Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by Red ones

It's a good job the average Muslim immigrant is a net contributor to the economy then? Someone has to pay for the lazy work shy Brit.

Muslims figure disproportionately among both the unemployed and also jail residents in UK.

46% of the Muslim population lives in the 10% most deprived local authority districts in England and this has increased since the 2001 census.

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by Bibio

the UK has always had unemployed but the good news is that we now have the lowest unemployed figure since 1975. the unemployed dont cost us that much in reality as most of the money they get they spend which the Gov get some back in tax or duty.

what is costing us money is military intervention in other country's in the name of terrorism. for every bullet fired it costs the tax payer 100% of the price of that bullet but we dont see TV programs moaning about that.

Isn't it better still to get money that you haven't paid out in the first place, rather than pay it up front and hope to get a proportion of it back.

If we cut military spending then servicemen may well be added to list of unemployed, but then again they won't cost any more than the long term can work but don't want to work unemployed..

[Bibio]

break the welfare down and its only £2.3b for the unemployed. we more than likely get at lest half of that back.

break the defence down and we spend £7.7b on foreign economic aid (whatever that is)

my point is that there is to much slandering of the unemployed costing us too much when in fact its the other benefits for such things as family tax credits and other benefits for working family's. the Gov should not be paying people to work but they do as the cost of living is out of control.

[SV650rules]

It not so much what welfare costs, I know a few people that have paid loads into system in tax and NI while working but as soon as they need something back they get offered peanuts and told 'you have assets, sell them and come back when you have no money' while the long term-died-in-the-wool-know all the benefits and never worked people seem to do very nicely thank you, seems that if you are a 'regular' you get more help.

[ophic]

Originally Posted by Bibio

break the welfare down and its only £2.3b for the unemployed. we more than likely get at lest half of that back.

You've missed the £27bn or so that gets spent on housing benefit. That's not all unemployed, granted, but all unemployed folks qualify and receive it.

That £2.3bn is unemployment benefits, which is a deliberately small category. The unemployed can and do claim a lot more than that. And it outweighs military spending by a huge margin.

[Red ones]

I day bring back national service. That'll stop the argument as there would be very little unemployment to compare defence with.

My gripe today is people who moan.

[Chris_SVS]

My diagnostic plug not working (wire/paperclip trick)

[Red ones]

How does it not work? There is nothing there to not work.

[Chris_SVS]

Don't know! With the connectors jumped the temp display still displayed temp

[Sir Trev]

Diesel cars. High Wycombe seems to be full of ten year old + diesel cars that have never been serviced and emit clouds of disgusting black smoke all the time. I also seem to get stuck behind them on every hill (there are lots here) and they give me a headache. How the hell do these fecking things get through the MoT? The sooner the disgusting stuff gets banned the better.