MrSmith Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Benefit reform? Won't happen, and if it does it's just a vote winning exercise to shut the Daily Mail readers up. And before you or anyone else starts, if I could get work that paid well enough for me to come off benefits, I would willingly do so. Escalante example of why benefits need cutting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Mate, don't even start! I do NOT live the "life of Riley" on benefits, I'm only on them because I am disabled, and thus cannot get a job other than volunteer work. Wats up thee lad? You seem to spout on here often enough. Tha carnt be that much wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey19 Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 I have met Rich and can substantiate what he claims his reasons are for claiming benefits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuy Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Little ed is a waste of space and will be lucky to see the next election if labour don't wipe the floor with the Tories when it's council election time. And yeah Blair would walk it. He walked it after the Iraq war and I think, like it or not, that he'd walk it now. With regards to no old school politicians we do have dear old ken clarke. Labour missed a trick by not electing David Milliband as leader; the Tories were dreading this, and they all breathed a collective sigh of relief when they elected Millhouses from the Simpsons as leader instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vague_Boy Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 There current crop of MPs do not appear to be very working class, and seem to have absolutely no concept of how to connect with there core voters. Welcome to modern politics. Should Labour go back to the old school and bring back blair? Since when is Tony Blair "old school"? The man perverted the concept of the Labour party with his NuLabour experiment. But I doubt you'll get him back into UK politics. This "man of the people" is too busy sucking bankster **** and living the life of a multi-millionaire to spare a thought for the likes of you. Rupert Murdoch he had plenty of time for. The mystery of Tony Blair's finances The former prime minister Tony Blair has received millions of pounds through an unusual mixture of commercial, charitable and religious income streams. Since he stepped down from office in 2007, his financial affairs have been described by observers as "Byzantine" and "opaque". The Guardian is now launching an online competition offering a prize to the person who can shine the brightest light on those financial structures. Blair has a commercial consultancy, called Tony Blair Associates, plus jobs advising a US bank and a Swiss insurer. He has a multimillion pound book deal. He also has a charity, the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, and another called the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. But much of the income, which includes charitable donations from other sources, has been funnelled through a structure called Windrush Ventures No 3 Limited Partnership. Our contest asks: what is Windrush? Blair has a complex web of structures involving 12 different legal entities handling the unprecedented millions he is receiving since he stepped down from office in 2007. So mystifying are the former prime minister's financial structures – which involve highly specialised limited partnerships and parallel companies – that the Guardian today launches an open invitation to tax specialists and accountants to attempt to explain the motivation behind such structures. We have published the Companies House documents and other legal papers regarding the structure of the partnerships at guardian.co.uk and invite expert comment via our site at guardian.co.uk/politics/series/blair-mystery. There is no suggestion Blair is doing anything illegal. But he refuses to explain the purpose of the secretive partnerships. Tax specialists say Blair could use these unusual arrangements at some point in the future to seek to transfer millions tax-free to his four children. LINK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 I have met Rich and can substantiate what he claims his reasons are for claiming benefits. I have been informed by a 3 rd poarty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Escalante example of why benefits need cutting. Won't happen, for various reasons I can't be arsed to go into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuy Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 There current crop of MPs do not appear to be very working class, and seem to have absolutely no concept of how to connect with there core voters. This is because I believe many do not have similar life experiences. Lets face it, most of Labours core voters dont know nowt abaaht owt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 I wish to god we had Tony back as PM. Compared with this one he was heaven sent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fibutton Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 ermmm.....no, they are doing just fine with Millidribbli, leave them too it, however male they think they are they still have no balls, and I don't mean Ed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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