it's good to know at least SOME of our tax is going to a worthy cause.

phil_b_2

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1790756.ece

...oh yes, towards a 7 kid imigrant family living in a £1.2mil mansion. It's 5-day old news now and I know its the sun... but bah, I didn't want anyone who missed it to carry on thinking their hard-earned isn't being used wisely after all.

scousethife

Does anyone else rather the whatever billion we bailed banks out had gone to cancer research and b0ll0x to banks?

I know I do

chewmylegoff

scousethife wrote: »

Does anyone else rather the whatever billion we bailed banks out had gone to cancer research and b0ll0x to banks?

I know I do

cancer research would have probably put it in icesave.

Cannon_Fodder

how about http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3195750/NHS-trust-to-buy-400000-yacht.html ?

carolt

Cannon_Fodder wrote: »

how about http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3195750/NHS-trust-to-buy-400000-yacht.html ?

:mad:

Can't they just go and 'get a job' like normal people?

Realy

carolt wrote: »

:mad:

Can't they just go and 'get a job' like normal people?

What job do you know where you can earn that and have a free mansion?

The problem with the welfare state is that it is not fair and easliy abused.

ad9898_3

carolt wrote: »

:mad:

Can't they just go and 'get a job' like normal people?

They do have a job Carol.... its called pro-creating, then nipping down the post office.:rolleyes:.

mrstinchcombe

How about:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7672188.stm

I await the usual negative comments :rolleyes:

lynzpower

phil_b wrote: »

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1790756.ece

...oh yes, towards a 7 kid imigrant family living in a £1.2mil mansion. It's 5-day old news now and I know its the sun... but bah, I didn't want anyone who missed it to carry on thinking their hard-earned isn't being used wisely after all.

the issue I have with this story, which is why Im not going to rise to it, is who the hell has valued it at 1.2 million exactly?

The owner? or an estate agent? Or a recent mortgage val? hmmmm

Would the country be up in arms if the property was worth 595- or really in this climate 540- or LESS??
Eg generous 5 bed on 595 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-18768712.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy&mam_disp=true

There are loads more on for over a million yet my property bee has a glitch at the mo and I cant see how long they havent been achieving this price for.

hethmar

I have to hide newspaper stories like that from my husband as he then spends hours saying whats the point of me flogging myself to death for 40 years ....................................

lynzpower

hethmar do yourself a favour, blame the "credit crunch" say you are stopping buying papers :cool:

After all, I can see that this is going to get all too common, the hang them out to dry mentality will be filling our newspapers, there is definatley more of these stories over the last few weeks, and I dont think this type of payout is anything new TBH.