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If I'd been a lazy so and so throughout my working life, squandered everything I earned and never made provision for my retirement I could have had everything paid for me by the government but because I followed the idea that you saved for your retirement I've effectively lost out simply because...

You don't get it do you? Those are RENTAL properties not domestic owner occupier properties, so the likelihood is that the buyers will be of the same mindset as the current owner given the changes set to take place regarding rental properties so it's unlikely that those properties will find...

I usually file such as your post under Rectal Verbosity. I made a point that there is a cost to the taxpayer for such as single motherhood, whether the hard of thinking like yourself understands that is another thing entirely. I also intimated that there were genuine reasons why very young girls...

I suspect you're not that much older than I am but you have been less successful or feel that you were unappreciated during your working life, hence you are bitter towards those who have been! They're the type who are the vociferous left wingers. You even believe your own left wing nonsense.. I...

My OH, as I've said is a social worker and she deals with people like your friend's niece on a daily basis. That is not to say that your friend's niece has issues or is part of a dysfunctional family but many of the single parent mothers my OH deals with are dysfunctional and have never held a...

You obviously don't live in the real world do you? My OH as a social worker deals with the kind of people I describe on an every day basis! Many of the older children's ambition within these dysfunctional families is for the girl to have a baby, get a council home and live on benefits! Those are...

Millions of people actually choose to live on benefits rather than work....this isn't fake news, it's reality. Why do you think they do that? I could never do that myself but I suppose I can see why many would. Benefits are a safety net and providing one has no aspirations of bettering oneself...

Right now the EU is in turmoil and set to get even worse especially with regard their disastrous migration policies so I think being outside of the EU right now is the best place. The problem is that we don't have politicians with enough guts to stand up to the mandarins of the EU and fight our...

Do you honestly believe that Starmer et al would have won the election if he'd indicated that Labour would cease giving the pensioners the winter fuel payment? Worse still they may even withdraw the single person occupancy council tax reduction or possibly remove the free bus pass! Could you...

Why should they be given a chance when they clearly withheld their plans of what they proposed to do until after the election? I suspect that had they indicated their plans before the election they definitely wouldn't have won even with the Tories as bad as they were. There are so many glaring...

In recent years I never thought of the Tories as anything other than wannabee socialists...they were more socialist than the socialists of that period...how the Tories reacted to saving the jobs and people's livelihoods was clearly evident during the Covid crisis. This guy in charge now is a...

I've no doubt many of the plans we are seeing now were mooted by the previous government but they were only plans so that doesn't mean that Starmer et all must automatically follow what they proposed. The Tories lost the election and Labour won with a handsome majority, therefore they are in a...

Now you see this is where your socialist economics logic fail you. It doesn't matter if house prices fall due to there being more properties for sale on the market. While lower prices may benefit and encourage first time buyers etc, the major issue is that there is already a huge shortfall of...

You couldn't make it up! Most new PMs and governments have a honeymoon period but this clown is so stupid that he has got to be the most unpopular PM of all time at this early stage in their governance. He should be walking around with a red nose and huge shoes...it would fit his persona. First...

Have you never heard of public information and education? You're sounding more like a right winger than your left wing outlook suggests. Making people aware of their social responsibilities and duties is what is lacking in our society. I see no issue with calling out people who would shirk their...

One part of the solution is the need for more personal responsibility where the needs of aging parents are concerned! Society simply can't expect the state to provide the amount of care that these people need. People are simply going to have to devote more of their time to looking after aging...

Over the years I've seen plenty of elderly people dumped into care homes by their offspring simply because caring for them was an inconvenience. Of course it's an inconvenience...just like it was an inconvenience when they were raising those babies who now would abandon their parents in their...

These days it's as if as soon as an aging parent becomes a problem then many are dumped in care homes when in fact they could be looked after by their offspring instead of them ending up often lonely in care homes. I lost my parents when they were very young and I was too. I'll tell you what...

Chris I don't believe in offending anyone just for the sake of it and I wouldn't resort to personal attacks if I wasn't winning an argument which is often the case on forums like this. Maybe I do look at things in a somewhat more mercenary way than perhaps someone who looks at such as nurses...

That's not a terribly good argument I'm afraid even though you'd like it to be in order for you to claim the moral high ground. On the contrary the tragedy is that you can't see that they're doing a job just like anyone else. They do it to keep a roof over their heads..at the end of the day, for...