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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

I always thought that the Iron Lady was the worst PM this country has ever had, I now say that the Odd Couple of Cameron and Clegg are worse that the old lady.

Since the coalition started between these puppets of misery, Unemployment has soared up, the UK is being stripped of all services, the police forces all over the UK are being stripped to the bare minumum.

The poor, disabled, NHS is being hit severely, and now they are divided on how we are to vote in future, I will vote for who l want, and l wont be told who to vote for.

We have now a new benefit system that will hit everyone,. They say that there is plenty of work out there, WHERE.

Lets put it this way for you, in a easy to swallow form, Arthurgray50. When the conservatives left office in 1997, the Uk as a whole had no repeat NO, out standing debt + was making more money that it was spending through it system of checks & balances FACT! Most don't like to hear this, as most liked the way labour spend & borrowed more than we had it way (UK) into 21st century. This was by handing out money to lazy social misfits, council tax & rent etc more each time, till the present government put a cap on it coming in this April... A Maximum of £500 GBP per week including benefits, to me that still too much for their sorry lazy as*es . Moaning about how there nothing out there, but jobs going from there own door step!!!
With amount of some travel.

With most people like myself (full time paid worker) whom have to work to pay, full medical bills, full price mortgage, council tax, fuel (petrol), food prices, clothing + footwear, whole household items, heating (gas), electric bill... did I miss something? tell me
All this on a national wage per hour after NI + income tax in my pay packet
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Then you see these lay-abouts moan about how the price of the packet of fags has gone up, effecting there amount of pints down the pub they will be able to get or the amount of cases of can they will be able to get from the local corners shop on a normal day.
# Not forgetting free child care for the lazy single mothers (some) that seam to pop out another child just before the oldest is 16yr to keep her current above rising social payments. Plus to keep her current household when the oldest moves out.

# Even a social grant you can get to fill your now new rented abode with house hold goods over & over everytime you move.

# Finally even not forgetting the ones to that can afford to smoke booze, run a household & then run a car on top of all that but still on the social... makes me sick!!! Its a well known fact as benefits payments stand at moment (till April 2011), you are better off than working & yes it's been like this for over 10yrs with Labour in short distant past splashing the cash around

Not all unemployed people are the same, some are there from downsizing from there last employment, it's how the job market works these days - my best of luck to those fair mannered persons looking.
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All the coalition is doing is servicing the loan payment/s+ %interest that the last government handed to us. The last government spent it now we have to pay it back now, (like a personal loan) while previous lot lining there pockets with cream/interest off the money they made of us all in the boom years, put in a place of safe keeping. Labour could have paid off a fair size piece off the government borrowing with money they made in profits from other investments, but they didn't - all they did was to spend it creating a all high time record of number of government based employees/not so ground breaking ideas .

We know them as paper pushers/file clerks/red tape/health & safety/officers of slowness/burdened on our taxs/ lazy g*ts (whom couldn't get the same job in the private sector, as they didn't have what's required of the job).

With the cuts, coming Arthurgray50@blu will only go down to 2003 levels of public sector numbers + budget.
One thing that going to come to a head is top/mangers pay packets, the amount there getting too much from the beginning, that why the government is going to turn these fat cats pay wage to the public view, councils for example are 3x over staffed at top level.

#I know from many sources (direct from) in my local council depot, there's 4 work mangers (day to day jobs) they come in by 08:00 am only hand out work sheets & sign off work orders by 10:30am there finished, most go home till/arrive 3:30pm at the depot to wait for the front line workers to come back after a hard day graft, to sign off the remainder job sheets (4 times a year stock take) come 5:00pm it's all over for the day. If you what to contact them from 10:45am - 3:30pm you won't get an answer for your life, there's no one there. But they get paid to work direct from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm no break nor home visits (less lunch 1hr) This costs (each) over £24,000 after tax to do sweet fanny nothing... but push paper work around.
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

They say that there is plenty of work out there, WHERE.

Simple answer; Arthurgray there lots of work out there you have to go & look of it, not the other way around. As with youths of today, they think that you(employer) owe them a job not you have to apply for it, it's the same story every year when the lack luster school system puts out a new batch of half finished/educated youthful young adults into the the work force. Yes they may have A's/B's/C's even a few A* in subjects, but here's the important question, when all the technology breaks down or doesn't work can they cut the cream with us old timers with basic mathematics, english or common sense??
Not from what I've seen, they lack a big part in the basic skill set, imperial is one of them. Imperial is still used as much today as the yesterday years, as with basic sums with a pen/pencil & paper or fractions of the top of there head without any form of tech. We old timers could work out all the above + more by the time we left our schooling years.
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

UK is being stripped of all services, the police forces all over the UK are being stripped to the bare minumum.

Well the funny thing about the police forces in the UK is that they've stopped catching the important crimials & went to filling quoter/s each month/s to suit the past government (labour) war on crime- asbo's for example.
Then started to cut back on front line staff+ fill the back rooms/buildings full of paper pushers that dish on spot fines for, the small ill-important items in normal life eg; littering.... wait a minute isn't that a councils job pick up the litter?
Over the years (since labour) the pay of the middle management/top has gone up, the front line staff have been at a crossroads ever since with all the human right & health + safety matter in there job... it all costs money. More red tape more it costs to process a person. Hence that why these bloated police forces are so over budget since middle management has had the keys to the money pot. "Stripped to the bare minimum" they need to be, then with the savings they can put more front line staff on show like say they do - but they don't ! No person needs to paid more than there worth, in today's world - as if one doesn't like it, there another person behind willing to take the job to put food on the table.
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I think I've said enough, but I will if needs be Arthurgray50 - get with the programme for heavens sake!

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