potholes,bedroom tax, food banks,

[Jim Brady]

My son split with his partner about 8 years ago,she was given the flat that made him homeless.Trying to get a council flat he had no chance,what made ir worse when he went to the housing dept.he was interviewed by West Africans and other nationalities(this is London).he was told he had to go on the waiting list,this he did.He managed to get an ex council flat now owned to rent.He was there about 8 years when the owner decided to sell it,this made him homeless again.Back down to the council,interviewed by the foreigners who informed him he would have to register.He told them he had registered 8 years ago,sorry no record another 7 year wait.He was talking to the estate manager on the estate where he lived and told him he would have to wait 7 years before he is even considered.He was not amused and told my son some of the people in these flats have'nt beenin the country for 7 weeks never mind 7 years.!!!!!!So who in the council is dishing out the houses???
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Captain Kong]

Many Private landlords around here are Pakistani, They move into an area, the house prices drop and then they buy up the property cheap and then let them out.
There are two and a half million unemployed in Britain. But they are letting in more and more immigrants, maybe a few million more at the end of December when the Rumanians and Bulgars flood in. They are obviously not looking for work in a country that has no work for our own millions. They are here for the Benefits, So we can throw an old lady out of her house where she has brought up her family for 30 years or so, just to house a bunch of Bulgars who want to live off our backs.
Isnt it time that people took to the streets in protest against a Stupid Government that allows this to happen
Why did all those millions of British people sacrifice everything in WW2 just to keep out the europeans.? It was futile, We may as well have surrendered in September 1939.

[Tony Wilding]

Hi i received an email today from a relative, this Lady had a stroke and lost the use of right arm and leg, her son is her official carer, lives with her, she was getting full housing benefit also full council tax benefit, she informs me from april she has to start paying some council tax, does anyone know why this is, ? another attack on disabled benefits, ?

[Keith at Tregenna]

LET THEM EAT CAKE:

One day some will learn from history ?

K.

[happy daze john in oz]

In reply to #7, yes we can debate all of this, and for one good reason we still all live in a democracy where one of the corner stones is freedom of speech. The very fact thta we are getting different points of view on this and other political issues shows me that democracy is very much alive. We are all different so expect different points of view, do you want us all to vote the same way? Become a dictatorship is what would happen if we did. Sadly for UK, and it is begining to happen here in Oz, many previous govs have spent money they do not have on issues that are maybe not in the long term interest of the nation. Joining the EU for the Uk at the time made reasonable sense but the way things are now going it is questionable if it was the correct decission. Govs have advisors who are supposed to advise on the best outcome, but the best for whom?
Since the days of Aristotle there has been conflict between the people and thwe government, remember Cromwell? Until someone can come up with a better system you are stuck with waht you have, maybe it needs the people to take to the streets to get the message across, we had a fair bit of that here in Oz over the past few years and believe it or not many MP took notice.

[robpage]

I found a good explanation here Council Tax changes

and as for letting them eat cake the phrase is commonly misattributed to Marie Antoinette. "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was enriched with butter and eggs, as opposed to ordinary bread, the quote supposedly would reflect the princess's obliviousness as to the condition of the people.While it is commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, there is no record of this phrase ever having been uttered by her. It appears in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, his autobiography (whose first six books were written in 1765, when Marie Antoinette was nine years of age, and published in 1782). The context of Rousseau's account was his desire for bread, to accompany some wine he had stolen; however, in feeling he was too elegantly dressed to go into an ordinary bakery, he thus recollected the words of a "great princess". As he wrote in Book 6:Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche. Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: "Let them eat brioche."Rousseau does not name the "great princess" and he may have invented the anecdote, as Confessions was, on the whole, a very unreliable autobiography.

So it i like many things an invention of a writer

[John Cassels]

Morning Jim , was that Kevin you were talking about ?.

[Jim Brady]

John in oz.you refer people to #7 as I am the author of that I wish to reply.You must've completely misread this or you didn't understand what I said.I said we all have our own views,beliefs and we should no try and force them onto others.You cant be more democratic than that.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[John Pruden]

this all goes back to a bunch of millionairs telling you {not them} how to live they have not got a clue what its like down our end of the pool they are in a different world to us.jp

[Jim Brady]

Morning Jim , was that Kevin you were talking about ?.

Goodmorning John,No john Kevin in lives in Croatia.
Regards.
Jim/B.