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11th May 2025, 10:18 AM
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Pleased to hear Shell making good money at the pumps, all helps my generous Shell pension.
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11th May 2025, 10:36 AM
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John Swan
Pleased to hear Shell making good money at the pumps, all helps my generous Shell pension.
would be even better if Ms. Reeves kept her hands off it.
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Let,s keep the Triple Lock I say, especially when I have my wife,s care home fees to accommodate.
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John Swan
Let,s keep the Triple Lock I say, especially when I have my wife,s care home fees to accommodate.
John, you will be lucky if they leave you enough to live on. They took my dads pension, NCB pension and we still had to top up.
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Not sure what is going on in UK regarding pensions and the heating allowance, now you get it now you do not, but family there are not happy with the lot you have in gov.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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John OZ, the great British Public as we often hear some gob--ite repeating frequently have been under educated for many a year now. All down to former governments no matter who they are. A classic example was the government of the day removed the UK from the Erasmus scheme after Brixit, why?(The UK turned down an offer to continue participating in Erasmus after Brexit).No doubt the Eton Boys preferred joe public to remain thick.
There is a new scheme called the Turing Scheme, this scheme appears to be having funding difficulties.
https://www.if.org.uk/2025/02/04/the...20satisfaction.
Reform seem to be a rapidly rising party, in recent Council elections winning control of several county councils. They will be judged I suspect on how they perform or as I suspect under perform like a lot of Labour councils are doing. Birmingham bankrupt, Wirral my own area Bankrupt.
Got to go as getting the look from my good lady
Shopping
When you see people being interviewed on TV in the street one hopes that the majority of the population are not as thick as these indivuals appear.
Last edited by James Curry; Today at 09:46 AM.
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Yep. It,s been 8 yrs now. £80,000 of her savings gone and now paying £188 PW to LA + £178 PW top up to care home. Every party elected have said they will fix the care problem, still waiting. Now Starmer wants to ban visas for “ unskilled workers” ie. care home staff. Putting restrictions on legal immigrants will just open the door for so called illegals. I wonder how long the care industry can last at this rate.
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I think the idea behind Starmers annoucement is to get some of the bone idle 1.6 million registered as unemployed to get their lazy backsides back to work instead of living on benefits while also working on the Black.
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