So, tell me how this works.
I have 'paid my stamp' since beginning work at the age of 17 but for the past 4 years have not paid anything into the UK system since we have been living in France.
A couple of weeks ago, I applied to the UK NHS for an S1 card in order to obtain treatment in France (when required) as an expat only to be told that, since I have not lived in the UK for over 18 months, I have lost my entitlement to have treatment in France paid for by the UK NHS. Moreover, if I were to return to the UK for any treatment, I would have to pay!
I then see the following on SkyNews:-
How come someone who has never contributed to the UK NHS system or paid tax in the UK can be given free treatment but a person born in the UK still paying UK tax on investments is denied the privilege?
GnV...you have to get some new glasses mate.....its not free...read 7th paragraph..
"The Libyan government is paying for his treatment here, as well as for treatment for the other patients who will come over."
its not free !!!
well...Ghadaffi is finally found and murdered !! Must admit, I am very much ill at ease, with the way it has all ended. Ghadaffi was a tyrant and indeed issued orders that killed thousands. However watching the video of him being dragged through the street, clearly alive, and then haveing a gun pressed against his head....and then to see him in a pool of blood dead, leaves a stale taste in my mouth. I know this man was responsable for the killing of many peoples relatives, but I still think in the end he was defenceless and murdered !! and murder is a crime. I am glad Libya is free and hopefully will move towards democracy, but despite the great wealth of oil reserves it has, unemployment it is said runs at over 60%. Young men now on the streets with, no enemy to shoot at, but still with guns and bullets in their hands. Dangerous cocktail I fear.
once again the americans get there man. they may not have fired the bullet that killed him but that bullet had americas name on it.
the west thrive on the word democracy yet a baying mob of thugs, no doubt the same sort of thugs that gadaffi used, dragged him through the street and then shot him dead in cold blood.
cameron and obama stand in there own countries shouting how wonderful the world will be it? if gadaffi of been put on trial and found guilty and then possibly hung then at leest some sort of democratic justice would have taken place, as it was it was death in cold blood by a mob. the same mob that will now be in charge in Libya.
in 2009 it was gordon brown and in 2004 it was tony blair pictured shaking hands with gadaffi. both british prime ministers of recent yeers. yet a couple of yeers later the british along with the police of the world the americans give " aid " to libya in flying jets in there air space to kill gadaffi supporters and to cleer the way for the capture of gadaffi. the same man that two of our recent pm's shook hands with.
sorry the whole thing is typical of america, no wonder it is so hated around the world.
so mr cameron was the execution of gadaffi democratic? thought not.
i would hope that libya will be better off though i doubt it will be. those same thugs and monsters on the streets will soon be running things over there and the west can rub there hands together and pat each other on there backs and say job well done.
we shall see in time. democracy? no cold bloodied murder in my book and i suspect that the americans and the British do not give a damn. two wrongs make a right now do they?
i sometimes wonder if these so called tyrants such as gadaffi and sadam are made worse by american propaganda? a lot of the uprises of late started on networking sites. are we to beleeve that the west never stoked the fires of that at all? i think they were first in line.
if we are talking tyrants cameron and obama, shall we see robert mugabi removed from power? another man who aparently has murdered thousands of peeple in africa. no oil there though.
propaganda can be a very dangerous tool.
Interestingly, the NTC have been back-pedalling like fury by saying that they did not issue an order for Gadaffi to be killed.
Hmmm... short memories; wasn't it the very same NTC who offered a $M reward for Gaddafi dead or alive recently?
Who will collect?
And then they ask Saif to give himself up to face 'justice'! Given the treatment dished out to his father how on earth can they expect him to have any faith in the claim that he will be treated well?
Right now, Cameron and Sarkozy must be feeling decidedly uncomfortable at the way Gaddafi senior was treated at the hand of nothing more than just an armed mob - armed as they were by the NATO alliance.
Gaddafi said himself at the start of this conflict that he could see no reason to hand over power to armed thugs roaming the streets - it wouldn't happen in the west and it wouldn't happen in Libya. But that is now the legacy. There is no political structure in Libya. It is a mix of rag tag and bobtail tribes who will now fight on to claim the prize. They are well armed - courtesy of the great British and French public (amongst others) and asking them to lay down their arms now in the interests of democracy will create great amusement.
It has been said many times before that the only way to negotiate with an Arab, is with your foot on his throat!
I fear the west will now have to visit the cobblers tout de suite.
i did not meen the peeple deserved there 9/11s or 7/7s only that the politicians had brought about those things by there intefering and involvemnet in issues that are not theres to get involved in.
maybe the politicians in america and the uk should be brought to task for there own war crimes. tony blair was guilty of lying about iraqs so called weapons and how many thousands have been killed since the invasion? but without saddam and gudafi? are we sure things are better or will be better or will the rest of the peeple there just take the wealth for themselves and then deal with the west for there guns?
only a few will benefit the rest will be just the same. poor and with nothing.
the west and america in particular will now be looking just like Sauron in lord of the rings. looking and seeking wherever they go.
they will now be looking at what syria? iran? korea?
america will never stop until it has control of everything.
you better beleeve it. :twisted:
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