Election 2024

[pieguts]

yep i'm in the 67 category so years to go yet by which time my ESA (sickness benefit in actual words) will have decreased to nil since it goes down each year including the year it went up 10%

I can’t remember exactly when it changed, so not sure by how many months / years I missed it, but like you guys 67 for me.
However, in my case, I have a very generous final salary pension which is enabling me to retire at the end of March.

 

[pieguts]

Been grafting since 1977, when I was lumping bags of cement about, and slinging rubble in a skip. About ready for a ****ing rest tbh.

I said similar to my boy a while back. I’ve been earning my own money since I was 12 years old and doing both a morning and evening paper round. By the time I was 14 I had a Saturday job in a ship chandlers making up short lengths of wire with crimped ends, which were for the gas board who fitted them to the backs of gas cookers and a wall, as we were going over to North Sea gas which was odourless! At 16 I was straight into an apprenticeship and have never been out of work since.
49 out of my 61 years, I been earning in some capacity, now it’s time to put my feet up.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

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[brb]

I said similar to my boy a while back. I’ve been earning my own money since I was 12 years old and doing both a morning and evening paper round. By the time I was 14 I had a Saturday job in a ship chandlers making up short lengths of wire with crimped ends, which were for the gas board who fitted them to the backs of gas cookers and a wall, as we were going over to North Sea gas which was odourless! At 16 I was straight into an apprenticeship and have never been out of work since.
49 out of my 61 years, I been earning in some capacity, now it’s time to put my feet up.

Forgot I use to do a paper round, Evening Post in them days, which covered all The Gills stories so I was happy.

 

[pieguts]

Forgot I use to do a paper round, Evening Post in them days, which covered all The Gills stories so I was happy.

That was it. Had to cycle to some woman’s house which was about a mile away to pick up the papers. All I really remember was there was about 30 kids in her house, it seemed like carnage!

 

[Welshie]

Next PM betting. Who the **** is Alistair Carns?

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Carns is one of the most popular in the Labour set up, don't forget in Labour its direct voting for leader. So whoever is actually popular with members actually gets the job.

Carns is a hell of public speaker and very popular in Scotland.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Carns is one of the most popular in the Labour set up, don't forget in Labour its direct voting for leader. So whoever is actually popular with members actually gets the job.

Carns is a hell of public speaker and very popular in Scotland.

Don’t believe you. Think they’ve made him up in the hope of mug bets.

 

[Welshie]

Trouble is you got people like Ed Miliband's old advisor Sonia or whatever her name stroking the medias **** stirring. All these ****ers don't care about us, it;s all about their own personal egos and airtime.

Me and you should be his advisers, we'd just be telling them to **** off he's staying

what the **** they gonna do? Not vote for the budget, do me a favour.

 

[Welshie]

It's that too - we bought the place in 2006 - mortgage 25 years... but the property was a two bedroom bungalow in a state of disrepair - its now a 3 bedroom (our ensuite) with extensions on the side for ours and one of the girls bedrooms, and a kitchen extended outwards (back) new bathroom and a utility room ... completely rewired and plumbed and with a whole new roof ... we moved in summer of 2007 (planning permission was a bastard) ...

... but now we've been here for 20 years and property prices in this part of Hertfordshire have gone ballistic...

So to answer your question - could sell and move... and retire ... but if the youngest decides to do her masters, will likely keep it going...

For as much as Fosse goes on about Trump, he IS this websites version of the man.

What is this rambling ego fest we are seeing here?

 

[Solid Air]

I can’t remember exactly when it changed, so not sure by how many months / years I missed it, but like you guys 67 for me.
However, in my case, I have a very generous final salary pension which is enabling me to retire at the end of March.

same here was retired on medical grounds so got 6 years added to my actual years worked .and while not a big sum it's enough .

 

[brb]

Me and you should be his advisers, we'd just be telling them to **** off he's staying

what the **** they gonna do? Not vote for the budget, do me a favour.

At the moment the markets are stable and calm, as soon as major personnel change all hell will let loose again. So yeah I'd just tell all wannabe's to stfu and get their arses behind supporting Starmer. If you really want to help the less well off, don't go causing any chaos. We went through all this **** with Boris and we ended up with Truss losing the economy £30B, with the banks neccessitating a £65B bond buying intervention to protect pension funds. Angela can't even work out how much stamp duty to pay, so why would we trust her with nations economy.

 

[duggie2000]

Yeah I started work in 1977, although actually left school at 15, never realised you couldn't go full time until 16, but it just meant I had to wait for a few months and a company took me straight on. H&S was non existent in 77. Loved those days, only worries in the world was paying for my motorbike and going down the pub...not to forget match days - then that thing called responsibility came along.

Started work in 1963 and finally retired in 2019

 

[Sucky]

For as much as Fosse goes on about Trump, he IS this websites version of the man.

What is this rambling ego fest we are seeing here?

You really think trunp has a repulsive personality ?

 

[FosseFilberto]

i didn't ask a questiom

As if that would deter me...

 

[FosseFilberto]

Yeah I started work in 1977, although actually left school at 15, never realised you couldn't go full time until 16, but it just meant I had to wait for a few months and a company took me straight on. H&S was non existent in 77. Loved those days, only worries in the world was paying for my motorbike and going down the pub...not to forget match days - then that thing called responsibility came along.

Worked in my parents off-licence from about 15 years old until going to Uni in 1979 ... no auto tills - pad and paper or do the mental maths in your head - used to cut and weigh Leicester Red cheese from the big wheels with a knife ffs

 

[Sucky]

Indeed. We also have a falling birth rate, which is common to most wealthy nations. So with an aging population and less young people to do the jobs that are needed, the only way out of this is to encourage immigration. But don't tell @Sucky

Encourage immigration


We do mate, by letting them land in boats, housing them in hotels and giving them a free life in a free country where we don’t deport them for raping our kids and blowing up our landscape and decapitating our population

How’s that going btw more illegals and legal immigrants than ever before and what state is the country in now?

Nah I’m just not having this bullshit argument anymore from pink haired lesbians with BO and a free Palestine flag that sell honey to bees

 

[PINKIE]

Encourage immigration


We do mate, by letting them land in boats, housing them in hotels and giving them a free life in a free country where we don’t deport them for raping our kids and blowing up our landscape and decapitating our population

How’s that going btw more illegals and legal immigrants than ever before and what state is the country in now?

Nah I’m just not having this bullshit argument anymore from pink haired lesbians with BO and a free Palestine flag that sell honey to bees

When you're an old fella and need your arse wiping, you'll be grateful for the Somalian care worker who was given a job here.

 

[Sucky]

When you're an old fella and need your arse wiping, you'll be grateful for the Somalian care worker who was given a job here.

My missus is a carer mate

She wipes my arse now

Buy some lynx Africa and stop eating rugs bro

Morning btw

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Encourage immigration


We do mate, by letting them land in boats, housing them in hotels and giving them a free life in a free country where we don’t deport them for raping our kids and blowing up our landscape and decapitating our population

How’s that going btw more illegals and legal immigrants than ever before and what state is the country in now?

Nah I’m just not having this bullshit argument anymore from pink haired lesbians with BO and a free Palestine flag that sell honey to bees

When you do beginner’s Economics you get all the little charts and theory about why immigration is good but there’s little real life nuance to it. It assumes people come to join the work force, they’ll either have kids who do so too and will possibly head home to retire.

There are bad migrants and good migrants. When there was the big Eastern European influx we over indexed in the good. Windrush similar though neither were perfect. Now we’re over indexing in bad and getting both emigration and relatively few productive immigrants. I find it a bit disingenuous to use an argument that used to be very valid but clearly isn’t any more.

 

[PINKIE]

My missus is a carer mate

She wipes my arse now

Buy some lynx Africa and stop eating rugs bro

Morning btw

That's romantic

Marnin' bro