Originally Posted by derekgas (Post 639499)

Business owners have all of that, and things like.. A licence to carry waste/rubbish from a customers house to the skip in our yard, an extra charge for emptying the bin, a licence to allow playing the radio in the office, and a different licence to play the radio in the showroom next to the office, now, as we have 2 offices, we have to have 2 licences, (one for each premises) even though it is the same staff listening to the radio, but dependent on which office they are in on the day! The really bugging bit is, we have a licence for a tv in one office, but still have to have the other licence for the radio!

Originally Posted by Benipete (Post 639502)

Bet you were glad when Jimmy Young retired along with "What's The Recipe Today Jim" Just need to elbow the Quizmaster with Ken Bruce and you could be quids in.:D:D

Originally Posted by Benipete (Post 639497)

Font of all knowledge:tongueout

Originally Posted by mothernature (Post 639505)

Now why you picking on good old Ken :D

Originally Posted by emzy (Post 639391)

Says above :D

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 639548)

I did not ask what working tax credit was, I asked what FIS was. I can read and read it all :p

Originally Posted by Benipete (Post 639557)

Family income support - I think:confused:

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 639560)

Family income supplement

Originally Posted by Less (Post 639392)

I think it's Family income supplement, but I can't remember nor from a quick google can I see it being something existing for some time, hasn't it been replaced by tax credits, perhaps someone should copy and paste something more up to date?
:)

Originally Posted by polly (Post 639496)

Blackburn Council have found a whole new way of robbing me and every otherCouncil Tax payer of money: they have introduced free off street parkning on some streets and are going to expand this scheem on Saturdays in the run up to Xmas. this means that non council tax payers from outside the borough are going to be able to park for free and of course the estimated 50,000 pounds that the council will l9oose in revenue will have to be covered from elsewhere,, Guess who will foot the bill? Yes, those who live inside the borough and do not own cars and those who do own cars and do not shop in Blackbure (that is me)
Remember Robin Hood? He used to rob the rich to pay the poor, BwDC rob the poor and pay the rich!

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 639466)

Quite true jaysay...the Tories did sell us up the river by signing up to the Maastricht Treaty back in 1992 ! ;)

Originally Posted by Studio25 (Post 639653)

I just worked out that I'm paying £380 a year for six toilet flushes and the water in 16 cups of tea per week. No wonder they've told me they "aren't able" to fit a water meter...

Might be time to start bringing my own water from home...

Knowing my luck, the performing rights society will come round and charge me for the music I can hear when the bloke in the flat over our shop has his TV on too loud...