Thank You Mr Brown

[Hellyon]

I'd just like to say thank you to Mr Brown - having just received my salary slip I am delighted to find that I got �10 less than last month on the same salary. However with all the rises in petrol, food,fuel, council tax, water, I am now paying out �252 pound a month more than I was.

Would anyone like to start a Revolution, sign up below....

[slark]

squarebear we did have floods

[squarebear]

I would hardly compare them to the monsoon and tsunamis that other countries get. Did they wash your house of straw away?

[slark]

straw i should be so lucky, carboard box laptop connected to lamp post

[squarebear]

lol. Cardboard? You were lucky, I just live under a sheet of newspaper.

[tiggerblue10]

I think the reason why this country is so expensive to live in is because of our high taxes, a certain amount of which goes to pay for those on benefits who can't be bothered to work.

I would like to see an opt-out option for paying in to the National Health. I have a private health care plan through work which I pay into. If I did have to go to hospital in an emergency for whatever reason then I could sign something in order for the NHS to re-claim funds from my health care plan if I opted out of paying into the NHS. I hope this makes sense. Lol

[slark]

squarebear the times ?

[jake-the-peg]

Because Reverand it's the children who need the housing, they made no decision to come here and cannot fend for themselves.

Unlike you.

Housing is on a basis of need spending 20 years paying taxes does not make you needier

[whiskeysheri]

Blimey! I wish I was on 25k. :(

[squarebear]

Slark - the Daily Sport.

[tiggerblue10]

Well I'm on just under 25k although its taken me 20 years to get there!

[slark]

that's why you get a good nights sleep looking at all the pictures.i am of to find a new box. bye

[jake-the-peg]

tiggerblue

Before you decide on that option ask your insurance company how much they'll charge to cover you when you're 70.

Your scheme would either see the NHS subsidising insurance companies by taking back opt-outs when they become uninsurable or leave us with sending OAPs home to die.

[tiggerblue10]

Well it was a thought anyway. Didn't realise insurance was involved!!!

tigger crawls away in shame

[jake-the-peg]

Not only that but your insurance would be much more expensive without the NHS operating as a fall back.

It'd have to cover Emergency treatment ambulances etc.

We'd have the prospect of people who missed payments being refused treatment.

America pays 16% of it's GDP on health care and is rated well below the NHS which is 18th in the world (200 countries)

[squarebear]

Unfortunately, you are expected to pay for things here even if you don't need or use them. One of my mates has no children but he still has to fund the eductaion system. I've never been in hospital but I'm still expected to fund the NHS.

[squarebear]

*education* sorry.

[leelapops]

Newspaper? We used to dream of newspaper.... ;)

Well, I earn under the threshold at the moment, as someone who works PT and studies for the other 'part' (it's a big part!).

logic, I am afraid that I can't agree with anything the BNP says. If they were to introduce the most benefial raft of policies in a century, they would still render me disgusted by their racism and bigotry. I see your point though, and I inderstand why more and more people are getting p!55ed off.
I am fortunate; we eat well, get by, and I have just managed to get my first car. We have no kids, so life is much cheaper for us. But everyone is getting a bad deal right now. The benefits system is skewed, and creates resentment.

I have no answers. I am not intelligent enough :S
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[leelapops]

I typed 5 variants on the word "beneficial", finally thought I had got it right, and still it wasn't correct! Sorry :S