smiffy1967 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 We have the highest drug using population in Europe we have a higher Prison population than the rest of Europe Our Prisons are full to braking point Our housing policy lays in ruins We have millions waiting for social housing and non is being built We must have tens of thousands in the early stages of reposession We must have almost 3 million on the dole now Our Banks are technically insolvent Nobody is lending We have the highest personal debt in western europe We must have one of the highest government debts when you take into account PFI and pension liabilities Our industry lays in ruin mainly run by foreign entities (corus, Jaguar landrover) and what there making there is simply no demand for. Our elected elite are all aware and are scrambling for every last penny they can nick of the tax payer to feather there nests before the whole house of cards falls in on them. Gordon Brown looked Broken yesterday at PMQ's Cameron has no answers and neither does Osbourne WE Lay in Ruin, how can house prices ever go up? 10 years from now we wont even be able to keep our electric supply up to demand if not sooner. Anybody buying a house now needs there head testing unless they are cash buyers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Rabbit Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 My sister's buying a house because 'it's London, it's different'....*despairs* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sillybear2 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Things... can only get better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DementedTuna Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 (edited) Oh, cheer up, it's not that bloody bad. If it was I'd have left already. I have sunshine and company. That's all that matters. I mean, I know it's all going to hell, but the only physical effect of worrying about it is that you'll start to feel like crap. Won't change a damn thing, you'll just feel worse than you would if you simply went "ah, f&ck it" and got hammered instead. I refuse to let the actions of a government get me down, would rather not give them the satisfaction. The fact that buying a house is one of the biggest problems facing me as a UK citizen makes me glad I'm not in another country where the biggest problems are a lot more scary. Edited July 2, 2009 by DementedTuna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pie-eater Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 http://home.btconnect.com/rdi/frazer.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockrobin Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 This will make you sick: http://www.labouronline.org/wibs/165781/la...a9-c01cf3b04cf6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottbeard Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Well today the sun was shining, I had a nice time watching Wimbledon on the TV, I have food on the table and a bed for the night. A damn sight better than most of the world. You're probably right about house prices, but I think 21st century Britain is undervalued by some of the British. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seydel Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Look on the bright side; there are many things that one can puff one's chest out with patriotic pride. Let's see, there's the largest DNA database in the world and more CCTV cameras pro rata than anywhere else too, including those terribly nice countries who are also sooooo very concerned about the safety and security of their citizens such as Syria, North Korea and China. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockrobin Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Well today the sun was shining, I had a nice time watching Wimbledon on the TV, I have food on the table and a bed for the night.A damn sight better than most of the world. You're probably right about house prices, but I think 21st century Britain is undervalued by some of the British. We have a Labour Government, that is a good enough reason to be depressed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DementedTuna Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 (edited) We have a Labour Government, that is a good enough reason to be depressed! Cheer up, they'll be gone soon! Pretty big thing to look forward too... without the recession we'd be having 5 more years of that fat scottish pillock. Always funny to try and be optimistic on this site. Edited July 2, 2009 by DementedTuna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLDFTB Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 We have the highest drug using population in Europewe have a higher Prison population than the rest of Europe Our Prisons are full to braking point Our housing policy lays in ruins We have millions waiting for social housing and non is being built We must have tens of thousands in the early stages of reposession We must have almost 3 million on the dole now Our Banks are technically insolvent Nobody is lending We have the highest personal debt in western europe We must have one of the highest government debts when you take into account PFI and pension liabilities Our industry lays in ruin mainly run by foreign entities (corus, Jaguar landrover) and what there making there is simply no demand for. Our elected elite are all aware and are scrambling for every last penny they can nick of the tax payer to feather there nests before the whole house of cards falls in on them. Gordon Brown looked Broken yesterday at PMQ's Cameron has no answers and neither does Osbourne WE Lay in Ruin, how can house prices ever go up? 10 years from now we wont even be able to keep our electric supply up to demand if not sooner. Anybody buying a house now needs there head testing unless they are cash buyers. Still....you've got to laugh though haven't you. Perhaps if we all have a nice cup pf tea would that make things better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrentyieldmakessense(honest!) Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 This will make you sick:http://www.labouronline.org/wibs/165781/la...a9-c01cf3b04cf6 jokers and what is the definition of free. I would say it is where no one pays for it (and that includes tax payers) Our top 50 achievements since being elected in 1997:Achievement 1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s 2. Low mortgage rates 3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.35 4. Record police numbers in England, Scotland and Wales 5. Cut overall crime by 35 per cent 6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools 7. Best-ever primary school results 8. Funding for every pupil in England to double by 2008 9. Employment is at its highest level ever 10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries 11. 85,000 more nurses 12. 32,000 more doctors 13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards 14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament 15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly 16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time 17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice 18. Gift aid was worth £625 million to charities last year 19. Restored city-wide government to London 20. Record number of students in higher education 21. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997 22. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households 23. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission 24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s 25. On course to exceed the Kyoto target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2010 26. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland 27. Over 30,000 more teachers in England schools 28. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday 29. A million pensioners lifted out of relative poverty 30. 800,000 children lifted out of relative poverty 31. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents 32. Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships 33. Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard 34. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales 35. Banned fox hunting 36. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution 37. Free TV licences for over-75s 38. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals 39. Waiting times for operations halved 40. Free local bus travel for over-60s 41. New Deal - helped over a million people into work 42. Over 1.5 million child trust funds have been started 43. Free eye test for over 60s 44. Five, six and seven year olds in class sizes of 30 or less 45. Free entry to national museums and galleries 46. Overseas aid budget more than doubled 47. Cancer death rates down by 12 per cent, saving 43,000 lives 48. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent 49. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales 50. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Bevan Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Here we go - its "zombie armageddon" again!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leftiebeard Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Things... can only get better! Those were the days..... Prezza, Mandy and Blair all widening their fat ar*es and about to c*ap all over Britain. What a wasted decade; debt, lies and a wilful desire to bring this once proud nation to its knees. They and their brown nosing cronies should be strung up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whippet Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Here we go - its "zombie armageddon" again!! WHS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest happy? Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Oh, cheer up, it's not that bloody bad.If it was I'd have left already. I have sunshine and company. That's all that matters. I mean, I know it's all going to hell, but the only physical effect of worrying about it is that you'll start to feel like crap. Won't change a damn thing, you'll just feel worse than you would if you simply went "ah, f&ck it" and got hammered instead. I refuse to let the actions of a government get me down, would rather not give them the satisfaction.... That's the right approach - kept a nation's spirit high during the long dark days of the blitz whilst driving back Thatcher's Stormtroopers in the 1980's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottbeard Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 We have a Labour Government, that is a good enough reason to be depressed! I bought a house in 2007 and am about to enter a divorce. I have plenty of reasons to be depressed if I want to! On the other hand, I am alive and in good health. I will leave depression to others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Te Mata Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 We have the highest drug using population in Europewe have a higher Prison population than the rest of Europe Our Prisons are full to braking point Our housing policy lays in ruins We have millions waiting for social housing and non is being built We must have tens of thousands in the early stages of reposession We must have almost 3 million on the dole now Our Banks are technically insolvent Nobody is lending We have the highest personal debt in western europe We must have one of the highest government debts when you take into account PFI and pension liabilities Our industry lays in ruin mainly run by foreign entities (corus, Jaguar landrover) and what there making there is simply no demand for. Our elected elite are all aware and are scrambling for every last penny they can nick of the tax payer to feather there nests before the whole house of cards falls in on them. Gordon Brown looked Broken yesterday at PMQ's Cameron has no answers and neither does Osbourne WE Lay in Ruin, how can house prices ever go up? 10 years from now we wont even be able to keep our electric supply up to demand if not sooner. Anybody buying a house now needs there head testing unless they are cash buyers. ... and the standard of spelling/grammar is diabolical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 And we could all be infected with swine flu in a matter of weeks. :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiffy1967 Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 ... and the standard of spelling/grammar is diabolical. So shoot me! School was not what it is today in the 1970's AS for depressed, not at all. Have a new council house that me and the kids are moving into in Ludlow next Thursday, have just got my full time contract with a big IT company after working as a contractor for them for 2 years (although a 10K pay cut, it's a job). and have very low serviceable debt and some savings. fluck the morons who MEWED and thought they owned there houses as they gave it the big one to me. My next project in the new house with a big garden since the house was built 50 years ago, is the become as self sufficient in food production as possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benthebuilder Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 We have the highest drug using population in Europewe have a higher Prison population than the rest of Europe Our Prisons are full to braking point Our housing policy lays in ruins We have millions waiting for social housing and non is being built We must have tens of thousands in the early stages of reposession We must have almost 3 million on the dole now Our Banks are technically insolvent Nobody is lending We have the highest personal debt in western europe We must have one of the highest government debts when you take into account PFI and pension liabilities Our industry lays in ruin mainly run by foreign entities (corus, Jaguar landrover) and what there making there is simply no demand for. Our elected elite are all aware and are scrambling for every last penny they can nick of the tax payer to feather there nests before the whole house of cards falls in on them. Gordon Brown looked Broken yesterday at PMQ's Cameron has no answers and neither does Osbourne WE Lay in Ruin, how can house prices ever go up? 10 years from now we wont even be able to keep our electric supply up to demand if not sooner. Anybody buying a house now needs there head testing unless they are cash buyers. So what....I've just joined the local golf club so I can hack my way round the countryside while it all goes to sh1t. I mean what is the point of worrying....so we'll all have to spend less on chocolate fondue fountains in argos...life will be different but maybe no worse. Flexibility and adaptability are going to be the characteristics of the survivors of browns britain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grime- skint wouldbe ftb Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Don't worry, the place should be a bit cleaned up after the long overdue civil war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seydel Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 I bought a house in 2007 and am about to enter a divorce.I have plenty of reasons to be depressed if I want to! On the other hand, I am alive and in good health. I will leave depression to others. That's the spirit, mate. Increase your viewing of soaps and reality TV programmes is my advice. Might I suggest you add a daily dose of The Jeremy Kyle Show and Trisha? Watch enough of them and you won't even notice, never mind care that the country's rushing headlong towards a police state. Oh, hold on, you already watch them? Ah, I understand your post now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Oh, cheer up, it's not that bloody bad.If it was I'd have left already. I have sunshine and company. That's all that matters. I mean, I know it's all going to hell, but the only physical effect of worrying about it is that you'll start to feel like crap. Won't change a damn thing, you'll just feel worse than you would if you simply went "ah, f&ck it" and got hammered instead. I refuse to let the actions of a government get me down, would rather not give them the satisfaction. The fact that buying a house is one of the biggest problems facing me as a UK citizen makes me glad I'm not in another country where the biggest problems are a lot more scary. I like this. thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 If you are poor try to live around the affluent some of it can rub on you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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