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.

An Iraqi immigrant who wrongly claimed £35,000 in benefits claims he did it in order to follow Islamic law.


Majid Hussain received income support, housing benefit and a council tax reduction for 13 years - despite having a secret bank account worth £36,000.


The unemployed 62-year-old signed forms saying he did not have any undeclared savings - and now says that under sharia law he did not consider the money to belong to him.


He even read out extracts from the Koran in court today to bolster his argument


another parasite immigrant

A minicab driver has been jailed for more than seven years for raping a passenger who fell asleep as he drove her home.

Vile Mohammed Shahin, 28, subjected his 20-year-old victim to what police described as a 'sickening attack' after picking her up in Leeds, West Yorkshire, where she had been on a night out.

It was later found that Shahin had switched off the GPS tracking system that monitored his vehicle’s movements from the moment the woman got in, suggesting he had a sinister motive from the outset.

The Obama administration publicly expresses concern about the impact of a UK referendum on its future relationship with the EU.

that tells me to vote out the man at the top is barmy

going back about 28 posts, why should an unmarried mother de facto be classed as a slut and seeking benefits? ..... does no blame attach to the boy who put her in that position? ...... why is a bloke who sleeps with a lot of girls deemed to be "a bit of a lad" while a girl who enjoys a full sex life is deemed to be "a slut"?

time to get into 21st or even 20th century chaps!

Some how and some where in my heart body and soul would like to agree with your oppionion with your above comment Cynic.

Why not use condoms if you are a bloke, or if you are a slut then there is absolutely no need to get pregnant - unless you want to milk the benefit system in this country. I just cannot see the argument in favour of unmarried or married couples who keep having children and are totally incapable of paying for their upkeep and depend on the tax payers in this country to subsidise the care for their offspring.

Does anyone know that it only takes once and the girl has to make the biggest decission of her whole life. The girl may have to live and die in deial.

Sorry doodlebug my timing was not that best good with your remark and mine - I would suggest you are of the younger society. You would not remember the obscene things one had to use to prevent pregnancy.

pill beats dutch cap every time!

As a floating voter (but this time certainly labour) I still feel the need to contribute to who gets what and its as simple as this.

If you have paid into the system ie tax and NI you are entittled to claim all benefits prior to Osbournes defunked Autumn Statement.

If you havent paid into the system eg, arranged marriages from asia etc etc and euro crowd coming in for freebies, you get nothing.

Its simple and as easy as that.

Obviously we would need to have some regulation on contribution years, but high earners, pensioners etc etc if you have paid in YOU GET IT. Free loaders if you havent paid in YOU DONT GET IT.......GO ELSEWHERE.

I like that GF.... if only it was implementable to some degree...


Britain has highest divorce rate in Europe.

1911 around 1.4b on the planet
2012 7b
and yet we are now tod that people are more educated bloody joke is it not
the only thing they know is breed to live a free life of hand out

Elderly should sacrifice part of their pension or downsize their homes to cover OAP care bills, say Lib Dems

Ministers said OAPs should be encouraged to accept smaller pension payouts or move into smaller homes to help pay for their care
Comments, which come amid ongoing confusion over the future of elderly care funding, are likely to infuriate pensioners' groups

Hi GF,

Fully agree with your views, but I can't understand why as a floating voter, you would this time vote Labour.
Remember it was Labour that allowed the welfare state and immigration to get totally out of hand in this country.
Although due to public pressure they would not go fully back to their old ways, they would without doubt not tighten the rules re deserving/none deserving recipients as as much as Conservatives would, (they have stated as much).
Have you considered UKIP and looked at their policies.

Yep gk, i thought the same... No more boom and bust... lets just try bust

Greekman, voters seems to have very short memories.
Labour imherited a fully functioning vibrant economy and during their prolonged period in power managed to smash that economy with their spend spend and let's spend a whole lot more policy. Doubling the national debt from something like 450 billion to nearly 1 trillion pounds. Immigration out of control, benefit system out of control and services such as the NHS, education creaking to the point of collapse. Labour took over ten years to create chaos, but the current government is lambasted for failing to put everything right in just two years

Obviously we should all vote Labour next time around and give them another chance to finally destroy the country. Vote Labour yer mugs!!

Steady on chuckles Fred will be having a coronary at this rate, he's spent a fortune on those Gordon Brown autographed photies don't you know:O) not to mention the pyjamas and matching dressing gown!

chuckles, you've said it better than i could possibly have...


Brings a whole new meaning to 'lets go for broke...'

back to benefits they have given the lazy sods a 1% increase for the next 3 years
the poor people working in mist jobs will not get a rise at all they should of taken off 1% for the next 3 years

Hi Greekman .........voting labour as I dont want to be governed by a set of Toffs for another 5 years. Toffs I might add who havent a clue.

Just one practising economist in the cabinet........ and hes a LIB DEM. (vince cable)

Previous Tory governments havent had all this priveledged brigade. I detest the idea of this and hand downs.

These people are the spawn of those who robbed and thieved the common wealth and its come back to bite us in a big way.

Give me hardworking Torys like weve had in the past from middle class backgrounds who know what its like out their........ and Ill vote for them again...... BUT not this present load of bafoons.