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Coalition of Chaos
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Of course the real issue here is now that the DUP has its grubby paws on the Westminster button, where is its incentive to return to power sharing? This has the potential to destroy the Good Friday agreement, all so the Tories can cling onto power. The Docklands and Manchester IRA bombs were 21 years ago, we don't need to return to that.
All hail Mother Theresa.Taking a break from contractingComment
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The real issue... is you have a government that'll strike off the ill on disability and send them to work to recover a few £ per week. Or they'll skimp £2 per square meter on cladding causing the lives of many but they can find a billion pounds to buy 10 or so votes from terrorist sympathisers.Originally posted by chopper View PostOf course the real issue here is now that the DUP has its grubby paws on the Westminster button, where is its incentive to return to power sharing?
Why people are not marching the streets. The French would have shut down their country already."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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So what 3/4 weeks of money we would have given the eu?
Not ott in the grand scheme of things really.
Unless you have an axe to grind obviously.Comment
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These days £1trn is peanuts.Originally posted by original PM View PostSo what 3/4 weeks of money we would have given the eu?
Not ott in the grand scheme of things really.
Unless you have an axe to grind obviously.
Exactly. Tin pot Italians spent 5x bailing out one tulipty bankrupt Italian bank.
We send 10x to India in "aid" for them to buy nuclear weapons and a space station.Comment
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I used to wonder what NI contributions on my payslip meant.
Now I know."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Coalition of Chaos
It stands for No Income - ie your tax money goes to people with No income.Originally posted by scooterscot View PostI used to wonder what NI contributions on my payslip meant.
Now I know.
This may be a disabled veteran, a single mother at home with the kids, a pensioner, or just a lazy farker.Comment
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Tag team with OldSmeg?Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostHoping that's capital funding. Nice little business opportunity there.Comment
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Except in YOUR particular case it stood for Naturally Imbecilic!Originally posted by scooterscot View PostI used to wonder what NI contributions on my payslip meant.
Now I know.
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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