how good your council!

[Forth Bridges]

I blame Mres thacther!!

she did two thing wrong with teh Housing policy!

A: she should of used the money she got fomr saling off odl stock in building NEW council houses!

B: she shoudl of  introsuce that Bill to mak eit illege to be homeless and teh coucil WOudl have to act make you you don't"!

[goldencup]

I don't think you can blame Maggie for the incidents Oldspice is describing. 

[Forth Bridges]

did you know 1 in 10 kids wher in porvoery when she entrer power - 79

when Major left (97) it went UP TO 1 in 3 

[oldspice]

Yes, but what is poverty? Many of my daughter's friends have free school dinners and get EMA money (Educational Maintenance Allowance, paid to 16 - 19 year olds in further education whose parents are on less than £30, 000 per year) and yet they have expensive mobile phones, trainers that cost £70, and holidays abroad. Some even get dropped off at school in two-year-old cars. Something is worng somewhere!

[goldencup]

A boy in my son's year at school (aged 14) has been excluded for bad behaviour.  So now he gets taken to school twice a week by taxi for a one-to-one session (I think a total of four hours a week).  The rest of the time he works in the local fruit and veg shop, earning a good wage, doing very nicely thank you, and taking the mickey out of all his old classmates who are stuck in school.  I expect he is one of the ones classed as living in poverty though.

[oldspice]

I am all for providing a 'hand up' - benefits to help people when times are hard. No child should suffer from hunger or cold or humiliation (read Angela's Ashes if you want to know about real poverty) but some of the 'hand outs' these days justy encourage people to be lazy, worik-shy spongers.

I thought I would never feel like this. In my youth and young adulthood I have marched against everything - poverty, nuclear bombs, war, Thatcher's Britain - but I now feel burned out. All around me I see people with their hands out - gimme, gimme, gimme and don't expect me to get off my a*** to do anything for myself.

And Goldencup - your story is just the tip of the iceberg. Bad behaviour in schools and in society is escalating and so many parents  are claiming their children have ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). In my opinion the problem is caused by appalling diets (a bottle of cola and a packet of crisps for breakfast is common) and bad parenting.

[Forth Bridges]

I think the level in scotladn is £15000¬ where it SHOUDL BE

[chocolate chick]

I am all for providing a 'hand up' - benefits to help people when times are hard. No child should suffer from hunger or cold or humiliation (read Angela's Ashes if you want to know about real poverty) but some of the 'hand outs' these days justy encourage people to be lazy, worik-shy spongers.

I thought I would never feel like this. In my youth and young adulthood I have marched against everything - poverty, nuclear bombs, war, Thatcher's Britain - but I now feel burned out. All around me I see people with their hands out - gimme, gimme, gimme and don't expect me to get off my a*** to do anything for myself.

And Goldencup - your story is just the tip of the iceberg. Bad behaviour in schools and in society is escalating and so many parents  are claiming their children have ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). In my opinion the problem is caused by appalling diets (a bottle of cola and a packet of crisps for breakfast is common) and bad parenting.

[chocolate chick]

People who earn an honest wage and keep out of trouble are offered little or no help.

[Forth Bridges]

WHat is a Honset wage?

£15.000? - north   £22000 - south  ( £270000) london & south east)

why shoudl people upto £30000 get tax crtedit I say overhaul it

cut it to £22000 use the spare money to give less famliey MORE money in term's

Free SCHOOL for ALL! ( I can't see lord upper bottom sending there kids to a state school?)

instead of have 5 leavel tax system simple it 3 rate of your overall wage!

No vat on Heating/ lighting.  DAM EU, to hell I say about this, that a siecase that UK counld'nt scrap VAT on it beacuse of sputied EU rules!

We need to Overhaul the Benafits sytem to help ( Give more to the Poor , and just SREW the teh lazy BUMS!!!

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[babygirl]

Our council is total crap!