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Originally Posted by Stuart
We are. Or we are supposed to be. This is why I would actually like to see the MPs affected as well as us. What I don't think would work is just cutting the money spent on the Houses of Parliament and various MP residences/offices etc.
That's the thing.. You can ask the poor to limit the number of kids they have. Give them free and easy access to Condoms or other birth control devices, and you could argue they have little excuse for getting pregnant. Yes it would cost money for the condoms, but I'd wager it won't cost the state anywhere near what another baby would cost.
What you can't do, short of killing them, is stop people getting older.
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Pensioners are a huge bill I am still waiting for them to get any kind of significant cut, but here is the problem.
A lot of the decision makers are approaching pensionable age.
Alot of voters are of pensionable age.
Media is generally sympathetic to pensioners.
eg. someone who is 64 who is not working is a scrounger by the media, they turn 65 and suddenly they are a deserving pensioner.
However pensioners are not the biggest state expense, the banks are, as it stands 228 billion has gone to the banks net since 2008 directly of the state.
We also have 10s of billions lost to tax avoidance, and 10s of other billions lost to tax cuts.
Europe is taking action on tax avoidance from companies like amazon and apple who pay tax overseas, whilst the uk is "investigating".
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Originally Posted by Chris
It was shown across the whole UK on Tuesday 30 October, just not all at the same time. England got it at 10.35pm. The last region to start screening it was Scotland at 11.35pm which is why it's showing as 'Last on .... only in Scotland' at the top of the show's BBC page. But the full transmission details are at the bottom of the same page.
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ok thanks, didnt know that.
what your thoughts on it?