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  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    Just wanted to make it clear that I didnt suggest that im the only one paying tax :)
    I just meant that for me, I was not happy to have my payments going to lazy folk.

    And if a job stacking shelves was on offer and I needed to feed my kids id be stacking in an orderly fashion within minutes.
    Living MY dream.
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    My goodness, you guys have have been busy and I was only away for the day! Just got to read this lot now....
  • MisterMuncher
    MisterMuncher Posts: 1,302
    pinarello001 wrote:

    F*cking A1 Carpetmuncher.

    If you add the following, its even worse when you think about it.
    How many people work for Tescos, Amazon, Starbucks, Sainsbury's etc etc on a part-time basis and have to claim Housing Benefit and Working Tax Credits to have half a decent income? How much of that welfare pot is going indirectly into the pockets of the big corps and the welfare state is effectively supporting the profits of these companies as they don't pay proper wages and proper pensions ?

    With that in mind, it's very difficult to argue working tax credits and in-work benefits aren't a subsidy for low-paying businesses as much, if not more than a benefit for workers.
  • MisterMuncher
    MisterMuncher Posts: 1,302
    To take a different tack, I seriously doubt there's any need for a massive security presence for the funeral, over and above the kind of security that would be needed for a similar sized group of dignitaries in any other circumstance. The chances of the funeral being attacked are virtually nil. It's simply a meme bandied about by elements of media with an agenda to push or fishwrap to sell. Lefties are merely the latest folk devil of the media.

    Were I the cops, I'd be much more worried about brain donors from the EDL or BNP showing up to "lend a hand" as they tend to do if they've heard there's a leftie to bash.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    I notice that the right-wing press has been it's usually classy self this week - describing a tiny number of people participating in these "death parties" as "the Left", as if 10 million or so Labour/SWP/Socialist Party/Respect voters had taken part in them. They don't want Thatcher to be disrespected but they don't mind using her death for their own political ends. :roll: :roll:
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    The whole thing is a state funded endorsement of her ideology more than a funeral.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    Taking a different tack for a while....

    Has anyone else noticed the use "the vast majority" when talking about how many people support and will watch the Thatcher funeral?

    It was said by someone in an interview on the TV this morning in relation to the "number of people grieving over the death of Mrs T". You've got to be kidding! Sad maybe if that's where your allegiance lay, but actually grieving?

    It seems that "the vast majority" now just means "quite a lot", and I'd like to know the true figures.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • MisterMuncher
    MisterMuncher Posts: 1,302
    Standard reading of polls these days in press circles. You lump the people who couldn't give a toot about the issue at hand in with the group that best supports your story.
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Kill this thread.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    Kill this thread.

    Would you give it a funeral? :lol:
  • the playing mantis
    the playing mantis Posts: 2,129
    would you murn its death or throw a party.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    the playing mantis wrote:
    would you murn its death or throw a party.

    Throw a party. Although this thread was started years before I was born, I blame it for everything that has gone wrong in my life. Oh, and Wiggle.
    :lol:
  • ooermissus
    ooermissus Posts: 811
    MisterMuncher wrote:
    With that in mind, it's very difficult to argue working tax credits and in-work benefits aren't a subsidy for low-paying businesses as much, if not more than a benefit for workers.

    +1. It's the biggest subsidy distorting the free market. At a guess, removing it would mean: (i) more off-shoring of labour; (ii) greater use of technology to substitute for labour; (iii) higher prices for services where technology/off-shoring is not an option; (iv) fewer low paid jobs and more people collecting unemployment.

    You can see why governments of all political stripes like the status quo.
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    LOL

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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    LOL

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/George-Osborn ... 0909292355
  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    Your a very sad person. I genuinely feel very sorry for you.
    Living MY dream.
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    VTech wrote:
    Your a very sad person. I genuinely feel very sorry for you.

    Cheers.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    VTech wrote:
    Your a very sad person. I genuinely feel very sorry for you.

    Cheers.
    :(

    FTFY

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