THE Election - Made your mind up yet ??

[Mungypup]

Edited May 12, 2010 by Mungypup

[Mungypup]

Fancy a trip to Traitor's Gate?

 

Apparently, there are some suitable rooms with running water, rats and ensuite bucket!

 

No a la carte menu, only gruel and water...

 

Sounds pretty much like where I use to work lol

[angry cat]

 

Cute Dog:)

 

My tongue in cheek comment was aimed at anti-royalists.

 

Politician bashing is one thing. However, taking pops at our Queen is, out of order!

Edited May 12, 2010 by angry cat
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[Mungypup]

Cute Dog:)

 

My tongue in cheek comment was aimed at anti-royalists.

 

Politician bashing is one thing. However, taking pops at our Queen is, out of order!

 

I did misunderstand your comment at first . So usd to people thinking because I was a Civil Servant I must be some sort of evil being lol.

[babybear39]

I used to be a civil servant too. Does that make me evil?

[Mungypup]

I used to be a civil servant too. Does that make me evil?

 

Yes BB, Polar bear's are one of the most dangerous types

[MONX]

My sister is a civil servant, she works in a jobcentre helping people find work. She has been working there for 11 years, she gets about £17000 a year salary and that is at an administrative officer level, when she retires she will get a "gold plated" pension of around £8,000 (having only paid into it 26yrs). There isnt likely to be a state pension to back that up when she retires and if there is she probably wont be able to access it until she is 73 or something ridiculous like that.

 

Most civil servants are required to do the most with the least and then used as whipping boys when the economy is in bad shape, political parties of all colours have bidding wars of how many they can get rid of and still run the country, however working with less resources in half the time and with IT that is not worth the office space is about as good as it gets.

 

Its the senior civil servants in whitehall that are taking down the million pound pensions, great terms and conditions.

 

One good piece of news is that the union has just won its battle against the government reducing compensation payments when making civil servants redundant - these were part of the terms and conditions of their contract but as they are planning to get rid of a load of them on the cheap they decided to trim a bit off the compensation payments they were due.

[Bookworm]

However, taking pops at our Queen is, out of order!

Speak for yourself. She's been even less chosen than Cameron, so she's fair game too.

[hilaryfrances]

Speak for yourself. She's been even less chosen than Cameron, so she's fair game too.

 

 

I agree, I dont see why I should respect someone just because they have been born!

[woody1066]

Cute Dog:)

 

My tongue in cheek comment was aimed at anti-royalists.

 

Politician bashing is one thing. However, taking pops at our Queen is, out of order!

 

A family who live off the state, dont have jobs, have all of their housing costs paid (including their Plasma tv's) and have had family members who secretly sympathised with Hitler.

 

They need a Jeremy Kyle special

[babybear39]

A family who live off the state, dont have jobs, have all of their housing costs paid (including their Plasma tv's) and have had family members who secretly sympathised with Hitler.

 

They need a Jeremy Kyle special

 

[zazen.warrior]

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Edited July 29, 2010 by zazen.warrior

[SOD'EM]

Why did the party negotiations become so dominated by what the markets want? The voices of the working people are never heard as political commentators bombard the electorate with what the City would like to see in terms of Government. And what the money markets want seems prefaced on which party will most boldly dump the deficit on the vulnerable in society.

 

Has historical amnesia taken over to such a degree that the role of the very same markets in bringing about this economic crisis in the first place has been forgotten? Democracy means making decisions in the interests of the masses, not a clique of greedy financiers.

[babybear39]

Get used to it, there's far more to come

[Bookworm]

Why did the party negotiations become so dominated by what the markets want?

One of their daddies is a banker, the other's a stockbroker.

Coincidence?...

[Rooster-UK]

Just how many daddies has he got, then?

[locutus]

Just how many daddies has he got, then?

I believe I heard him prattling on about "his four fathers"....

[Bookworm]

One of their daddies is a banker, the other's a stockbroker.

Coincidence?...

 

Just how many daddies has he got, then?

One each, m'dear, as shown with the bolded above.

 

2 daddies, one each.

 

Don't try and mess with grammar with me, boyo.

[Rooster-UK]

Bookie, you know that I'd never mess with your Granma.

[angry cat]

:

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Vince Cable is to serve as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in David Cameron's new coalition Government.

The former Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, who shot to prominence due to his warnings over the global financial crisis as well as his ballroom dancing talents, was appointed to the post as Mr Cameron shaped his first Cabinet this morning.

Fellow Liberal Democrat David Laws was named as George Osborne's second-in-command at the Treasury, with Cabinet rank as Chief Secretary. In the position, the former banker will carry a great deal of the burden for the public spending cuts required to reduce the UK's record budget deficit.

[angry cat]

http://www.bis.gov.uk/

[locutus]

The parties will bring forward early legislation to introduce a power of recall, allowing voters to force a by-election where an MP was found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing and having had a petition calling for a by-election signed by 10% of his or her constituents.

 

I wonder if the Lib Dem constituencies can rally around and get more than 10% votes stating transferring their votes away from the Lib Dem manifesto was "serious wrongdoing" (and the same for the conservatives?)

 

Of course I expect them to have covered their butts, but I'd love to see it tried!

[kiptower]

Unbelievable. Tories in power for less than half an hour and already a Scottish family is unemployed and homeless. :D

[Fred Bassett]

Well both myself and Mrs Woody both work in the public sector. I do the totaly uneccessary job of teaching long term unemployed people literacy and numeracy and Mrs Woody is that total Tory target of a tea drinking layabout civil servant who reguarly does 60 hour weeks for no extra pay. The country will be so much better off without the likes of us.

 

Read my post [EDIT] and then you will see that is not what I implied. I work in the private sector but my wife works in the public sector in a special needs school, also totally unnecessary by your [EDIT] criteria. [EDIT]

 

You can guess from the edits that I was not too taken with those comments. I suggest you read the posts you are referring to properly before launching into an inappropriate and sarcastic diatribe.

Edited May 12, 2010 by Fred Bassett
Personal comments removed.

[Fred Bassett]

I'm not at all anti royal. They have their place as a major tourist attraction

 

True. I've often wondered how much money they bring in as opposed to what they take out. It would be very difficult to quantify, but my guess is that, on balance, they are probably in credit.

 

Regards.

 

Fred