Danny Deflation
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As a solid Tory voter I'm quite happy that the Lib Dems have seen their vote collapse. In Tory areas the Lib Dems campaign as Tory-Lite In Labour areas they campaign as Low Calorie Labour.... this double dealing was bound to end in tears.
Very true.
Lib Dems supporters tend to be disenchanted Labour or Tory voters. Rarely do you hear "My parents and grandparents always voted Liberal". It's usually "I used to vote Labour until Michael Foot / Neil Kinnock / Gordon Brown". Let's face it, the 1980's SDP (the "Dem" in Lib Dem) was an Old Labour splinter group.
My prediction: the Lib Dem's unpopularity will continue. Disenchanted Tory voters will return to the Tories; and disheartened Labour voters will return to Labour. Which is a good thing: it means we'll have a commanding majority party after the next election; Nick Clegg will feck off and enjoy his pension; and the Lib Dems will once again become an irrelevance.
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It doesn't make sense. I'm not a fan of Johnson or Labour, but he was one of the few on the opposition benches with a modicum of gravitas. Are the Screws going to be running a story on him at the weekend or something?
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http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=2950684
Words fail me.
Holy cripes!
And there's me worrying about my 6K student loan which I still haven't paid off.
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Red Ed is back from paternity leave soon so the labour poll share will plummet.
Aye, according to Guido.
I've always felt that Lib Dem voters are disillusioned Labour voters who cannot bring themselves to vote Conservative. To many folk, as a result of the coalition, voting Lib Dem is the same as voting Tory, so come the next general election people will be more likely to make the stark choice: Tory or Labour. The Lib Dem vote will collapse, probably to the benefit of Labour (sadly).
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If people knew just how much money was flushed down the toilet that is Europe, they would weep.
Hitler will eventually get what he wanted - he just played the long term.
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I agree, and I have two children myself.
The only point I disagree with is where you say that you are a middle-class person who works for a living. If you work for a living, then you are working-class.
With all due respect, I am not one of those.
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Just heard someone on the radio refer to the potential loss of child benefit as the "yummy mummy cappuccino money". Just about spot on, i think.
As a white, heterosexual, middle-class, able-bodied atheist with no children and who actually WORKS for a living, I get bugger all for all the tax I pay. I think George Osborne is absolutely right in cutting child benefit. I get bugger all for all the tax they take from me, and yet I have to pay for other people's sprogs. If you have children, you should pay for them yourself. I actually think the Tories should have gone further and cut child benefit altogether.
Cutting the deficit and cleaning up the total mess left by loony Labour should be a priority.
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What blunder?
There wasn't one, unless you mean the public who owed tax and didn't bother to read the coding notices and booklet we all receive?
Not sure you can sack them, public aren't employed by HMRC.
Crikey! Do you work for the Inland Revenue or something?
Most of us don't check every single penny our employers deduct in tax. Naively perhaps, we expect our employer, and HMRC, to do their job properly; the UK tax system's so bloody complicated that many accountants stuggle with it.
HMRC have made a blunder on a colossal scale, and their subsequent comments about not-apologising and then apologising show that their PR-skills are left to be desired.
The amount the HMRC owes the taxpayer is not much less than the amount the taxpayer owes the HMRC, and when you take into account the expense of sending letters and chasing the tax (and defending the inevitable legal challenges) there probably isn't much of a difference at all. So why not just write it off? But - hey ho! - that would be too much like common sense, wouldn't it?
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Is anyone else seeing the same?
Doesn't seem to be much change round my area, but I'm playing the long game: the "perfect storm" of job cuts (and rising unemployment), above-target inflation (and future rises in interest rates), and the "nasty Tories" running the shop, should mean repos rising over the next few years.
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1st rule of bank crisis survival..
Have at least 2 bank accounts and at different Organisations.
the small print in all accounts means the bank can take a balance from one to make up another...
People should know this.
I'm all for people being made to pay back their debts, but if someone loses their jobs, and then previously servicable credit-card debts become unservicable, then the banks should be more sympathetic.
Surely, they're better off playing the long-game anyway. If a bank chases someone for debts after they've lost their income, then the chances are they'll either go bankrupt or on a IVA, which means the bank won't get much back. Most people who lose their jobs get a new one eventually, so the bank would get more in the long run if they said start paying us back when you're working again.
It's no wonder everyone hates the b4stards.
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I don't know how they can provide a precise figure rather than a range. It varies massively depending on your housing and travelling costs.
The figure also includes some things which arguably it shouldn't: like a week's holiday. Since when has a week away been a necessity rather than a luxury?
That said, if you look at how the prices of food, petrol, gas, council tax, etc, has risen over the past decade, then I don't think the actual figure will be too far off.
And now that the ConDems are putting VAT up in January, the cost of living is set to soar even further.
Welcome to the bad times.
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Teachers.....I won't be supporting any strike action when we have to take time off work to look after the children for you to strike and work till 70+ plus to keep you when you are 55.
Council workers - office and non office .....I won't be supporting your strike action when you don't want to work beyond 55 - 60 but you expect me to work til 70+ to keep you.
police........fire.........armed forces etc..........Just accept working the extra years like we got to or not getting your pension till 66-70+. Why should you retire 15-20 years earier than us at our expense?
So, do you want 60- and 70-odd year old coppers dealing with the drug-addled human litter that causes most of the strife on our streets? That'll really send shivers down the spines of criminals everywhere. Or do you want old giffers trying to save people from burning buildings? Or doddery 70-year-old teachers trying to control teenagers? Or octogenarians fighting on the front line? Apart from the office council workers, the jobs you mention in your post require good physical fitness.
People will say you can move these people from the front line to the back offices when age takes its toll. But then that means creating more public-sector "non-jobs" that we are whinge about.
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Me thinks slightly disgeneous - the incremental pay scales refer to experience - would you suggest that all incremental scales are abolished and people are stuck on the lower end of the scale !? One of my team - an avid rabid hpc poster - earns at least 3 times the bottom end of the teacher's scale and he mostly certainly isn't worth that difference, makes me laugh at his own sense of worth when he posts on here.
I don't have a problem with people moving up their increments - and didn't actually suggest this in my post.
I was merely stating the fact that many in the public sector will get rises this year, even if that rise means moving up their pay scale, in addition to rises already agreed by the previous Labour administration.
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These people need to do one simple thing: pay off their debts. No consolidation; no IVAs; no second mortgages; no moaning to the CAB; just get off their butts and pay back the money.
When I was thousands in debt I didn't file for bankruptcy, I just budgeted, worked hard, bought and sold stuff on Ebay and paid my dues. It took about three years, but I feel a hell of a lot better now.
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My partner works in education, so I'll let you know what she was telling me last night.
Increments continue as normal, so most teachers will get a pay rise of sorts this year. My missus gets an extra 1500 quid a year starting September. Also, increments will actually increase slightly, as agreed by the previous government, as this has already been taken into account in the school's budget. The pay points probably won't increase next tax year, as per the Tories budget.
Other public sector staff - nurses, doctors, etc - who are on incremental pay scales will go up the scale as normal.
So, despite their moaning, most public sector staff will actually get a pay rise this year.
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Mervyn King earns three times as much as the Prime Minister.
Can he be sacked, please?
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Anyhow, the BBC then cut to a live OB (outside broadcast) from a school in Swansea and the journo is talking to some boy and the journo says that - this even shocked me - 40,000 people work in are paid by the public sector in Swansea and that Swansea has the highest number of people working in the public sector in Wales.......which is saying a lot. 40,000!
Fixed for you, old bean.
PS: The DVLA's in Swansea.
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Yeah but apparently it is a disgrace if ben men get paid £22k a year by a council with one boss on £40k but fine if a contractor pays the bin men £12k, gives no pension provision and get to keep £100k as profit for the same overall cost to the tax payer.
Don't want "scum" getting paid a fair wage when there are IT workers still on less than £200k a year.....
According to one website, http://www.mysalary.co.uk/average-salary/Bin_Man_4360, binmen working for sub-contracted private companies earn on average 30K a year.
And yet they still don't smile or empty your bin if it's three-inches ajar.
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I seem to remember, as a kid, binmen actually working for a living. I know that's an alien concept in this day and age, particularly in the public sector, but yeah I remember when people grafted for their pocketfuls of silver.
Binmen used to empty your dustbin (not wheely Euro-bin) with a stoical cheerfulness and a pleasant "Good morning". They used to actually go into your back garden, if that's where your bin was, and carry - yes, carry! - your rubbish to the truck. I remember them offering to take away an old, rusty pram for my mum. They'd also take an extra bag or two if, say, it was just after Christmas, or you had an odd bag of grass cuttings. No moaning; no fines for your dustbin lid not being fully down.
Nowaday, binpeople walk around grimmacing like Stalin's henchmen. They drag your bin a few inches into the road where a machine empties it. They leave any extra bags, and then moan when they get no Christmas tips.
I don't know what they get paid, but there is no justice if these dicks get any more than 9K a year.
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I really don't think we are....
Don't mean to go into pantomime with you, old bean, but oh yes we are...
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Can someone else confirm that they also find these Halifax adverts nauseating or am I just not THICK enough for this world ?
Don't mean to make you any angrier, but HBOS was bailed out by us. So the next time you see one of their adverts just remember that they are having a laugh at our expense. You may now need to lie down.
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Hang on, have they mentioned savers even once I this programme? Only lenders and borrowers?
If you are a saver, then you are a lender.
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All this talk about cuts, but so far I don't think I've seen anything specific.
The government has asked for suggestions, here's mine :
"All government or local government functions, departments, or jobs containing the word "diversity" in the title."
What are your suggestions ?
Pull out of the EU. We get little in return for the several million pounds a day it costs us.
Pull out of all current wars.
Charge people a nominal amount to see their GP.
Limit public sector paid sick days to 3 a year.
Send fraud investigators into all local councils.
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just rambling here, so don't go thinking I'm a nut-job...
Lets say for arguments sake it works out at £22k each.
Facts
- The debt has to be repaid,
- We have to repay the debt
- The sooner the debt is repaid the better
Could people be incentivised to pay their £22k now, rather than over a period of many years through higher tax rates?
Ok, so this will never happen but could it feasably work? What incentives could be given for 'taking one for the team'?
How many people could pay their "national debt contribution" up front?
Would you if the incentive was right?
Public sector fat cats could be targetted thus "pay your £22k now and you can keep your job, (albeit at -25% your current salary
)"I'd pay it for a plot of land and no planning restrictions.
Hmmmm. I think you might actually be on to something there.
Needs to bit of tweaking. Maybe everyone has to repay, say, half their annual income. So if you're on 12K per year, you repay 6K over 3 years. Some public sector gravy train parasite earning 120K per year, will repay 60K. Same for city bankers.
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It makes me laugh when I hear Nick Clegg dismissing it as a bit of a "disappointment".
The BNP got more votes.
It's not a disappointment for the Lib Dems. It's a disaster.