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public sector is going to get hit hard regardless of who wins, wake up and smell the coffee.
Thank you for that. I can smell the coffee - in fact, if you were in close proximity I would have to resist the urge for physical violence towards your person.
Why - because this week I had to tell a father of two, whose wife was made redundant last year, that his job was being put at risk, that's why.
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Bottom line were are staying in watching TV and eating tesco value for the next five years miniumum until we are out of the shit.
Except that the Tories want it to be everyone else eating bread and dripping whilst they carry on with their luxurious lifestyle paid by shares in bakeries and abattoirs.Posted 2 years ago # -
>in fact, if you were in close proximity I would have to resist the urge for physical violence towards your person.
What a nice chap you must be, I'm not sure what warranted the threat against me.
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resist the urge
My attempt at conveying restraint.But apologies, I am not normally prone to aggression.
Something in your post must have triggered it - along with the rather unpleasant business of telling highly qualified and capable team members that they might no longer be required...Posted 2 years ago # -
He does seem in a very bad mood. Must be the pressure of being so hard-nosed and commercially focussed. Sounds exhausting
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Any straight thinking folks should vote LibDem this time just to get the electoral reform that this country is screaming out for.
Is it really screaming out for reform? Other than LibDem voters? The current system has been fairly effective for the past 200 years or so, every 10 (or so) years you get a change in government, which keeps corruption nicely in check, most of the MPs are known locally, generally speaking very little extreme legislation gets passed...
I'd get rid of the current House of Lords, maybe a STV second chamber, but even then you run a serious risk of the place being a dumping ground for semi-retired politicians that no local party wants.
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Except that the Tories want it to be everyone else eating bread and dripping whilst they carry on with their luxurious lifestyle paid by shares in bakeries and abattoirs.
Apart from the inheritance tax changes, which is supposed to be an attempt to change it back to something for the very richest as it used to be, I think the Tories are being pretty even handed really in their proposals. Do think they should put back the inheritance tax changes as now is not the time.
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>But apologies, I am not normally prone to aggression.
no worries, wouldn't have wanted to be in you shoes re: the father and redundancy risk.
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Electoral reform might offer one benefit in that they might have to actually work together to get stuff done, I can't see how that's bad. Seems to work for a lot of other nations.
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Electoral reform might offer one benefit in that they might have to actually work together to get stuff done, I can't see how that's bad. Seems to work for a lot of other nations.
Doesn't work particuarly well here in Spain, you end up with regional parties calling the shots.
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If Cameron can't even be trusted to lock a bike up, why would anyone trust him to run the country?
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yeah, tory power
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who took us into the eec, (yet it was brown who insisted we stay out of the euro)
You still doing this one, kimbers? Just to help you out, it was the Wilson government who applied for EEC membership in 1967 (not that I think joining the EEC was a bad thing). Meanwhile who exactly was it clamouring for us to join the Euro who Gordon had to resist?Posted 2 years ago # -
Do people really believe callmedave is going to cut Quangos? I suppose he'll have to cut some to fund the 5,000 ‘full time, professional community organizers’ he wants.
5,000 @ £20,000 = £100 Million a year
Chaff.
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