Down the Turkish Drain

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Acrylic-bob

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Yesterday we were treated to the revelation by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that our beloved country had run out of money. Indeed so strapped for cash are we that there will be no scope for Tax cuts to stimulate economic growth in the coming budget.

Times are hard and it is no surprise that belt tightening is the order of the day, no matter how painful it might be.

Which makes this little gem of a story all the harder to bear.....


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...urkey-help-upgrade-nation-s-sewer-system.html



First it was begging India to take aid money it didn't want to save civil service and parliamentary blushes and now this.

How much more of our hard earned is being chucked down the gurgler while we are having to make do and mend?

Explain to me again, Graham Jones, just why it is that you think continued membership of the EU is in Britians best interests.




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I thought this was going to be about the 80 million pounds that Britain is giving to Turkey to repair the sewers there.
Turkey doesn't need money from the UK......they have a big manufacturing base and should be required to maintain their own sewerage system without any help from the UK
 
Oh, and as for an answer to the question posed, for the attention of our MP......I hope you are sitting down......in a comfy chair....you will have a long wait!
 
that's the sad part of it......we resign ourselves to the disappointment.
Perhaps that is part of the problem. Clearly, our MP has got it into his head that his constituents(or at least 95% of them) couldn't give a toss about what is going on with the EU......he assumes we are people of narrow vision, and narrower experience.
 
Our MP listen to those that voted for him!!!
Never.
Unfortunately he has joined the rest of them at the trough.
 
Boeing Guy said:
Our MP listen to those that voted for him!!!
Never.
Unfortunately he has joined the rest of them at the trough.
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You don't climb the greasy pole if you support your voters instead of obeying Adenoid Ed, junior whip today, the world tomorrow:rolleyes:
 
'Millions of pounds of British aid is being used to upgrade Turkey’s sewage system, MPs have been told.'


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Doesn't it make you feel proud to be part of the European Union?

Even though we've never been asked if want to be a member.

Whilst we have Graham Jones as our M.P., we never will get the chance to have our say.

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Let's hear it for the European Union!

May all the turds now flow easily under the streets of Istanbul.

Thanks to our hefty financial contributions.

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Not forgetting three cheers for Graham Jones M.P.

Who stated that a referendum would settle E.U. membership 'democratically', though voted that we shouldn't have that democratic right.

Mainly because politicans know best, and we're all a bit too thick to understand it properly.

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Hip, hip...

No?

Fair enough.
 
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accyman said:
hang on havnt argentina just started sanctions on us and will no longe rbe buying british products
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Yeh they certainly have, but still its only our money.:rolleyes: as argentina aint in the E.U. I would love to know the excuse fer this un.:rolleyes:
 
cashman said:
Yeh they certainly have, but still its only our money.:rolleyes: as argentina aint in the E.U. I would love to know the excuse fer this un.:rolleyes:
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it wouldnt sting so much if it was £27 million worth of rockets we were fireing at them but even so this country continues to give money to others while its own citizens either make do or go without and that money could be spent a lot better elsewhere.

thats over £100 million given out in 2 days and thats just what we get to hear about

and teh government has the nerve to put our fuel up,gas,electric,food, ...well everything really to pay for their generosity to other countries
 
accyman said:
thats over £100 million given out in 2 days and thats just what we get to hear about
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Here's a bit more about the bits you don't generally get to hear about, unless you listen very carefully to the Chancellors budget statement to the House.

The total overseas aid budget looks like this....

2011-2012 £8,550m

2012-2013 £8,813m

2013-2014 £11,554m

2014-2015 £12,162m


A grand total of £41,079,000,000.oo


of your hard earned cash to be given away over four years.

No wonder wee Georgie Osbourne can't find enough cash to stimulate the economy with.
 
But there are even more interesting bits the further you dig.

You know that place that used to be called Rhodesia? You know, the place where they want to dig up the body of Cecil Rhodes and send it back to the UK and whose president doesn't have anything nice at all to say about the UK? Guess how much we are going to be contributing to keeping him in the style to which he has become accustomed.....

You'll laugh...

Three hundred and fifty three Million Pounds

£353,000,000.00


just think what you could do here for destitute families or the elderly with that amount of cash.


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