MR2 Rob

What is going on in this country at the moment?

Asylum is out of controll

Paedophilia is everywhere

The elderly are neglected

The police are more interested in putting cameras on roads than catching criminals

We are probably gonna get 2 aircraft carriers built by the french

Burglars are not being sent to jail incase its 'bad for them'

We are on the brink of war

While we debate if the UN should act on Iraq, the French decide that they 'won't be sending troops' (I thought the UN acts as a whole?)

Students are being charged stupid fees so that they cant afford to go to uni

Companies are getting away with not paying their staff proper pensions so they have to work till they are 70.

Is it just me or are we all really in a bad state at the moment?

Oh and we don't have any Firemen tomorrow as they are getting payed far to little.

Jye_0

Emmm, far too many threads with the same subject matter IMO

MR2 Rob

Yeah but not about the carriers, the french armed forces, students so not all subjects have been mentioned in a nice easy to see list

JackClark

Too many people moaning on the internet <ducks>

Jye_0

Lets face it, most of the threads with controversial topics go rapidly 'off topic' within 3 pages or so, or the good people who post them get bored with the lack of intellectual stimuli required to keep them growing and start stupid new ‘funny’ topics which generate 10,000 pages of drivel. So not much point IMO. I believe it’s called UK malaise and is intrinsically linked to people spouting guff while sitting on their fat ***** doing nowt. All IMHO from my comfy leather chair

Steve Fort

MR2 Rob, only way of getting it off of your chest is by finding someone who voted Labour in (easily identified as their head is firmly shoved up their own ****), and slapping them around the face with a big wet smelly cod!!

Popeye P1

LOL at Steve Fort. Perosnally I'd like to go into the House of Commons and make all those Politically COrrect MPs eat a whole jar of Marmite each.

Yes MR2 Rob -you've finally realised that this country is turning into a Dump!

Avril

'What we need to do is march down to the House of Commons, kick the feckin' doors in, say "We'll pay for the door..."'

Jerry*

New Labour....

Spending more of your money on bringing your country down...

say no more !

Richard Work

Too many people believing the sound bites rather than the facts.... IMHO the only thing out of control is the media...

beemerboy

you forgot to mention the poxy london congestion charge!!!

if people hold their breath on my train in the morning i guess we could fit one extra small child, but what about the old car drives who will start polluting my platform!!!

Ken L is a to55er of the highest order, i used to work right near his building by tower bridge, should have hung about one night and given him some shoe pie!!!

Which reminds me... who paid for that building he's in???
what a fooking waste, with all the empty property in london!!!!

GGGGrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!

;(BB

SWRTWannabe

Agree with you there. Without getting drawn into the rights and wrongs of the fire strike, BBC News compared the wages of our firefighters with those of the French firefighters, and found the GB firefighters are paid more. This was obviously a good controversial point for them to mention. While I'm happy to be proved wrong, a few minutes research on the net indicated that wages in general in France are lower than our wages, but obviously adding this little bit of context doesn't make good news

MR2 Rob

Not necessarily arguing with you, but Wages may be more over here, but so is the cost of living. Thats why everyone nips off to france for cheap wine.
Also - check out the price of Coke in hypermarkets. About £1.20 here, and 85p there, and thats just a Fizzy drink.

I do agree that the media is out of control over here though. They don't have to answer to anyone and are getting dangerous. However, there are many issues including the assylum seeker problem and the fire strikes which are far to 'in our faces' to blame on the media.

Claudius

Not true. I once put flowers on my grand ma's grave

Taking pictures of people driving cars faster than the sign says MAKES money. Jailing criminals COSTS money...

OMG! I hope they're better than the cars! LOL

Well, it is, isnt it?

Erm, isnt that the point?

I think they're right

That's what I heard when I was in the UK to study. Like 3500 a year, sometimes more. Free for me, thank you ERASMUS! LOL

ScoobyWon't

SWRTWannabe - have to agrea with you there. Not only are the French fire service paid less, they are only part-timers anyway... I wonder how they missed that glaring point