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.

Yes I thought the Corbyn car crash interview was quite amusing..

It went something like this...

(Int) 'Mr Corbyn what would be the cost of this Labour pledge on child care'

Corbyn 'Hmmm....Hmmmm...It would ...Hmmm...cost a lot..

(Int) Mr Corbyn are you trying to look it up on your ipad?...

Corbyn 'Just give me a few minutes'.......

CRACKING!!

Tanker

Your recent posts are quite refreshing to read.

And as for being 'smart', Yes, I know what you mean. Nice to read some 'common sense' stuff.

May is the only way to go. Even though we don't like everything she is probably going to do. However, Corbyn is a very 'flakey' kind of guy and at the moment is promising this, promising that, promising the other, all just to get elected.

You say you were a 'professional gambler'. What were your games? Cards? Big hit stuff?

no market . and fun on the horses . have been gambling since I was 10 mr what won the national , have had a great life . still gambling but the market over the last few years is hard work to make around 30k a year have over 750k invested

just been to a meeting at club so I just put £50 on team meeting its just won 13.8

HEATING ALLOWANCE
confess i was unaware that the cut-off levels had even been set
however, i agree with the principle that this benefit should be means-tested ..... why on earth should someone with an annual income of say £50k get an extra £200 tax free? ..... it'll pay just 3 or 4 tanks of petrol for him

We rationalised and usually ended up by giving our free Heating Allowance to charity - and more besides.

Sorry, cynic, but I have to disagree with you. The HA comes out of general taxation and my wife and I have paid out many times more than our share of this over the years. All of it earned from damned hard work and risk taking businesses employing loads of other people.

Once I stop seeing 'so called poor folk' pi**ing their money up the wall on tattoos, fags, booze, fast food, and also picking 'just some' litter up (instead of just chucking it down), well, then I will begin to agree with means testing benefits. Mostly, there are some utterly lazy bar stewards out there that just want to do nothing for themselves and just 'take, take, take'.

In other words, I want my fair share of any and all free benefits. I'm all for helping others but I'm getting on a bit now and it's my time to start taking my old age pension and get my free prescriptions, free tv licence (but not just yet), free travel, etc.

It's time too, that the Police, the NHS and Central Government, and similar others, spent their money much more wisely and got involved with stuff like Central Purchasing and a big drive to cut stupid expensive expenditure.....

eg. I had to take wifey to A&E a few months back. There had been a spill of water in the Waiting Room Area. I could not believe it, when an 'employee' went into a side room and came out with two VERY LARGE BURN DRESSINGS to mop this spill up with. Whilst there, I happened to go the the Gent's Loo. Inside it were loose rolls and also packages of Blue Absorbent Paper Towelling and not tidily stored, just strewn around. This employee needed 'a severe disciplinary' for such terrible waste and having such a terribly bad wasteful attitude. His managers needed their arses kicking too. However, no one ever bothers with it.

I might be more amenable to agreeing to drop my Heating Allowance if the Government and Councils were to start spending money wisely and prudently.

eg. When they fix holes in tarmac in our roads, they don't do it properly. The joint seam is always liable to frost damage from water ingress and frost damge if they dont' seal the joint with bitumen. Jobs are rarely given a specification in the first place, jobs aren't supervised or managed, jobs aren't even checked over afterwards. Consequently, work like this is badly done and doesn't last.

So, if this is the kind of 'carry on malarkey' and these politician people are just chucking money around.... Well, I want some of it myself. In fact, until there are some really big changes, I almost refuse to go without. :-)

Hmmm? Perhaps Rolf Harris wasn't as bad as all that?

Two trials (and two juries) have failed to convict him of four charges of indecent assault.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3681011/rolf-harris-leaves-court-free-man-indecent-assault-charges-jury-fails-verdict/

Also, Cliff Richard recently received circa £1m (reputedly) damages from the police and continues to talk to the BBC for similar damages. His misdemeanours, if any, were also unproven.

One has to infer strongly, that 'getting some money from the rich defendant' is the real name of the game.

Similarly with Freddy Starr, who is now a 'broken man' residing in a £175k flat in Spain, having spent over £1m trying to defend his good name.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3966718/How-Freddie-s-Starr-fallen-Bloated-comedian-73-gives-best-Elvis-Presley-clumsy-karaoke-session-Costa-del-Sol.html

77133 - you're more than welcome to disagree with me, but it can equally be argued that misspending or wasting tax revenues in one area is no reason not to plug a hole in another

You're only talking about 'plugging one hole' and in a mean-minded kind of way.

I want some much better spending policies and certainly no mis-spending.

I want much better value obtained for monies spent.

Perhaps those spending it, need to be given a 'cut of the action' on the savings they make.

Whatever, but for the moment, until I see it happening, I want my 'rightful entitlement'.

bus passes prescriptions eye tests tv for over 75 safe will not be touched

heating allowance will be taken from 96% of the old .
the only pensioners to get it are those that have never worked and still get benefits in retirement .

those that live all their lives spending are the winners they get free rent free c/t
no maintenance for the home no insurance to pay just pick up the phone
it those that save and buy their homes that are the fools .

I have started to remove all my cash and go racing win or lose its my cash
draw it out every day in 5 years will have no cash

the only thing I hate is over sea aid its a bloody disgrace when our nhs schools pensioners are left to die ,

I'm off to take the dog for a walk. Generally we go to one of the local parks.

These parks get their grass cut - and that's about all. No one apparently 'manages' the man on the machine. He is probably the employee of a Council contractor.

In the parks, there is loads of work required:

Dead trees, dead branches, litter, unsuitable litter bins, debris of all kinds in various lakes, pot-holes in paths, blocked streams and dykes, ivy on trees in copses, dead ash trees that had ash chalara dieback, thta need removing, the list goes on and on.

These parks are not managed by any seemingly qualified person. Neither are the contractors. Nor the contractors staff.

And this is just local government. National government is tons worse.

you must live near halifax or somesuch :-)

our own local council does a pretty good job i reckon, though the cost of parking is exorbitant

re: #77133

Good rant EL!

ExecLine Post 77133.
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Perhaps you could show your social conscience by volunteering as a "hospital helper" and demonstrate the standards you aspire to.

I admire many of the hospital helpers at a local hospital and the time they give to others.

"Perhaps you could show your social conscience by volunteering as a
"hospital helper"


What do you think these immigrants are brought into the country for, besides
the benefits of course...Are they too busy learning 'da henglish"..

Sorry. Hospital helper not.

Parks Superintendent or supervision: Maybe.

The centre of town needs tons and tons of paving slabs pointing. It needs some of them 'turning over' or some but not all replacing first before the pointing job starts. My estimate of cost is circa £100k, maybe much less. I'll double it up to £200k.

But I'll just mention, that one of the streets off the centre of town has had £3m spent on about 200 yds of its length. Totally OTT!

Maybe Tanker and I should "get in on some of the action" and see if we can't get some "free foreign travel with expenses paid" or maybe our "gardens landscaped for free" or maybe a "property extension built for free" or some "lease payments on the wife's car for free" or maybe even a "couple or three consultancies for £5k a month".

That would be smart, wouldn't it? And then I'd not worry about losing my Heating Allowance at all.

Exec,

With the amount of hot air you are expelling you don't need a heating allowance.


But it would have been sensible to plough some money into the "infrastructure" 7 years ago.

Well a week to go and i don't think anyone here would have thought we would be in this position which is not good , People feeling sorry for Corblimey now , and going anti May .