Preparedness for when

dandy-candy

Possibility of severe storm hitting south England on Monday, as bad as 1987!

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=news;storyid=5477;sess=

Karmacat

I did research it - and its almost entirely correct. The "Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority" recommends a salary of £74,000 in 2015, index linked to average earnings thereafter. A footnote says: If public sector pay policy limiting increases to 1% a year were followed, MPs’ pay would be £67,731 in 2015-16. A salary of £74,000 would be an increase of £6,296, or 9.26%. Their website still says this is about replacing expenses.

Consultation only finished on the 20th of this month. The IPSA also says they're lowering the standards of the MPs pensions, and that their system is saving £7 million a year, compared to the system they inherited.

For me, the point is that I don't trust anyone in public life in general not to be out for their own selves as much as possible. There are probably honourable exceptions - Tony Benn, who lived his beliefs by giving up his hereditary peerage to work for what he believed in, for example - so, sadly, I don't trust any statement made. And the comments on the page I found are very much the same tone: http://parliamentarystandards.org.uk/NewsAndMedia/Pages/LatestNews2.aspx?ListNews=739f9c00-b7d4-4282-bffd-9ae51fd8d92d&NewsId=56

short_bird

pineapple wrote: »

Nahhh. You've not lived till you've bought some meat and find it in your bag a week later :eek:

A friend wondered what the dreadful smell was in the supermarket... he realised, when packing his reusable bags, that it was the Brie he bought on the previous trip to the supermarket, 2 weeks before:eek:

katep23

lobbyludd wrote: »

There was still very much a notion that cleanliness was paramount - it was just much, much harder to achieve, and involved, primarily women, devoting much of their lives to attempting to obtain an impossible standard.

I heard on the BBC recently that in the 50's women spent 63 hours a week cleaning :eek:

GreyQueen

Alltrustgone, do you know what the 1% pay increase this local government worker works out at, net of deductions?

£6.54 a month.
Or £78.48 per annum
Or a princely £1.51 a week.

In the last seven years my pay increases have been 0.5, 0.5, nil, nil nil, nil and now a fantabulous £1.51 a week.

That's really keeping me up with the rising rent, gas, leccy, CT, food and every other bliddy thing, isn't it?!

I may have to run for parliament..............:rotfl:

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

I may have to run for parliament..............:rotfl:

We'd all vote for you

alltrustgone

Well, I for one would vote for you Grey Queen.

If any one of these ******** had the slightest scrap of integrity, they'd be shouting from the rooftops "Thank you but no thank you, outrageous suggestion, we shouldn't even be considering this in the current climate".

They are disgusting.

ATG

GreyQueen

alltrustgone wrote: »

Well, I for one would vote for you Grey Queen.

If any one of these ******** had the slightest scrap of integrity, they'd be shouting from the rooftops "Thank you but no thank you, outrageous suggestion, we shouldn't even be considering this in the current climate".

They are disgusting.

ATG

Thanks for the pledge, ladies.

Who was it who said that the last person to go to parliament with honourable intent was Guy Fawkes?

I've often thought we could solve the energy crisis at a stroke by putting a hot air collector over the Palace of Westminster.

I may have to give up chocolate.............to save a bob or two. Good job I have resources like the Magic Greengrocer; today's poond purchased the following haul there; 8 satsuma-y things, 5 red apples, 5 discovery apples and 6 nectarines. All with a bash or cosmetic imperfection, hence being reduced.

I also got 2 men's longsleeved shirts, for £1 the both, at a c.s. to wear for gardening. I actually wear out gardening shirts, so need to have these in place for two of the current incumbants are more holey than righteous.

Dammit, if I wasn't such a hardcore Old Styler, I might be in a bit of a pickle at my income level.

elona

GQ

For the information , amusement and entertainment your posts provide I would gladly send you chocolate :T

Our local Costcutter has four bars of choc for a pound - allidees and liddlys have big choc bars for about 30p so I got a few bits and bobs.

I still need to get sweets for Halloween for kids knocking on the door so will have to grab bargains before they all go.

DD is coming home for the weekend with BF so want to tidy the house and make the bedroom nice with bedding etc and make something like big tray of lasagne or shepherd's pie with tray of plum and apple crumble with custard to follow.

DH happy as dog with two tails with garden shed - has painted interior white and we went to B and ? for vinyl sheets to cover the floor yesterday.

Karmacat

Another vote for GQ...