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8th February 2015, 11:53 AM
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Brian you do more whinging than anybody else on this site,whats this ranting about now nobody so far on this thread has complained about anything only you.You enter a post and it always ends up todo with benefits which had nothing todo with the post anyway.
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Jim.B.
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8th February 2015, 12:04 PM
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Hi Jim
Just waiting for you,
Knew you would answer.
It was Louis post below,,
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The country only has a short time to prepare for another five years of the Eton schoolboys misrule. Stock up the foodbanks, issue thousands of tents for those who cannot pay the bedroom tax, train the firing squads for benefit claimants, make sure the old, the sick and disabled have enough tablets in their medicine cabinets to take in case of emergency. If however, the electorate give Dave a much needed kick up the ass disregard all of the above.
If that is Not whinging about their Plight then I do not know what is.
I rest my case.
Have a nice day
Cheers
Brian
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8th February 2015, 12:14 PM
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I think Louis's was a bit of a tongue in cheek post which I found quite funny.Brian go away and have the time of your life and enjoy yourself to the full don't be worrying about someone getting a couple of coppers in benefit (until you come back of course LOL)Always look on the bright side of life!!!
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Jim.B.
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8th February 2015, 12:27 PM
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Jim, hardly an endorsement from the CBI, 400 companies surveyed, which employ just over a million employees.
In the UK there are over 3.9m businesses employing 23.9m.
There's lies damned lies then there are statistics.
Proves you can make a case to suit your ends by biasing the figures to suit the needs.
Vic
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8th February 2015, 12:32 PM
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These figures put out by Tories Vic who as you know would sell their souls to the devil if there is money involved,they would switch to Labour at the drop of a hat if there was something in it for them.
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jim.B.
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8th February 2015, 12:59 PM
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Here was me thinking You Gov and the CBI were independent of the Tories.
A tad bitterness there Jim at least the Tories can manage money not like Balls and Milliband.
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8th February 2015, 01:27 PM
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Hello Vic, always enjoy hearing from you.
Did you know 16% of the population of Lewis, Outer Hebrides scratch their ass with an electric toothbrush.
Isn't modern day technology wonderful ??
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8th February 2015, 01:32 PM
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Hi Louis, nice stats, where did you get them from?
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8th February 2015, 01:41 PM
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Vic CBI independent,I couldn't imagine Arthur Scargill being appointed Director General could you,I don't think there has ever been a Dir/Gen of Labour persuasion.
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Jim.B.
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8th February 2015, 01:52 PM
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Thanks for that Jim. But I only whinge about the whingers.
. I will certainly enjoy the trip,
We call at an Island in the Tabuaeran. where the people there must be the Poorest in the whole world,
They have NOTHING, No electricity, so no TV, Mobiles, Ipads, Computers, lights etc, No Fresh Water, so No taps, No Toilets, No bathrooms, etc. No Shops, No transport , No hosptals, a missionary Nurse in there just for First Aid, Just NOTHING. a Crap? they just walk into the Lagoon and dump there. So for us No Swimming.
Their homes are just a wood platform, Palm fronds for a roof and a rattan mat that rolls down at night as a wall, No furniture, The Home usually blows away in the rainy season. so they build another one.
The ship usually leaves them half a dozen plastic water Barrels to collect rain water to drink. and some cases of food to keep them going. Because of their very poor diet all the kids have brown or black teeth and by the time they are in late teens or twenties their teeth fall out. No Calcium in their diet as there is No Milk..
If no water they drink Coconut milk, for food they only have Coconuts and fish, there are a few suckling pigs tied up to trees I have been there twice before.
The People are very happy to see us, They sing and dance, and not complain of their situation, some of our people should go there and see those people who really have Nothing. Money is No use to them as there is no where to spend it.
We are taking a case of childrens clothing with us, shorts, Tee shirts and girls dresses, pencils and writing paper etc.
When we leave we feel very humble that these Cheerful people who have NOTHING ARE SO HAPPY WITH THEIR LOT.
Hope you enjoyed that story, and that is why I have no time for people who complain in Britain about food banks. It is a wonderful education to see that,
Cheers
Brian
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