whats ur biggest gripe about the uk?

my gripe about the UK is the amount of illegal immigrants.

They come to the uk, get a house, loads of dosh, never work and then feel hard done by!

WTF is that all about

Originally Posted by Pedrosa

I love the UK!

Originally Posted by Pedrosa

I love the UK!

You bloody would

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

Its called humor, you either find the style amusing or you dont unfortunately. It gets a point across which is the overall goal.

Thanks for the heads up...

it is the fact that the people who try to help themselves and be less of a burden on society, by having their own house, jobs etc. are penalised for it and get no tax breaks or benefits. Despite the fact that their living costs far exceed anyone who has a council house.

Then when they get a second job to try and help themselves further, they pay a basic rate tax and more national insurance which means that they have to work even more hours to try and make ends meet.

The country is stacked against law-abiding hard-working individuals! That is simply not fair..........

Originally Posted by Pedrosa

I love the UK!

Only cos you're not here

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Few comments above on council tax. Yes I live in a nice house but it's no mansion. £2,060.83 this year, it has more than doubled under the thieves we call a government. TWO BLOODY GRAND.

Originally Posted by Ed

the thieves we call a government.

i totally agree Ed

Crap education, crap healthcare, rip off taxes, weather, a society that no longer knows how to discipline it's kids, governments that do wtf they want regardless of how the public they are supposed to be serving feel about it, and governments departments that haemorrage money on unneccessary "consultants and project managers" that achieve nothing more than arguing and inventing red tape, and making government contractors very rich. (how come it costs us ten times more to build a mile of motorway or build a hospital than our Europeaan neighbours?)

Please don't tell me to vote for somebody else 'cos if the opposition gets into power they will do wtf they want too! It's the political landscape we live in.

Have I mentioned I love it here and wouldn't have them change a thing?

Originally Posted by krhall

it is the fact that the people who try to help themselves and be less of a burden on society, by having their own house, jobs etc. are penalised for it and get no tax breaks or benefits. Despite the fact that their living costs far exceed anyone who has a council house.

Then when they get a second job to try and help themselves further, they pay a basic rate tax and more national insurance which means that they have to work even more hours to try and make ends meet.

The country is stacked against law-abiding hard-working individuals! That is simply not fair..........

yup agree, I can't get by without overtime I try to get as, much as I can or to the point where I can't take working anymore, which I have reached I'm about to have some time off, thank god.

It used to what i earnt was a good amount of pay, but now I have no hope of buying somewhere or it does feel like that, I have live reasonably close to where I work casue of what I do.

What really ****es me off, is the people that do nothing that get a house THAT WE PAY FOR!! AlSO people coming coming into our country and get given a house, then some of them go against the very state that suppourts them.

It really winds me going out there dealing with people about moaning how they haven't got there benfits, or walking in someone house that is paid for them out right, and don't work. The fact I will never see 1/3 of what I earn at least!

While you have the rest of us doing 40+ hours a week just to get by, how is this right?