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PMSL!


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750 MPs bought confiscated arms from the government!

http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/epaperi...1/34547765.JPG

Also saw this letter from Michael Vaz

http://www.heraldgoa.in/newscategory/Letters/13

Obviously not sure of his facts. Britain has more expensive petrol than India?

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Petrol in Goa is over 67rp a litre and they are threatening another 2-3 rps increase.

Consider the wages in the UK and India. A labourer in Goa earns about 300rp a day!Don`t know what the minimum wage in the UK is now but I`m sure its a lot more than 5 times a litre of fuel!!!!

In comparison India is far more expensive than the UK !

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Yes for the indians it is - but not for you.

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On that basis everything is more expensive in India...................

However, if you read the letter, the guy was claiming that Petrol WAS more expensive in India than Britain (not comparatively).

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Have I been complaining! just keeping all informed.

You`re all in for a big shock at the price increases this year!Especially those of you with gas guzzling Jeeps!!:eek::eek:

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Will definately be saving on the amount of petrol money we spend at home.

Could not believe my eyes when in ALDI butter had gone up to £1.37 a half pound, and that was their own brand 17p in just over a week.:thumbdown:
We can live every month in Goa on our petrol and supermarket money, and the weather is warm.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...g-economy.html

Five star slumdogs once poor families transforming Mumbai shacks to luxury homes thanks to India's booming economy


Dale Farm travellers are being paid housing benefit - by the council that's trying to evict them
25 families given £53,625 a year despite having no planning permission


also in the Telegraph - for doubting Thomas's

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1YhngQU00

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The Mail presumably believes travellers shouldn't be allowed benefits. Surely nobody here is silly enough to subscribe to their ideas, though

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So you would give the travellers benefits while they are squatting on your property, use your head man! - but then it is not your tax money they are using innit.:thumbdown:
The Mail, Telegraph, etc. all seem to agree.

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Akin to a bank account with NO overdraft facility: that's how benefits should be: if you've paid in to your benefits 'bank account' then you should be able to withdraw in times of need, however if you have NOT paid in to your benefit 'bank account' then you should not be able to claim one penny - unless you are unfortunate enough to suffer from a mental or physical disability that prevented you from 'paying in' in the first place.

I can stop myself from 'protesting' about some of the nonsense posted on the Goa forum most of the time, however Thursday is the start of the weekend & therefore time for an extra couple of beers after tea & therefore tonight I am weak, hence the post.

Tonight's post dinner beer is 'Lion Stout' - an 8.8% stout imported from Sri Lanka & not widely available in the UK - NOT a session beer by any means but a very nice drink all the same!

Happy Weekend!

Regards

H,

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:confused: They're not squatting on anybody's property.

I'm an expat -- strange idea I know. For what it's worth, I also lost my right to vote in the UK quite a few years ago.

Agree on what?

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I'm an expat -- strange idea I know. For what it's worth, I also lost my right to vote in the UK quite a few years ago.


Thank God for that.:rofl:

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You've invented your own question to answer. So I'm confused why you quote my text.

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Talking about a ridiculous waste of money for the eviction, here's a different view for the former owner that you probably won't find in the DM.

Bocking, who lives in nearby Wickford, told the Guardian it was "ridiculous" that the council was now spending £18m evicting Travellers and removing their chalets and tarmac when "they hardcored it".

"If they had two bob in their pocket they'd have more money than sense," Bocking said of the council. "Dale Farm was a swamp and a breaker's yard for years. It was rubbish ground. I really don't know why they are throwing away £18m."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/se...-council-owner