When is a job not a job ?

[Keith Tindell]

Zero hour contracts are fine , if it suits your life style, but if all you can get is 16 hrs at this supermarket, and 16 hours at another supermarket, it just depends at what end of the scale you are, and at what scale your pay is. Kt

[happy daze john in oz]

So many want to start at the top but are not prepared to work for that.
The only job I know where you start at the top is digging a grave, and for some by not making the attempt are doing just that.

[Captain Kong]

YOU MAY CRITISISE THIS....
But I think Benefits should be Taxed as Income.
People get a lot more than I do just on my State Pension and a very small MN pension, only in the scheme for ten years. I have to pay £100 a month on that. £1,200 a year, plus Council Tax of £1,500 a year. So £2,700 of my pension goes in Taxes to support those on Benefits.
`Heyou`, next door, has been in this country for ten years now, has Never worked since he landed here, he is in his 40s, he has a "bad back" he tells me,
He has four kids, and last Thursday his wife had another baby. and another load of benefits go with that.
He has three cars in his drive. One of them is a Mercedes, given Free by the Tax Payer, because he is on the sick. "This is Truly Paradise." he says,
So with a Bad Back he is still giving his wife one..[Wish my bad back would allow me to do that.] and he gets many thousands of pounds a year to keep up the new lifestyle in this new Paradise he now finds himself in, ALL TAX FREE. so my Miserable Pension is Taxed so he and many many others can live a good life .
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The Country today is in Serious Debt, today,, the National Debt is .....£1,660,000,000,000 and rising. But we give money away like a `Drunken Sailor` and I should know, I used to be one. We keep Millions of people on tax free Benefits, We give Billions of Pounds a year to 185 countries, we have to borrow from the IMF and pay Interest on all that so we can give it away for nothing. How Daft is that.?
Brian

[Ivan Cloherty]

he has a "bad back" he tells me,
He has four kids, and last Thursday his wife had another baby. and another load of benefits go with that.
So with a Bad Back he is still giving his wife one..[Wish my bad back would allow me to do that.]
Brian

Why? do you fancy her Brian!

[cappy]

YOU MAY CRITISISE THIS....
But I think Benefits should be Taxed as Income.
People get a lot more than I do just on my State Pension and a very small MN pension, only in the scheme for ten years. I have to pay £100 a month on that. £1,200 a year, plus Council Tax of £1,500 a year. So £2,700 of my pension goes in Taxes to support those on Benefits.
`Heyou`, next door, has been in this country for ten years now, has Never worked since he landed here, he is in his 40s, he has a "bad back" he tells me,
He has four kids, and last Thursday his wife had another baby. and another load of benefits go with that.
He has three cars in his drive. One of them is a Mercedes, given Free by the Tax Payer, because he is on the sick. "This is Truly Paradise." he says,
So with a Bad Back he is still giving his wife one..[Wish my bad back would allow me to do that.] and he gets many thousands of pounds a year to keep up the new lifestyle in this new Paradise he now finds himself in, ALL TAX FREE. so my Miserable Pension is Taxed so he and many many others can live a good life .
.
The Country today is in Serious Debt, today,, the National Debt is .....£1,660,000,000,000 and rising. But we give money away like a `Drunken Sailor` and I should know, I used to be one. We keep Millions of people on tax free Benefits, We give Billions of Pounds a year to 185 countries, we have to borrow from the IMF and pay Interest on all that so we can give it away for nothing. How Daft is that.?
Brian

###jeez brian times are hard for you if you have a word with jim b he has 4 tellies he may give you one ....perhaps i should rephrase that
he may give you a telly ...but he may give you one as well ......cappy

[j.sabourn]

#73... I assume a part Australian pension is classed as a benefit in which case we do get taxed on in Australia. It all goes into the pot for gross earnings if you are over the threshold. I paid tax of over 1000 dollars last year and this year 970 dollars. I'm surprised that the uk is not the same. If he has benefits over the threshold he is allowed tax free, then there is something wrong with the system. And your Tax office should be answering some hard questions. I find that unbelievable that a government should be so lax with other peoples money. Cheers JS

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#74... Says he wouldn't touch her with Cappys. JS

[Jim Brady]

###jeez brian times are hard for you if you have a word with jim b he has 4 tellies he may give you one ....perhaps i should rephrase that
he may give you a telly ...but he may give you one as well ......cappy

Maybe I should visit the food bank on Brians behalf and do a trip upto Bolton with it.Brian is the right candidate by the sounds of it for the food hamper.Dont tell them about your world cruises though Brian they will expect you to chip in.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[cappy]

Maybe I should visit the food bank on Brians behalf and do a trip upto Bolton with it.Brian is the right candidate by the sounds of it for the food hamper.Dont tell them about your world cruises though Brian they will expect you to chip in.
Regards.
Jim.B.

jeez them food banks used to give the food in plastic bags ......now your telling me they get bloody HAMPERS cappy

[cappy]

john in the uk as i was getting older i also decided to pay extra money each month into SERPS.....i was taxed on that as income ......but when i retired it was added onto my other income and bloody taxed again......but then i suppose it helped to pay some bugger elses pension who never worked ....cappy

[Captain Kong]

No Problem Jim.

A world cruise is not that expensive, and with careful budgeting is within reach of almost anyone.
I book the cheapest inside cabin, 9 times out of 10 been free upgraded to outside cabins.
I go for two months, So Two months pension for me and HER is in the bank.
Two months of shopping bills saved are in the bank,
Two months of Petrol bills for the car is in the Bank.
Two months of the Gas bill in the Bank.
two months of Electricity is in the bank.
two months off the water bill is in the bank.
My car has a SORN on it while I am away, so two months road tax saved...£40
Two months spending money saved and in the bank.
I d0nt smoke anymore, so ciggy money in the bank
I very rarely have a drink now, 1 bottle of £5 wine a week saved and in the bank.
and so on,,,... Take all that off the cost a cruise and it is cheaper than going to Benidorm for two weeks.

So I am going back to Tahiti and Hawaii and all the Polynesian Islands in March , for almost free. Life is easy if you plan it right.
Cheers
Brian