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.

How much of it goes to help this country ?

Well agreed but thats another debate.

Just cant do with people discharging their responsibilities to this country.

Surely it wouldnt have happended during the 2nd world war,otherwise Hitlers boys would be ruling us now, and one could argue that the debt we face is probably the biggest threat to the economic stability this country has ever faced.

A lot of it goes to 'help' other countries gf !

how nice to have lively discussion among mutual-dissenters without it descending into racist and spitefully personal abuse

Yep I know, if you look at an earlier Camoron post.

Sounds like your missing him cyners and trying to goad him back.

yup - him and MRSI (magicjoe)! :-)

more seriously - i wonder if the last upward lurch was effectively the last for the time being? .... i sold both my long dow and ftse earlier this morning (smaller though still profitable), and have subsequently shorted dow

Looks to me like it maybe the other way around.

And 6250 seems to have a line of support off top of my head.

Ill just check.

don't know about ftse .... what about dow? .... i'ld even be happy with a fall to 15,000 which we have certainly seen very recently

Yep best chance technically around 6250 ish mark of stopping this sell off.

Basically a line across.

ill have a look later on. Must carry on with my so called HOLS just got a smalljob of cutting about 4 mile of hedges now.

At least Ive advertised in local wrag this weekend and got an unemployed youngster at £12 an hour helping me out.

More people should do this. Hes a grand lad so might try and get some more jobs inside for him next week.

Ill take him for a pint/gallon later on. (hays be carefull dont want to set you off)

Laters.

don't forget his NICS + PAYE!

As long as you don't forget the country will be OK.

i suppose it is now non-pc to call casual labour part of the black economy!

"doodlebug4 - 11 Jun 2013 14:15 - 25972 of 25982

A lot of it goes to 'help' other countries gf !"

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It is peanuts compared with total GDP.

Secondly do you decry a company advertising to sell its goods.

Overseas aid can be seen as an investment with the hope of future returns.


I couldn't see a Tory government doing it out of altruism.

(Especially this lot.)

8-)

no country or gov't gives significant overseas aid for altruistic reasons ..... very occasionally, a fairly modest sum gets handed out following some disaster or other, but even then, i reckon it's pick-n-choose

Foreign aid (disaster aid aside) seems more to do with "our money" being given away by "our Political Crooks" to their "Political Crooks".

a reasonable analogy, though it is a bit more subtle than that of course :-)

Cynic stop talking wet,he just reports it to the Job Centre as simple as that. they take care of the rest.

why should i not tease!? ..... i pretty much know how these things work, and also how benefits get mangled very easily ..... i'm afraid there's always going to be people on the fringe who, self-esteem apart, are no better off working for a certain fairly modest amount