If You Think Labour Have Been Hard On You ..
06 December 2006, 07:45 PM
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If You Think Labour Have Been Hard On You ..
You may wish to note the following:-
Although fuel duty is going up 1.25p per litre from midnight and air passenger duty from £5 to £10 for most flights, Mr Brown rejected demands FROM THE TORIES to re-link petrol prices to inflation.
Remember, it was the TORIES who invented the fuel price escalator - and it was New Labour who REMOVED it!
TORIES = MORE TAX
LABOUR = FAIR TAX!
Although fuel duty is going up 1.25p per litre from midnight and air passenger duty from £5 to £10 for most flights, Mr Brown rejected demands FROM THE TORIES to re-link petrol prices to inflation.
Remember, it was the TORIES who invented the fuel price escalator - and it was New Labour who REMOVED it!
TORIES = MORE TAX
LABOUR = FAIR TAX!
06 December 2006, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Lionel Hutz
hey lewis give your mum a kiss for me, i had to sneak out this morning before you got up!!
06 December 2006, 07:52 PM
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My Council tax £400 when Labour came to power.
£1500 now. Makes the fuel duty seem trivial.
£40 month dentist as no NHS any more.
NI up 1%
And Labour wont raise taxes will they
Chip
£1500 now. Makes the fuel duty seem trivial.
£40 month dentist as no NHS any more.
NI up 1%
And Labour wont raise taxes will they
Chip
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06 December 2006, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Chip
£40 month dentist as no NHS any more.
Chip
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I suspect it is NOT for only you as DenPlan does not go that high AFAIK.
AND, why not be sensible and put that £40 a month into an account and pay for work out of that!? It is £1440 every 3 years (the average time for requiring genuine dental treatment) ................ even at todays money, thats a LOT!!
And if you go, say, 6 years without needing work, then you have a pot of £2880 to cover any costs!!
Its so simple it hurts!
MUGS pay monthly!
06 December 2006, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
POST AT THE SAME TIME!! 
https://www.scoobynet.com/6423627-post9.html there you are I'll make it easy for you.
06 December 2006, 08:24 PM
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I think the governent needs a damned good shake up and have someone who will do what's right for britain, and the british, instead of letting all our traditions go, for fear of upsetting minorities.
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06 December 2006, 08:25 PM
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I just wish lewis would understand that most people with a brain know that he's a 40 year old loser rather than a 78 (?) year old mentor. Lewis, suck on mine for a while m8'y. It'll calm you down, trust me
06 December 2006, 09:01 PM
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My Inner Tosser is telling me to vote Tory... 
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Bling voters
THE ADVERT: Inner Tosser, from the Conservative Party
THE BRIEF: Raise the issue of personal debt , without looking like it's come from the Conservative Party
THE SCHTICK: Normal bloke is assailed by his "inner tosser", a wide boy in a turquoise suit, who persuades him to spend spend spend on his credit card - clothes, jewellery, flat screen TV, car etc.
THE BREAKDOWN: This advert has had a pretty bad press. One columnist wrote that it had "all the charm of a 'grooming' programme for naive young voters who unintentionally find it on the internet thinking it's a basket of animated puppies, and the next thing they know they're being lectured on social responsibility". Other commentators have questioned the use of the word "tosser". Last week in the Commons, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott attempted to turn the term back on to the Tory benches. Others have pointed out that at least this has established the word counts as Parliamentary language.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Bling voters
THE ADVERT: Inner Tosser, from the Conservative Party
THE BRIEF: Raise the issue of personal debt , without looking like it's come from the Conservative Party
THE SCHTICK: Normal bloke is assailed by his "inner tosser", a wide boy in a turquoise suit, who persuades him to spend spend spend on his credit card - clothes, jewellery, flat screen TV, car etc.
THE BREAKDOWN: This advert has had a pretty bad press. One columnist wrote that it had "all the charm of a 'grooming' programme for naive young voters who unintentionally find it on the internet thinking it's a basket of animated puppies, and the next thing they know they're being lectured on social responsibility". Other commentators have questioned the use of the word "tosser". Last week in the Commons, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott attempted to turn the term back on to the Tory benches. Others have pointed out that at least this has established the word counts as Parliamentary language.
06 December 2006, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by sociophobe
You're up late
Not from me btw, I enjoy outspoken tossers like your good self
Not from me btw, I enjoy outspoken tossers like your good self
Maybe you could apply for the job of "Scoobynet's Inner Tosser" - unless the post has already gone to ub of course
06 December 2006, 09:27 PM
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New Labour - We Salute You!
Labour's top 50 achievements since being elected in 1997:
1. Lowest inflation since the 60s
2. Lowest mortgage rates for 40 years
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
5. Cut overall crime by 30 per cent
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
7. Best-ever primary school results
8. Funding for every pupil in England to double (since 1997) by 2007-08
9. Lowest unemployment for 29 years
10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest counties
11. 77,500 more nurses
12. 19,300 more doctors
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
16. Banned anti-personnel mines
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice at any time
18. New Deal - helped over a million people into work
19. Local government funding has increased by a third in real terms
20. Equalised the age of consent for gay men
21. Free entry to all national museums and galleries
22. Overseas aid budget more than doubled
23. Restored city-wide government to London
24. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997
25. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
26. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
27. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
28. The biggest rolling stock replacement programme ever seen on our railways
29. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
30. Over 28,000 more teachers in England schools
31. Implemented the Freedom of Information Act
32. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
33. Record rises in the state pension
34. 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
35. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
36. Banned handguns
37. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
38. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
39. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
40. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
41. Record police numbers in Scotland
42. Implemented the Human Rights Act
43. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
44. Free TV licences for over-75s
45. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
46. Halved maximum waiting times for NHS operations
47. Free local bus travel for the over-60s and the disabled in Wales and Scotland
48. Record number of students in higher education
49. Extended the Race Relations Act so that all public bodies and functions now have a duty to promote race equality
50. Five, six and seven-year-olds in class sizes of 30 or less
OUTSTANDING!!
Labour's top 50 achievements since being elected in 1997:
1. Lowest inflation since the 60s
2. Lowest mortgage rates for 40 years
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
5. Cut overall crime by 30 per cent
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
7. Best-ever primary school results
8. Funding for every pupil in England to double (since 1997) by 2007-08
9. Lowest unemployment for 29 years
10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest counties
11. 77,500 more nurses
12. 19,300 more doctors
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
16. Banned anti-personnel mines
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice at any time
18. New Deal - helped over a million people into work
19. Local government funding has increased by a third in real terms
20. Equalised the age of consent for gay men
21. Free entry to all national museums and galleries
22. Overseas aid budget more than doubled
23. Restored city-wide government to London
24. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997
25. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
26. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
27. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
28. The biggest rolling stock replacement programme ever seen on our railways
29. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
30. Over 28,000 more teachers in England schools
31. Implemented the Freedom of Information Act
32. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
33. Record rises in the state pension
34. 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
35. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
36. Banned handguns
37. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
38. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
39. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
40. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
41. Record police numbers in Scotland
42. Implemented the Human Rights Act
43. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
44. Free TV licences for over-75s
45. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
46. Halved maximum waiting times for NHS operations
47. Free local bus travel for the over-60s and the disabled in Wales and Scotland
48. Record number of students in higher education
49. Extended the Race Relations Act so that all public bodies and functions now have a duty to promote race equality
50. Five, six and seven-year-olds in class sizes of 30 or less
OUTSTANDING!!
06 December 2006, 09:29 PM
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Maybe you could apply for the job of "Scoobynet's Inner Tosser" - unless the post has already gone to ub of course
06 December 2006, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
New Labour - We Salute You!
Labour's top 50 achievements since being elected in 1997:
1. Lowest inflation since the 60s
2. Lowest mortgage rates for 40 years
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
5. Cut overall crime by 30 per cent
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
7. Best-ever primary school results
8. Funding for every pupil in England to double (since 1997) by 2007-08
9. Lowest unemployment for 29 years
10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest counties
11. 77,500 more nurses
12. 19,300 more doctors
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
16. Banned anti-personnel mines
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice at any time
18. New Deal - helped over a million people into work
19. Local government funding has increased by a third in real terms
20. Equalised the age of consent for gay men
21. Free entry to all national museums and galleries
22. Overseas aid budget more than doubled
23. Restored city-wide government to London
24. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997
25. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
26. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
27. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
28. The biggest rolling stock replacement programme ever seen on our railways
29. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
30. Over 28,000 more teachers in England schools
31. Implemented the Freedom of Information Act
32. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
33. Record rises in the state pension
34. 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
35. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
36. Banned handguns
37. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
38. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
39. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
40. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
41. Record police numbers in Scotland
42. Implemented the Human Rights Act
43. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
44. Free TV licences for over-75s
45. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
46. Halved maximum waiting times for NHS operations
47. Free local bus travel for the over-60s and the disabled in Wales and Scotland
48. Record number of students in higher education
49. Extended the Race Relations Act so that all public bodies and functions now have a duty to promote race equality
50. Five, six and seven-year-olds in class sizes of 30 or less
OUTSTANDING!!
Labour's top 50 achievements since being elected in 1997:
1. Lowest inflation since the 60s
2. Lowest mortgage rates for 40 years
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
5. Cut overall crime by 30 per cent
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
7. Best-ever primary school results
8. Funding for every pupil in England to double (since 1997) by 2007-08
9. Lowest unemployment for 29 years
10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest counties
11. 77,500 more nurses
12. 19,300 more doctors
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
16. Banned anti-personnel mines
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice at any time
18. New Deal - helped over a million people into work
19. Local government funding has increased by a third in real terms
20. Equalised the age of consent for gay men
21. Free entry to all national museums and galleries
22. Overseas aid budget more than doubled
23. Restored city-wide government to London
24. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997
25. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
26. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
27. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
28. The biggest rolling stock replacement programme ever seen on our railways
29. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
30. Over 28,000 more teachers in England schools
31. Implemented the Freedom of Information Act
32. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
33. Record rises in the state pension
34. 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
35. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
36. Banned handguns
37. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
38. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
39. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
40. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
41. Record police numbers in Scotland
42. Implemented the Human Rights Act
43. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
44. Free TV licences for over-75s
45. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
46. Halved maximum waiting times for NHS operations
47. Free local bus travel for the over-60s and the disabled in Wales and Scotland
48. Record number of students in higher education
49. Extended the Race Relations Act so that all public bodies and functions now have a duty to promote race equality
50. Five, six and seven-year-olds in class sizes of 30 or less
OUTSTANDING!!
Oh ffs, Pete, NO!
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"Because we've had Labour Government not Tory Government, we have seen impressive achievements for our people.
And all of it is built on the sturdy foundations of a stable, growing economy and low unemployment, delivered by Gordon Brown.
This means a new life for millions of people. I think of what it means for my own City of Salford. In the 1980s, unemployment blighted the whole city. In 2 wards, half the men were unemployed. Public services were run down. The council didn't have the cash to make the repairs and improvements that were needed. Crime was rife.
Twenty years ago, Salford was filled with the sound of demolition, the wrecking ***** wiping out the industrial base.
The quays were a waste ground. Communities under pressure. People without hope.
Today, cranes fill the skyline, there are more people employed in Salford Quays than when it was a working docks. And soon the BBC will relocate to Salford Quays, bring a new wave of opportunities, jobs, and investment into the heart of a City which those Tories couldn't even find on a map.
It is not confined to Salford, either. Look around the great cities of Britain, go to Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff or Newcastle,
and you can see a new confidence, a new Renaissance.
The British entrepreneurial spirit flourishing against a backdrop of economic stability and renewed public services.
This transformation of our cities,
of our economy,
of the prospects for our young people,
is no accident of history;
no fluke of fortune.
............................ It is because we have a Labour Government"
"Because we've had Labour Government not Tory Government, we have seen impressive achievements for our people.
And all of it is built on the sturdy foundations of a stable, growing economy and low unemployment, delivered by Gordon Brown.
This means a new life for millions of people. I think of what it means for my own City of Salford. In the 1980s, unemployment blighted the whole city. In 2 wards, half the men were unemployed. Public services were run down. The council didn't have the cash to make the repairs and improvements that were needed. Crime was rife.
Twenty years ago, Salford was filled with the sound of demolition, the wrecking ***** wiping out the industrial base.
The quays were a waste ground. Communities under pressure. People without hope.
Today, cranes fill the skyline, there are more people employed in Salford Quays than when it was a working docks. And soon the BBC will relocate to Salford Quays, bring a new wave of opportunities, jobs, and investment into the heart of a City which those Tories couldn't even find on a map.
It is not confined to Salford, either. Look around the great cities of Britain, go to Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff or Newcastle,
and you can see a new confidence, a new Renaissance.
The British entrepreneurial spirit flourishing against a backdrop of economic stability and renewed public services.
This transformation of our cities,
of our economy,
of the prospects for our young people,
is no accident of history;
no fluke of fortune.
............................ It is because we have a Labour Government"