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To date .... my Mother has died 3 times my Father 4,my non existent elder daughter has been pillaged by a hoarde of marauding vikings whilst they performed the blood eagle on me,and the dogs have killed several neighbours leaving us to dispose of the corpses
I always think it best to be both honest and not too elaborate with ones excuses

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If she wants a boat let her buy her own

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I feel people should live where they can afford to live. As many of us have too. That should leave more money in the pot for people who really need the benefits

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I feel people should live where they can afford to live. As many of us have too. That should leave more money in the pot for people who really need the benefits

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Now is the time brothers and sisters rise up against your southern oppressors .......FREEEEEEDOOOOMMMMMM !!!!!!!!

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Now is the time brothers and sisters rise up against your southern oppressors .......FREEEEEEDOOOOMMMMMM !!!!!!!!

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If she wants a boat let her buy her own

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It's worth remembering how it is that the current state of affairs came about, it being a direct consequence of previous Conservative govt policy in the 80s. The govt effectively decided that state-funded social housing ran contrary to their free market / personal responsibility ethos, and so they decided they would sell off social housing to those living in it at tax-payer subsidised prices, preventing councils re-investing the take in new housing, invite housing agencies to take some of it off their hands, and incentivise the private sector to pick up the slack by abolishing rent controls. Fine.
Now they find that 20 years later, thanks to a sustained housing boom in large part encouraged by govt policy, the free floating market rents they said were what they wanted are actually quite a bit higher than they maybe envisaged at the time, verging on unsustainable so what do they do? Punish tenants, like they're the ones responsible. Sorry, you might have lived here all your life with all your family and friends around you but I'm afraid you're gonna have to move to an area miles away from London or wherever cos unfortunately we've decided we don't want to pay what your landlords charging. It's not the landlord that's charging too much, it's not the fault of policies we put into place, it's yours, cos you were unfortunate enough to be born in an area that we're now intending be available only to better folk who can pay for the privelege out of their own pocket.
It's fucking outrageous. The govt are desperately trying to tell us the number affected will be minimal, but what it means is that families are gonna be forced to areas they don't know, with no familial support around them, and that can only lead to an increase in the kind of social isolation and exclusion that lies at the root of so many of the social problems everyone gets up in arms about. Course, any problems that arise won't be the govt's fault either will it, it'll be the fault of the individuals affected, and we'll do what we always do: beat 'em with the Criminal Justice stick when shit happens.

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What annoys me is that she has come over here and started claiming.
It really p*sses me off.

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Is it time to loose the max 48 hour week?

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They are football fans going to a football match, these are not farming fans coming to support their local farmer, quite the opposite.
I would hazard a guess many farmers will do the job themselves, hence the required protection

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To be fare, this is not a subsidy, this is the estimated cost of policing or protecting the farmer from animal rights extremist's. The money will go the police not the farmers!

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Happy Birthday Baby Jesus.

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To be fare, this is not a subsidy, this is the estimated cost of policing or protecting the farmer from animal rights extremist's. The money will go the police not the farmers!

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do these classes still exist in modern 2011 britain?
i think
the class system was outdated about 25 yeers ago now :thumbup:

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Go on then Blue I'll tell you the real reason..... rural areas are more inclined to vote tory ...tory M.P's are more likely to benefit from any subsidy paid to farmers ... no party will end farm subsidies the Tories want to keep the vote and Labour want to win it.... simples

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Go on then Blue I'll tell you the real reason..... rural areas are more inclined to vote tory ...tory M.P's are more likely to benefit from any subsidy paid to farmers ... no party will end farm subsidies the Tories want to keep the vote and Labour want to win it.... simples