Don't understand - Criminal Deportees get State aid to stay?

How crazy. on the one hand sCameron and co are paying off the Nations debts by taking benefits away from the disabled and sick, yet let these scroungers who shouldn't even be  here continue to stay and claim benefits and live in rent-free housing?

Surely at the very least because of their status of "Benefit Fraudsters"they should be able to claim NOWT! while they await their hearing. Tough - but they've already had enough money falsely from the state. Bet they haven't paid back what they stole?

Kick 'em out immediately/

Solving refugee crisis

So Cameron throws more of our aid at the Syrian refugees and the EU wants to do the same.
The solution is to solve why they're leaving Syria. The west can end the conflict and help rebuild the country. Then the people won't want to flee.

Lets save every household £145

Lets all start watching catch-up TV and ditch the licence. WHy should we have an "entertainment Tax" to fund the BBC? Its appalling we pay £3.5billion for the likes of Jeremy Clarkson and co to earn millions for his tosh. Privatise the BBC I say and lets put the money to use in the NHS?

Bankers have all the Power?

I watched Wolf Hall the other week and I thought that it was extremely funny that Cromwell threatened Harry Percy with Bankruptcy if he did not co-operate. No physical violence just that he was so in debt that Cromwell could make him a pariah by getting his Banker friends to stop his loans then he would have no one and no one would want to be his friend.

Funny how this is still true today.

How would ISIS function without money.

They get money from several sources, oil, and rich supporters who have oil, plus dealing in antiquities.

To me what is astonishingly scandalous is WHO handles this money for them? Surely they don't carry cash around in suitcases?

If we in the West could simply cut off their supply of money by breaking all internet links they have and confiscating/freezing the funds wherever they are and anyone else who is connected to them - thsat is these dealers in  these antiquities, the millionaires who buy them, the arms dealers etc. etc. 

Surely we could then stifle them out. NO FIGHTING necessary.

Come on Obama, Cameron, Merkel, UN, etc. etc. STOP IT, or does the dirty money go up even to these hallowed places?

Look at thes pictures showing ISIS parading in Libya in TOYOTA CARS. Lets all Boycott TOYOTA as a supporter of ISIS. They'd soon stop supplpying vehicles to terrorists if the rest of the world became a no sell zone!!

Come on Obama, Cameron, Merkel, UN, etc. etc. put sanctions on Japan/Toyota - see what happens?

Living Wage increase good

I think they should increase the Living Wage, but will people get it?

When folk on benefits can get over £25000 it doesn't seen fair.

To me simple answer  - TAX ALL BENEFITS

This way we're all equal. Those on low wages get benefits and pay tax why not those just on benefits? Only exception should be those benefits that are for disability. then when they go back to work they can't claim that "its not worth it" - after deductions they're worse off.

I'd also ensure that unused Tax allowances can be rolled up say over three years so that when they do go back to work they can pay less tax if they're on low wages. Some Tax allowances are rolled up over several years like Capital gains tax on properties so why not personal allowances?

Only thing is David sCameron - where is the promised Married Person's allowance?

Cohabiting is same as Marriage?

Daily Mail - judge rules cohabitee is entitled to share of man's wealth. Rubbish. if people want the "legal" rights of marriage "GET MARRIED"!
It only takes 10minutes in a register office. Why all the fuss about Gay Marriage if it makes no difference? I thought when Cameron's law came in it would help all Married people. Where is the married person's tax allowance?

Tories Freeze Benefits

SO Mr Os born conspiracy, want to squeeze more out of the poorest to cut the deficit - he should be ashamed.

It was the fat Bankers that caused the problems let them pay. We've baled out the banks - I mean you and me to the tune of £1500 per man, woman and child. Can I have my money back now please, George. At the same time he gives money back to the rich, by cutting the top rate of tax.

Surely the fairest way is to put 1p on income tax and then everyone WORKING pays their fair share until we have recovered.

I do agree that Benefits should have a cap - its not a blank cheque and we can't afford it, but not the poorest to suffer. Also limit their rise to 1% that 's what I've just got after 5 years of no rise. Give the Midwives 1% too.

Again why is VAT at 5% charged on Gas and electricity bills? The poorest (on benefits/pensions) have to pay it or do without Mssrs Cameron and Osborne don't worry about their bills 'cos they're rich. The poorest pay the most relative to their income. If you're going to freeze them (literally) then why not take VAT off the first £1000 of bill?

Lastly yes - if everyone could work and not claim benefits then there wouldn't need to be a freeze on benefits. SO get everyone working Mr Osborne. Hitting them when they're down won't work.

It IS A fiasco

Thank you Chancellor for raising the Limit on ISAs to £15k and amalgamating Cash and Stocks & Shares Isas into the allowance, Wonder why he's raised the allowance? Well currying favour with the Grey Vote - too little too late. Savings are the lowest for along time. Why save when your money is losing value all the time, interest rates are pathetic. Tax on very lkittle is very little so he's not losing much at all.

If you wonder why people don't take up ISA's then its because

1. Interest rates are pathetic Interest on £5k or interest on £15 ? well 3 x 0 = 0
2. Banks con you - attractive rate for first year then plummets to nothing - do they tell you - well in the small print but hope by next year you've forgaotten
3. Banks con you - various restirictions - can't move from one ISA to another, no transfers in, penalties for withrawals etc.
4. Ordinary Peopl e are poor - they need their money to live. 
5. If you've more than£15k put it somewhere else 

Bet sCameron and co don't bother!

I could mention similar things about pensions - another day. 

This country has been hurt by low interest rates. Saving is the life blood - spend only when you can afford it, borrowing is what got us in this mess. If Osborne upped the savings rates in say National Savings then he'd rake in money which he could use to start the economy moving. That's the way it used to be. If everybody's borroing then where does the money actuyally come from?

Electric Mayhem

SO good idea Boris's Electric Cars, pity that Electric Cars have stalled across the country.

Charging points are so and few between the Electric Car will only be useful for short distance commuters, and those that do venture out afar have to take numerous cables because there is no standard. What we all need is the "Magnetic Induction" charging system.  They use it in Europe and also on Milton Keynes for Electric buses.

Its ridiculous that in this wealthy country we have developed this system. It will be seen as ridiculous in years to come. 2054 "oh and in 2014 they actually had to connect their cars with a cable to charge them, What a ridiculous idea and the Health and safety implications eh! Ha Ha ha!" Just like now when last century we had Gas lamps.The technology can be put under parking bays anywhere or even on the open road. Imagine stopping at the lights and getting charged up! Of course it wouldn't be free but to get a charge you maybe had some sort of metering like using a sat nav.
See this - Last year, South Korea switched on a 12km (7.5-mile) road which can recharge electric vehicles as they drive over it, without the need for vehicles to stop at all. Two public buses are using the Online Electric Vehicle system, or OLEV, in the South Korean city of Gumi.

The technology means the vehicles can be fitted with smaller, lighter batteries, reducing the amount of power required to drive them.

Come on Cameron and Osborne use the Green levy for something really useful, bring us into the 21st Century and eliminate Petrol/Diesel cars!

Childcare Fees - pay for your own.

Why should we pay for other folks kids in childcare? My children didn't get subsidies and we made the concious decision that one of us would stay at home to care for them until they went to school.
What I think is fairest is that childcare fees should either be Tax deductible upto your personal allowance or the personal allowance should be fully transferable between Married Couples. Thus the no working partner doesn't lose their tax free allowance - the other partner gains the "lost" Tax. That is what bugs me - use it or lose it hence why people want to work. NOT working means effectively there is a job for someone else and the children get the best care at home.
DO these people NOT want their children Why have them if they want to work and put them in  care. They then hardly see them. Pick them up feed them and put them to bed. They see more of the carers than their parents.

Its also fair in the sense those who earn more still pay more Tax proportionately.

BBC - trying to save money?

Making BBC 3 online to save money?

Well why not go the whole hog? Privatise the BBC and save every household £145.50 a year PLEASE.

Why should they get £32 billion a year of our money for  ENTERTAINMENT?

Entertainment tax - Mr os"Borne Conspiracy" - take note  - we want FREEDOM to CHOOSE - TV or not TV.

Thanks.

Energy Companies "fleecing the poor" - Official

If you read this the Government accepts that they amounted to a tax on some of the poorest in society.

I've argued this before but now it seems MPs are taking it seriously at last.

Meaning that also these million people who also pay 5% VAT and the GREEN tax on their Energy are also being "Fleeced" by the Government. Taxing the Poor so they can give to the Rich - the Energy Companies who put up Windfarms paid for out of these taxes. When will they finally GET IT?

It is disproportionate tax on the  poorest

Hooray for New Nuclear Power Station at Hinkley Point - No to Asserby Windfarm

I'm against Windfarms and Nuclear but in this case I think we've got a good deal for the New Hinkley point Power station from EDF and the Chinese.

Forget for now my anti- Nuclear stance for another day. In this case I think the £92.50 per Megawatt hour they will get. Remember this is not until 2023. Quite probably the price of electricity will have doubled by then. the wholesale price is£50 per MWH right now. It has doubled in the last 10 years and this power station is about 10years late due to the last Governments dithering and the Dash-for-gas - which is why we're in a pickle now.

WE NEED THE POWER.

IT WILL ONLY GIVE US 7% (Less than a tenth what we need). What else will they build?

Compared to Wind Energy which is unreliable at least this will give us a reliable decent chunk. 

Don;t forget that £92.50 per MWH 

WINDFARMS already get £100 per MWH and £155 per MWH if they're at sea. This payment is index linked until 2037. No wonder all these wind turbines are going up. Its not to power Britain just to make the Landowners very rich.

Who's complaining about that?

Not to forget that Windfarms get paid for NOT Generating electricity - now what about that!

Who's is complaining that they get over £200 per MWH when NOT generating electricity. these are known as Constraint payments and are perfectly legal under current (daft) rules.

Windfarms get the wholesale price for selling their electricity plus 1 ROC on land, 2 ROCs at sea.

When the Grid doesn't want their electricity, for example when its WINDY and WARM in summer they CHARGE compensation to the GRID but can get £220 per MWH.

Is this not JUST PLAIN STUPID?

Complain to Dave about this. Tell him to cut the ROCS and build proper power stations. Or does he just like to be plain sCameron?

We're not fooled.

Make the Unemployed do something

2 things here.

1. Why make folk forever - till they drop - when there are folk (younger) who need jobs?
2. People can't be beaten in to getting jobs.

If the long term unemployed genuinely can't get jobs look into why?

1. Help older folk retire and give their job to the unemployed
2. Maybe they need training/educating?

We are told often enough that there is a shortage of skilled people so TRAIN them.

It starts in schools  - too many young folk end up as NEETS. We need to stop this else we end up funding them in a life on the dole.

Set up some training for them. I remember years ago I was unemployed and got on a Manpower Services 30 week course, got paid a reasonable allowance and expenses and trained in Computer Programming. Started a new career and still doing it.

It can be set up with Companies, they train you, they help you look for a job.

I certainly don't agree with a "life on the dole", but more carrots (with strings).

Maybe the MPs could do with more "helpers" - that would save money then they wouldn't have to"employ" their families!

Marriage tax break at last

Hoorah David Cameron has at last conceded to give the promised tax break for married couples. But you'll not get it until tax year 2015/16. In time for the election ?
Maybe he thinks he needs a few more votes.
Good though and why shouldn't the government favour marriage, a contract has to mean something . Otherwise why bother ?

Spend it while you can.

No hope for the thrifty.

As I said before used to be you saved up and lived within your means. Not now.

With inflation at 2.8% and savings rates at less then 2% before tax you're losing money fast. 

Spend it now before you can't afford the things you want. Or live on borrowed money while its cheap. I think every body is doing but isn't that why we're in this mess?

sCameron and the Osborne Conspiracy don't get it. They are RICH after all and in with the Bankers.

The Grey Vote deserts Cameron

This is what I want to see. Surely the over 55's have had enough. They make us work till we die, raid our savings and take away our Pensions and benefits - does Cameron seriously think he'll get our vote next time?

He needs our money but he could have it if he asked nicely. Pay some serious interest rates and protect pensions (pension funds - they have billions) and then he can borrow our money to get out of the mess.
Not slash interest rates yet again.

Pensions - sCAmeron up to tricks

So you know when the £140 flat pension comes in? Well we're paying for it.

More news on  what the osBorne Conspiracy is really up to.

Those of you like me in Local Government have a "contracted out" pension. WE forego the earnings related bit and thus get a discount on our NI (National Insurance). Well I 've just found out that whe the new pension comes in the Discount is abolished so all of us on "contracted out" pension will face at least a 1.6% rise in our contricbutions and if, like me you've not had a pay rise for 3 years, that'll be another PAY CUT. 

More money off the hard working top pay for the Bankers Mess! 

Benefits Cap? too right

Its this "something for nothing" society we are breeding that gets me. What right have people to think that they can "claim" everything in their benefits?

Right, we are a rich society and I believe we must look after the unfortunate, vulnerable and disadvantaged/disabled in our society. This does NOT give everyone the right to have their whole living allowances paid by the benefits system, there has to be a limit.

Mr Miliband is wrong when he says that Benefits must take into account where you live. Yes it is more expensive to live in the South than the North but generally wages are higher in the South. Does that mean benefits must be hoigher in the Southh than the North - well upto a point.

If I chose to move down south I would choose to live somewhere I could afford. If I was on benefits I would expect my benefits to cover my housing costs too? NO. If you do that then effectively the unemployed have a right to FREE housing whatever the cast and their circumstances.

No, No, No.

If you can't afford to live there on your Benefits then move - up North if necessary. Surely its the same being unemployed in Wakefiled as it is in Wandsworth, but houses are cheaper.

Last Word on Margaret Thatcher

Sad news that she's passed away. RIP Maggie.

Whatever you think she was our one and only Woman Prime Minister. Whether you agree with her politics or not she did stick to her guns which is more that sCameron does. (Does he belive in anything?).

Remember when she came to power Britain was a basket case. We were worse that Greece/Ireland/Cyprus are now. We need a bailout from th eIMF to keep going. No wonder things were dire. Drastic actions was called for, curb the power of the unions, and cut out waste. We couldn't afford to subsidise all those nationalised industries like coal and rail.

Then it was a courtesy of Labour's legacy. Now they've done it again. Blair and co have left us Bankrupt again, we need a Thatcher to rescue us again.