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  • Yorkie1
    Yorkie1 Posts: 12,583 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    bengasman wrote: »
    Why do we have to keep paying for the hundreds of thousands of women who get themselves knocked up before establishing what the chances are that they can afford to have those kids?
    It is a fact that the number of single mums of the so called "working class" outnumber the ones that actually have their husband still around.
    The welfare bill now stands at £200,000,000,000 per year, keep subsidising them, and it will soon be £300,000,000,000. It's not like the state coffers are overflowing.

    This has no relevance to the original poster's situation so please keep your bile for appropriate threads if you have to vent it at all.
  • peter000
    peter000 Posts: 42 Forumite
    edited 22 November 2011 at 6:34PM
    I didn't say it was 4 years old anywhere, I don't know where that came from! ;) It was 9 years old, and hadn't been serviced so the lesson is probably to have it serviced every year. Edit - oh I see that was referring to the original post.

    Thanks for the buywithconfidence.gov.uk link. It doesn't cover this area but I'll keep it in mind for future.
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