Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
At my age all elections are now boring. By the time the day eventually arrives I am fed up with all the electioneering and empty promises that the country will be better off with whichever party wins. I know that the promises will either be broken or they will cost me in some way or another.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,006
We never vote anymore
In my books they are all the same never do or say what they are going to do ,all partys are saying they are going to do this and that but end up doing none of them.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,823
It is such a shame .
In these hard times it would be good to look at the need for three councils .
Recently in a report it showed how many officers getting a wage of over £100.000
Yet declaring it had no money !
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,979
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,823
How are you getting on Bob with the local Dover town councillor who campaigned and got elected in his mission to keep politics out of town councils and now joined a political party and become a political party activist
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
Far too busy with slightly more interesting stuff Keef.
Local politics is always a bit 'Clochmerle' - fairly amusing light entertainment - except obviously IRL DDC/DTC would never provide anything as useful as a urinal!
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,823
That's a no then Bob ?????
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,823
And now our Sue is publicly backing Labour !!!!!!
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,979
Don't it make you proud to be British.
There's no end to what the Davey could achieve with a 10 year power stretch.
Take that, China!
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,003
Jan Higgins wrote:I know that the promises will either be broken or they will cost me in some way or another.
Well, I'm shocked; thanks to an alleged funding blackhole, my Winter Fuel Allowance is reportedly scrapped, WFA now applying only to pensioners on benefits. That's not me, Michael. I have to say I'm gutted that I won't be having my cottage holiday subsidised any longer...
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
Here's 'our' Mike! (to the comments
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"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
Last month Labour insisted it had “no plans” to change the winter fuel allowance for pensioners. Today it scrapped it for 10m pensioners.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
Button wrote:Well, I'm shocked; thanks to an alleged funding blackhole, my Winter Fuel Allowance is reportedly scrapped, WFA now applying only to pensioners on benefits. That's not me, Michael. I have to say I'm gutted that I won't be having my cottage holiday subsidised any longer...
Thank goodness I have private pension money but now charities will miss my WFA but at least those skint doctors will be fine at the OAP's loss..... Now wait for all the other public sector pay demands, give in to one lot the rest expect parity.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,294
Removing the WFA, at least for some, has been doing the rounds for years. If you didn't start there, not sure where you would. It used to be paid to UK citizens in receipt of a state pension in Spain, too!
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,294
What matters to me more than anything else is that we have a well funded and functioning NHS. If that means some tax increases elsewhere, fine.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
Perhaps it would be helpful if 'our' wonderful NHS, along with other various wonderful public services managed to increase their productivity as the rest of the economy seems to have done - perhaps they could start by actually turning up at their place of work - and yes, I do mean you, DDC employees.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
I understand the poor underpaid over worked GPs are now threatening to cause more probable NHS mayhem.
Do GPs still actually see people? Mine has completely disappeared, in spite of two stays in hospital with pneumonia and sepsis followed by heart failure, seems to have delegated my care to a pharmacist. Oh! I nearly forgot and a tick box phone call from some group called ACT
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,823
There are big problems
But this hasn't just happened.
It is time for serious review and build an NHS to be proud of .
Funny though my doctor called me in when I changed areas when I asked him why he said all his patients are seen when they join the practice !
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,294
This area of the forum is very quiet, can we assume that politics is no longer in turmoil?
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,979
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
