Is there fairness and sense in the new mobility criteria?
Original including links is at: http://wp.me/p2sftc-4f4 400k to lose mobility benefit & car for walking 20m? Just not cricket! As a report by the excellent campaign group ‘We are Spartacus’ (WaS)...
View ArticleHas ‘the Right to Buy’ and lack of rent controls caused most of the UK’s...
The Housing Act of 1919 made housing a national responsibility, and local authorities were given the task of developing new housing and rented accommodation where it was needed by working people. The...
View ArticleCan we save on fuel bills by swapping energy companies?
More verbal bollocks from Herr Cameron and his followers. Any time the rise in energy prices is mentioned and a possible solution put forward, all we get from him is that the energy companies will...
View ArticleIs a tax break for some married couples a good idea?
“This is social engineering, for God’s sake, and when I joined the party we weren’t in favour of it.” Those were the words of Ken Clarke who, as Tory chancellor in the mid-1990s, started the process...
View ArticlePoliticians' homes
Should politicians live in houses the vast population can only dream of, yet pay for. Property features •Fantastic Freehold House •Master Bedroom Suite •Reception Room •Open-Plan Kitchen and Sitting...
View ArticlePowerless Christmas
Debate has been raging about the power cuts that affected the storm ravaged UK over the Christmas holiday ever since David Cameron was ‘ambushed’ by an angry woman complaining about the lack of...
View ArticleWorking into our seventies
So, a bright spark who sits in a warm office all day long has decided we shall have to work into our seventies. A few years ago via the local newspaper I had occasion to chastise our Conservative Mayor...
View ArticleWill the bedroom tax be the new poll tax?
Original at: http://skwalker1964.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/unbelievable-not-1-tory-turns-up-for-bedroom-tax-debate/ The Tories’ complete contempt for ordinary people couldn’t have been more clearly...
View Article"Elderly should do community work or lose their pensions" (Lord Bichard)
Older people should lose their pensions if they refuse to do community work to stop them being a “negative burden on society", a former senior Whitehall official has suggested. Lord Bichard, an...
View ArticleYes, the top 1% pay 27% of tax. No, they're not paying their share
A single 30% rate of income tax is needed in order to boost growth in the UK, a report by lobbying groups says. The 2020 Tax Commission's report also calls for the abolition of national insurance, and...
View ArticleSupermarkets - prices and inflation
An article caught my eye this morning on the BBC website, it was about Hummus, you know, the dip. The article stated how Hummus had come from been a fringe hippy food to be a mainstream supermarket...
View ArticleEnergy saving -v- money losing
All the energy suppliers are cheerfully supporting the Government's line on SMART METERS. Permitting remote reading, and promising extra information on how you consume gas and electric in the home to...
View ArticleEnduring power of attorney
I like to believe that most of us on here, being of a mature age will be aware of the need to have an enduring power of attorney in place so that if we should become unable to manage our health and...
View ArticleAdvice wanted
I would like to know how to set up an Overseas Company and Account possibly in British Virgin Isles or Panama in which I can stash my just awarded Army Pension rise, to keep it safe from the tax...
View ArticleHousing for all!
There is a need for houses in my country south africa, as i am sure there is everywhere else too. The problem is when people move from the rural areas into the cities and cannot find accomodation, nor...
View ArticleNew Warm Home Discount
The BBC has been reporting that this government's new Warm Home Discount has a limit to the amount of funds available to it and some power companies will be running it as a first come, first served...
View ArticleMisinformation
Why is it that people who are supposed to be in the know arent? I asked my work pension people what I should do to stop paying tax now that I have retired. They told me to send my p45 to them.I did.I...
View ArticleHousing for all!
There is a need for houses in my country south africa, as i am sure there is everywhere else too. The problem is when people move from the rural areas into the cities and cannot find accomodation, nor...
View ArticleThe public sector pay freeze and the abolition of national pay rates
BBC Article Guardian George Osborne , that lovable millionaire plutocratic, Bullenden buddy club fiscal auteur we all know and love to...has done it again! How do think all public sector workers will...
View ArticleIs it fair that Cameron reduces women's income to fund tax cuts for the rich?
Cameron's problem with women Unemployment, childcare and winning back the trust of older voters are just three of the pressing issues facing his future advisor for women At a time of soaring female...
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