Spending cuts.

[Gary]

Had this via email straight into my junk mail today.


'
Dearest,

How was your night over there in your country and the day,I believe you
had a nice night and that the athmosphere over there in your country is
very nice today? Mine was a little bit warm over here in Oru refugee camp in Nigeria.

My name is Aisha Sheldon and i will love to know you more.I am 21yrs but i want
you to know that age does not matter in a relationship so i am confortable with your age.
I lost my father in the war in Darfur. I am the only one alive now
and I have been living under a Revrend father's care with his family
and i am using his computer to send these message to you.

I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of 4.5 Million Dollars from my late fathers account.I do like to inform you that this proposal is completely risk free.

i will give you more information about it in my next mail.I am in
Nigeria currently,I would like to know more about you.Your likes and dislikes,your
hobbies and what you are doing
presently.I will tell you more about myself in my next mail.Attached here
is my picture.Please
kindly contact me only on my personal email:
[email protected]

Hoping to hear from you soonest
Yours forever

Aisha'

Yes, I am well aware it is a scam, made me laugh as I set watching the spending cuts. To our cost we will still help the poorer counties and ensure they have internet access.

Maybe Devonwoody should move to Nigeria to solve his computer problems. :lol:

 

[devonwoody]

I would chop off both his hands, I think it might be him that is corrupting my computer again.

I see that the spending review is keeping up overseas funding for his support. :wink:

 

[Max Power]

Had a similar one the other day from a guy who had 10.5 million and needed my bank details etc to transfer it.
Didnt seem worth following it up for such a trivial amount :lol: :lol:

 

[big soft moose]

I like that shes alledgedly in a nigerian refugee camp following the war in darfur (which is in sudan) - so presumably she travelled all the way across chad to get there then - that was a good trick :roll:

not to mention that "she" is both in a refugee camp , and living with a reverend fathers family :lol:

What amazes me is that some people must fall for these or they wouldnt keep sending them out :shock:

 

[Karl]

It's a numbers game Moose.

I never thought i'd meet somebody gullible enough to fall for one of those scams. But i went to my parents a few months ago and my dad asked me to look at a letter which he had received (I can't recall the exact content, but it was along the lines of "you've been selected to receive £x, all we need is.........."). "Do you think it's genuine?" he asked. You could tell he was suspicious, but also that he wouldn't take much persuading to believe the "offer" was genuine.

I nearly fell off my chair. It was full of typo's and quite clearly a scam. He was quite offended when I tore it up and binned it.

I think his grey matter must be going.

Cheers

Karl

 

[RogerS]

Digressing slightly but in keeping with the thread topic, while watching the various politicians on the media discussing/arguing about the cuts, there is one thing that is sticks out.

You might disagree with the politics. You might disagree with public schools. You might disagree with the cuts. But watch and listen to the well-argued, articulate concise arguments from the Coalition people and then compare them with the waffly, woolly responses from the Opposition, it's a bloody good advert for a public school education!

 

[StevieB]

Nah, its not an advert for public schools, its a lesson in politics. Labour know that cuts are necessary, they know the scale of the cuts are necessary, but politics dictates they cannot agree with the other side. So wheel out Alan Johnson to respond. Where is Ed Milliband in all of this - very quiet isn't he for the leader of the opposition. Just for once I would like ANY opposition party to say what they WOULD do, not just rubbish the other parties actions. We saw the same before the general election - lots of rubbishing and not alot of substance. Now we are just seeing the same thing from the other side.

They all do it, and its starting to get annoying. Don't tell me why the other persons actions are wrong, tell me what you would do so I can compare and decide for myself who has the best approach - large sections of the population are intelligent enough to be able to decide for themselves without party rhetoric being rammed at them all the time - thats why people are turned off from politics!

Steve

 

[Digit]

I wouldn't hold your breath Steve, their response is part of an MP's basic training course, chargable as expenses probably.
Rog, there as many, if not more, privately educated Honourable members on the Labour front bench as the Conservative's.
Harriet Harman? is the grandaughter? of Lord Longford.

Roy.

 

[studders]

thats why people are turned off from politics!

Steve

Nail>Head>Hit

 

[RogerS]

Very true, Steve. The unions are just as bad.. Default aka knee-jerk reaction is to say it's all wrong while not offering any sensible suggestion.

On a more serious note, does anyone think we will see rioting on the streets a la belle France?

 

[Digit]

Probably not IMO Rog. Them froggies riot at the drop of a chapeau.

Roy.

 

[dexter]

Despite the fact that predictions are that almost half a million jobs will be lost in the public sector in the next 4 years and no doubt a good many in the private sector as a knock on result, lets take a little time to to be thankful that one individual has managed to secure his future and negotiate a modest pay rise to £200,000 per week for playing a game of football,(and not very well at that at the moment!).
Perhaps whilst he`s sat on his ar.. injured for the next 3 weeks and still getting his big fat pay check he may consider donating to my partners school where they have to cut their budget by £480,000 next year.
I`ll not hold my breath.

Dex

 

[big soft moose]

Just for once I would like ANY opposition party to say what they WOULD do,

yeah but if they wrote - " we intend to put income tax up to 75% and Vat to 30% whiltst also cutting spending on everythong (except MPs salaries of course) and then waste most of the resultant cash on consutants (apart from the bit we save for invading foreign countries, and of course enough to pay our huge salaries and improbable expenses claims)" no bugger would vote for them ... honesty isnt always the best policy :lol:

 

[Max Power]

Well Im sure Labour didnt set out with the intention of bankrupting the country :shock: Then again it happens everytime they get in :?

 

[big soft moose]

Well Im sure Labour didnt set out with the intention of bankrupting the country :shock: Then again it happens everytime they get in :?

I dont recall it being too clever under the conservative govt that preceded them either.

The bottom line is that things like recession and the banking crisis are tied to the global economy, so the difference between torry and labour policies in responding to them is essentially rearranging deckchairs on the titanic

 

[Digit]

True Pete, but what Alan said is historically correct.

Roy.

 

[big soft moose]

True Pete, but what Alan said is historically correct.

Roy.

true - its also true that everytime the torries get in they cut public spending back to the bone - no one seems able to hit a happy medium

 

[Digit]

Again true, but usually due to the mess they've inherited.
As the two leaders said the other day, neither of them came into politics to do this, but also true is we shouldn't pass this financial burden onto our kids.
Each Labour administration has introduced far reaching social changes, many overdue IMO, but in the end someone has to pay for them.

Roy.

 

[devonwoody]

My view is that whoever had been in power or PM two years ago would have had to had borrowed the money to rescue the banks.

So it could have been the present party to have created the debt.

I am glad they did otherwise it would have been worse.

 

[Digit]

Again, true DW but with one caveat, it was Mac brown who weakened the regulation of the banks that they then took advantage of.
Socialists seem to believe in people being good natured and honest, but greed is as rampant in the banking industry as in Man United.

Roy.