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An end to madness of winter fuel cash for expats on the Costa del Sol: As bill reaches £130million, the law WILL be changed | Daily Mail OnlineEXCLUSIVE: New rules curbing handouts to start from September
Pensioners living in Spain, Cyprus, Portugal and France will lose cash
But people in 25 countries will still be eligible for help with heating bills
Iain Duncan Smith condemns 'absurd and offensive' use of public money


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Re: UK Thread
« Reply #108 on: April 09, 2013, 07:37:12 PM »
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Im a 74 year old IRISHMAN..But I still think im 25




UK Problem Solved
« on: April 08, 2013, 04:35:56 AM »
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Letter to Mr. Cameron - Genius!!

Dear Mr. Cameron,

Please find below our suggestion for fixing the UK 's economy.

Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.
Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire.
Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed

2) They MUST buy a new British car.
Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed

4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university -
Crime rate fixed

5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week .....
And there's your money back in duty/tax etc

It can't get any easier than that!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances

If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.
Also.....

Let's put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home.

This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.

They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they'd receive money instead of paying it out.

They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.

Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.

A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell.

They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.

They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education.

Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ's and legal aid would be free, on request.

Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens.

Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls.

There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.

The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and pay £600.00 per week and have no hope of ever getting out.

Think about this (more points of contention):

COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Appleby almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the county of Cumbria?

And, they even tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 125,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
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Also;
Think about this ... If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is time for us grumpy old folk of Britain to speak up!

scot47

Social Credit ! Major Douglas was saying this in the 1930s - but no one listened !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._H._Douglas

IAN FAIRBAIRN

Tories at their best, for Ian Duncan Smith a multi millionaire to say the winter fuel allowance is absurd to pay in Spain is absurd!, next thing is their plan to stop the personal allowance for expats! Are expats prepared to accept this?

EMR

I ) Campaign for the UK to stay in the EU. . The reason expats get Wfa was due to an EU court ruling.
2) Campaign for expats to retain the right to vote in UK elections.

Without any representation in the UK expats have no influence.

IAN FAIRBAIRN

Yes I know this but expats are so apathetic, if the Tories drop the personal tax allowance it would cost many pensioners a lot, we have paid into the system all our lives why should we be any different from UK residents?

EMR

Because you are no longer UK resident. Could it be that some genius deep in the cellars of the treasury has calculated the amount of cash and spending that expats take out of the UK economy. The idea of reducing allowances and benefits if you leave the UK could be one way of discouraging the better off in future years from retiring abroad.?? Stranger things happen.

amideislas

Damn, and I was going to buy a new iPad with that money. Cheating bastards. I'm voting Labour. I want that iPad.

la mancha

The same treasury genius that sends millions of British taxpayers’ money to EU countries in child benefits for those that do not live in the UK, no doubt? Old ground.