Suggestions for elGordo’s last budget speech

[Bagpuss]

My local council want £1705 to empty my bins, and soon bin emptying will be extra. Still I'm sure putting on lesbian puppet theatre isn't cheap these days.

[Ivor1]

My local council want £1705 to empty my bins, and soon bin emptying will be extra. Still I'm sure putting on lesbian puppet theatre isn't cheap these days.

I have to pay an extra £100 to park outside my own home as well

[SallyAnne]

That must onlu be in the north then or more a reflection of your local council. I was born and bred up North and lived in London now for the last 10 years.

Here are some changes I noticed in my 10 years in London,

1. I tend to be the only white man on my tube carriage most days, Im not racest but it reflects on the immigration policy.

2. My council tax is £2100 a year for a joe blogs average 3 bedroom semi, gone up 5% most years, and its a labour council.

3. I cant get an NHS dentist.

4. I can never get an appointment to see my doctors.

5. Prices and taxes are now so high you are constantly needing to earn more.

6. I fear for my contract security as NL are making some stupied tax demands that I have no choice but to up my rate and risk loosing my client to India.

7. I feel far from safe and risk most days on my journey into work which is an1 hr each way tube journey. For f*cks sake I had to make sure my life insurance would cover me for death by terrisum !

I dont want to here the crap about 'well you have a choice you dont have to live in London', some people dont have a choice for family reasons etc.


On the flip side I also dont like Cameron, but NL cant go on.

Ivor - you wont be the only white man on the tube like, come on talk sense man. i think you shoudl accept that you are a bit racist if you feel like you're the only white man on the tube

The dentist thing is true - what are the Tories proposnig to do about that?

The doctors I had since being born has always been the same - people always had to wait about a week to get an appointment. My folks are still with them, and STILL have to wait a week.
However, I joined a new doctors last year, Dr Chababra - lovely little Indian fella. Due to the inherently racist population in this country, I can get an appointment with him the same day. Fantastic


Prices and taxes - like I said before, I dont notice, as I'm very well off.

Contract security....thats like job security, but for rich people isn't it? Hmmm Tories and job security...where to start....

Terrorism - IRA? 80's?

[SallyAnne]

Hmmmm......lived in Glasgow in 1997, spent 14 months in Manchester in 1999/2000 and 6 months in Leeds in 2004.

How much was the wager? although you'll have to come down here to pay up, as I clearly wouldn't know how to speak with the common folk "up north".

Well you should know better than coming out with that kind of stereotyping drivvel then shouldn't you?

[freakydancer]

Well you should know better than coming out with that kind of stereotyping drivvel then shouldn't you?

Which was what then?

I asked you if you watched corination st and read the sun. I didn't ask you if you worked in a pit, ate chips with everything and bred ferrets did I?

[wonderwaif]

Ivor - you wont be the only white man on the tube like, come on talk sense man. i think you shoudl accept that you are a bit racist if you feel like you're the only white man on the tube

The dentist thing is true - what are the Tories proposnig to do about that?

The doctors I had since being born has always been the same - people always had to wait about a week to get an appointment. My folks are still with them, and STILL have to wait a week.
However, I joined a new doctors last year, Dr Chababra - lovely little Indian fella. Due to the inherently racist population in this country, I can get an appointment with him the same day. Fantastic


Prices and taxes - like I said before, I dont notice, as I'm very well off.

Contract security....thats like job security, but for rich people isn't it? Hmmm Tories and job security...where to start....

Terrorism - IRA? 80's?

The Tube thing - quite possible he is the only white in his carriage depending on where he lives. I'm not sure about London, but parts of Sheffield are predominantly afro/caribbean or Asian. Not racist. just fact.

Tories and dentists - Don't know, you have me there.

Doctors - You're lucky, my wife has never been offered an appointment less than 3 weeks away.

Prices - "I don't notice. I'm very well off" = Champaign Socialist

Job security - Alright under labour if you want to work for the state.

Terrorism + IRA - Not sure how that was Maggies fault, but Tony's answer was to let all the murderers out of prison.

[SallyAnne]

Which was what then?

I asked you if you watched corination st and read the sun. I didn't ask you if you worked in a pit, ate chips with everything and bred ferrets did I?

Thats the modern day equivalent

[Ivor1]

No Im not racest at all its just an observation, may be a slight exaggeration, for the last 10mins of the journey in and first 10mins out its more mixed. I can take pictures to prove this.

I take the Tube in from North London, so stop at Rayners Lane, Harrow, Northwick Park and Wembley and if anyone knows these areas they know what I mean. I come through KingsX everyday where the bombers met and even take the number 30 bus to finish my journey !

Anyway my point was IMO up North the issues are not as apperent as they are London, may be in certain parts of the north they are but I recon London its more obvious. I regually go up north so I can see it with my own eyes.

I would personally move back up north but family reasons mean I cant do this.

[SallyAnne]

No Im not racest at all its just an observation, may be a slight exaggeration, for the last 10mins of the journey in and first 10mins out its more mixed. I can take pictures to prove this.

I take the Tube in from North London, so stop at Rayners Lane, Harrow, Northwick Park and Wembley and if anyone knows these areas they know what I mean.

Anyway my point was IMO up North the issues are not as apperent as they are London. I regually go up north so I can see it with my own eyes. I would personally move back up north but family reasons mean I cant do this.

You're probably right.

[threaded]

The Rates and Income Tax have gone down for me, even though I earned more last year.

Maybe it's the not living in England thing that has helped slightly.