Accrington could lose a fire engine.

[Guinness]

Originally Posted by cashman

There is no sense at all to me reducing services, whilst continuing to fully support foreign aid n the like. its the simple difference between right n wrong to many brits, was talking to 2 asian neighbours this morning n they were saying exactly the same.

I totally agree, foreign aid was meant to be a share the wealth, Robin Hood type thing, problem is it's now used as a bribe to countries to get them to invest here.

Unfortunately thats capitalism for you...wheels need greasing to make the production line work

[cashman]

Did India not want too decline aid awhile ago? But we insisted they had it. Whats all that about.?

[Guinness]

Originally Posted by accyman

so whats next then

not as many kids get run over outside school these days so remove speed cameras from near schools

perhaps there are less fires because these firemen get in their firetrucks and fit smoke alarms to houses and also do check on them if requested

im not been snotty here im not a fireman but theres a lot more goes on than just putting out fires and a lot of work goes into fire prevention

if heart attacks drop in occurance have we to expect even less ambulances ?

seems to me teh firebrigade has been hit as an easy targetthat people wont realise how much we need until its gone

You got £20 to spend

It costs...

£5 in case of fire
£5 to keep your wife from being raped in her bed
£5 to keep your grandad from wandering the streets naked at 2am
£5 in case you have a heart attack or cancer
£5 to fix the potholes in the road
£5 to educate your kids
£5 to support the unemployed, disabled and infirm
£5 to pay for pensions

Someone has to lose out.

Simplistic maybe..but it ain't that far from the truth thanks to the muppets in Westminster

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Guinness

You got £20 to spend

It costs...

£5 in case of fire
£5 to keep your wife from being raped in her bed
£5 to keep your grandad from wandering the streets naked at 2am
£5 in case you have a heart attack or cancer
£5 to fix the potholes in the road
£5 to educate your kids
£5 to support the unemployed, disabled and infirm
£5 to pay for pensions

Someone has to lose out.

Simplistic maybe..but it ain't that far from the truth thanks to the muppets in Westminster

Play Devils Advocate all yeh want Guinness, But yeh can't get more simplistic than stopping Foreign Aid.

[Guinness]

Originally Posted by cashman

Play Devils Advocate all yeh want Guinness, But yeh can't get more simplistic than stopping Foreign Aid.

Gah! Busted..can't argue that one

[accyman]

Originally Posted by Guinness

You got £20 to spend

It costs...

£5 in case of fire
£5 to keep your wife from being raped in her bed
£5 to keep your grandad from wandering the streets naked at 2am
£5 in case you have a heart attack or cancer
£5 to fix the potholes in the road
£5 to educate your kids
£5 to support the unemployed, disabled and infirm
£5 to pay for pensions

Someone has to lose out.

Simplistic maybe..but it ain't that far from the truth thanks to the muppets in Westminster

send 5 million less to china and we keep the fire engine,stop a few thousand romanians coming into teh country to claim benefits and we keep the fire engine

my point is WE are expected to go without so other countries can go with

yes someone has to loose out but why teh peopel of this countrty all the time ?

(could also stop paying for working peoples prescriptions in scotland,ireland and wales and make them pay liek teh rest of us)

[cmonstanley]

Originally Posted by Guinness

You got £20 to spend

It costs...

£5 in case of fire
£5 to keep your wife from being raped in her bed
£5 to keep your grandad from wandering the streets naked at 2am
£5 in case you have a heart attack or cancer
£5 to fix the potholes in the road
£5 to educate your kids
£5 to support the unemployed, disabled and infirm
£5 to pay for pensions

Someone has to lose out.

Simplistic maybe..but it ain't that far from the truth thanks to the muppets in Westminster

no borrow £25.00 to pay outsource company when it would have took £5.00 for in house to do it theres a fiddle to statistics happening

[cashman]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

no borrow £25.00 to pay outsource company when it would have took £5.00 for in house to do it theres a fiddle to statistics happening

The biggest fiddle on here, is you pretending yer intelligent.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Restless

Me and my mate pulled into aldi carpark earlier. 'Oh whats going on I asked.' He parked the car and it seemed like nothing was going on at the aldi. Customers were coming and going as usual. Guy jumps out of a fire engine and enters aldi. The fire engine pulls away....

Come on Restless the lads have to do their shopping sometime

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

The biggest fiddle on here, is you pretending yer intelligent.

That's a bit harsh cashy, he is a jock when all's said and done

[cmonstanley]

but does it make sense this is the way things are ohh and Osbornes boot boys are in action Fracking Demo: Police Arrest 16 Protesters - PoliticsUK

[GEaston]

Can't believe I found a point that Guiness made that I agree with. The problem is here for all to see UK National Debt Clock - No-nonsense Guide to Britain's Debt Crisis

The choices are never going to be pretty, and no 2 people will agree on what to cut. But cut we must. We got into this sorry state because of 12 years of a Labour government. They won't be the ones to get us out. Choice, whether you like it or not, is limited. Lucky to have any fire engines because if the country was a company it would be in administration and we'd have no services whatsoever.

The only time the UK finances have been this bad was end of WW2 but back then there was a cause that everyone could rally around and not just general squandering.

[walkinman221]

What about stopping William hauge and his cronies spending shed loads of money on bottles of wine for the commons **** ups , pictured the other week picking £400 bottles for the wine cellars , but remember were in this together

[cashman]

But thats not general squandering is it?

[walkinman221]

Suppose not cashy, it will no doubt be for entertaining foreign dignitaries to further British trade abroad. They are obviously men of great taste and need to have such expensive bottles of wine so as not to offend their sensitive and cultured palates whilst also furthering British trade abroad did i mention that already? I mean whats that compared to the odd fire engine or two.