Post by: Forth Bridges on March 02, 2006, 01:38:54 pm
Post by: minty on March 02, 2006, 01:42:25 pm
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 02, 2006, 01:47:00 pm
spend 10milion ona NEW phoen system from the us anothe r10million asn Strees worker
asdn sending them to a 5 Star Hotel to un STRESS them
it take them 5 year to repave a pavement!
Post by: wjp666 on March 02, 2006, 09:23:42 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on March 03, 2006, 04:39:30 pm
Not great.
When you apply for a house, they won't even process your form for 5 months!
Post by: loulou on March 03, 2006, 04:43:40 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on March 03, 2006, 04:53:34 pm
The council put up CCTV cameras in our area. But if anything happens you have to pay to get a copy of the tape with the evidence on!
Post by: loulou on March 03, 2006, 04:56:22 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on March 03, 2006, 04:56:47 pm
Post by: wjp666 on March 03, 2006, 05:05:38 pm
Post by: oldspice on March 03, 2006, 05:35:43 pm
My council does its best with the money it has. We have lovely flowers in the town centre and on roundabouts around town. We have an excellent re-cycling scheme and have won for being a very environmentally clean city.
The worst thing about it is some of the people. They spit as they walk along, drop chip papers and drink cans where-ever they are standing and dump their old fridges and rubbish at the roadside.
Post by: on March 04, 2006, 10:49:18 am
My council spends a lot of money on flowers but I'm still sore from when it pulled down a Georgian shopping area in 1971 to make way for a f**king shopping centre. Our 'castle' is a pile of sh*t too.
"Nottingham, come shopping and get shot"
Post by: oldspice on March 04, 2006, 11:50:31 am
Yes, Nottingham does have its challenges and gun crime is on the increase which is very worrying. What I find very hard to take is the senseless, vicious, everyday crimes that happen in our city. here are some examples:
An elderly lady walking home from the shops was diliberately knocked down by a young thug on his bike who then robbed her of her handbag.
A couple were celebrating their engagement and went out for the evening. They were in a taxi waiting at traffic lights when a gang of thugs pulled open the door, dragged the young man out and beat him up - for no reason whatsoever.
Hooligans wrecked a local play area, pushed a car into the heart of it and then set fire to it, completely destroying the equipment.
Disabled people, living independently in a sheltered housing complex have been the target for verbal abuse, vandalism and threatening behaviour at the hands of a gang of youths.
I used to feel sorry for people who could not behave like decent citizens but now I just think they are scumbags, some of whom need a bullet through their temple. Sorry. It just makes me sick to think of defenceless people being treated so badly.
Post by: on March 04, 2006, 11:58:22 am
I certainly think there is a case to bring back public corporal punishment. The stocks are a good idea. Throw eggs and rotten veg at them. The perpertrators would not have any hero status among their friends, but would just look like the stupid w**kers that they are.
Of course the government wont introduce it because they are a bunch of useless, 'liberal', egotists who wouldn't know a good policy if they fell over it.
Post by: oldspice on March 04, 2006, 12:07:51 pm
I think, deep down, that it is better to try to make better citizens of people by good examples, decent housing, good educations and all the social institutions that support and encourage decency. That is why we no longer go in for public humiliation for such people.
However, in reality, there are some people you just can't help or change and a nice big dose of their own medicine is just what they need. For example, the thugs who smashed up the playground should have their prized possessions (mostly playstations and such) confiscated until they can behave in a civilized manner. As for the thug who knocked down and robbed an old woman - well he's just beyond the pale as far as I am concerned.
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 04, 2006, 01:13:16 pm
I blame Mres thacther!!
she did two thing wrong with teh Housing policy!
A: she should of used the money she got fomr saling off odl stock in building NEW council houses!
B: she shoudl of introsuce that Bill to mak eit illege to be homeless and teh coucil WOudl have to act make you you don't"!
Post by: goldencup on March 04, 2006, 01:25:08 pm
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 04, 2006, 01:37:44 pm
did you know 1 in 10 kids wher in porvoery when she entrer power - 79
when Major left (97) it went UP TO 1 in 3
Post by: oldspice on March 04, 2006, 05:38:18 pm
Post by: goldencup on March 04, 2006, 05:46:49 pm
Post by: oldspice on March 04, 2006, 06:20:08 pm
I am all for providing a 'hand up' - benefits to help people when times are hard. No child should suffer from hunger or cold or humiliation (read Angela's Ashes if you want to know about real poverty) but some of the 'hand outs' these days justy encourage people to be lazy, worik-shy spongers.
I thought I would never feel like this. In my youth and young adulthood I have marched against everything - poverty, nuclear bombs, war, Thatcher's Britain - but I now feel burned out. All around me I see people with their hands out - gimme, gimme, gimme and don't expect me to get off my a*** to do anything for myself.
And Goldencup - your story is just the tip of the iceberg. Bad behaviour in schools and in society is escalating and so many parents are claiming their children have ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). In my opinion the problem is caused by appalling diets (a bottle of cola and a packet of crisps for breakfast is common) and bad parenting.
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 04, 2006, 08:13:20 pm
I think the level in scotladn is £15000¬ where it SHOUDL BE
Post by: chocolate chick on March 06, 2006, 08:54:54 am
I am all for providing a 'hand up' - benefits to help people when times are hard. No child should suffer from hunger or cold or humiliation (read Angela's Ashes if you want to know about real poverty) but some of the 'hand outs' these days justy encourage people to be lazy, worik-shy spongers.
I thought I would never feel like this. In my youth and young adulthood I have marched against everything - poverty, nuclear bombs, war, Thatcher's Britain - but I now feel burned out. All around me I see people with their hands out - gimme, gimme, gimme and don't expect me to get off my a*** to do anything for myself.
And Goldencup - your story is just the tip of the iceberg. Bad behaviour in schools and in society is escalating and so many parents are claiming their children have ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). In my opinion the problem is caused by appalling diets (a bottle of cola and a packet of crisps for breakfast is common) and bad parenting.
Post by: chocolate chick on March 06, 2006, 08:55:30 am
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 07, 2006, 10:16:13 am
WHat is a Honset wage?
£15.000? - north £22000 - south ( £270000) london & south east)
why shoudl people upto £30000 get tax crtedit I say overhaul it
cut it to £22000 use the spare money to give less famliey MORE money in term's
Free SCHOOL for ALL! ( I can't see lord upper bottom sending there kids to a state school?)
instead of have 5 leavel tax system simple it 3 rate of your overall wage!
No vat on Heating/ lighting. DAM EU, to hell I say about this, that a siecase that UK counld'nt scrap VAT on it beacuse of sputied EU rules!
We need to Overhaul the Benafits sytem to help ( Give more to the Poor , and just SREW the teh lazy BUMS!!!
Post by: babygirl on March 08, 2006, 02:49:08 pm