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Deal struck for £9bn bonfire of the benefits

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  • mbga9pgf
    mbga9pgf Posts: 3,224 Forumite
    And failed to achieve.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    mbga9pgf wrote: »
    And failed to achieve.

    So what is different?
    '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
  • mbga9pgf
    mbga9pgf Posts: 3,224 Forumite
    Quite simply put, state assets and taxpayers money shouldnt be wasted on scrounging, workshy scum. If you work and are made unemployed, then you should be protected. Otherwise, tough, you are on your own.
  • The_White_Horse
    The_White_Horse Posts: 3,315 Forumite
    i could have changed it easily. cancel all benefits.

    no fraud, no admin, no costs.
  • ultrawomble
    ultrawomble Posts: 492 Forumite
    mbga9pgf wrote: »
    Quite simply put, state assets and taxpayers money shouldnt be wasted on scrounging, workshy scum.

    Does that include the civil list? :D
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Sibley wrote: »

    If all goes well with my job I might consider selling up in UK and buying out here. So cheap renting though. Doesn't make me feel like buying yet.

    Dead money..... Paying the LL's mortgage for him..... Second-class citizen....
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    mardatha wrote: »
    And 70 yr old doddery teachers in charge of your kids, half blind and half deaf...Thank god you're not in politics:rotfl:

    I had a 72 year old Latin teacher. She was great. She also taught me for Classical Civilisation GCSE.

    One of the best teachers I had.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Dead money..... Paying the LL's mortgage for him..... Second-class citizen....

    also the fact that foreign nationals cannot own land in thailand might be a bit of an issue for him. could buy himself a nice flat though, as long as it doesn't touch the ground.
  • mbga9pgf
    mbga9pgf Posts: 3,224 Forumite
    ultrawomble wrote: »
    Does that include the civil list? :D
    Some of them, yes!

    Although I do believe Her Majesty should take back the crown estates, which currently she gifts to the government at a value of over 300 million per year to the taxman...

    Would save a lot of arguements over funding of the monarch. Its hers to do with as she pleases.
  • dalkey1
    dalkey1 Posts: 16 Forumite
    mbga9pgf wrote: »
    Some of them, yes!

    Although I do believe Her Majesty should take back the crown estates, which currently she gifts to the government at a value of over 300 million per year to the taxman...

    Would save a lot of arguements over funding of the monarch. Its hers to do with as she pleases.

    But then she would have to fund the Judiciary, the army & a multitude of other state funded bodies. Would be great if she could do all that on 300 million. Would be no need for cutbacks to the state then. The reason the govt. holds the crown estates is in lieu of these expenses.
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