General Discussion
@Lynne , if the news article is true then the bonus pool should be zero or negative as 007 puts it since the performance of the company has been abysmal. Also, we have reached 100,000 signatures, so there is no excuse for the goverment. Anyway, why doesn't the government buy up the remaining 17% of RBS and just use it as a peoples bank to lend to businesses and house buyers?
@Brazilnut , what does your post "completed" mean?
@Nelson , it was you that started on jools88 and not the other way round. perhaps if you left him alone he wouldn't get so annoyed with you.
Well, the minimum wage is £6.08 which amounts to £12,646.40 a year for a 40 hour week and paid holidays. So I do not know where this £26K nett £35K gross figure comes from. Someone pointed out on Question Time the other night that the majority of full-time workers in supermarkets in the UK also receive benefits since they are considered to be on a low income. So here we are again in a situation ...
I would also be against Rooney and Beckham being paid out of tax payers' money. I don't think anyone is against people earning as much money as they can. In fact that is what most of us try and do. The key word here is "earning". This goes for the benefit scrougers also. £26K is way too much. It is hardly an incentive to get a job is it? If a gross wage of £35K is needed to prevent people from ...
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_rbs_bonuses_a/ Not Dawlish per se, but I think most people on here would agree this is not a good use of tax payers money.
I couldn't give two hoots about the Royals. I just like having time off work. That is something to celebrate.
When I hear fund raising is involved it puts me off. Let's face it, there are more charities, charity shops and fundraising schemes than there has ever been and has this made a jot of different in to world? Most charities and trusts, like the Devon Air Ambulance and Coastguards, should not even be charities. These essential services should be funded by taxes. I would have no issue with seeing £x ...
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Perhaps eyes of dawlish is sometimes interesting and can be a useful tool but I don't think facebook is a good platform for discussion. On facebook per se, the thing I hate most about it is the stupid boxes of faces that follow you around the web. I really really do not need to see a bunch of stupid faces on every website I go on.
