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The bedroom tax – Fair or fucked up ?
Is this a good thing or not ?
Designed to force people in over-occupied properties to downsize and make those properties available for larger families, reduce housing benefits and reduce the number of people who breed just to get social housing, in theory sounds fair............... BUT
Old people may be forced to leave homes they have lived in for decades with all their memories
Children may be forced to share bedrooms, even mixed sex when young
Any thoughts / opinions ?
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November 1, 2012 at 4:11 pm
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Which Country has the best economy?
Please post past and present statistics or comment if you know anything of valuable information.
Australia
Sweden
Dubai
USA
Canada
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October 13, 2012 at 2:50 pm
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£36.76 orange credit – £20
Hey guys, I just got a contract phone and now I'm stuck with all this prepay credit I cant use. Its on ebay here Orange sim with £36.76 credit | eBay but if you prefer a different method just say. I'm not an idiot though, dont bother trying to scam.
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i did the thing where you pay so much upfront and they automatically add £10 every month for 6 months. im pretty sure theres still another month coming, so you might actually end up with £46 for £20
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July 27, 2012 at 11:22 am
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Stolen Money, What Will Happen?
So I have a sneaking suspicion that one of my friends has been robbed by her friend.
A girl and her mate (also my friend) came over my house last week to apply for a loan online. My friend getting the loan needed a guarantor to get the loan so used my friend and it was going in her account.
It seems like the guarantor friend has stolen the cash and denying it's gone into her account. If this has happened she's probably gonna get her face smashed in and rightfully so, she deserves it.
But anyone to the question at hand, is the girl who originally got the loan gonna be in shit for being robbed? What will happen, will it fall back on the guarantor?
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May 31, 2012 at 9:58 am
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Do you understand the Economy? …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XcGh1Dex4Yo
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May 16, 2012 at 6:09 am
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EEEK, Ebay uk
Have brought 273 stuff over the years
give loads to charity - last lot was 7 bin liners of clothes and crockery to a jumble sale,,,,
so decided to take a leaf out of the other half's mum
have put 10 things up for sale (all they will let me!!)
most of what I have is vintage 60's dresses so recon there is a market
but always been too hungover or wrecked!! - this not drinking business (well apart from tonight) pretty good stuff!!
:bounce_fl:bounce_g::bounce_g:
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April 7, 2012 at 3:16 pm
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Donations
Fuck, are things really that bad?!
Party Vibe - Donate
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December 1, 2011 at 6:51 am
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CUNTS!
You might think that historians will record last Tuesday as the day the Murdoch empire was brought to book by MPs. Yet I suspect that in years to come, they will realise the significance of that day, not for the phone hacking scandal but for the health service.
While the nation’s attention was focused on the most powerful man in the media attempting to dodge questions and cream pies, this was a good day to bury bad news. And the Department of Health duly obliged.
Andrew Lansley explained that from April next year, eight NHS services worth £1 billion, including musculoskeletal services for back pain, wheelchair services for children and adult community psychological therapies, will be opened up to competitive bids from the private sector.
This means that in these areas, the NHS will no longer exist. Sure, the logo will still be there, but the NHS will no longer be national, any more than British Telecom is.
There is no doubt that this signals the first wave of privatising the NHS. Yet MPs of all persuasions continue to be deluded.
In a letter that has been passed to me, Stephen Williams, Liberal Democrat MP for Bristol West, assures a worried constituent that the NHS Reform Bill will “improve the NHS and therefore definitely not lead to the privatisation of services”.
Doubtless Mr Williams means this sincerely. But I wonder if he has actually read the Bill. I telephoned and asked him: no, he hadn’t. The problem is that the MPs who are voting on this assume that the Bill’s content reflects the Government’s White Paper on the NHS, published last summer. I have read both and it is clear to me that the White Paper bears little relation to the legislation that is being pushed through.
The White Paper is a docile, fluffy, patient-focused document, with much talk of choice and empowerment. This is in stark contrast to the Bill, which almost exclusively focuses on opening up the NHS to private providers. The Bill is written in dense legal terminology, making any detailed analysis time-consuming and difficult.
But anyone who does study it will find little more than a road map for destroying the NHS, turning it into a cash cow for the corporate sector. The focus is on transforming public sector provision into an entirely market-led system, throwing open every service to private providers.
Previous pieces of legislation that existed to ensure the NHS remained in public ownership are weakened or removed entirely in the Bill. Even the role of Secretary of State is altered so that he is no longer responsible for the NHS. There are 15 clauses (ss125-131, 168-175) that will allow private companies to buy and asset-strip NHS facilities. Clause s12 specifically enables the privatisation of high-security psychiatric services.
Does that sound as if the NHS, or the interests of patients, are being protected?
The concessions made by Lansley after the “listening exercise” were initially heralded as an acceptable compromise but, in reality, little has changed. For example, “any willing provider”, a phrase taken from EU procurement directives, has been changed to “any qualified provider”. This type of amendment does not help protect the NHS. The competitive commissioning process it refers to remains unchanged.
After Lansley’s announcement last Tuesday, the BMA Council said that the Government is misleading the public by repeatedly stating that there will be no privatisation of the NHS and is continuing its campaign for the Health Bill to be withdrawn.
Yet MPs are defending the Bill without properly understanding it or even reading it. Cloak and dagger tactics are used to minimise any public outcry when key announcements are made.
The health secretary and the Prime Minister assure us the NHS will not be privatised when the legislation they are pushing through explicitly suggests otherwise.
The Bill enters the report stage and third reading on September 6 and 7. At the end of this, MPs will be voting on the future of your NHS. Is it safe in their hands?
The day they signed the death warrant for the NHS - Telegraph
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August 20, 2011 at 8:08 pm
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Job Hunting
Anyone currently doing this? just spent an hour looking. One job to apply for. This is going to be a long and depressing experience I fear. Cant even find volunteer work worth doing. God I hate this world sometimes.
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June 12, 2011 at 2:21 pm
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Signing on on a Bank Hol (Monday)
Does anyone know If I'm meant to sign on today?
I went for an appointment last Thurs, and he never mentioned that I wouldn't be coming in on Monday. Their office is closed, according to the phone line, but I don't want to take the chance!
Anyone else due to sign on today, that can confirm?
inb4 dole scum etc
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April 25, 2011 at 4:15 pm
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What do you get up to in the day if you dont work?
I need tips to keep me sain!
So far I go to the gym every other day, look for work, sit on here, smoke a lot of fags and watch TV. I also read and play xbox but dont feel in the mood for either at the moment sadly.
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February 25, 2011 at 6:59 pm
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fuel prices.
what the fuck?! how come its gone up about 15p in the last 2months? wheres the road blocks and the protests! takes the piss!:hopeless:
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January 18, 2011 at 1:01 pm
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ebay revenge
The following story did amuse me so;
"I had tickets to a sporting event and couldn't attend. I made a 1-day listing and clearly stated that the tickets must be picked up in person within 24 hours (the game was the evening after the auction ended, so there wasn't any time to ship the tickets). A woman won the auction for about $600. The auction had ended at 10:00am and by 5:00pm she still hadn't responded to my emails trying to organize the exchange. Finally, at 9:30pm, I got a one-liner email: "I overbid and my husband won't let me buy these. Sorry and enjoy the game! :)"
I first tried explaining that I wouldn't have the time to resell the tickets (I already got turned down by the losing bidders). She said, "... that's not my problem. It's eBay, not a car dealership. I can back out if I want." I still don't understand the car dealership reference.
I was pretty upset. I was basically going to be stuck with tickets to an event that I couldn't attend. That's when I got the idea to convince her to change her mind.
I created a new eBay account, "Payback" we'll call it, and sent her a message: "Hi there, I noticed you won an auction for 4 [sporting event] tickets. I meant to bid on these but couldn't get to a computer. I wanted to take my son and dad and would be willing to give you $1,000 for the tickets. I imagine that you've already made plans to attend, but I figured it was worth a shot."
At 11:30pm she responded to Payback: "I'll do it for $1,100, no less. I can meet you at the game if you agree. I need your phone number."
At 11:35pm, Payback wrote: "Deal. Here is my number..." (Thanks Google Voice for the throwaway number). She called a few minutes later and made Payback "promise" to go through with the deal. She emphasized that she'd be out a lot of money if Payback backed out. Payback swore he would never do such a thing.
At 11:45pm, the woman emailed me: "Fine. I'll buy them. But you have to drop them off at my house tonight. I'll have the cash ready." So at fucking midnight I drove to her house across town and met her on the road in front of her apartment building. She was a nasty and rude individual. Things didn't get any better when I told her I wanted an extra $20 for the trouble of driving there at midnight (yeah, pushing my luck, I know). It became very awkward and she literally threw 31 $20 bills at me. I counted them before handing over the tickets. I said, "thanks for the great transaction" as she flipped me off while walking away.
At 10:00am she called Payback to make sure they were still on for the exchange. Payback said that he could no longer go to the game and wouldn't be able to do the exchange. She blew her fucking top and I swear to god started speaking in tongues. Payback said, "Ma'am, this is eBay, not a car dealership" and hung up.
I got a rabid email 10 minutes later telling me that I was going to hell and that she's reported me to the local police, FBI, and... the fire department. WTF?"
This Great eBay Scam Will Warm Your Heart
EDIT: Her reply email;
"Fuxking funny fucker! You know you can go to JAIL for this. YOu theef!!!!! [City] cops FBI fire and government already no. Your done. I got your number and your name. This is thefting property FUCKER!!! Give my $620 back or everything bad wiil happen - FUCK!!!!! You cant steal and get away. Refund me now or else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You dpnt want a lawsuit. Trust me. u dont. You can have tickets jut give my my money and be done."
That's the bulk of the email, word for word. There was more at the end too. She must have pressed 'enter' 30 times and wrote "FUCK" and the another 30 times and wrote "HELL". Then she wrote her name which was strange
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January 11, 2011 at 7:44 pm
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