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I am certainly not better off than I was 20 years ago. 20 years ago I was in full time work at a pretty reasonable salary, with pension rights, decent leave entitlement and so on. Now, I am on the pension that I (and other taxpayers) paid for over all those years. When I retired in 2000 the pension, plus the statutory old age pension, that I had to work for seemed more than adequate to enable me to continue to live as comfortably as I had already done when in work.
That is not now the case. Fuel prices in particular are taking a much increased chunk out of my income, it is very much more expensive to run a car, and generally prices for retail items (including food) seem to have gone up. I am now having to watch what I spend, and cut back on some of the things I imagined I would be able to do when I retired (eg travel). I am also losing fee income from my consultancy work because the general economic situation means that there are fewer projects being funded and therefore lower demand for my services - this is not something I can do anything about.
So although statistically it might possibly be proved that I am better off than I was 20 years ago, it certainly doesn't FEEL like that!!
PS On the general election, I would be wary of reading too much into polls. The science that lies behind them is much more refined than it used to be, but they are still just guides, not actual fact. My own opinion is that Labour will scrape back (just), because of people in times of economic difficulty preferring the devil they know to the devil they don't, and there is a risk of a hung Parliament. I think that Plaid will do better than expected and the Lib Dems worse (pity, but they have been excessively feeble over the past months/years). Don't know about the SNP, but my Scots friends say there's a fair old backlash against the SNP at the moment. _________________ UNEXPECTED WINNER 2009 FLAT 10 TO FOLLOW COMPETITION!
I think when it gets nearer the time people will realise what a mistake it would be to vote conservative and go with the safe Labour option.
I am not really into politics but when you listen to some of the policies the conservatives were talking about in this last year of financial hardship this country would be either bankrupt or we would at least have hundreds of beggers on every street corner(a bit like the last time they were in power I suppose).
The number of homeless in London was reduced under the Conservatives, form around 1,000 a night to 270 a night by 1995. The figure has increased due to new labours attempts at social engineering. Eastern Europeans now make up 1 in 7 of the homeless, thats around 14%. Lets not kid ourselves that this increase isnt down to Blair and Brown.
yeah,but they probably died because of the cold ,i would like to see a hung parliment ,and any that managed to get away tracked down and shot
I have not seen a homeless person in this country for 15 years .
Wow
Surely you must have people selling the big issue around where you live, they're everywhere. _________________ Tricky Trickster - Grand National Winner 2010
One thing not mentioned is the hidden homeless....
There are loads of those people out there with no fixed address of there own. They bed hop and make do as they can. Youd be suprised just how many are out there. Its an issue that is swept under the carpets and hidden from soceitys view.
We are so fortunate there are so many charitable organisations and people in this country who do alot of the dogs body work where central and local goverments take the P out of them and get them to do some of the work that they should probably be doing or investing tax payer money into themselves.
I know what you say re voting YY but trouble is thats what politicians want what you say. I.e either vote for us or dont vote at all. Its my opionion you have to try to find some sort of protest vote. There is usually something out there that will allow you tick the box. However its my opinion that the whole system is due for some radical change and it may well be coming in time.
I'd die before I voted Tory. Labour are useless, Lib Dems are still a farce. Green for me I think. _________________ 2009 BCT Winner - Conduit
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Tories will win - no problem
I agree he is but If you say Brown is a muppet then cameron must be the material a muppet is made from
I would personally get rid of Brown and bring in David Miliband, I think he is young, fresh, a bit like Cameron, but a better version. I am always impressed with what he says and I think he would appeal to all ages. _________________ 2008 Roll Of Honour (So Far....)
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I will vote for anyone, of any party if they guarantee not to bail out the banks ANY MORE!!!!! RBS havehad their chance!! Let them go to the dogs _________________ You're born with nothing, and better off that way,
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