[Small Farmer]

Iceland did what Ireland should have done.  " Can't pay, won't pay"

[deepinthewoods]

a really simple, quick, point.
the average household fuel bill is £1000 a year.  someone whos unemployed recieves £65/ week. theres £20 gone. just on fuel.
housing benefit only pay 85% of your rent. so say you have to make up £15/ week. now they are down to £30/ week to live on.
 
that is REALITY for lots and lots of people in this country. it knocks me sick

[deepinthewoods]

well if DITW gets to be party leader


can i be foreign minister as i have a few suggestions on international diplomacy i'd like to implement!!!

do go on,

[bloomer]

well europe can do one for starters


some of my other foreign policy suggestions would result in me having to report myself to be moderated!!!

[Ina]

a really simple, quick, point.
the average household fuel bill is £1000 a year.  someone whos unemployed recieves £65/ week. theres £20 gone. just on fuel.

Actually, I think it's more or less all going up by 9% this year. And if you are unemployed, you spend a lot more time at home, and should really need more money for heating... I notice it myself at the moment. I've given up - temperatures below 12 degree call for the heating to come on. And of course, because the great unwashed (i.e. without full employment) can only afford cheap housing, which always comes with expensive heating - figures look even less great. However, I'm quite used to having no more than an average of 15 degree when I'm in the house... And I spend a lot of time in the library in winter. But if you have a family? Tough luck!

[Lesley Silvester]

My son recently  lost his job.  Because he is under 35 he is only entitled to £44 housing benefit a week.  His rent for a second floor, one bedroomed flat was £350.  To stay there, he would have had to put about half his JSA towards it.  Then there's bills.  He would have had little if anything left for food so he's back living with us.  Not for long.  He's going to Australia on a year's working holiday visa.

Apparently the reasoning behind the £44 a week is because people under 35 can house share.  Not for £44 a week they can't.  And why should he have to give up a flat to go and live with other people at the age of 29?  Not that he could find a house share.  Most of them are tenanted by students and teenagers.  Not what he wants and at least £60 a week plus bills.   

[Carl f k]

After watching wartime farm and the country being self sufficient.. What the hell happened? We don't really need to import all the kak that we do. I know we sold the gas and electric to other country's but why? To make maggy thatcher rich? I was only a kid when all this happened so don't really know why this county can't  look after itself??

[Small Farmer]

Maggie can't have made much out of being PM:  Denis was already pretty rich.  Tony Blair, on the other hand, has been raking it in in sackloads and Cherie won't be exactly poor.

[deepinthewoods]

and tony blair is also, youll never guess, a bilderberger. there is a pattern developing 

[deepinthewoods]

i have heard operation vendetta is indeed initiated.