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luckyjim37Wow lostboy talk about a reaction.
I was going to go through your response to my initial comment which led to this thread point by point but I do not have the time do that.
The government was voted in by everyone in the country who is over 18 and eligable going to a booth and voting for them. The party with the most seats is the government hooray. The thing is that some areas of the community will not like them and others will.
Yes the unemployed on jobseekers allowance rent paid and no input into the system will love the labour government.
Also those who are on low incomes with kids who get uplifts to ensure a decent wage at the end of the month will also be happy with the government.
Those that are least happy are the ones who pay the most tax and see the least in return for that tax. Then again those are more than likely the people who least need the benefits system.
What I fail to see is where your individual gripe is. If you are claiming SED you are not paying tax anyway so therefore are not funding
[the Not so Poor , in Council houses that cannot be bothered to get a job And I pay for them !]
With regard to water the part of the country where I live tends not to get hose pipe bans and if your water company is failing you then you have grounds to complain to find out what your money is being spent on.
Again in my area of the country the water quality is good the sewer system are all going through major overhauls and the quality of the river water is constantly improving so the money I pay is being used in the right ways and I hope it continues to do so.
Which insurance premiums are you refering to? My archietect who is working for me at the moment is paying a higher insurance premium than my company.
If you get your SED you do not pay tax therefore the average dude on the beach is contributing more into the system than you.
You me and everyother ROV pilot who works offshore does so by choice so we as an industry and certainly as individuals cannot even start to whine about being locked up for 6 months in a steel prison for six months or the working hours which are an agreed thing prior to signing any contract or agreeing to go on any job. You do not have weekends off because you have half the year off. I would love to find another job where I can earn in excess of £40 000 and still have 26 weeks holiday a year.
To answer the question at the top of the thread what type of country do I live in? A good country with good facilities a climate which is reasonable (normally), a multicultural society which has problems but where does not.
As another post I read ages ago on here quoted some Austrailian politician. If you do not like it you can use your freedom of choice and leave. I doubt I ever would.
Oh yes I voted labour as did most of my family. So when I refer to labour voters then I am also refering to myself. The problem with elections is they are all about who can convince enough people to vote for them on a given day with a given set of national and international situations. These can radically change in a short space of time and then the problem is that the party or prime minister cannot deal with the new set of circumstances.
The current set of economic problems is not just a British one or even a Labour one it is hitting the entire world even the massive emerging economies in India and China so I hope our politicians will work hard to protect homeowners and yes keep the banks going otherwise most of the country will end up in a very grim state.
