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les5269 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Oct 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1530 |
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Funnily enough I just sent this to our politician this morning, not expecting much joy but it made me feel better
I have just read what you have made in claims for the last 5 years on your 2nd! home. Do you not think that it is insulting to your constituents, that you think you can claim for anything you like, without a thought for those that pay all their taxes, but cannot claim anything back to help upkeep their own homes? I have voted for you or your party! ever since I have been able to vote, without fail. I am sorry to say that this latest scandal has destroyed any faith I had in you and your party, not withstanding that the other parties are all as devious as yourself! Do you not think that if you and all other MP's paid back all the money that they have been paid we could get ourselves out of the recession without borrowing any more money? The Telegraph has put down that you claimed nearly £80,000 for your 2nd home, if all of you are claiming this we would be putting £48,400,00 back into the coffers Edited by les5269 |
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49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)!
Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
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iwsmithuk ![]() Posting king ![]() Joined: 28 Apr 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 141 |
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Sorry but these days Osea is a very swish private "retreat". Five star facilities and a clinic for psychiatric disorders/addictions etc. It'd be out of your range TT. I'm going to stick my head above the parapet again here and just suggest a couple of short articles in todays independent for those (few) still interested in gaining some perspective on all this. Go to independent.co.uk and follow the links to Ann Widdecombe and Austin Mitchells articles. And just before I get shot down in flames again I have noticed that most of the rest of the paper is full of articles about Andrew Mackay etc and even I'm prepared to admit that some of what is coming out is rather depressing.
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G.R.F. ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 10 Aug 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 4028 |
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Hmm sounds ideal for him, do they do OCD or BTO (bath tub obsession) cures? |
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iwsmithuk ![]() Posting king ![]() Joined: 28 Apr 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 141 |
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No, I'm afraid the much researched "black tennis ball" complex in OCD indicates a very poor prognosis. And BTO is generally acknowledged in the psychiatric community as being completely incurable. A truly tragic case..............
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G.R.F. ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 10 Aug 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 4028 |
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Or join me in persuading one of those folk in that list of custom boat
merchants to build a user friendly single hander with kite. It's either that or I can see myself pressing my nose to stinking contender deck planks and occasionally getting wedged... |
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iwsmithuk ![]() Posting king ![]() Joined: 28 Apr 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 141 |
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For any other Blackwater sailors wondering what goes on out on Osea Island these days.
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I'd have thought a man of your stature would have no problem strolling under the boom of a Contender |
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I would have voted but I'm not registered to vote in this area..... Ok and
more importantly thursday eve was sailing and I know what takes priority in my life. |
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Rupert ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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I voted, but of the mile long list of people to vote for in our area, I couldn't really see one of whom I thought "I must vote for them". On the county side, there were only 3 names. Something is very screwed up with the system when the world and his/her other half want to stand for Europe, merely, in the main, to stick one finger up to it, but don't want to stand for councils were they might actually be able to get in and do some good. I guess that would involve actually working, too.
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Don't forget, the expenses (and salary) for being an MEP are even better than those for being an MP - and much better than local councillors get. No wonder everyone wants to be an MEP! The voting slip reminded me of a circus poster - about the same size, and full of silly names. I went for the two headed man, but was tempted by the lion tamer and the human canonball. The rest were all clowns. |
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