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Costs soar as Labour voters told to pay their way

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  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    edited 8 June 2013 at 11:21PM
    Jennifer_Jane wrote: »
    Defining people by class is a miserable thing, Trucker. What a pity you work to this narrow, stupid, outdated standard.

    Obviously your question is also ridiculous. If you don't think I've lived my life going to school with, working with, socialising with, and falling in love with, people of all types and backgrounds, then you must think I've lived a very insular life.

    I guess you want me to be offended, but really, your post is just beyond belief.

    But you seemed to say that your ex-bosses ability to expose his children to experiencing life in three different countries is an option which is available to everyone.

    I am assuming that he or she was not on the run from the law...or the immigration authorities.

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    But you seemed to say that your ex-bosses ability to expose his children to experiencing life in three different countries is an option which is available to everyone.

    It is available to most if they wish to do so.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    It is available to most if they wish to do so.

    But most just want a place to live in.

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    But most just want a place to live in.

    TruckerT

    Most people do have a place to live in.
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Most people do have a place to live in.

    Some people live in cardboard boxes, or in other people's garages.

    An acquaintance of mine worked until recently for an international airline. He lived in a garage in Kilburn, but travelled the world at knock-down prices.

    Eh?

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    You'd think that guardian reader would tidy her flat up before inviting a photographer around.
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 33,089 Forumite
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    Plenty of empty houses oop norf. Seen it on the tele.. :)

    One of the BBC homes at auction shows had someone buying a row of houses for less that the price of one house in the Midlands.
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    forgotmyname wrote: »
    Plenty of empty houses oop norf.
    That'll be because of the shortage of jobs. People get on their bikes and go to places with better job prospects, like say Westminster.. Boingg, oh dear, irony meter gone again.
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    TruckerT wrote: »
    or in other people's garages.
    Until the council finds out and puts a stop to it.
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • Fella
    Fella Posts: 7,921 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    !!!!!! - BUILD COUNCIL HOUSES!!!

    ...it's a no-brainer...

    TruckerT

    No it's not. The UK already has much more council housing than many other countries in Europe including Germany etc. People have repeated the lie that Thatcher sold it all so often that most people are too stupid to actually question it & think it's true.
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