It is only 24 years ago that i left school at just under 16 and went to work at the Co Op on a YTS scheme, i worked 39 hours a week for , i got valuable work experience and the only promise i had was that the scheme was for 2 years, if after 2 years there was a permanent position then it would be mine.
I worked hard,listened and learned and after 18 months was offered the job on a full time basis, i had been trained to do a job and do it well and it sure as hell did me no harm.
Why should people be allowed to sit on their arses all day and be paid to do so, far too many people these days think that they are owed a living and far too many benefits are paid to people who have been brought up to think this way.
Maybe big companies are getting employees on the cheap but in the main those companies are willing to give these youngsters a chance to have some work experience, give them some training, and maybe get some work ethics into them..........
Now back to the actual topic!!
Benefits are in place for the less well off of our population and those that need help.
Yes some people know how to play the system and how to claim more and receive more cash than they possibly deserve, are they any different to the self employed who know all the tax loops and use them (and openly brag about it) to pay less and line there pockets more.
I am sure someone is sure to say well thats the governments fault for leaving open the loop holes, well like wise with benefits then.
Many people are saying the government are doing the right thing with all the cuts they are proposing and maybe they are, but to means test all benefits claims will cost loads and take an infinite amount of time to do thus costing even more as the tests rumble on.
So say some of you just stop everyone with 4 or more kids claiming, why this is victimisation at its worst.
I am sure that those of you who are all for the cuts and the cancellation of benefits are sat easy in your ivory towers having already received child benefit for the full time they can and now have grown up children and dont care cos they are no longer eligable to receive it, or dont even live in the Uk so again not affected, or are on sizeable wages and again dont see why others should get help.
Not everyone is the same and peoples circumstances can change in a matter of seconds, so go ahead and means test people on benefits, and then when their circumstances change means test them again and on and on it goes costing more and more and taking more and more time and money.
Rose tinted glasses are one thing but having a 5 bedroom detached house in suburbia, with no little foreign people living there and no single parent famillies around spoiling the view through the rose tinted double glazing you had put in as windows is just not reality.
People on this forum are always moaning about this being a "nanny state" and losing our freedom to do as we please, so how is reverting this law any different?
I choose to drink on a regular basis both out and at home, i do not however get drunk.
I sometimes go out at 11 pm when most people are pissed and going home, but being able to actually go out at this time of night suits my lifestyle and working life, these licensing hours are far from unique to the UK i can go most places in the world and get a drink at 4am!
Why should the supermarkets not sell booze at whatever price they want, it is against the law to sell to under 18`s and i am sorry but the last time i looked anyone over the age of 17 is classed as an adult and responsible for there own lives and action.
We do not live in a muslim state (that again many on here critisise) and it is not against the law to drink, i can imagine the outrage on this forum if this was the Muslim leaders calling for booze bans or pub and club hours being cut!!
This is simply the poor weak government we did not vote for as a majority, trying to flex there weak little muscles and saying "look what we can do" there are so many more poor weak laws in this country that need to be changed,but no lets pick one that stops the people of this country doing what they want when they want, lets ban sex outside of marriage i say!!
And whilst i am ranting i see the government are now taking away free swimming for over 65`s and possibly kids, oh how caring and health conscious is that, bring on the fat kids, lets make sure that the oap`s cant stay fit if they can not afford it and die before they reach the new retirement age of 107 and the fat kids will obviously become obese adults and again die before retirement thus saving the country loads of money.
Welcome to the next 5 years of a government with no majority who are gonna take away all the fun things in life and make us work till we cant walk or breathe, i really am better off in Afghanistan!!
Strange i thought he was back in rehab as he is struggling to keep off the booze again!!!
I find it staggering that you feel that giving our already underpaid nurses,soldiers,firemen,police etc etc a pay cut, yes that is what it amounts to and has been agreed by the right honourable twat in charge of the country as in effect being a pay cut, is a fair budget, but of course if your a tyranical business owner with a good accountant everything will look rosey,cos you can keep claiming back the vat, tell your staff they cant have a rise because of the state of the economy and keep coining it in for yourselves!!
It will be a Miliband but Ed not David, i had £10 at 50 to 1 last Friday and thought it was a good bet.
Whoever gets the job wont be PM for at least the 5 years though because it is odds on that the legislation to make it a fixed 5 year term with no exception will be passed asap.
And when its all done and dusted not one of us will have made a difference and life will go on as it has since time began, with the same people moaning and whining about the current government (the same ones who moaned about the past government) the politicians doing what is best for them and still robbing us blind, the immigrants will keep coming, the dole dossers will keep dossing, the rich and powerful will get more rich and powerful and the poor will get shit on from a great height and continue to work 3 jobs and 70 hours a week and hopefully Leeds United will have been promoted and Chelsea will have stopped the scum from winning the premiership.
Life is for living and doing what is best for you and the ones you care about,with what you have to work with, do any of you seriously think Cameron,Brown or Clegg give a flying fuck about what anyone of us thinks or wants....... dream on!!
Can someone please define for me what "being patriotic" actually means?
Does it mean slagging off the Nation and its governments?
Does it mean moaning about the laws and rules in the country?
Does it mean picking fault in everything thats happened and finding someone to blame?
Does it mean disagreeing with who the actual "Saint for the day" is
If so, there are people in this forum who are so patriotic it must hurt!!!
Why do people feel that waving a flag and saying they are patriotic for 1 day a year actually makes them patriotic, when the rest of the time the self same people are running down everything to do with England and saying how they wish they lived elsewhere or even do live elsewhere it just stinks to me!
I wont be going out getting pissed, putting a cheap tacky flag on my car or wearing a ridiculous hat but that does not mean i am not patriotic, i love my country and would without hesitation die for my country and i dont need 1 day a year to show it.
Maybe if the oh so patriotic of this country got off there arses and did something to make the place we live in a better more friendly place to live, maybe did some volountry work or work in there community with people who need it, without recompense, others would follow and patriotism would then strengthen?
Right i have read what you guys have put, i have watched the live stage managed debate on tv and baring in mind the job i do and this is really the first time i have shown any real interest in politics this is my view on it all.
First of all David Cameron is a smug toff who will look after the rich and make them mega rich, whilst trying to pretend he has actually at anytime lived in the real world and will pick up all the toff votes of the sheltered folks south of Birmingham and beyond!
Secondly Gordon Brown maybe a buffoon but everything that happens is not all his fault but he gets the blame cos he is in charge...move on 3 years from now and IF we have a new leader the same people on here who slagged off Brown will be slagging off the new leader, as far as our forces go Brown does care and can only act on what our senior officers and Millitary advisors tell him!
Thirdly Nick Clegg seem a nice guy with loads of good ideas but i wish i had a tenner for everytime i hear " i would vote Lib Dem but they have no chance" of course they have a chance if all the bloody people saying "i would but" actually voted for them instead of only voting for the "big 2" cos thats what your all brainwashed to do.
As far as the increase in NI goes of course all the people with businesses are going to moan cos its going to cost them a small amount of profit and after all they are already multi millionaires so will be voting for the toff regardless, i myself do not mind paying an increase in my NI if it means we start to pay off the deficit and our health,education,police etc get to maintain the funding and much improved service they have given us since the Tories lost power.
However in a nutshell to me politics is all about divide and rule, why do the partys never agree on anything, easy really, if they had nothing to argue about and to disagree over we would not need as many of the overpaid thieves and fraudsters and things would run too smoothly, the press would have nothing to report and life would be boring, why oh why can they not all stand together for the good of the country they say they are here to serve agree on a mainline plan and get a solutuion that works for all, afterall they are all quick to tell us how good they are!
No one mentioned Crack a Jack it was brill and i also loved Murpheys Mob, Old stlye Grange Hill with Tucker and co and Press Gang, also not sure if it was a kids programme but i used to watch it Blakes 7.