Reply to: What a great budget!!

[r0bly0ns]

Next year, the indications are that you will be £2.25 better off.

Thanks Darling

[shaunbhoy]

There are, it's just that the little bastards can't read a map written in English!

The only solution is to press them into naval service then. None of them can read maps/charts either.

[lilelvis2000]

Kids can't read maps full stop. It's all about polution and environmental issues in geography classes these days. And that's when they can find time to teach geog inbetween lessons on handling personal debts and why it's wrong to carry weapons

You mean the schools teach kids how to scam banks to acquire debt...and then walk away from it and then be handed a CCJ.

[threaded]

Don't forget the extra NI contributions you'll be making.

[PAH]

Kids can't read maps full stop.

Maps are obsolete now we have sat nav. That is the SATs the kids have to take isn't it?

[MrRobin]

There are, it's just that the little bastards can't read a map written in English!

Kids can't read maps full stop. It's all about polution and environmental issues in geography classes these days. And that's when they can find time to teach geog inbetween lessons on handling personal debts and why it's wrong to carry weapons

[MrRobin]

Hmm, difference is, Falklands were invaded by another country and we went to defend, not the other way round.

[oracleslave]

non-PC for a start. I'm sure there's no maps up on the walls of school classrooms depicting the "war" in Iraq.

Why be pc? It's a friggin war!

[Churchill]

non-PC for a start. I'm sure there's no maps up on the walls of school classrooms depicting the "war" in Iraq.

There are, it's just that the little bastards can't read a map written in English!

[KathyWoolfe]

I was in the last year of primary school in 1982. We had a map of the Falklands on the wall and each morning we would stick pins in the map to show the British advance.

Somehow, I can't see schools doing that these days...

non-PC for a start. I'm sure there's no maps up on the walls of school classrooms depicting the "war" in Iraq.

[shaunbhoy]

You have 20 children??

Nowhere near. You'll have to forgive churchill, the process of reproduction is something that is beyond his comprehension you see. His family have yet to discover sexual intercourse, preferring to prolong the family line by raiding warthog litters. Might go some way to explaining why his wives keep leaving him and he is forced to take solace in ever more impractical cars.

HTH

[ratewhore]

I don't see why not, when we've struggled through two gulf wars and an Afghan campaign for starters.

And some of us are old enough to remember being blitzed non-stop for weeks by headlines about the Falklands War. So give us middle-aged generation a break - we've done our bit!

I was in the last year of primary school in 1982. We had a map of the Falklands on the wall and each morning we would stick pins in the map to show the British advance.

Somehow, I can't see schools doing that these days...

[Marina]

[..] I suppose it's only fair those that struggled through the second world war enjoy some perks in their old age. There will be none of that for us lot I'm sure.

I don't see why not, when we've struggled through two gulf wars and an Afghan campaign for starters.

And some of us are old enough to remember being blitzed non-stop for weeks by headlines about the Falklands War. So give us middle-aged generation a break - we've done our bit!

[KathyWoolfe]

£7k better off apparently - as long as I keep working in my present contract until the next budget!

[Churchill]

You have 20 children??

ShaunBhoy in "God bless Family Allowance" mode!

Well, every sperm is sacred!