Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Joking are you Captain.Somone like me is caught in the middle.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Trying to understand this social care thing, doesn't seem very clear as they say that nobody will lose their house over it. Anybody who owns their own home will have to pay for their own care up until they only have £100, 000 in assets left - practically everyone's home is worth more than that.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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You get to keep it but you no longer own it. How they will work out the variable equity left in a property is anybody's guess!
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#1 all of it.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Across the country everybody is now paying more Council Tax to fund social care, yet the majority will be paying for their own in future.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The manifesto promises to "develop the shale industry" but doesn't say whether local communities/councils would have to give approval.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
When my mother could no longer look after herself, we were stuck. But Somerset County Council had a scheme whereby the cost of her care was covered by an interest-free loan (that obviously increased over time), secured against the value of her property. When she died, the property was sold and the loan repaid. It was a god-send. So if something similar is proposed here, I'm all for it.
(Not my real name.)
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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That school breakfast idea looks good but the reality is that many children, precisely the ones who'll benefit, are late for school - not their fault. You can blame the parents if you like but if the proposal is to benefit children then free breakfasts aren't the answer if they're not their to eat it.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The Bishop wrote:That school breakfast idea looks good but the reality is that many children, precisely the ones who'll benefit, are late for school - not their fault. You can blame the parents if you like but if the proposal is to benefit children then free breakfasts aren't the answer if they're not their to eat it.
Indeed Your Grace I live two doors from a pre school where children are expected to be there 0850 hours, cars screech to a halt outside my drum any time up to 0930 hours. The same applies to parents staring at their phone on the way to Vale View school well after kick off time.
Moving on let us not be fooled about the reason for change which is purely cost cutting, ingredients and people needed to serve up a bowl of corn flakes with a slice of toast are a lot cheaper than a proper meal at lunch time.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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this stronger harder thing May keeps spouting is just becoming a bit of a joke.
reminds me of a porn movie I had in the early days of V H F. next she will be saying harder harder titttans titttans
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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£40 billion Tory manifesto black hole means an extra £1,000 income tax hike for the average household - as revealed on The Andrew Marr Show.
So, the party of Law and Order have cut policing and the armed services; the party of Low Taxation has become the exact polarity of that. I reckon Mrs May thinks the opposition are so far out of sight they can do what they want and call it grown-up politics!
Sometimes the tortoise catches the hare...
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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And that's the problem howard.
Whilst we all have differing views on the benefits system, is the right area we should be looking at
Who are the real scroungers?
Those struggling to make ends meet, or those avoiding paying tax's legal or otherwise, and being given millions by this govt to run what are supposed to be stand alone privatised companies
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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The Bishop wrote:£40 billion Tory manifesto black hole means an extra £1,000 income tax hike for the average household - as revealed on The Andrew Marr Show.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:And that's the problem howard.
Whilst we all have differing views on the benefits system, is the right area we should be looking at
Who are the real scroungers?
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Apparently, Theresa May is not going for the centre ground:
"November 9, 1923, in the fourth year of its existence, the National Socialist German Workers’ party was dissolved and forbidden throughout the entire territory of the Reich
Today, in November, 1926, it stands again before us, free through the whole Reich, stronger and internally more stable than ever before."
Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The Bishop wrote:
"November 9, 1923, in the fourth year of its existence, the National Socialist German Workers’ party was dissolved and forbidden throughout the entire territory of the Reich
Today, in November, 1926, it stands again before us, free through the whole Reich, stronger and internally more stable than ever before."
Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf
I can remember reading the touching account of those times by Pastor Neimoller.
First they come for the Winter heating allowance and I did nothing, then they took my kids inheritance away and I did nothing. finally they come for my bus pass and that convinced me to vote for Jezza.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Bob,
you joke about such things but we are heading that way
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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