hi mrsknight the best thing to do is hold on to your money.
ps:
have you scene angry people out side westminster there was loads of the them with broads up about the cuts
I certainly won't be buying anything non essential, especially as I won't be getting a payrise for the next couple of years!
I do hope they hammer the benefit scroungers.
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I don't think you lump all immigrants under the same banner. A lot of them are very hard workers. There are good and bad in all nationalities, and as many English scroungers as there others.
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You still cannot tar every immigrant with the same brush.
There will be scroungers, but there are English scroungers as well.
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the one thing the new govt was going to do is clamp down on them coming in to england and giving out benifits to them that could save a lot of money and could go towards paying of the uk debt
He will be clamping down on all benefit scroungers.
Some immigration is good for the country, there are a lot of hard working foreigners out there.
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jan the one thing thats makes my blood boil is people of the dole getting druck all day long and us the british tax payer pay there dole money to them and there better of than people who work very hard all day to put food on the table
I live in a highly populated area of Eastern Europeans and have mixed feelings and can see both sides of the coin. I won't comment too much but do wonder if the sending of money earnt here in the UK to other countries and not being invested into the one it's earnt from would have a detrimental effect to our ecconomy?
IVA final payment left the bank on the 26th January 2013...looking forward to a debt free future.
I can't believe someone can honestly call the coalition a bunch of clowns, when the idiots that caused most of this (the opposition) still seem to be in denial there is even a problem.
I'm with Carole. Let them do the jobs if nobody else will. I'd rather have a load of Eastern Europeans that want to work , rather than a lot of the work shy Brits that have been on the dole for HOW many years.
Think of it another way. There are plenty of Brits (me included) abroad taking jobs away from Eastern Europeans and getting paid a lot more than the locals. This clearly distorts the local economies for them as well.
I used to have the opinion "if you can't speak the language don't go" but that is FAR too simplistic. Having lived in the Czech Republic for about 19 months, and still having pretty awful Czech I am in no position to say that anymore.
The difference is the desire to learn and integrate. I've met many Poles/Slovaks/Czechs in the UK that had very basic English and within a year they were pretty much fluent. In some cases, more than half the locals that apparently speak English.
How many Brits actually speak a foreign language?
As the others have said. Don't paint all foreigners with the same brush. I've met more that wanted to work and integrate than those that don't. How many Brits in Spain bother to integrate?
Give them a chance. You might actually learn some things and become a better person.
I'm far from "all for mass immigration" but at least try. If you don't then you are as bad as the ones that don't try to integrate.
I bet half of those moaning wouldn't/couldn't even survive outside the uk for a day because "they speak a funny language". It's one of the most rewarding experiences you could ever have.
Anyway. Rant over.
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I totally agree with Animaleyes about immigration and being Irish can hardly disagree. For centuries we have been moving abroad and settling the world over. For example in America there are more than 10 times the number of Irish Americans as there are Irish living in Ireland. Integration and hard work is the key and any country should be happy to welcome those who will add benefit to their society.
I have no problem with immigration, and have great respect for those who want to come and work here.
The ones who tend to cause the problems are the illegal immigrants and the home grown scroungers who just do not want to work and will work harder to avoid doing a job.
A lot of the immigrants do menial tasks that the scroungers would turn their noses up at.
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All countries are in debt. We were in debt under the tories, under labour & will be under this coalition govt. It'a how capitalism works, boom & bust!!
I dislike the term benefit scroungers because there are some of us who really need benefit and dont always get the benefit help we need. For those of you who have never applied for DLA, I would like to explain that on renewal my claim for just £17 a week for lower care was initially denied, and it took over 7 months to sort, causing a horrific stress on top of an unstable heart disability.
I was advised that I had a good case to apply for the highest level of the benefit, but the system is very, very difficult and I gave up and settled for less in the end because I didnt have the strength to fight the system.
On my less bad days I feel guilty for feeling less unwell, and even though I am a genuine claimant, I am paranoid I am being watched if a stranger makes eye contact for example.
I was never this paranoid before my ill health.
I know there are people out there who may appear to have nothing wrong, and indeed there are those who are genuine faking it. They must have brass necks.
I'm of working age and need these benefits to be able to live, and even then its no fun. Being ill has reduced my income and was a cause of my debt and is why I'm in an IVA these days.
Please dont assume all benefit claimants are scroungers.