Down the Turkish Drain
 

Yesterday we were treated to the revelation by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that our beloved country had run out of money. Indeed so strapped for cash are we that there will be no scope for Tax cuts to stimulate economic growth in the coming budget.

Times are hard and it is no surprise that belt tightening is the order of the day, no matter how painful it might be.

Which makes this little gem of a story all the harder to bear.....


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...er-system.html



First it was begging India to take aid money it didn't want to save civil service and parliamentary blushes and now this.

How much more of our hard earned is being chucked down the gurgler while we are having to make do and mend?

Explain to me again, Graham Jones, just why it is that you think continued membership of the EU is in Britians best interests.




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I thought this was going to be about the 80 million pounds that Britain is giving to Turkey to repair the sewers there.
Turkey doesn't need money from the UK......they have a big manufacturing base and should be required to maintain their own sewerage system without any help from the UK

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Oh, and as for an answer to the question posed, for the attention of our MP......I hope you are sitting down......in a comfy chair....you will have a long wait!

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throwing money down the crapper springs to mind

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I am already resigned to it being considered a rhetorical question, Margaret.:(

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that's the sad part of it......we resign ourselves to the disappointment.
Perhaps that is part of the problem. Clearly, our MP has got it into his head that his constituents(or at least 95% of them) couldn't give a toss about what is going on with the EU......he assumes we are people of narrow vision, and narrower experience.

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Our MP listen to those that voted for him!!!
Never.
Unfortunately he has joined the rest of them at the trough.

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You don't climb the greasy pole if you support your voters instead of obeying Adenoid Ed, junior whip today, the world tomorrow:rolleyes:

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'Millions of pounds of British aid is being used to upgrade Turkey’s sewage system, MPs have been told.'


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Doesn't it make you feel proud to be part of the European Union?

Even though we've never been asked if want to be a member.

Whilst we have Graham Jones as our M.P., we never will get the chance to have our say.

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Let's hear it for the European Union!

May all the turds now flow easily under the streets of Istanbul.

Thanks to our hefty financial contributions.

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Not forgetting three cheers for Graham Jones M.P.

Who stated that a referendum would settle E.U. membership 'democratically', though voted that we shouldn't have that democratic right.

Mainly because politicans know best, and we're all a bit too thick to understand it properly.

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Hip, hip...

No?

Fair enough.

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You may think giving aid to Turkey is crazy; but what about this for nonsense:

Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: We give £27m aid to Argentina

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This is just another reason we should pull out of the EU, when your paying money into a central fund and have no control over where its being spent the game really is up, wonder if our illustrious MP thinks this acceptable for the EU to do this:mad:

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It would have probably been much more, but they cocked up wi turning those 2 cruise ships away.:rolleyes:

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hang on havnt argentina just started sanctions on us and will no longe rbe buying british products

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Yeh they certainly have, but still its only our money.:rolleyes: as argentina aint in the E.U. I would love to know the excuse fer this un.:rolleyes:

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it wouldnt sting so much if it was £27 million worth of rockets we were fireing at them but even so this country continues to give money to others while its own citizens either make do or go without and that money could be spent a lot better elsewhere.

thats over £100 million given out in 2 days and thats just what we get to hear about

and teh government has the nerve to put our fuel up,gas,electric,food, ...well everything really to pay for their generosity to other countries

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Here's a bit more about the bits you don't generally get to hear about, unless you listen very carefully to the Chancellors budget statement to the House.

The total overseas aid budget looks like this....

2011-2012 £8,550m

2012-2013 £8,813m

2013-2014 £11,554m

2014-2015 £12,162m


A grand total of £41,079,000,000.oo


of your hard earned cash to be given away over four years.

No wonder wee Georgie Osbourne can't find enough cash to stimulate the economy with.

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But there are even more interesting bits the further you dig.

You know that place that used to be called Rhodesia? You know, the place where they want to dig up the body of Cecil Rhodes and send it back to the UK and whose president doesn't have anything nice at all to say about the UK? Guess how much we are going to be contributing to keeping him in the style to which he has become accustomed.....

You'll laugh...

Three hundred and fifty three Million Pounds

£353,000,000.00


just think what you could do here for destitute families or the elderly with that amount of cash.


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Add to that .. the 50 mill a day we are giving the EU for membership

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Write to your MP he's a good listener:rolleyes:

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Eh who said that? Constituents what are they?:rolleyes:

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And the Donkeys who infest Scaitcliffe Towers are making a song and dance about saving a couple of million. So selfish when there are dictators all over the world who are crying out for our cash.

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I have already sent him an e-mail regarding the EU , you can read his reply in the tread -How'd you vote in an E.U. referendum? - post #165... Seriously lol ..the guy doesn't know his elbow from his *** ( dont want another warning from Neil :p :), If he thinks the EU is good for us :mad:

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To save anyone searching for it ill quote our local mp's response and also add that this is the man that said twice on here he would support a referendum