Phil xxkr

On the radio this morning Dennis Reed from Silver Voices offered up a sensible trade-off re WFA. Only deny it to those paying higher rates of tax 🤔. Just might diffuse things. Then we shall see how many truly can do with out it. 🙂

There are plenty of long 0% credit card offers out there to fund the package over say 24 months 👍

Excellent negotiation skills 😊

It's hard not to believe that we are not living in a parallel universe let's call it Non-Sequitor 🙂. The Labour Party "has" not performed poorly. It "is" performing poorly and continues to do so. Will it do so for five long years is the only question. The Conservative party "has" performed poorly but to say "all" the Cabinet members are extremely negative and out of touch clearly implies and intimate knowledge of every member. This is an interesting conjecture as I doubt many people could name more than seven members in any Cabinet ever! As to the relevance of the USA elections evades me? But I defer to people with better insights such as Tucker Carson who commented on the DNC speech amongst other things, “This woman’s really scary; she could easily get elected president; she’s much more skillful than I have ever seen. She’s a liar on the deepest level, the things she is saying right now are not just untrue, they are the opposite of the truth, which is the hallmark of evil She’s an extremist; she’ll say anything. She’s much more like Gavin Newsom than I ever realized." Ostensibly we have to / need to vote for someone so who's policies would you prefer? 🤔

Spot on Malc. When I joined LOC I chose XXKR as my id with the thought I would sell the Jag - it's still here 🥳

What a great choice! This is my 24year old XKR and still turns heads 😎. First thing to do is join the XK Enthusiasts Club, there will be one near to you for a wealth of of information and like-minded individuals. The RX is my daily driver these days but when I want to remind myself of the pure joy of responsive V8 driving out comes the Jagwaaarrr🥳. I love it! And that's the point, not only a great car but part of the history of cars, it invokes an emotion not found in other marques. 👏👏👏

Yes Malc, it reminds me of the poem/song from the early sixties called The Snake. There once was a tender-hearted woman who rescued a poor, half-frozen snake from near death in the winter cold. “Take me in, oh tender woman,” the snake cries out. “Take me in, for heaven’s sake.” So the tender-hearted woman takes the snake into her own home, warms it by the fire and feeds it milk and honey: “If I hadn’t brought you in, by now you might have died.” But instead of saying thanks, the snake gave her a vicious bite. “I saved you,” cried the woman. “And you’ve bitten me, but why? You know your bite is poisonous, and now I’m going to die.” “Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin. “You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.”

The basic pay of an MP is £91,346 plus allowances. I am sure that there isn't a person in the country who couldn't get by on that without the WFA! No Pete, the shameless part is before the election everyone of them paraded around the country appeasing pensioners and with the promise, trust us we will look after you. Yet within hours renegade, demonstrating it was all a facade. And this is just the start. But somehow I don't think they'll be able to kick this particular can into the long grass very quickly. People of pensionable age should have /do know Labour of old so should have known better. But younger people can't be expected to so can we all ensure they remember this over the next few years.

And I'm sorry to say I can't completely agree with you in this instance. I forgot to add Millibands name to the list of shameless hypocrites. This administration is but a month old and already creating firestorms here and abroad. It can't last can it? The more "We the people" voice our disapproval by all means possible then change can and will happen.

From today's DMail, Cabinet ministers were branded 'hypocrites' last night for claiming soaring amounts on expenses to heat their second homes while stripping ten million pensioners of their winter fuel payments. Eleven of Sir Keir Starmer's Cabinet have relied on taxpayer-funded help to pay their energy bills, analysis of expenses receipts reveals Including Reeves Rayner Kendall😱

We did know and voted otherwise 👍

Great question, looking forward to equally insightful answers

Then do it! This government is intent in doing pensioners no favours 🙁

From PeterSharf "Think your kidney is worth more than a French bulldog? Think again. While filming, Scharf was able to locate three men in a Moldavian village who sold their kidneys and got just $2,292 each. Yikes. Hopefully they didn't find out that if a person wants to receive an illegally transplanted organ, they're going to have to pay anywhere between $80,000 and $200,000 for the privilege. (And they'd better hope their body doesn't reject their new kidney afterwards, because no refunds!)"😊

Get him to speak to citizens advice bureau about over 65 Age Allowance. There is help available depending upon medical conditions 👍

Interesting Ron, that's why I will not sign up to PKB. It allows PKB access to all your medical records, which is incidentally owned by the largest healthcare US owned firm in the world! And it's still not clear if their hacked system earlier which it was reported involved up to one third of all Americans this year included UK info.?

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." John Stuart Mill

For what it's worth Malc I have dropped a line to Lee Anderson MP updating him with the numbers and posing a question I should like him or a colleague to ask of the Home Office Minister when the House reconvenes. Fingers crossed 🤞

We? Who exactly are we?

I used to design water filters, I know what's in water, fish fxxx in it 🤣.

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Not quite sure whose comments you are responding to Nick? Clearly not mine. Never heard of Meidas Touch but the Media Bias fact checking site says: "Overall, we rate MeidasTouch Left Biased based on the negative portrayal of Donald Trump and Republicans and the promotion of Democratic candidates. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to a lack of transparency with funding and the publication of one-sided content that can be misleading." Read into that what you will..

Donald Trump? Why equate what's going on there to here? And when in power when did his policies amount to deliberate falsehoods? 🤔

We already have a King 😅, don't need a twee one!

The State Pension as defined in law is a benefit not an entitlement, therefore can be changed /withdrawn at any time. The fact that you paid in to increase your income is neither here nor there. But I equally agree like the WASPI women should go on for a while. 👍