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General Discussion Area / Re: Council Tax/Poll Tax

« on: 27 February 2012, 22:31:08 »

All councils spend a good proportion every year on making the council office drains bigger so they can pour more of our hard earned taxpayer's money down them with greater efficiency. 

Where I live, why do we need a council produced PC correct 4 page, glossy paper, colour newsletter, telling us how wonderful they are 4 times a year? 

One of my trigger points was that I would leave the UK was when the council tax on my house reached £2,000, currently it is £1993 which is near enough. Do I live in a mansion, no a medium sized three bedroom detached house.  It is a p*ss take, when I know people on benefits (no council tax to pay) are having a much easier life than I am financially at the moment and they know how to milk the system to maximum the amounts, along with the undeclared cash in hand jobs. 

When I have bought a house in the Ukraine my council tax will £0.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Diesel £1.50 per litre

« on: 27 February 2012, 22:11:16 »

The other day I was looking to see how European prices compare:

http://www.fuel-prices-europe.info/

Petrol 95 RON € 1,714 UK:
Most Expensive
1. € 2,003 Norway
2. € 1,874 Turkey
3. € 1,814 Italy

Cheapest:
1. € 0,610 Belarus
2. € 0,737 Russia
3. € 0,790 Ukraine

Diesel € 1,735 UK:
Most Expensive:
1. € 1,890 Norway
2. € 1,750 Italy
3. € 1,735 UK

Cheapest:
1. € 0,630 Belarus
2. € 0,745 Russia
3. € 0,752 Ukraine

Quite a variation in prices between the cheapest and most expensive! 

Energy prices are the Elephant in the room that is not going to go away. 

Some of the prices increases at the moment are due to countries giving banks large amounts of money like QE in the UK, which is invested by the banks into oil and other commodities, where they are currently on a one-way price rise bet, and if the there is a price correction, they can always have some of that lovely fuel duty tax to bail them out. 

So the banks make increased profits, we get to pay the bill through commodity and UK inflation, while high energy and commodity prices, kill any possible growth. In the UK 5 to 10 years of stagflation here we come. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Poor, unfortunate ( and possibly new to this UK ?) People ....

« on: 27 February 2012, 21:36:43 »

I think you are right Rods 2. I have come to the conclusion that each government is populated with people who are there NOt to serve the peoples needs but to serve their own egos and maybe look after some hiden agendas (current lot are driven by hedge fund money for example so the "banks" are being looked after). They all need to make sure they get in for another term - witness Merkel, Sarkozy et all. Osborne is like you say presiding over a ballooning debt whilst telling everyone he is doing a great job. WHEN it turns out he hasn't he will be hoping he is in for another 4 years of gravy train and kudos before vanishing . Does anyone remember the last time Gordy was seen or heard?

Foreign aid. When countries like India say we don't want your peanuts and go off and buy French fighter planes and not ours then that is the time to pull the plug. Sadly (apart from technical advice) we have very little the Indians want from us.

Bumper guide to waste. Bring it on and lets see some pen pushers sacked. The MOD (or whoever is responsible for vast waste of taxpayers money for very little return ( armoured jeeps etc) want hanging out to dry.

One last thing. We have signed up for French expertise to help us build new nuclear plants on the understanding that British firms will get a big share of the work. Some chance of that happening. More empty words from the current mandarins. they are ALL self serving £$%^&

I think the French contractors plan on giving a UK employee the job of polishing the "Made in France" badges. 

7039

General Discussion Area / Re: gun crazy america

« on: 27 February 2012, 21:29:42 »

Real danger would be......

Darth and Ljay armed at an OOF meeting. 

7040

General Discussion Area / Re: Fireman Sam creator in a spot of bother

« on: 27 February 2012, 16:31:55 »

I've felt for at least the last 10 years, that as a white, heterosexual, middle aged British male, that the only right I have left is to pay taxes and boy have they piled those on in the last 10 years. 

Freedom of speech has long gone from this country, having views on multi-culturalism, your a racist, views on same sex relationship, your homphobic, views on certain religions, a religious bigot. Just keep paying those taxes, so the Nazi thought squad authorities can keep affording to investigate, prosecute and lock you up for having any so un-PC thoughts. 

Lucky USA, freedom of speech is enshrined in their constitution. 

Personally, I think this loss of freedom is making us much less tolerant as a society, the reverse of what the thought Nazis are supposedly trying to achieve.

I can't wait to leave this province of the EUSSR 4th Riech. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Poor, unfortunate ( and possibly new to this UK ?) People ....

« on: 27 February 2012, 16:06:24 »

The country Government lost the plot on benefits along time a go. Labour a disaster, the ConDems are not much better.

IMHO benefits should be the MINIMUM to stop people starving and being on the street, NOT a lifestyle choice.

George Osborne says the country is broke:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9107485/George-Osborne-UK-has-run-out-of-money.html

Well I can save him £17bn for tax cuts in 5 words. Scrap the overseas aid budget. Simples. 

I'm sure I could save another another £180bn, just by using the Taxpayers Alliance book "The Bumper Guide to Government Waste" to show where the axe needs to be applied as they estimated £200bn is being wasted by UK Governments every year. 

The country is broke because public spending and borrowing is much too high and needs to be cut drastically. If you think ConDems are cutting Government spending to reduce the budget deficit, they are not, it's a fallacy, they are just not increasing it as fast as it was under the fool Brown. 

If the country heads down the path I'm expecting of stagflation (stagnant economy, high inflation due to QE) for the next 5 to 10 years, then the wheels are going to fall off his budget deficit plan. Then it will be time to roll out plan B, which is B for Bankruptcy, Greek style. 

Then I'm sure the country will then turn to the fraud squad Labour party, so the two Ed's (Millipede and Ballsup) will finish what the fool Brown started. 

The Greek people, like many in Eastern Europe has a history of keeping their village houses and smallholdings, when they migrate to the big cities to get a job and much higher standard of living. This migration is now happening in reverse, where they have been made unemployed, so they will be very poor, but they won't starve as they will work the land. When the UK is in Greece's position, what is your's and your family's survival plan?  Where we import 50% of our food, the population of this country is much more poorly equipped to survive compared to the Greeks. 

7042

Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Breaking R plate elite estate

« on: 26 February 2012, 22:34:53 »

I'm after a RH (offside) mini facelift headlamp washer nozzle as I've lost mine and my MOT due soon, please let me if you have this?

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General Car Chat / European Low Emission Zones

« on: 26 February 2012, 21:11:23 »

This is new to me. 

32 cities now have low emission zones where you must display the appropriate sticker or get a €40 on-the-spot fine. 

There are also some low emission cities in Italy.

http://driving.drive-alive.co.uk/low_emission_zones.htm

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General Discussion Area / Re: im off

« on: 26 February 2012, 03:18:53 »

not been on for a while  been to new zealand for 2 weeks and florida for 2 weeks looking at houses and  looking at job prospects and it looks like i will be emigrating early next year  mrs and kids want florida personally i dont give a toss where  going back to florida in a couple of weeks to have a second viewing of a house and if all goes well will buy it whilst out there  already sold my house i was renting out and the one im living in will be up for sale soon   cant wait to leave this once was great country that is slowly becoming a shithole

If you had been given a £1 from every person who asked on here "Whats happened to Millwall, has he been banned again" it would have paid for your trip. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: im off

« on: 26 February 2012, 03:16:18 »

Good luck, as soon as I've sold my house I'm off as well to join my wife and daughter in the Ukraine.

I aim to visit the UK about every 3 months to see my family. 

7046

General Discussion Area / Re: Doctors - the new expenses scandal ?

« on: 25 February 2012, 00:50:43 »

Of course, when a patient registers with a practice I'm sure there's a nice central IT system that deregisters them with the previous practice, ensuring that only one of them gets paid.

.... ah! no, that was all too difficult, wasn't it? Sill, that was only £11bn down the pan.

The procurement system is designed to be vetted by pen-pushers, who don't know what they buying and their guidelines tell them to accept the lowest bid. Companies therefore compete to put in the lowest possible plausible bid to get the contract. To keep hardware costs down they will specify inadequate hardware and too small a budget to develop the software and support systems. Hey Ho that doesn't matter they have got the contract, they have suckered the Government into their system. 

The contract goes ahead and the system is inadequate but that doesn't matter as they then go back to the Government, we have under estimated the hardware requirements, infrastructure costs, development complexity and costs blah, blah blah. Don't worry we have a solution (out comes proper plan what they know was really what was needed but would not be the cheapest to win the contact  ) and they then tell the Government are you going to write off £11bn, or spend the further £4bn which they knew was required in the first place. 

That is how the Government IT procurement system works, which is why virtually all public IT systems are not up to the job or fail. It is an absolute scandal. 

The MOD has never been great at procurement, but it has got an order or two worse on the wasting of money since they privatized the MOD Procurement Executive as Quintiq as they no longer have in-house experts to vet proposals. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Doctors - the new expenses scandal ?

« on: 24 February 2012, 15:41:39 »

Labour stupidity and criminally bad negotiating skills meant when they re-negotiated GP's contracts their salaries doubled from an average of £100k for a large busy practice to £200k. This latest scandal, obviously means they are feeling the pinch on only £200k of tax payers money per year. 

Another reason, we are being taxed to death. These days an average wage earner spends 50% of what they earn of tax. In 1991 tax was about 32% of GDP, under Labour it peaked at 52% including the budget deficit and is currently around 50%. 

When you see tax freedom day which is currently around 1st June remember this is an average and does't include those that prefer not to work, being subsidized by those that do work paying nearer 50% than 40%.

Look at what you earn and divide by 2 and tell me you couldn't spend, some of what you lose better and have a happier life.

Current tax levels in this country are a national scandal and an absolute disgrace. 

7048

General Discussion Area / Re: treatment worse than cure

« on: 24 February 2012, 15:22:43 »

Obviously viewing the hot teachers thread. 

7049

General Discussion Area / Re: Hot teachers !

« on: 24 February 2012, 15:16:25 »

I'm married to a hot school teacher 15 years younger than me. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Health and saftey rant / How many people have died in similar circumstances ?

« on: 22 February 2012, 20:10:00 »

Unfortunately, under this 'ealth and safety madness, if the fireman in charge had allowed this and the fireman who went in got into difficulties and died, then he would be sacked and charged with corporate manslaughter. 

Risk assessment and health and safety policies are a ludicrous box ticking and a waste of money in many businesses, especially with office work where the biggest danger is cutting yourself on the edge of a piece of paper.