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R1Geezer

What effect will the £26K cap have on the superscroungers?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11463435 Will they have to cut back the fags and white lightening? Or heaven forfend actually get a job? Will the cap discourage the career benefits mob?...
17:16 Tue 05th Oct 201014 answers, last by fender62 13:01 Wed 06th Oct 2010
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AB Editor

Are The Recently Announced Child Benefit Cuts Fair?

Individuals earning more than £44,000 will no longer gain child benefit, whereas a family with earnings of anything up to around £80,000 will still be in receipt of Child Benefit, is this a fair cut?
10:18 Tue 05th Oct 201060 answers, last by LoftyLottie 22:25 Tue 05th Oct 2010
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rov1200

Bowel Cancer Screening

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11461495 The government is proposing to spend £60m to test for bowel cancer. This involves inserting a camera into the lower bowel from the rectum using...
19:04 Mon 04th Oct 201026 answers, last by craft_Tel 16:48 Wed 28th Nov 2018
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Coldicote

Why strike?

With this country and others in dire financial straits, with spending cuts and unemployment, what do workers expect or hope to achieve by going on strike? If money's not there - it's not there. It's...
16:28 Mon 04th Oct 201015 answers, last by EDDIE51 00:37 Wed 06th Oct 2010
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Bobbisox

so, the higher tax band are to lose their Child Benefits in 2013,,why not from April 1st next year?

A petrol increase can go on from midnight the same day as announced same as the fags and beer, why wait till 2013? The downside to this would be couple each earing £22,500 a year or...
10:55 Mon 04th Oct 201033 answers, last by auntiebertie 20:08 Mon 04th Oct 2010
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rov1200

Free Energy

Much has been written on this subject most of it detrimental. But I read somewhere last week that we use the principal of permanent magnets to help power some of the offshore wind turbines. Because we...
20:59 Fri 01st Oct 201013 answers, last by Hugh Spencer 11:42 Mon 28th Feb 2011
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stokemaveric

the govt are axing housing benefit,incapacity benefit and income support....

what will the benefit cheats do now????
15:34 Fri 01st Oct 201045 answers, last by boxtops 22:35 Fri 01st Oct 2010
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MrsT

Did anyone see Bob Crow on hardtalk last night?

god help the RMT! Come to think of it did anyone see the dispatches program about the unions this week? The last thing they care about is their members. Who in their right mind would join a Union?
16:51 Fri 01st Oct 201014 answers, last by Tumshieheid 01:44 Sun 03rd Oct 2010
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anotheoldgit

Police Community Support Officers

http://tinyurl.com/36q5q5q Do we really need these police community support officers? Whatever happened to the 'Specials'? they seemed to have disappeared off our streets. This voluntary force seemed...
12:35 Fri 01st Oct 20106 answers, last by rov1200 14:53 Fri 01st Oct 2010
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jake-the-peg

Knocks MPs fiddling expenses into a cocked beret

http://www.nytimes.co.../28briefs-CHIRAC.html Former president Chirac accused of embezzling funds via 21 ficticious employees agrees to pay $3 million to get the case dropped. He denies any wrong...
14:38 Fri 01st Oct 20107 answers, last by naomi24 17:06 Fri 01st Oct 2010
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rov1200

Banks going into Meltdown

Dublin has announced that it will have to shell out £43.4bn to rescue its banks. This seems like a similar scenario to what happened in Britain when the taxpayer had to pay out to keep them...
09:51 Fri 01st Oct 201010 answers, last by BillyBB 16:29 Sun 03rd Oct 2010
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R1Geezer

Noo Labour is dead....

Long live......err what? I'm going with Red Labour....... The peoples flag is deepest red.....................
12:18 Thu 30th Sep 201022 answers, last by EDDIE51 22:21 Sat 02nd Oct 2010
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Whoever

Better Defence or fewer Benefits cuts?

If you were in charge, what would you choose - - fewer cuts to Defence spending or fewer cuts to the Benefits budget?
13:42 Thu 30th Sep 201048 answers, last by jno 17:15 Fri 01st Oct 2010
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anotheoldgit

Shouldn't Red Ed Wed?

http://tinyurl.com/3ahugh4 Now that Ed Miliband is the new Labour Leader, and he says he is committed to the country and his party, shouldn't he now make a commitment to his partner, and marry her? He...
17:35 Tue 28th Sep 201049 answers, last by BertiWooster 18:26 Wed 29th Sep 2010
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anotheoldgit

Is another terror attack imminent?

http://tinyurl.com/25rnkd7 Why are our troops in Afghanistan when the 'danger to British streets' seems to be coming from Pakistan. In the hypothetical scenario of Britain and the US invading...
12:30 Wed 29th Sep 201023 answers, last by modeller 11:19 Thu 30th Sep 2010
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anotheoldgit

Burning the Koran.

http://tinyurl.com/32rq2x2 It would appear that it is now illegal to burn certain books, when did this become law? Will they now rush through laws to make it illegal to burn flags, burn effigies,...
13:57 Thu 23rd Sep 201026 answers, last by McMouse 15:34 Fri 24th Sep 2010
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R1Geezer

Why is Britain not empty when heaven is across the ditch?

Just been reading on another thread how France is a quarter of the price for almost everything and the life is idyllic and you can even get English TV for nowt. yet Calais is inundated with asylum...
16:23 Wed 22nd Sep 201015 answers, last by rov1200 16:32 Thu 23rd Sep 2010
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anotheoldgit

India to get the biggest chunk.

http://tinyurl.com/33c4ewq So our 'Leader' (where's Cameron?) has committed Britain by law to spend billions overseas every year, although Britain spent almost £10billion on foreign aid last...
13:38 Thu 23rd Sep 201010 answers, last by TTG 09:41 Fri 24th Sep 2010
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rov1200

Our mistakes in going to war

Why are we not ready to admit that our war participation in Iraq and Afghanistan has been total failure? Just like Iraq we are now handing operations over to the US where they have more troops and can...
22:14 Tue 21st Sep 201021 answers, last by andy-hughes 18:42 Thu 23rd Sep 2010
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rov1200

Government borrowing

Does anyone still believe it is wrong to tackle the huge deficit or should we carry on spending like before? More than £16bn debt interest for one month alone. And that is with a low interest...
21:16 Tue 21st Sep 20105 answers, last by rov1200 15:44 Thu 23rd Sep 2010

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