These dirty buggers in power keep harping on and making statements like "We are all living longer" to justify raising the pension age. That's c r a p as only some people are living longer "The Bankers and the Royal family and the super rich in general as they get the very best of healthcare available with No waiting li...more

The same kind of thing happened under the rule of the Hated Thatcher and the band of thieves, Liars and Cheats that made up her government. Many young men killed themselves back then due to being pushed to a point of desperation with no way out and life becoming impossible. History is repeating itself under this Coalit...more

You have to laugh or you would cry." Hosepipe ban"!, there should never be a hosepipe ban in the UK, it rains everyday somewhere and its a tiny country. If the reservoirs didn't leak along with all the faulty pipes and the greedy water companies had sufficient staff and fixed ALL the leaks when they were reported too t...more

I think what you say is drivel. If the council houses had not been stolen in the first place the low paid would be living in them instead of claiming benefits from the Taxpayer to fund private landlords. If you or your family benefited from the sale of the publicly owned council houses you will be all for the scheme o...more

Not all the people are idiots, they did what they could afford to do, some will have managed their own investment portfolios and from what I have seen they will be better off than letting the so called experts manage their stocks and shares investments as a trained chimp could do better.

I presented the side of the Majority who ended up on the streets and the majority of Taxpayers in the form of PAYE (it seems the only ones who actually pay their share and more o the taxes)  I Pointed out correctly that council houses were there for citizens on a low income so they could work and keep a roof over thei...more

The problem is that people have to live somewhere, after the council houses were sold off many have to live in rented accomodation at the mercy of greedy private landlords and the ever increasing fees demanded by profiteering Energy and Water companies. This means the local authority has to subsidise the rents as the m...more

The Tory bankers have a lot to answer for.

Kelvin, What's your point? I said correctly that many folk lived in a council house with low rents because they were low paid but the two together meant they could marry and bring up a family. Thatcher came to power and allowed the low paid to buy their council houses, they had to stay in them for a few years paying th...more