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the poll tax was a charge against anybody over 18 in the household, the whole amount for the property was divided equally and it was each persons responsibility who was named on the electoral role to pay it. Sounds fair doesnt it? How come when my partner lost his job and wasnt elegible for any benefit why did I the sole wage earner become elegable for his share as well as my own?????? He was ...

Margaret Thatcher
8 Apr 2013

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/margaret-thatcher-dies-criticism-of-her-policies-132906942.html#CXw74ab

8 Apr 2013

it doesnt matter what we want, any excuse to pontificate the hypocrisy of it all, her own party ousted her, and now all the smarmy politicians will crawl out of the woodwork. It should have been an ordinary funeral with maybe a memorial service later

8 Apr 2013

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/08/margaret-thatcher-dead-no-state-funeral_n_3038431.html?utm_hp_ref=uk She didnt want a state funeral

8 Apr 2013

I am not reliant on benefits, never have been, but if the corporate business men and women who own these companies paid their employees a living wage there would be no need for so many people who do work to claim top up benefits, instead their shareholders get a large proportion of their profits and many are mps. I work at present doing 5jobs to earn a wage and this is what Ive always done ...

8 Apr 2013

well said Libby and they are now considering abolishing the minimum wage which is what most people are paid

8 Apr 2013

How ironic that she should die on the day when the most severe cuts come in against 440,000 disbled households 17,000 who are blind!!!!! Paul you have no comprehension of what its all about, its nothing to do with saving money thats a smokescreen its all to do with social cleansing and control. There is not enough jobs for everybody otherwise they would only have gone after the able bodied ...

8 Apr 2013

Paul by your own admission of age you have no idea of what it was truly like when she was PM

8 Apr 2013

that was her nemesis and hopefully these welfare reforms will be the condems

8 Apr 2013

so I did Lynne and also eggs(salmonella)