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Scumbag Blair's gifts to his children

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  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    I don't think any of his kids are 'ugly'. Quute a good looking bunch to be honest. Do you want to post up a picture of yourself Mark so we can all compare and contrast?

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    Maybe it's just me, but I find it strange how angry this makes people. I couldn't care less that a rich man is buying houses for his children. I have my own views on whether this is a 'good thing' or not and what I'd do for my kids if I were a multi-millionaire, but I don't really care what others do.

    My parents helped us out with our deposit, but they did it in a bit of a sneaky way. We decided we wanted to buy a house and spent a few years saving the deposit. We then found the house we wanted, put an offer in, had it accepted and started looking for mortgages. It was at this point that my parents offered the money they wanted us to have, as they felt that we'd done the whole thing ourselves and not bought a more expensive house just because we had more deposit money in the first place. Their rationale for giving us the money was that it was coming my way when they die anyway, so why not have a bit now when it's actually more useful? Makes sense to me and if I had kids I'd probably do the same.

    We're not talking millions for a house in London by the way. ;)

    If I were a millionaire (or I won on the lotto) I would buy my DD a house.
  • maveli
    maveli Posts: 590 Forumite
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    marklv wrote: »
    Slimeball Blair and his multi-million pound gifts to his ugly spoilt brats:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1306879/Blairs-buy-1m-London-townhouse-cash-daughter-22.html

    This man really has no decency. Most young people have to scrimp and save to raise a deposit on a hovel while Blair's kids have million pound houses given to them on a plate. This from a man who has the blood of thousands on his hands. Beyond belief!
    .

    Same applies to elizabeth, charles, william and harry , but no one bothers
  • The amount of Daily Mail quotes and links on this forum is becoming out of hand...
  • Exocet
    Exocet Posts: 744 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    Maybe it's just me, but I find it strange how angry this makes people. I couldn't care less that a rich man is buying houses for his children.
    And in some ways I agree. However in Blairs case I will make an exception.

    This man has preached to the Nation for getting on for twenty years now, he has taken the old fashioned ideas of working class Labour and turned them on their head. He has on numerous occasions, not just Iraq, been found wanting in terms of moral decency.

    I can understand why the term Ugly might be used. It doesn't have to refer to the outer prettiness of the subject but the inner decay and rotting stench of hypocrisy on the inside. (copyright Amcluesent)

    Cleaver, I could write for hours on Blair, and the disappointment he embodies. I think for every pound he has made he should donate a third to the Middle East, a third to the working class of Britain and a third to the Labour party.

    The man is apparently a devout something or other! It just goes to show that real Christians don't need the capital letter.

    I'll stop now.

    Disgusted, of MSE.
  • iB1
    iB1 Posts: 384 Forumite
    Yes,

    If I was a multi-millionaire, I'd hoard all of my cash and tell my children to rent a studio flat in Hackney. Are you telling me if you had a bit of money behind you, you wouldn't attempt to help your kids out? Yeah right.
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,981 Ambassador
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    What would you rather he spends his money on?
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  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    marklv wrote: »
    Slimeball Blair and his multi-million pound gifts to his ugly spoilt brats:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1306879/Blairs-buy-1m-London-townhouse-cash-daughter-22.html

    This man really has no decency. Most young people have to scrimp and save to raise a deposit on a hovel while Blair's kids have million pound houses given to them on a plate. This from a man who has the blood of thousands on his hands. Beyond belief!

    However angry you might be at that gift, it pales into insignificance when you think of the "gift" of national debt wrung up by a fiscally incontinent labour government to all of our children, and our children to be.

    Now that makes me mad.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    All I got when I was 18 was about £10.

    21 was the big one back then though icon7.gif
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Angelic wrote: »
    No need to verbally abuse his children but he is scum and those properties have been bought with blood money. I don't believe in god but the phrase "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to" comes to mind...

    I didn't get anything for my 18th now I think of it! Maybe a glass in a box...

    Not really fair is that.
    Reuters) - Dozens of U.S. billionaires pledged on Wednesday to give at least half their fortunes to charity as part of a philanthropic campaign by two of the world's richest men -- Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6733F520100804
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
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