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Ideas to fight debt counselling fund closing?

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  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    bendix wrote: »
    You're quite right, of course. What sort of idiotic government continually spends billions of pounds of public money when it doesn't exist, creating massive deficits (after they inherited surpluses) and cultivating a spendthrift 'live beyond our means' culture?
    .

    I know this one... the conservative government:p
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  • Jacks_xxx
    Jacks_xxx Posts: 3,874 Forumite
    I swear to god, they put these things out there...if nobody makes a fuss they crack on with it. If we make our outrage felt they U turn.

    It's hard to have any respect at all for our government isn't it? It's like being governed by a naughty toddler.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/12/debt-advice-27m-government-reverses?CMP=twt_fd
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  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Jacks_xxx wrote: »
    I swear to god, they put these things out there...if nobody makes a fuss they crack on with it. If we make our outrage felt they U turn.

    It's hard to have any respect at all for our government isn't it? It's like being governed by a naughty toddler.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/12/debt-advice-27m-government-reverses?CMP=twt_fd

    It had to happen when Martin took up the case especially in view of the relatively minuscule savings. The hawks like Bendix won't be happy :)
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  • Heyman_2
    Heyman_2 Posts: 1,819 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    The hawks like Bendix won't be happy :)

    He's never happy! ;)
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    Jacks_xxx wrote: »
    I swear to god, they put these things out there...if nobody makes a fuss they crack on with it. If we make our outrage felt they U turn.

    It's hard to have any respect at all for our government isn't it? It's like being governed by a naughty toddler.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/12/debt-advice-27m-government-reverses?CMP=twt_fd

    Whilst I am delighted with this news, for me it won't be the end of the story, as it is only 1 form of funding. It is ok having these debt advisers, but people will still need other forms of advice (on housing, welfare benefits, health, homelessness, family matters & so much more) which people still won't be able to access if LA's everywhere cut funding to local projects.

    One other question though, I have to ask, where do you simply FIND £27million? I mean, had it been misplaced? Lost?:eek:

    These are the people who keep telling us that they are the ones to restore the economy, yet they've just "found" £27million they didn't know they had!:eek:
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • wherediditallgothen
    wherediditallgothen Posts: 1,520 Forumite
    lemonjelly wrote: »
    Whilst I am delighted with this news, for me it won't be the end of the story, as it is only 1 form of funding. It is ok having these debt advisers, but people will still need other forms of advice (on housing, welfare benefits, health, homelessness, family matters & so much more) which people still won't be able to access if LA's everywhere cut funding to local projects.

    One other question though, I have to ask, where do you simply FIND £27million? I mean, had it been misplaced? Lost?:eek:

    These are the people who keep telling us that they are the ones to restore the economy, yet they've just "found" £27million they didn't know they had!:eek:

    Down the back of the settee? :D
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  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    wherediditallgothen wrote: »
    Down the back of the settee? :D

    I almost typed that very phrase in the original post...:D
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • bendix
    bendix Posts: 5,499 Forumite
    Heyman wrote: »
    He's never happy! ;)

    I'm one of the happiest people I know. I have no worries, because I provide for myself and am the master of my own destiny. I don't rely on the arbitrariness of government for my income or my pensions - it's a great life.

    Shame the government capitulated on this. I've lost respect for them, but idealogically they are still closest to my thinking so upwards and onwards.
  • Caliendo
    Caliendo Posts: 283 Forumite
    bendix wrote: »
    I'm one of the happiest people I know. I have no worries, because I provide for myself and am the master of my own destiny. I don't rely on the arbitrariness of government for my income or my pensions - it's a great life.

    Shame the government capitulated on this. I've lost respect for them, but idealogically they are still closest to my thinking so upwards and onwards.

    Then there may be a disconnect between the way you believe you are and the dissatisfied angry way you come across on here, to me.
  • headcone
    headcone Posts: 536 Forumite
    edited 15 February 2011 at 1:24AM
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