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.

All of it , lol.

i now know who is our MP .... another grey man who has been an MP for an awfully long time and now has a safe seat .... yes he'll get my vote by default

What a waste!

Just thought I'd pass this on.... how correct it is ...... don't know.,.

Subject: o a p


Read on and pass on:
Dear Prime Minister The RT. Hon. David Cameron, MP.

I wish to ask you a Question:- "Is This True?"

I refer to the Pension Reality Check.

Are you aware of the following ?

The British Government provides the following financial assistance:-

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
(bearing in mind they worked hard and paid their Income Tax and National
Insurance contributions to the British Government all their working life)
Weekly allowance: £106.00?

IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
(No Income Tax and National Insurance contribution whatsoever)
Weekly allowance: £250.00

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
Weekly Spouse Allowance: £25.00?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
Weekly Spouse Allowance: £225.00

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
Additional Weekly Hardship Allowance: £0.00?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
Additional Weekly Hardship Allowance: £100.00

A British old age pensioner is no less hard up than an illegal
immigrant/refugee yet receives nothing

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT £6,000?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT: £29,900


Please read all and then forward to all your contacts so that we
can lobby for a decent state pension.

After all, the average pensioner has paid taxes and contributed to the
growth of this country for the last 40 to 60 years.

Sad isn't it? Surely it's about time we put our own people first.

max - in honesty, it wouldn't matter for whom i voted as this is a def safe seat .... our MP may be grey, but the oppos are invisible

Same here c, would be truly earth shattering if the tory incumbent was tossed out, but we hope to give him a scare :-)


Also, I think the grey vote will get stronger, because the oldsters are being shafted every which way.

See Balerboy's post above.

cynic - 03 Mar 2015 20:29 - 57216 of 57217

max - in honesty, it wouldn't matter for whom i voted as this is a def safe seat .... our MP may be grey, but the oppos are invisible.

How very typical of the "sheepish" Tory boy little Englanders view of life.

At least you lot there could organise some sort of opposition to the sitting "Con" Party git.

Baler,

Can you tell me how many immigrants get paid those allowances?

How many of them get the full allowances and for on average how long?

How many are prepared and able to get jobs but prevented from doing so by regulations?

How many of the "pensioners" can claim other allowances for rent?

How many of the "pensioners" can get payment towards care?

What other payments can "low" income pensioners claim for?

Please note word claim.


Getting the payments is a different ball game.

Manuel.

I see your friend Netty is doing his best for Peace and Tranquillity in the M.E..

I hope he doesn't need USA's help for the next 2 years.

Mind Cameron could send another 75 advisers to help out, if he has any problems.

What a crazy world.

Sorry fred, it was something I was sent in my mail and have no detail to add. Just happen to look in this thread and passed it on.

Don't know if you will find this as funny as I did but thought I would share it with you all.

DEMOCRACY AND RACISM EXPLAINED

An illegal Muslim immigrant kid asks his mother

"Mama, what's the difference between Democracy and Racism?"

Mother (in Burkha)

"Well, son, Democracy is when British tax payers work hard every day so that we can get all our benefits ....you know, like free housing, free healthcare, free education and grants to build mosques and community centres, more welfare payments than British pensioners get & so on & so forth, you know that's a Democracy"


"But Mama, don't the British tax payers get pissed off about that?"

"Yes they do? and that's what we call Racism!"

IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
(No Income Tax and National Insurance contribution whatsoever)
Weekly allowance: £250.00

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
Weekly Spouse Allowance: £25.00?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
Weekly Spouse Allowance: £225.00

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
Additional Weekly Hardship Allowance: £0.00?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
Additional Weekly Hardship Allowance: £100.00

A British old age pensioner is no less hard up than an illegal
immigrant/refugee yet receives nothing

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT £6,000?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT: £29,900

you will get no joy on this bb they all seem to be immigrants claiming benefits

Don't know if you will find this as funny as I did but thought I would share it with you all.

DEMOCRACY AND RACISM EXPLAINED

An illegal Muslim immigrant kid asks his mother

"Mama, what's the difference between Democracy and Racism?"

Mother (in Burkha)

"Well, son, Democracy is when British tax payers work hard every day so that we can get all our benefits ....you know, like free housing, free healthcare, free education and grants to build mosques and community centres, more welfare payments than British pensioners get & so on & so forth, you know that's a Democracy"


"But Mama, don't the British tax payers get pissed off about that?"

"Yes they do? and that's what we call Racism!"

yes then they rape and drug our children they are the lowest form of life
but at last Cameron is speaking but only because he wants votes

Which is the Weasel?

fred why do you never post about real facts in the uk are all left wing voters like you
god help the uk if sheep like you get power .no wonder the uk is almost bankrupt when you idiots who can not think for your selves get in
have never seen you post about what is happening with our children being raped
nothing about terrorists just rubbish

As we move to a Banana Republic under Captain Marvellous.

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Corruption watchdog urges UK to curb hot-money flows into property

"By Reuters | Wed, 4th March 2015 - 00:07
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LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly 200 million pounds ($307 million) of money believed to be the proceeds of foreign corruption has been spent on British properties since 2004 and that amount is probably just the tip of the iceberg, a campaign group said.

Transparency International urged Britain to toughen its money-laundering rules by requiring information on the ownership of holding companies in offshore tax havens if they are used to buy residential or commercial property.

"There is growing evidence that the UK property market has become a safe haven for corrupt capital stolen from around the world, facilitated by the laws which allow UK property to be owned by secret offshore companies," said Robert Barrington, executive director of Transparency International UK.

British police investigated the purchases of properties worth more than 180 million pounds over the past 10 years because they suspected the money was the proceeds of corruption, the anti-corruption watchdog said.

Seventy-five percent of those purchases involved offshore secrecy to hide the identity of the buyers, it said.

Transparency International said the true scale of the problem was likely be much larger, since the United Nations estimates only 1 percent of laundered money is ever detected.

Over 36,000 properties in London -- where prices have soared in recent years -- are held by companies in offshore tax havens, 38 percent of them in British Virgin Islands, it said.

Almost one in 10 properties in the central London borough of Westminster and 7.3 percent of properties in Kensington & Chelsea were owned by companies registered in an offshore secrecy jurisdiction, it said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has sought to lead a global crackdown on money laundering and tax evasion. His government has proposed new laws to require a public register of the true ownership of UK-registered companies, but that requirement does not extend to offshore companies.

A spokesman for Britain's Department for Business said the government was committed to tackling illicit financial flows and the misuse of companies and it was trying to encourage countries outside the European Union, such as overseas tax havens, to change their rules, too.

(Writing by William Schomberg; Editing by Larry King)"

http://www.iii.co.uk/news-opinion/reuters/news/227252

fred - "Netty" is no friend of mine .... i'ld love to see US withdraw funding from Israel to bring them sharply to their senses
unfortunately that would seriously destabilise the region even further

Who is the Spiv in the middle?

fred it must be the policy of labour to close their eyes and ears to crime

Manuel,

I won't hold the "Netty" against you! 8-)

But congress is looking more like the Tea party everyday.

A little similar to the Kippers and the worn out right wing of the Conners' party.