0.7% Foreign Vote Loser

[fender62]

now they may has said she intends to keep the foreign aide at 0.7%, will you be changing your vote to ukip instead.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4432830/Philip-Hammond-hints-Tories-raise-taxes.html#comments

[fender62]

probably to radical for some, but in the long run it would pay off and you know it would, unless you prefer a liberal view..you cannot make people do what they dont want to do, kick up the back side, instead of lounging round twitching there curtains looking at the world go round.

[mikey4444]

Fender...on that issue you and I are in complete agreement it would appear !

But nobody, as yet, has had the balls to carry out that kind of program....I wish they would, as I am getting fed up with being surrounded by the lazy, feckless dole-bludgers on my housing estate, all funded by my taxes.

[david small]

Because of Mrs Mays stance on foreign aid I will be voting for UKIP.

[fender62]

mikey4444, thank you...i see it day in and day out, im up at 5:30 come home after 6pm all i see is the same lay abouts for years, and it repeats itself by same families, ie daughter 16 gets bun in oven, looks like children pushing round children in strollers...grits teeth

[mikey4444]

Fender....you could be describing the scene in my street !

[david small]

So why do you lot put up with it? Do something about it.
Snoring sound, ain't nobody here but us chickens.....

[fender62]

same round my parts mikey4444, i started a paper roud at 12 never looked back, plus my dad would not have had it any other way..he said son gives one a sense of purpose, and a few bob in your pocket, then i went on the mow lawns tend gardens etc still under 16, go to the pictures on saturday with a few quid in my pocket that i earned. i felt like a million dollars..it never left me till this day

[mikey4444]

In many ways Fender, we could be twins !

I was working in my father's shop at age 11, and I had a paper round at 13. My Mum and Dad worked hard until their deaths, and all my brothers have also worked all their lives.

I started work as an apprentice at age 16.5, with GPO Telephones and have worked ever since.....64 this June !

[fender62]

similar i went on to engineering, after learning how to mend things because we had to, money was so tight it squeaked, and i liked mechanical things how it all worked, and i have never looked back.
i was not the brightest bulb, but i made an effort and pushed myself
if i was not sure of something id ask questions or read a book on it
i never relented, my first car a clapped out jag j6 i repaired from the ground up with what i had begged borrowed, got the *** running in the end, i was the happiest 18yr in the world.

[david small]

Left school on a Friday at fifteen, started work on the Monday. Got married on Saturday no honeymoon, in car pit on Monday. Spent years self employed doing ridiculous hours. What have I got to show for it? A broken worn out body, and a cynical pessimistic outlook.
But, you've got to laugh.......haven't you?

[fender62]

david small, you gave it your best shot, did your best nothing wrong with that, hold your head up mate, im sure within all that you had many good times, dont over look them..

[david small]

Thanks fender62

[fender62]

david small, your welcome

[EDDIE51]

I'll take a heavy bet that UKIP do not get a single MP in the next election!

[cassa333]

If that were the only issue in the manifesto and nothing else mattered I might consider a different vote.

However as far as I am aware the election has more than just that one issue attached to it.

[Jackdaw33]

Although parties are free to campaign on a different manifesto to the one used in the previous election I do think it was rather unwise of TM to pledge the same amount of foreign aid at the same time as her chancellor was hinting at withdrawing the pensions triple lock and possible tax increases. I wonder if he will still be chancellor come June 9th.

[-Talbot-]

lol ...@ the very bizarre unforeseen bromance.

[TTG]

Can we see receipts for how that money is spent?

[New Judge]

“…I do think it was rather unwise of TM to pledge the same amount of foreign aid at the same time as her chancellor was hinting at withdrawing the pensions triple lock and possible tax increases.”

Careful, jackdaw. I suggested that very thing in another question and was told it was “weak”. I attempted to add a little strength to my argument with some figures and asked why my suggestion was considered weak. Answer came there none. Page 2 of this question on Friday at 22:35 and my answer half an hour later:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1549067-2.html

I believe you also contributed. I didn’t get involved in the “is the State pension a Benefit” debate. I’ve stated many times that I consider fully funded State Pensions are not “Benefits” (with a Capital B) any more than occupational pension payments are. Those who have not fully funded their State pensions receive retirement age Benefits. The reason why the triple lock was introduced (and it’s not that generous) was because State pensions had suffered around two decades (at least) of relative decline compared to earnings. The last two or three years (which Mrs May describes as the “changes that have benefited pensioners which they should consider”) go nowhere near to redressing that balance.

I would indeed be very surprised if the funereal Mr Hammond remains Chancellor should the Tories be returned to officce.