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What makes my blood boil is the fact that this PC Govt can consider that scum, shirkers and fundimentalists do have a right to live here and have "shown strong ties to the United Kingdom" but the soldiers who have helped keep the UK German/Nazi/Russian/Commuinist etc free have "failed to demonstrate strong ties to the United Kingdom". WTF???????? Bravo

pure class.

Apologies to Gaz6002. Sorry for my tone it was not written as it now sounds when read back. Yes the situation is over simplified and I have only taken a conveniently small part as my rant. I do not see an easy way out of this and it really is a choice of the frying in the Pan or the Fire at the present. What we need is innovative solutions and solutions which do not affect the ordinary guy. Seriously, if we were to collect the taxes that were due and should be paid and we stopped waste at all levels we should have enough. An earlier post said about Why were we so hard up after all these years of paying NI/PAYE etc etc. Its due to waste. Stop the waste is my suggestion - not peaked caps and jackboots.

Dead easy - do away with the olympics, close the borders, get all the tax back from those in the black market, check the credentials of everyone claiming benefit/NHS, get speeding fines from foreign motorists, scrap the idiotic consultancy schemes, cap MP's expenses etc etc . How long have you got. Why not make a few suggestions of your own which will save us all money.

I dont understand. The government is stopping wages going up yet proposing a long term strategy that will cap wages and increase taxation with corresponding cuts in services. Many people I know work as Civil servants and are effectively on minimum wage with no promise of a useful wage rise. The poorly paid are taxed into oblivion and the rest of us continually tighten our belts whilst the government waste counless millions of idiotic schemes and consultations. How can we sustain all this. We are bankrupt and GB Ltd is circling the plug hole. IMHO you cannot continually 'rob Peter to pay Paul' and a better fix has to be found.

A very nice company with very nice people muuuuhhhhaahhaaa

Sorry Charlotte but that is just generalisation. What about specifics. Why do we specifically have to bale out the banks in this instance and how does that compare to doing nothing.

Obviously not as many as if a bank went tits up but it would affect some very important people such as my family and the families of the people who work for me and the business' who supply me etc etc. The knock on would not cause the earth to crumble. My problem is that I feel seriously overtaxed and under served as it is. The long term projection of this situation is that the government will have no choice but to cut services and put taxes up. In my opinion we are probably bankrupt as a nation at this point anyway. Therefore my and your present situation will only get worse. As to whether it will be any worse if we said sod the banks I have my doubts. I dont trust anything the government or banks do as they do it for themselves and I doubt this is bale out is about protecting your average guy on the street.

I run a business and have done for the best part of twenty years. If I was to tits up who would bail me out. However, when I get a debtor go tits up on me no one helps me out. Why is there one rule for the small average Guy and another rule for the big rich guy?

What a pointless arguement about who's money. The gov will spend a massive amount of money on the WRONG thing and that will mean when they dont have money to spend on the RIGHT thing WE (taxpayer and service user) will pay the cost. Its plainly sh1tty and I for one dont think the government should bail them out. I never saw any of the bonus they paid themselves being shared out with me or you. They should stew in their own poo.

I think he meant - use your vote. Even if you register a vote for "NONE" it is still a vote and has to be counted. If enough people did that then we would have to overhaul this stupid system.

I must need new glasses. Jeeeeeeeeeez you can hardly tell. I bet a few blokes have had a shock!

My NA does 28.5 MPG on my general driving. Checked from fill to fill and miles covered. Includes roof off on motorway, around town, in traffic, dual carraigeway etc. Very pleased with this as it will easily do over the 30 if I could be bothered.

Even if we concede that the media is manipulative it does not get away from the fact that a lot of people have had a belly full of this type of thing and the perception of blatant bias towards certain memebers of the population. Just read some of the posts in this thread.

Yawn, here we go again. The usual tripe pedalled as news to get a reaction. Whats the betting its nothing to do with him being a muslim. Chances are he is just a jumped up little prick anyway irrespective of his religion.

I get loads of emails from Russian girls wanting a nice English bloke. A certain Miss Clebb caught my eye. I can forward them onwards to anyone who does not have enough spam in their inbox.

It gets worse. My name is Chris as well. I think we are clones. That means I must be evil as well. Muhahahahaha Oh, got a scar as well.

I have a twin. Ditto

Is it definately white smoke or blue. Have you pulled the intercooler pipe off to see if there is oil in there. Have you lost any water. Does it smell oily or sweet (like fragranced) at the exhaust. Would be unusual for BOTH to go at the same time so have you checked all pipes/connections to the turbo's. Can you pull the air inlet pipe off and check the rotation of the shafts.

Everyone assumes the guy was at fault. Maybe he was BUT it is easy to have accidents that are nothing to do with hooning about the place. I wrote my last Supra off (third car of four Supras so far) after some very heavy rain washed a load of mud onto a bend. "Oh yeah" I hear. After they peeled me off the front of the lorry and breathalised me (0%) the accident investigator went back up the road, came down to see me and told me what had happened. "Mud on the road, big single turbo and auto drop down on a corner". The guy behind me confirmed it was at 35mph. I have covered over a quarter of a million miles, no points, no accidents before then in a range of cars up to 300Hp so its not always down to lack of experience.

Exactly.

If the question was Where I would say - Somewhere else in a parallel universe a long long way away from the one we inhabit now. It must exist, we all know what is is like and its a good place but we just can't seem to find it.

Thankyou for sharing that. I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others but the mental picture that conjured up for me did raise a snigger (then an "Ouch" and then a "Poor sod!".

Just had a look on Ebay. Whats the number. I have interest locally so am hopeful.

Now this is more interesting. Would like to hear more about both sides of this arguement - without the usual low quality input please.