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THE TALK TO YOURSELF THREAD. (NOWT)     

goldfinger - 09 Jun 2005 12:25

Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Fred1new - 26 Oct 2012 17:09 - 18802 of 81564

Chuckles.

Wait for Q4 employment figures (Number of hours worked, rather than (employed and fiddled by using "part time employment" and "self employed" figures).

Although I wish it different, I will be surprised if GDP is higher.

TANKER - 26 Oct 2012 19:22 - 18803 of 81564

this is me. yes it is terrible but the voters in the uk are stupid and turn a blind eye
and the reason for doing so is because they are stupid people .
the uk is now a nation of simpletons .
and the all MPs are to scared to speak out or do the job at hand stop family allowance now after second child .and make parents responseable for there children and make them pay .

TANKER - 26 Oct 2012 19:38 - 18804 of 81564



There is nothing worse than people who live off the state for decades and give nothing back.

Help out the unfortunate when they need it, by all means - but give them hundreds of thousands of pounds because they won't get off their arse and do a proper job? Shocking.

As Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has rightly pointed out, it is"madness" for the state to subsidise large numbers of children born to parents who do not stop to wonder first if they can afford them.

And it would be fairer to the "vast majority" of responsible, normal, reasonable taxpayers to limit the amount they are made to cough up for these irresponsible breeders, who as soon as anyone suggests they're being a teensy bit greedy with the far-from bulging public purse start whinging about "fairness".

After all, IDS has promised to cut another £10billion off the state's handout bill and it has to be found somewhere. Obviously, the people who take handouts they don't deserve should be the first to take a cut.

So let's start by talking about someone who lives off the state and has little experience of the world of work you and I know.

He is 58 years old and has suckled upon the publicly-funded teat for most of his life.

He's signed on the dole. He's had four children and received child benefit for all of them. He has put them each through private school, too.

His wife hasn't worked since they married, except for 15 months in which he got her a job paid by the taxpayer.

He and his colleagues eat and drink food you subsidise in a palace you pay for, he is driven around in a car you own, and when he is too old to 'work' any more you will pay for him to have a better pension than you, too.

He started out at the age of 21 with six years of taxpayer-funded military service, during which he acted as bag-carrier to a Major-General.

Then in 1981, aged 27, he left the Army and signed on the dole for several months.

He then began a period of ordinary work based upon the skills he had gained at the taxpayer's expense, and worked in sales for arms dealer GEC-Marconi.

He then moved on to a property firm, where he was made redundant after six months, and then sold gun-related magazines for Jane's Information Group.

After 11 years of this all-too brief career he succeeded in once again boarding the publicly-funded gravy train in 1992.

In the intervening 20 years he has been paid by the taxpayer every year more money than most taxpayers earn. He has topped it up, along the way, to more than six figures for a few years here and there by being more pompous than the other pigs.

In 2001 he helped his unemployed wife to have a suckle, arranging for you to pay her £15,000 to be his diary secretary.

These days he is given the grand total of £134,565 a year from the taxpayer.

He lives for free in a £2million Tudor farmhouse on his father-in-law's ancestral estate in Buckinghamshire.

He has three acres of land, a tennis court, swimming pool and some orchards, which is not bad for a life in the pay of the state.

'Who is this scumbag?' you might cry. 'Tell us his name, let the authorities know his address, let's get this guzzler out of the cushy life and show him what life is like for the rest of us,earning £7 an hour with a rise once every eight years and a pension consisting entirely of penny sweets if you're lucky.'

His name is Iain Duncan Smith, and his address is the Palace of Westminster, LondonSW1A 0AA.

It's not the insistence that the welfare bill needs cutting I object to; it's that the scissors have been given to people who really can't be trusted not to stab everyone else in the eye.

As IDS himself says: "Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?"

The trouble is he doesn't seem to have the capability to cut cloth any more tha





















































































































Haystack - 26 Oct 2012 20:05 - 18805 of 81564

Cut and pasted from the Daily Mirror, Why can't he live on his father in law's estate?

Haystack - 26 Oct 2012 20:31 - 18806 of 81564

Fred1new - 27 Oct 2012 09:47 - 18807 of 81564

I think the tories could copy the Chinese Birth Policy similar to those first introduced by Mao in the 50s and others at later periods.

Also, they could go in for more selective abortion, or would that go against the principles of family and marriage.

I suppose infanticide could be added to their repertoire of social manipulation, if all their other policies were seen to be failing.

Perhaps, these policies will be in their next manifesto, which will of course pander to the more moderate right wingers before the next election.

( A little sub-note, all these policies will be revised, and announced as U-Turn policies, if "we" ever get into power again. Maggie will be resurrected and state that she is due for turning.)


Should be an interesting election.

For those who can't remember Mao and his followers, they weren't the right wing of the tory party.


http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall07/Henneberger/History.html


Education, contraception, rising economy better social conditions seemed to be more influential, than beating the plebs with the whip of social deprivation.

skinny - 28 Oct 2012 10:34 - 18808 of 81564

What a surprise!

Former pop star Gary Glitter arrested

LONDON | Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:58am GMT

(Reuters) - Former pop star Gary Glitter was arrested on Sunday in connection with an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, the BBC said.

skinny - 28 Oct 2012 11:21 - 18809 of 81564

Enjoy! - Cream "White Room/Crossroads/Badge" Live-2005

TANKER - 29 Oct 2012 08:31 - 18810 of 81564

I am coming 65
and looking back to the 60 @70 the girls aged between 14 and 35 gave there bodys away to groups for a picture of them with them .they would sell there bodys for nothing I saw them drop there nickers at events to get the singer to ask them back stage . now they are all jumping on the bandwagon to claim abuse .the abuse was the other way round . funny how they are now coming forward at the smell of money .

Chris Carson - 29 Oct 2012 09:31 - 18811 of 81564

Priceless TANK Priceless!!! :O)

TANKER - 29 Oct 2012 10:17 - 18812 of 81564

football .why are FANS so thick these black players are taking the piss out of them big time .they are doing a good job taking over football .
soon will demanding only black supporters

Fred1new - 29 Oct 2012 15:27 - 18813 of 81564

Obsessional paranoia rules the day.

Could be seen as replacement for Nick Fauxpage.

dreamcatcher - 29 Oct 2012 18:49 - 18814 of 81564

TANKER - 29 Oct 2012 19:11 - 18815 of 81564

obi watch the video obi should be banned he is a disgrace .
the ref was correct to book him and he still went at the ref.
ban him for life

skinny - 29 Oct 2012 20:32 - 18816 of 81564

Sigh!

Fred1new - 30 Oct 2012 09:06 - 18818 of 81564

2 Sighs!

skinny - 31 Oct 2012 13:57 - 18819 of 81564

From yesterday Locked-out UBS traders head to the pub

LONDON | Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:04pm GMT

(Reuters) - Dozens of UBS traders spent their day in the pub rather than at the Swiss bank's London headquarters after they found out that their security passes no longer worked.

The traders - many of them from the bank's fixed income department - soon discovered they had been put on two weeks special leave as part of UBS's plans to cut 10,000 staff in a retreat from fixed income.

Shortie - 31 Oct 2012 16:37 - 18820 of 81564

LOL love it...

Fred1new - 31 Oct 2012 20:00 - 18821 of 81564

See Tarzan has risen again.

Policy similar to what has previously advocated by labour and others.

Good to see a unified tory elite once more.

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Does anybody now the daily cost to the UK and those involved in import, export and the cost to the remnants of the UK "manufacturing industries", of the exchange of Sterling to the Euro and vice versa?

It is a nice little earner for the city.




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