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Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Why not? Politicians do and so does the press..... Ah yes, for the children - very Christian |
Nick ![]() Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Nick Clegg defends free school meals for children aged six and seven Guy, I guess I'm just wicked at heart. The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Nick ![]() Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Methinks you have been reading too many secondhand copies of the Mail Nick! And me suspects Cleggy see free schools meals as a vote catcher for his party. The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Ah c'mon, what about the children? |
Nick ![]() Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 ![]() |
And me suspects Cleggy see free schools meals as a vote catcher for his party. Totally agree in the principle where families struggle to find the finance to feed their children whilst at school. But does that not tell one that perhaps some families actually can't really afford to feed the quantities of children that they have got. It's starts at five, extends to seven, gets raised to nine then on to eleven then before we know it extends to cover all children of all ages whilst at school. The social system in the UK continues to wet-nurse, it's not good and the public should be wary of allowing themselves to become too dependent upon the state. There has been a throw back to all of this, welfare benefits being in excess of that which could be earned by working. Results being that foreigners find it very conducive to emigrate to the UK, in vast numbers, take on the lower paid jobs then ship their wages back home country. Supply and demand, as I have mentioned in previous threads, supply of workers goes up yet the demand for them goes down results in lower wages. Under these conditions workers accept the lower wages. But where governments step in and interfere with this supply by fixing benefits equal to or above the current low wages levels then worker will sit on their backsides at home. Result being that instead of wages now rising to entice the workers to take up work the employers keep wages low because there is now a never ending supply of immigrants permitted to come to this country and take up these lower paid jobs. This now leads on to the big cry we have at times regarding the haves and the have nots. That's because the unskilled are having their wages suppressed by immigrant workers, where as the skilled workers are experiencing less competition here in this domain. Result being that the spread in wages between skilled workers and those of the unskilled workers widens. So what do governments then do to interfere/tinkle with this imbalance that they have created? Simple, create a minimum wage policy, it's not for government ever to interfere with wage levels. As regards, " don't lets be naive", "lets be" is certainly not me-me...for sure-sure. The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Spot on so an excellent +1 |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
This is gonna hurt..... :( Another +1 |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Ozzie says austerity plan is working Oh yes Ozzie, we know it's working all right...... ...just a case of screw the electorate, I'm Oliver, I want more! |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
It's FOR the CHILDREN! You're mean, evil and a non-team player! Wait longer for pension "a child born today is unlikely to receive their state pension until they reach 77." Ah the poor kids :( |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
UK's triple AAA rating under threat That'll please the Frenchies! "The government has now decided it should not be paying interest to the Bank of England, and the benefit of that has reduced the deficit and will continue to do so for the next four years." As the bankers got us into this mess and the government did nothing about it, can someone decide for all mortgage payers to have that apply to their interest payments for the next four years? |
Nick ![]() Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Good post Nick, but got any answers? Bacon and Walter Eltis in Britain’s Economic Problem Revisited. They Where do you start Chris?? Some of the answers to our problems can be seen from an extract taken above. Reduce public sector jobs, yes, cut down on the state which is consuming far too much money that could be returned to the economy to promote growth. A good study of UK economics from post WW2 up until 1970 would do us all the world of good. But one thing I must say, forming the EU has done nothing much to promote healthy growth within Europe and unless the EU totally reforms then it has to go....lock-stock and 27 smoking barrels. It's also interesting to note from the post WW2 economics studies carried out that mass immigration during the 50's to 60's was the tool used to fill the labour shortages being suffered back then. This can not be said of today... .... we have a problem and it's being part of the EU that is the cause of this. Result, the labour market is unable to regulate itself through normal supply and demand levels, those to be expected over a normal economics cycle. The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Nick ![]() Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 ![]() |
What may be more realistic is a 27 country vote to scrap the EU and bring back the EEC! Would dearly like to see this happen but I do believe France would be against this for their farmers would seriously loose out....Oh what a shame. The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
That's France and Spain crossed off your holiday list, who's next? We like comedy, but profit comes first "Every year I would prepare a line on that, to go to the media, to criticise British Gas. Every year, it would be quashed," he said. "It was a clear, 'We can't do that, because we take money from British Gas...' - that would have come down from on high." Of course it would, they would lose all their free corporate dinners and tickets to shows, football matches, theatre, No 10 etc etc. |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
The BBC has also seen evidence which suggests Save the Children censored criticism of energy firms, to avoid upsetting corporate partners. Ah so you agree, profits first! |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
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Nick ![]() Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 ![]() |
It's her melons that Cameron he likes best though.... The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Entering politics at your age has gone to your head drastically it seems. Who authorised you to apologise on my behalf? |
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Boys, boys, If you've finished your homework, lights out in 10 minutes. Excellent example. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. ![]() |
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