Pensioners could save this Government

For all these years of austerity HMG has been trying to get everyone to spend spend spend to get us out of the mess. But folk have no money and don't want to get in debt even if interest rates are low. They have a pensions crisis but no one wants to save because they he be no money and rates are abysmal. Yet all this is upside down. Now HMG wants to borrow money to start building. Great, good idea, but why not help poor pensioners out and get your money cheaply, how you ask. Set up special pensioner bonds offering reasonable interest rates to over 55s. They will buy in as now we get virtually nothing on our savings (less tax!).  Then with this money they can build the houses and railways etc.

Can't bomb an Ideaology

Its no good Cameron thinking we can bomb ISIS to death. You can't bomb an ideaology. The terrorists can't be reasoned with so we've no choice but shoot to kill or they'll kill us, but we must cut off their Oxygen. How do they post on the internet, where do they get weapons, tools, cars and money from? Anyone associated with them must be found and stopped. Block the internet we CAN. They stop paedophiles etc.if say Toyota felt the wrath of Governments and people or ISIS using their cars then they'd soon put pressure on their supply chains to stop dealing with them. The buck stops  here. The message would get across "don't deal with ISIS".
Then we've got educate the Muslims here and elsewhere that mindless violence won't win the war. either give them something worth having at home better than ISIS.

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?

What does your Councillor do for you?

I have written to my Local Councillor many times this last year and spoken to her on the telephone but I am yet to have a reply?

This is common decency - what do you think?


Should your Councillor reply to you?

I have contacted her over local issues and one query but no answer.

What should I do next i have spoken to the Leader of the Independents - she is one - and he says that he has asked her to speak to me/write - NOTHING

They get paid public money to be Councillors - I am disgusted but what can be done?

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.

Who is EnergieKontor UK?

Funny a German owned company like this can put up dozens of Wind Turbines but only has 12employees?

4 directors

Guy Alexander Wilson born 1967 14yrs with EnergieKontor
Peter Robert Harrison
Peter Szabo
Thomas Walther

Who are they and where do they live? Do they build Turbines near them I wonder?

Their Real address is,

4330 Park Approach | Thorpe Park | Leeds | LS15 8GB


In 2012 they had only 12 employees - how can they build Wind Turbines - must be
like Popeye and eat plenty of spinach! they don't seem to have much money either look-

Write to

laura.dixon@energiekontor.co.uk

End of the TV Licence?

Is this really the beginning of the end for Taxed Entertainment? At last it seems someone is listening to me.

PRIVATISE THE BBC!

Making not paying your TV Licence a non-criminal offence is a start. Then we just won't be locking up TV dodgers. Why do we all have to pay it?

£32 BILLION the BBC gets from us for TV and Radio - now THAT's CRIMINAL!

I wonder what SKY's turnover/income is? bet they PAY tax too!

Yes Simon Heffer in the Daily Mail has it almost right - let the BBC become subscription (pay per channel) with one or 2 free Public information /news services and a radio channel.

Cashless Society ?

I'd like a Moneyless society like they have in Star Trek. We're not far off.
We have a sizeable underclass who want for nothing and do nothing to earn it. unemployed and people on benefits for life, smoke, drink, wide screen TV and Sky!
Why work?
Couldn't we all have the minimum then reward us differently for effort and worth?

It works for some people doesn't it.

privatised BBC?

have you noticed, yet again, the BBC news plays on Boxing Day to an "empty" room behind. of course the journalist s are home with their families. So why are all those computers and screens on? don`t they know how to shut them down? if it was a council there'd be outrage yet its our money they're wasting.

Help to Buy?

The Government are "helping people" to buy by getting the banks & Building Societies to lend upto 95%
that's how it used to be, so what's changed?
Basically they make money from lending out money but since the Crash the Government have bailed them out so they don't need to lend money plus they daren't take the risk. Remember If you put 5k down and borrow 95k and you can't keep up the payments,  (rates Will go up!), then the BSoc has to sell your house to get the 95k back 0 what if they can't? YOU still owe the money. If say they only get 80k for the house the Government now gives them the 15k you can't pay so they can't lose.

In the old days banks & Building Societies used to guarantee the 15k by taking out an insurance policy, built into the fees. They can't get these policies now - everyone is scared prices aren't going up. After these few years of stagnation and no building - no ones buying (they have no money/jobs) no price rises to stimulate the market no wonder ! If this scheme stimulates some house price inflation its a small price to pay to kick start the market then building will start and the ball will be rolling a bit like the old days.
Houses are still way too expensive.

The last boom was cause by greed. Folk thought they could make money by buying a house. It never really works like that - you have to live somewhere.

My first house cost £7500, I put a £500 deposit down. Those were the days (3 times my income).

EDF and the rest of the Energy Dimwits

At last Monday EDF came to swap my meter. Granted they were 2 hours after the agreed time but they did call to arrange to be late (nice of them). Yesterday TUESDAY I got a text message informing me that the engineer would be calling to change my meter.....when?.....Monday 23rd!
Thanks EDF.

You see I switched to EDF for a cheaper deal but then they said I had to have Economy 7 because I had a dual rate meter! No argument. I have NO storage heaters etc, never have.
"Why can't you just add the 2 figures together (night+day) EOn did.?"
"No we can't you'll have to have your meter swapped.Well do it free"
"Fine - go ahead"
So he came and took a perfectly good digital meter out and replaced it with a second hand digital but "wheels" single rate meter.

Crazy. So many other Energy companies can't add 2 numbers together. Its funny though they rake in vast sums and make huge profits. So they must have some people who can manipulate the figures. Always in their favour!!

Warnings again - the lights will go out

So here we go, I've warned you and now the media are catching on. Because the Government has dithered we are running out of Energy and remember we are at the bottom of a recession Thank God. 

SO what will we do. Build more Wind Turbines!! NOoooooooooooo!

Watch this space I'm going to tell you how to Genereate CASH =- Millions of it. All Legal and honest and not a tax dodge. All paid for by you and me.

Keep Looking.

PayDay Loans - please avoid them

Look I know its a temptation but with interest rates of 1000% avoid them at all costs. Hope you've got a Visa card. If you can't afford it don't buy it.

There is an App to look for a Credit Union

Try this and don't get trapped.

Are you Boled over with housing plans?

Mr Boles wants to get building new houses.

I wonder how it will work? Its supply and demand. No supply because there's no demand.

Don't get me wrong we NEED new house there's loads of folk who want them but can't afford them.

Where will they be built? Plenty of room in Lincolnshire but they won't be built near Mablethorpe will they although they say there's 5000 on the waiting list.

1. who are these people
2. where are these people now?
3. where will they work?
4. will the council allow building?

So the answers, when there's an estate of 200 potential house NOT being built. They stopped 4 years ago after building 10 - none of them sold. No demand.

1. Probably on the dole
2. In Nottingham/Sheffield etc.
3. nowhere there's no work but dole is the same here
4. no - there's a risk of flooding

Yes I agree houses should be built, and more they build the more they become affordable. But lets spread it out up North not just in the prosperous south. The economy needs jobs as well.

Also what about the BUNG? They say they want to build Wind Turbines everywhere but no one wants them. Why don't they start by offering residents FREE electricity if they allow building. I might consider it. After all "what's in it for me?" its my view after all not the Electricity Company's.

You don't need money to be Happy?

Actually Money can't buy you happiness.

It seems the older folk are happiest and don't want money. I can see that but I guess they've got what they need and have enough money to live comfortably. That's a bit different to saying you don't "need" money.

I guess living away from the hustle and bustle also is a help as its not so frantic but you also lose out on all the  things that most folk want. Shops, transport etc. everything comes at a price - literally. thank god for on-line shopping.

My philosophy is that too many people "want" things at any price - they should learn to get their priorities right.

Free Money - discounts

Don't be a fool. Sign up to a cashback web site like QUIDCO

Do your on-line shopping and save. Search around and when you think you have the deal login to Quidco to make the purchase. They give you CASHBACK on top.

EASY!

China? Better Learn Mandarin

Have you noticed where things are made these days? yes 9 out of ten seem to come from China.

You know this worries me to hell.

See, riots in Greece due to their economic woes and they blame Germany for bleeding them dry (actually it was more like a parent spoiling a child). Anyway I'm more worried about China.

The day will come when lest say the ships and planes stop coming from China to supply us with all these nice cheap goodies (iPADS and iPhones, TVs and gadgets). Then what do we do? We've no manufacturing here.Also what do we do when China decide because they've a monopoly (We've no manufacturing here.), they decide now that they don't need our western money, 'cos they've got it all (where do you thing the US and us get our money from at the moment? - loans from China), they either put the prices up and then we're all like Greece or they just stop bothering, and we're all like Namibia (who cares about them?).

SO OK just sit there playing with your Chinese gadgets, on your Chinese made TV on Chinese made furniture etc. etc.

Be really really worried about China.