The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[jaycee]

I see but have to say the whole question of benefits has to be brought under control, one often sees stories of folk having many children to keep getting money, recently two women so overweight had to have wheel chairs supplied and their benefits totaled £40.000 per year. look at the Jihadi John family all the time they have been here has been on beneifit. They were living in a £600,000 apartment in London paid for by the t/p.None of them has ever worked, father did a bunk back to Kuwait but still claims benefit!

That is just a few examples of abuse, it has to be brought under control.

So basically you take 4/5 people and use that as an excuse to pnish people,I can quote an mp claiming £37,000 for a consultant that lives 400 miles from his constituency,mp claiming £67,000 isnt enough to live on,mps claiming £39 per day for breakfast almost as much as a single person gets to live on,whos the scrouungers skivers and wasters here?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

A nice grassroots project is taking shape out in Philadelphia that is giving young adults access to all sorts of tools and machinery (and classes on how to use them) to help them make things, which are then sold on the Etsy store run by the facility.

https://beabuildinghero.wordpress.com/about/

Oh, and if you weren't aware, today is NHS Change Day, another grassroots project to encourage people in the NHS to pledge one thing they can do better.

http://changeday.nhs.uk/

 

[Toffeelover]

So basically you take 4/5 people and use that as an excuse to pnish people,I can quote an mp claiming £37,000 for a consultant that lives 400 miles from his constituency,mp claiming £67,000 isnt enough to live on,mps claiming £39 per day for breakfast almost as much as a single person gets to live on,whos the scrouungers skivers and wasters here?

You are right on those issues, and rules need to be changed absolutely. My MP back a few years was Peter Pike, Labour, it came out that on average he was claiming £150,000 per year expenses which is obscene his replacement Kitty Ussher also Labour was not much different. Just mentioning those two, because Labour attack the amendments to the Benefits system but have never raised much of an eye brow about tackling the abuse by MPs. One could expect that of the current lot but a party that is supposed to be in support of the worker or less well off sits there on it's hands and keeps it's trap zipped.

 

[roydo]

today is NHS Change Day

It is also Pack in Smoking Day, though they called it something different.

How can a "Day" be 2 "Days"?

And is it the Tories fault, or did Labour cause it 5 -10 years ago?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It is also Pack in Smoking Day, though they called it something different.

How can a "Day" be 2 "Days"?

And is it the Tories fault, or did Labour cause it 5 -10 years ago?

I think I read the other day that British American Tobacco don't pay much tax either so they're a twofer

 

[jaycee]

You are right on those issues, and rules need to be changed absolutely. My MP back a few years was Peter Pike, Labour, it came out that on average he was claiming £150,000 per year expenses which is obscene his replacement Kitty Ussher also Labour was not much different. Just mentioning those two, because Labour attack the amendments to the Benefits system but have never raised much of an eye brow about tackling the abuse by MPs. One could expect that of the current lot but a party that is supposed to be in support of the worker or less well off sits there on it's hands and keeps it's trap zipped.

The problem with politics and politicans is that nowdays they are mainly career opportunists,that is every party,for all the bluster and
hot air during debates,they all head back to the subsided bars and restaurants to laugh joke and fill in the expenses forms,the only
difference is the colour of the rosette they wear come election day

 

[roydo]

I think I read the other day that British American Tobacco don't pay much tax either so they're a twofer

Well since I packed in, they are now paying even less.

Soz.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Well since I packed in, they are now paying even less.

Soz.

Not quite sure how you can sleep at night.

 

[roydo]

Not quite sure how you can sleep at night.

Taken up drinking heavily.

Not much of a plan, but think the tax take from Chez Roydo is about right again.

 

[Toffeelover]

The problem with politics and politicans is that nowdays they are mainly career opportunists,that is every party,for all the bluster and
hot air during debates,they all head back to the subsided bars and restaurants to laugh joke and fill in the expenses forms,the only
difference is the colour of the rosette they wear come election day

You have got it right Mate, they just look after themselves primarily. So many have never had "real" jobs, and amongst that group are the 2 EDs.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Taken up drinking heavily.

Not much of a plan, but think the tax take from Chez Roydo is about right again.

I always said you were a kind hearted soul mate

 

[toffee matt]

It is also Pack in Smoking Day, though they called it something different.

How can a "Day" be 2 "Days"?

And is it the Tories fault, or did Labour cause it 5 -10 years ago?

They've banned branded Cigarette packaging today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31839859

Not entirely sure if this makes a major difference

 

[roydo]

They've banned branded Cigarette packaging today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31839859

Not entirely sure if this makes a major difference

it might, combined with them blocking the displays, stop a youngster starting in the first place.

But wont make a seasoned smoker pack in. Just annoy them when the shop assistant cant find the right brand.

And unlike football, I know all about this.

 

[Tubey]

Simple yet effective.

 

[bol-uk]

They've banned branded Cigarette packaging today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31839859

Not entirely sure if this makes a major difference

I used to buy a lot of dope and it was always wrapped in cling-film, no writing, adverts, pics,branding or anything and yet I still came back for more.