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Showing results 1 to 25 of 37 Search took 0.00 seconds. Search: Posts Made By: Margaret Pilkington

Forum: General Chat 11-12-2011, 09:38

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling John....when did I inherit your keyboard?....just noticed a couple of glaring typos in there........must be because I am sat here in the gloom of this Sunday morning using 'Misers light'(daylight)...

Forum: General Chat 11-12-2011, 09:09

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Eric, it WAS twaddle until it was translated. I once took time to read a long diatribe of his to find that even when translated it made no sense and he contradicted himself several.........I told...

Forum: General Chat 10-12-2011, 20:38

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Well, if I can't make sense of it Eric, then as far as I am concerned it is twaddle. To be honest, I could not be bothered trying to work out what he was saying. I'm too bloody old to be wasting my...

Forum: General Chat 10-12-2011, 14:22

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Why on earth apologise? It is he who should apologise for subjecting us to the badly written, hardly punctuated, twaddle. And I would like to say that I am being kind when I call it that.

Forum: General Chat 10-12-2011, 13:56

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling I have read this and it makes no sense to me...nothing much new there then........maybe if it was punctuated properly it might have some sense in it...but do I want to be bothered?.....nah!

Forum: General Chat 09-12-2011, 19:52

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Glad to hear he is on the mend. Thanks for the info.

Forum: General Chat 09-12-2011, 18:54

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling John, there comes a time I suppose, when you can no longer ignore a situation....fortunately, I haven't been there myself yet...but have helped others who have. I like helping out. It makes me feel...

Forum: General Chat 09-12-2011, 18:38

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling John, I have done that too.....saved all of my life.... even if it was only a few bob...... if it was left over at the end of the week it went into the savings tin. Fat lot of good it has done me. ...

Forum: General Chat 09-12-2011, 16:31

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling But there is a flaw in that solution, why would a council employ steet sweepers if the unemployed were going to do it to get their benefits?....or whatever it was that it was decided was the right...

Forum: General Chat 09-12-2011, 10:37

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Maybe if we had all sat on our haunches, instead of getting up and going to work. things would be different.......none of us would have had a pot to.......well, you get my drift. It was very...

Forum: General Chat 09-12-2011, 06:13

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Nothing at all, but I think it was thrown in to highlight the inequalites of life....which have been there since time immemorial........now this isn't going to change unless some government comes in...

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 16:25

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Keeping up to date with current affairs too.

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 13:34

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling I am not defending this government or George Osborne...simply stating facts. Recent facts, that you seem to have missed...or perhaps just ignored. But then again it doesn't suit your argument to...

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 12:25

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling That is a spot on assessment of the problem. And I agree wholeheartedly. The entitlements need to change. There needs to be reform of the benefits system. No-one wants to tackle it....but it has to...

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 12:13

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling In George Osborne's Autumn statement he uplifted benefits and incapacity benefit by 5.2%, the rate of inflation in September. Ah, you may say...it is traditional to do that...increase benefits by...

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 12:08

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Oh, and by the way I didn't say anywhere that the people without a work ethic are the cause of all our woes......but they are part of it......but it is much more complicated than that and you know...

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 12:02

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling I am glad you clarified your meaning. These people who have no power...they have the same power as you or I. You worked to pay into the system. You have the power of a vote....they too have the...

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 10:49

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling And why did the governemnt have to borrow this money? Might it have been because the last government(sorry about bringing this up) left nothing in the country's coffers because of their profligate...

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 10:45

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Why would John be a problem....might it be because he is on benefits? Benefits, he has earned over the years. He did work for those...as you have worked for yours. Therein lies the difference.

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 09:53

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling John, you and I know that Mancie and his sidekick believe that everything the Labour governments did whilst in office was hunky dory.....he knows that in the past you were a conservative...

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 07:13

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Utter rubbish Mancie. If I thought that, I would not have made a better life for myself by education, perseverance and hard work...starting at the bottom and working up.......but that doesn't suit...

Forum: General Chat 07-12-2011, 14:21

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling No Less, there was no luck involved in how I turned my life around. I studied, and I worked...and I studied some more. When I left school in 1962 there were more young people than jobs. I got up...

Forum: General Chat 07-12-2011, 13:38

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling And it isn't luck that makes someone employable.....and you know it. It is application, application to learn, application to adapt, being willing to do something that perhaps someone else won't do. ...

Forum: General Chat 07-12-2011, 13:35

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Is it only a tiny minority who live exclusively on benefits? I know at least three families who have never worked...ever. And yes, it is disgraceful that when caught the benefit cheats get...

Forum: General Chat 07-12-2011, 13:06

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling No Less, you are not a scrounger. You have paid into the system and are claiming what is yours. You will pay into the system again, when you are employed....you are employable, you have a...

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