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Could well be true, I know someone who actually gets more than that to pay carers to help with a daughter she adopted who is very disabled. Now, it's all well and good paying this sort of money when it is needed but the girl in question is from Belarus and she agreed to fund all of her care herself before she was granted permission to stay in the UK. This happened til her wealthy partner died 2 years ago. Her care is now funded by the state ie you and me to the tune of around £6k a month as she needs care pretty much 24 hours a day. They also funded a minibus type of vehicle with a hydraulic lift in it as well. Really, really pisses me off.
23 January 2013, 04:38 PM
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Not quite sure how you came to that conclusion. He has basically got himself a heavily discounted car for no reason. He has no mobility issues as he is in the very early stages, still has his sales job, regularly travels on public transport. One day, yes, he may need it, but right now he's just as fit as the average bloke.
23 January 2013, 07:54 PM
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Could well be true, I know someone who actually gets more than that to pay carers to help with a daughter she adopted who is very disabled. Now, it's all well and good paying this sort of money when it is needed but the girl in question is from Belarus and she agreed to fund all of her care herself before she was granted permission to stay in the UK. This happened til her wealthy partner died 2 years ago. Her care is now funded by the state ie you and me to the tune of around £6k a month as she needs care pretty much 24 hours a day. They also funded a minibus type of vehicle with a hydraulic lift in it as well. Really, really pisses me off.
a two week stay in hospital probably costs well over 6k a week
23 January 2013, 07:57 PM
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23 January 2013, 11:04 PM
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saw this on a friends facebook this is quality, hope he got the letter.
Dear Mr. Cameron,
Please find below my suggestion for fixing the UK ‘s economy.
Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.
Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire.
Ten million job openings – unemployment fixed
2) They MUST buy a new British car.
Ten million cars ordered – Car Industry fixed
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed
4) They MUST send their children and grandchildren to school/college/university -
Crime rate fixed
5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol and tobacco a week …..
And there’s your money back in duty/tax etc
It can’t get any easier than that!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances
If you think this would work, please tell George Osborne to implement it immediately.
Also………..
Put pensioners like me in jail and the criminals in nursing homes or geriatric hospital wards.
This way the pensioners would have…………….
Access to showers, hobbies and companionship.
They’d receive unlimited free dental and medical treatment, wheelchairs etc. and they’d receive money instead of paying it out.
They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.
Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.
A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring meals and snacks to their cell.
They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.
They would have access to a library, gym, spiritual counselling, swimming pool and adult education.
Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ’s and legal aid would be free, on request.
Private, secure rooms, with an outdoor exercise yard, and gardens.
Each OAP would have a PC, a TV, radio and daily phone calls.
There would be a ‘board of directors’ to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.
On the other hand………………………………..
The criminals would get cold food, be left alone and unsupervised for most of the time. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room in a nursing home and pay £600.00 per week, and have no hope of ever getting out.
Isn’t that fair exchange?
Think about this (another point of contention):
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that, during the mad cow epidemic, our brilliant Civil Service could track a single cow, born in Appleby almost three years previously, right to the stall where she slept in the county of Cumbria? – they even tracked her calves to their stalls!
But they are apparently unable to locate any of the (estimated) 430,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
That’s all for now, Mr. Cameron.
I will be really glad if you can spare the time to comment on my suggestions
Dear Mr. Cameron,
Please find below my suggestion for fixing the UK ‘s economy.
Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.
Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire.
Ten million job openings – unemployment fixed
2) They MUST buy a new British car.
Ten million cars ordered – Car Industry fixed
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed
4) They MUST send their children and grandchildren to school/college/university -
Crime rate fixed
5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol and tobacco a week …..
And there’s your money back in duty/tax etc
It can’t get any easier than that!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances
If you think this would work, please tell George Osborne to implement it immediately.
Also………..
Put pensioners like me in jail and the criminals in nursing homes or geriatric hospital wards.
This way the pensioners would have…………….
Access to showers, hobbies and companionship.
They’d receive unlimited free dental and medical treatment, wheelchairs etc. and they’d receive money instead of paying it out.
They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.
Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.
A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring meals and snacks to their cell.
They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.
They would have access to a library, gym, spiritual counselling, swimming pool and adult education.
Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ’s and legal aid would be free, on request.
Private, secure rooms, with an outdoor exercise yard, and gardens.
Each OAP would have a PC, a TV, radio and daily phone calls.
There would be a ‘board of directors’ to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.
On the other hand………………………………..
The criminals would get cold food, be left alone and unsupervised for most of the time. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room in a nursing home and pay £600.00 per week, and have no hope of ever getting out.
Isn’t that fair exchange?
Think about this (another point of contention):
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that, during the mad cow epidemic, our brilliant Civil Service could track a single cow, born in Appleby almost three years previously, right to the stall where she slept in the county of Cumbria? – they even tracked her calves to their stalls!
But they are apparently unable to locate any of the (estimated) 430,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
That’s all for now, Mr. Cameron.
I will be really glad if you can spare the time to comment on my suggestions
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OH i forgot to add the bit about when one of the them got a visit as they are on a electric/gas meter nobody had put any credit on these for a couple of years so this bloke gets a visit apparently they caught him just leaving from picking his giro up,anyway the women starts to ask about how he's getting on living there & so on but tells him she is there because of the fact that no electric or gas was being used so they no he hasn't been living there,what a waste of more money but fancy telling him what they know but apparently she went on to say just put a fiver on a month so it looks like you are living hear.its a bloody joke..
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saw this on a friends facebook this is quality, hope he got the letter.
Dear Mr. Cameron,
Please find below my suggestion for fixing the UK ‘s economy.
Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.
Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire.
Ten million job openings – unemployment fixed
2) They MUST buy a new British car.
Ten million cars ordered – Car Industry fixed
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed
4) They MUST send their children and grandchildren to school/college/university -
Crime rate fixed
5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol and tobacco a week …..
And there’s your money back in duty/tax etc
It can’t get any easier than that!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances
If you think this would work, please tell George Osborne to implement it immediately.
Also………..
Put pensioners like me in jail and the criminals in nursing homes or geriatric hospital wards.
This way the pensioners would have…………….
Access to showers, hobbies and companionship.
They’d receive unlimited free dental and medical treatment, wheelchairs etc. and they’d receive money instead of paying it out.
They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.
Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.
A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring meals and snacks to their cell.
They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.
They would have access to a library, gym, spiritual counselling, swimming pool and adult education.
Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ’s and legal aid would be free, on request.
Private, secure rooms, with an outdoor exercise yard, and gardens.
Each OAP would have a PC, a TV, radio and daily phone calls.
There would be a ‘board of directors’ to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.
On the other hand………………………………..
The criminals would get cold food, be left alone and unsupervised for most of the time. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room in a nursing home and pay £600.00 per week, and have no hope of ever getting out.
Isn’t that fair exchange?
Think about this (another point of contention):
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that, during the mad cow epidemic, our brilliant Civil Service could track a single cow, born in Appleby almost three years previously, right to the stall where she slept in the county of Cumbria? – they even tracked her calves to their stalls!
But they are apparently unable to locate any of the (estimated) 430,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
That’s all for now, Mr. Cameron.
I will be really glad if you can spare the time to comment on my suggestions
Dear Mr. Cameron,
Please find below my suggestion for fixing the UK ‘s economy.
Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.
Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire.
Ten million job openings – unemployment fixed
2) They MUST buy a new British car.
Ten million cars ordered – Car Industry fixed
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed
4) They MUST send their children and grandchildren to school/college/university -
Crime rate fixed
5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol and tobacco a week …..
And there’s your money back in duty/tax etc
It can’t get any easier than that!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances
If you think this would work, please tell George Osborne to implement it immediately.
Also………..
Put pensioners like me in jail and the criminals in nursing homes or geriatric hospital wards.
This way the pensioners would have…………….
Access to showers, hobbies and companionship.
They’d receive unlimited free dental and medical treatment, wheelchairs etc. and they’d receive money instead of paying it out.
They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.
Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.
A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring meals and snacks to their cell.
They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.
They would have access to a library, gym, spiritual counselling, swimming pool and adult education.
Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ’s and legal aid would be free, on request.
Private, secure rooms, with an outdoor exercise yard, and gardens.
Each OAP would have a PC, a TV, radio and daily phone calls.
There would be a ‘board of directors’ to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.
On the other hand………………………………..
The criminals would get cold food, be left alone and unsupervised for most of the time. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room in a nursing home and pay £600.00 per week, and have no hope of ever getting out.
Isn’t that fair exchange?
Think about this (another point of contention):
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that, during the mad cow epidemic, our brilliant Civil Service could track a single cow, born in Appleby almost three years previously, right to the stall where she slept in the county of Cumbria? – they even tracked her calves to their stalls!
But they are apparently unable to locate any of the (estimated) 430,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
That’s all for now, Mr. Cameron.
I will be really glad if you can spare the time to comment on my suggestions
The big flaws in this great plan would be hyper inflation devaluing everything and very high interest rates, which would in-turn destroy peoples property prices. It would mean printing £10 Trillion (6 times the size of our economy). It would destroy all saving, devastate the value of the pound, and impoverish the 50 million who were not fortunate enough to be over 50. That said if the hold out for 5 years then I might change my view.
24 January 2013, 03:14 PM
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Not quite sure how you came to that conclusion. He has basically got himself a heavily discounted car for no reason. He has no mobility issues as he is in the very early stages, still has his sales job, regularly travels on public transport. One day, yes, he may need it, but right now he's just as fit as the average bloke.
Well you can maybe make yourself feel better about his situation when you consider that he has not got very much to look forward to.
Les
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