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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
Who exactly do you mean by "we"? Because most people I know, pensioners or not, are "moaning" quite a lot about this incompetent, bungling government.
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Is that the one with 5 million unemployed, interest rates at 15%, leaking hospitals with contracted out cleaning, schools with more than 40 in a class and a police force driving around in squad cars all day whilst crime escalated by any chance? Yes "we" did suffer under the Tories.
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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
And quite frankly, I'm fed up of hearing about eighteen years of Tory rule, Maggie Thatcher, John Major and the rest. This government have been in for nine long years now and I'm more interested in what they're doing, not dredging up ancient history.
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Well I just dredged it up. How about this for a manifesto:
• Every secondary school in Hyndburn refurbished
• Every primary school in Hyndburn undergoing massive refurbishment
• Class sizes under 30 with teaching assistants in classes
• Best exam results in years
• Lowest inflation in decades
• Longest sustained economic growth in decades
• Two brand new Health Centres in Accrington & Ossy (to start with)
• Pensioner minimum income guarantee nearly double that the Tories
• Waiting lists (remember them!!) cut dramatically
• minimum wage
•*lowest unemployment for 30 years
• £100m in private sector housing renewal money to Hyndburn
• £30m for Council Housing
• Record investment in local authorities (wasted in Hyndburn with the Tories)
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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
Quite ironic too, that you seem to pepper your messages with the Cross of St George when the government you so fervently support thinks so little of this country that they allow Scottish MPs to vote on matters which only affect England.
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Sounds like sour grapes to me. The Tories didn't want devolution meaning Scottish MPs (where Scotland has always had its own laws) would still be voting on English matters. What are you suggesting therefore? Your a hypocrite or you think to end the anomoly you would have scrapped Scottish laws?
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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
Still, when you pick up your pittance of a pension, I'm sure you feel a warm glow when you think of all the money that's being spent on a pointless military adventure in Iraq. Well done, Tony Blair and his noble band of class warriors!
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The Tories undid the link between earnings and pensions. As well as throwing people on the scrap heap so the where forced into pensioner poverty later in life. They also encouraged less regulated private pension savings and then watched them get robbed and go bust - or alternatively ran the economy down so they were all devalued anyway. Remember that Wynonie? No, thought not.
And penioners now -
Pension Credit is an entitlement for people aged 60 or over. It guarantees everyone aged 60 and over an income of at least:
£114.05 a week if you are single (would be £84.25 under the Tories)
£174.05 a week if you have a partner (would be £134.75 under the Tories)