Jump to content

Agrajag

Members
  • Content Count

    371
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Community Reputation

10 Neutral

About Agrajag

  • Rank
    Registered User
  • Birthday 04/10/1971

Personal Information

  • Location
    S66
  1. I hope that was sarcasm. Looking at the PC Harwood's record, he was obviously a law unto himself who snaked his way out of disciplinary action prior to this incident.
  2. So people who don't work are lazy and people who do work all their lives are stupid?
  3. Your education () was subsidised, and if (god forbid) you were hit by a bus or you got cancer, you think the NI contributions you have paid so far would cover your treatment? Get off your high horse, everyone in the UK is subsidised to some extent, no matter how much they earn.
  4. The ConDems have been in power for 2 years, and immigration is higher now than when Labour was in power.
  5. If companies such as Vodafone paid the correct amount of tax, it would go a long way to sorting out the countries financial problems. About £18 Billion is spent every year on Jobseekers Allowance and Housing Benefit, yet it's estimated that £25 billion is lost every year to tax avoidance. Close that tax gap and the problem sorts itself out. How would you do that? Forced sterilisation? Euphanasia for the over 65s? Nobody is about to tell people to stop having babies. Check some local property ads and you'll see that a great many of the properties available for private rent are ex-council houses which only came on to the market after John Major's property crash in the 90s. This made them a good investment to anyone looking to buy to let.
  6. When deciding who is eligable for disability benefits, you would think that since every disabled/sick person's circumstances are very different, they would use their discretion there, but they don't. It's far easier and cheaper to divide people up into certain groups depending on which boxes they tick on a form. The same will no doubt happen here.
  7. The rules of supply and demand would say that if the country had an over abundance of affordable housing then house prices would drop, catastrophically. Any government, left or right has to strike a balance: enough houses to go around, but just enough so people have to fight over them to keep prices high. Would you still support a mass house building programme if it meant that your house could lose up to 50% of its value? It's interesting to note that the population of the UK is rising by 0.7% per year, yet the rise in the numbers of dwellings is only 0.5%
  8. I remember the last time I was out of work, I was constantly hassled by the Job Centre to show exactly what I was doing to find work, under the threat of having my benefits stopped. Maybe keeping track of so many job seekers is more difficult since many of the people who used to do that are now looking for jobs themselves. Personally, I see this speech by Cameron as way of distracting attention from the tax evaders (or avoiders), who are far worse in my opinion than the so-called spongers. At least social security benefits get pumped straight back into the British economy and not into some off-shore bank account.
  9. The Police and security services wont need a warrant, they will have 24/7 real-time access.
  10. This really is nothing to do with terrorism. This goes back to the London riots, where Blackberries and other forms of instant messaging were partly blamed for allowing the rioters to organise. What if I attended a perfectly legal protest and it turned bad, and during the confusion I was arrested. They could trawl through every message and email I had sent for the previous two years, looking for anything that might incriminate me. Something as relatively innocent as a post on a forum such as this, months before saying something like "I hate this government, something should be done about them.", might get me promoted from a wrongly arrested protester to a ringleader.
  11. OK, since you care little for privacy, perhaps you can post your email login details so we can all have a read?
  12. ...or a P2P user. Does it not occur to anyone that if a terrorist or criminal wasn't sure that he was being monitored, then he might just take the risk, only to end up incriminating himself. If he knew for certain that he was being monitored, then he might take the appropriate precautions, such as using proxies/Tor/Freenet or an encrypted VPN. Seems a bit self-defeating to me...
  13. £70 billion per year in interest payments on the debt created mostly by giving money to the banks.
  14. Brilliant! Sure, if I had terminal cancer there's no other way I would rather spend my remaining time than to keep a few Daily Mail readers happy by wasting it doing a pointless menial task. The treatment for cancer is a deadly poison which poisons the tumor slightly faster than it poisons the rest of your body. Who wouldn't want to do a 40 hour week with that cr@p floating around their system.
  15. Throwing money at the banks caused the deficit, but then again the unemployed and the disabled are a much easier target aren't they. Since the government themselves concede that there are only less than half a million vacancies at the moment, do you have any suggestion as to where the other 2 million jobs might come from?
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.