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OT ARE we all in this together???

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harry

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Apr 12, 2020, 10:05:20 AM4/12/20
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Only some of us.
https://independencedaily.co.uk/coronavirus-crisis-are-we-all-in-it-together/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=INDEPENDENCE+Daily+Newsletter1

Fredxx

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Apr 12, 2020, 10:07:28 AM4/12/20
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On 12/04/2020 15:05:17, harry wrote:
> Only some of us.
> https://independencedaily.co.uk/coronavirus-crisis-are-we-all-in-it-together/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=INDEPENDENCE+Daily+Newsletter1
>

At least they are looking into their constituents' issues.

That's a whole lot more than you do.

Jim GM4DHJ ...

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Apr 12, 2020, 10:15:33 AM4/12/20
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rip off do as I say not as we do bastards ...

Fredxx

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Apr 12, 2020, 10:23:28 AM4/12/20
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If you have the noddle to be an MP go and become one.

Otherwise all you have left is envy.

Jim GM4DHJ ...

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Apr 12, 2020, 10:31:12 AM4/12/20
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oh right

bert

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Apr 12, 2020, 10:34:56 AM4/12/20
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In article <7oFkG.524544$_3E.1...@fx15.am4>, Jim GM4DHJ ...
<jim.g...@ntlworld.com> writes
Noone else in the public sector is taking a 20% pay cut but many are sat
at home on full pay. It is as always the private sector which takes the
hit and it is the private sector which will have to pull us out
afterwards.
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bert

Jim GM4DHJ ...

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Apr 12, 2020, 10:51:13 AM4/12/20
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very true because they make plenty in the good times...

harry

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Apr 12, 2020, 12:49:38 PM4/12/20
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They are virtually all thick as pitch.
Especially the socialists.
Never had a real job most of them.

R D S

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Apr 12, 2020, 1:10:41 PM4/12/20
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On 12/04/2020 15:05, harry wrote:
> Only some of us.
> https://independencedaily.co.uk/coronavirus-crisis-are-we-all-in-it-together/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=INDEPENDENCE+Daily+Newsletter1
>

What is a working from home allowance?

An i'm going to be out of pocket because I can't milk the expenses
allowance?

Robin

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Apr 12, 2020, 1:56:28 PM4/12/20
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The allowance in question is only for MPs so unless you've been keeping
quiet about your second job...


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R D S

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Apr 12, 2020, 3:04:24 PM4/12/20
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On 12/04/2020 18:56, Robin wrote:
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> The allowance in question is only for MPs so unless you've been keeping
> quiet about your second job...
>
I know, I don't get why they are getting it.

Robin

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Apr 12, 2020, 3:44:30 PM4/12/20
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To be fair, they ain't really in the sense of money to spend on duck
houses, hampers from Fortnum's* or attempts on the Coronaspeck record.
IPSA (the body set up to decide their expenses etc after the fuss in
2010) has decided to give them an extra £10,000 for *office* expenses.
This was to cover things like the costs of setting up support staff (in
Westminster and constituencies) to work from home.


*if you can't get a delivery slot from Morrison's etc then AIUI
Fortnum's are still fulfilling orders

https://www.fortnumandmason.com/t/categories/hampers/themes/food-hampers

Vir Campestris

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Apr 12, 2020, 4:45:22 PM4/12/20
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I'm sure all those private nursing home staff, all the waiters and and
bartenders, all the rest of the private sector staff on minimum wage
will appreciate your sympathy.

Andy

nightjar

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Apr 13, 2020, 4:32:41 AM4/13/20
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Of the MPs elected in 2017, slightly more Labour MPs were graduates than
Conservative MPs (84%:83%) although Conservative MPs were more like to
have been to Oxford or Cambridge (34%:20%).

> Never had a real job most of them.

An analysis of previous occupations of MPs elected in the 2015 election
shows that 31% have a background in one of the professions and 30.7%
come from a business background. Only 17.1% followed a purely political
career path.

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7483/CBP-7483.pdf


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Colin Bignell

harry

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Apr 13, 2020, 11:10:10 AM4/13/20
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Going to university is not a real job.
They should have had a real job and be at least forty years old.
All we see is bimbos and schoolboys on PMQs

nightjar

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Apr 13, 2020, 2:45:09 PM4/13/20
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Nor did I say it was. However, it is a measure of their level of education.

> They should have had a real job and be at least forty years old.

What do you class as a real job, if not any of those listed in the
document I linked to? I suspect that the farmers and manual worker among
their number, in particular, would take exception to you claim that they
haven't had real jobs.


> All we see is bimbos and schoolboys on PMQs

The average age of MPs elected in the 2017 election was 50, with 50-59
being the most numerous age group.


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Colin Bignell

bert

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Apr 14, 2020, 8:29:14 PM4/14/20
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In article <GJKdnfiI0ak7vgnD...@giganews.com>, nightjar
<c...@bignell.me.uk> writes
That's about a sixth or about 100 MPs have not worked outside politics.
That's 100 too many.
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harry

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Apr 15, 2020, 9:55:07 AM4/15/20
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A real job is where they create something and someone pays for what they create. Experience of life.

Many university degrees are mickey mouse these days. ie worthless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_degrees#Examples

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6061345/Universities-try-lure-Level-students-dont-grades-Mickey-Mouse-courses.html

Richard

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Apr 15, 2020, 10:08:39 AM4/15/20
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Oh, that's depressing.
After all these years I find that doctors and nurses don't qualify for
being classed as doing a real job. Yet, by your yardstick, the blokes
shagging the single mums on benefits are doing a fine job.
Good thinking harry.

harry

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Apr 15, 2020, 12:13:59 PM4/15/20
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The NHS creates health for us all
I worked there for thirty odd years.

Richard

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Apr 15, 2020, 12:36:28 PM4/15/20
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And got paid substantially more than the useful nurses and doctors no doubt.

Rod Speed

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Apr 15, 2020, 9:32:34 PM4/15/20
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"harry" <harry...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:845f11f6-8777-4509...@googlegroups.com...
And they were very odd years indeed.

Peeler

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Apr 16, 2020, 3:43:40 AM4/16/20
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 06:26:24 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


> And they were very odd years indeed.

This coming from the odd 86-year-old nym-shifting troll who has NOBODY, but
NOBODY in real life to talk to! LOL

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gfre...@aol.com addressing nym-shifting senile Rodent:
"You on the other hand are a heavyweight bullshitter who demonstrates
his particular prowess at it every day."
MID: <rufg9ep6ggjdt3uek...@4ax.com>

bert

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Apr 17, 2020, 1:51:39 PM4/17/20
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In article <845f11f6-8777-4509...@googlegroups.com>,
harry <harry...@btinternet.com> writes
If that is true how come after 70+ years we need more and more of it?
>I worked there for thirty odd years.
You were employed by them..
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bert

harry

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Apr 17, 2020, 1:57:28 PM4/17/20
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On Friday, 17 April 2020 18:51:39 UTC+1, bert wrote:
> In article <845f11f6-8777-4509...@googlegroups.com>,
> harry <harry...@btinternet.com> writes
> >On Wednesday, 15 April 2020 15:08:39 UTC+1, Richard wrote:
> >> On 15/04/2020 14:55, harry wrote:
> >> > On Monday, 13 April 2020 19:45:09 UTC+1, nightjar wrote:
> >> >> On 13/04/2020 16:10, harry wrote:
> >> >>> On Monday, 13 April 2020 09:32:41 UTC+1, nightjar wrote:
> >> >>>> On 12/04/2020 17:49, harry wrote:
> >> >>>>> On Sunday, 12 April 2020 15:23:28 UTC+1, Fredxx wrote:
> >> >>>>>> On 12/04/2020 15:15:31, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
> >> >>>>>>> On 12/04/2020 15:07, Fredxx wrote:
> >> >>>>>>>> On 12/04/2020 15:05:17, harry wrote:
> >> >>>>>>>>> Only some of us.
> >> >>>>>>>>>

> >I worked there for thirty odd years.
> You were employed by them..
> --

I was employed in the same organisation.
Only about 10% of NHS workers deal directly with patients.

Illnesses can be fixed now that were never possible years ago.
At vast cost.

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