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Why would you say that? He has managed to combine his radio and tv work together up till now.
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'... go easy' nonsense. Even though it was my first time.
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you're right Phobe.... I rode bikes from 10, drove a race car at 8... someone waiting till 30 to pass test is alien to me now and at 17 definitely.....and a Meriva? that's someone really who's in the beige chino dept. in M and S for life - trapped like Father Ted in the lingerie department in a circle of hell...
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There is a first time for everything. Glad you obviously weren't nervous
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I call Steve Allen every day and I never get through..... don't know what's wrong
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Yes. You are right ..."as I was just telling your researcher". Another brainless thing to say. Nobody has been part of this discussion. Just make your point people.
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Well.....now that we are certain that our cars are killing us.....and that the cleaner Diesel Engines are killing us even faster.....they are clearly not.
In the 80's motoring journalists would test 5 family hatchbacks....and the winner would be the one that corners well at speed. ![]() In 2015 they had all long gone......except for Jeremy Clarkson who was testing road cars with a camera showing his eyes rolling back into his head in ecstasy. And now he has gone. The Electric Car is now moments away from replacing the petrol version....and the forever childish may need to grow up.... ![]() I think electric cars are a long way off, especially for those of us who live well away from major cities, for these main reasons. 1. Image…..a friend of mine has a Tesla, which looks really cool, apart from that most electric cars are ugly, boring & slow……like a golf cart 2. Lack of range…..the Nissan Leaf does only 84 miles on a full charge which means you'll break down 150 miles before you get to Cornwall 😳 3. Lack of charging points…….11k charging points yet 30m registered UK vehicles 4. Charging time……best 3-4 hours, average 6-8 5. Cost…..a crappy looking Nissan Leaf is £26k and the Tesla is £58k Electric cars are a great idea, but at the moment they are about as useful as ‘t*ts on a bull’ |
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Ferarri in full lazy mode this morning.
Can't be bothered to think about a new story? Not a problem, just have a go at the overseas development budget and thump the desk a few times and for added outrage keep mentioning "what about our own people"? He knows his core audience. |
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Ferarri in full lazy mode this morning.
Can't be bothered to think about a new story? Not a problem, just have a go at the overseas development budget and thump the desk a few times and for added outrage keep mentioning "what about our own people"? He knows his core audience. I have to agree with him that so much of the £12bn is wasted on bribes and backhanders to despots, dictators and country's with space programmes.......it's a complete joke |
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Ferarri in full lazy mode this morning.
Can't be bothered to think about a new story? Not a problem, just have a go at the overseas development budget and thump the desk a few times and for added outrage keep mentioning "what about our own people"? He knows his core audience. Can't NF (how apt are his initials) be repatriated back to Italy for his final few years?? |
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He really is an A-hole. By all means ask for a full audit of expenditure, yet have some humanity about necessary funding. Despots won't fund disease prevention - that is why the West steps in.
Can't NF (how apt are his initials) be repatriated back to Italy for his final few years?? You don't see other African countries helping out other African countries, in the same way that Saudi Arabia has taken zero Syrian refugees......Islam, the religion of peace, yeah right. We have thousands of people living on the streets, we have OAP's scared to turn their heating on, we have food banks. We have a duty to look after our own first, complain to Africans & Arabs so that they play their part. I think Ferraris forefathers are actually Swiss rather than Italian. |
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NF has made his thoughts known on the aid budget for some years.
I have to agree with him that so much of the £12bn is wasted on bribes and backhanders to despots, dictators and country's with space programmes.......it's a complete joke So far NF has not even mentioned the name of the cabinet minister responsible. That minister is Priti Patil but looks like she is above criticism as she's a Tory and a hard line Brexiter. Ferarri really is a joke. |
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Ferarri in full lazy mode this morning.
Can't be bothered to think about a new story? Not a problem, just have a go at the overseas development budget and thump the desk a few times and for added outrage keep mentioning "what about our own people"? He knows his core audience. I'm just wondering when he got the job of promoting the Fox (Murdoch) takeover of Sky? What has the amount of tax that Sky pay got to do with anything? |
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Ferarri in full lazy mode this morning.
Can't be bothered to think about a new story? Not a problem, just have a go at the overseas development budget and thump the desk a few times and for added outrage keep mentioning "what about our own people"? He knows his core audience. If it's not Brexit I guess it's a lazy show then. Hmmm |
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He really is an A-hole. By all means ask for a full audit of expenditure, yet have some humanity about necessary funding. Despots won't fund disease prevention - that is why the West steps in.
Can't NF (how apt are his initials) be repatriated back to Italy for his final few years?? Incidentally, he is right re: overseas funding of course. Africa is a money pit of enormous proportions. Even the caller who was from Africa admitted that. |
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Then it's down to the minister responsible for the budget to ensure its targeted properly.
So far NF has not even mentioned the name of the cabinet minister responsible. That minister is Priti Patil but looks like she is above criticism as she's a Tory and a hard line Brexiter. Ferarri really is a joke. I think Ms Patel sees the folly in such nonsense and is looking for 'value' from aid rather than just chucking money around at any Tom, Dick or Vickram that has a begging bowl in his hand. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...asted-on-supe/ |
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Do you not consider our overseas expenditure budget an issue?
If it's not Brexit I guess it's a lazy show then. Hmmm Think of it this way. if spending was a total of £1 then the total spent on overseas aid is less than one penny of the total spending. Of course it could be targeted better but that's down to the department responsible. |
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The overseas aid budget is 0.7% of government spending.
Think of it this way. if spending was a total of £1 then the total spent on overseas aid is less than one penny of the total spending. Of course it could be targeted better but that's down to the department responsible. As for foreign aid perhaps the answer is less aid and more trade - but then some people want us to live in a protectionist club that places tariffs on goods from these poorer countries and forces us to buy our food from subsidised European farmers instead. We have been trying the foreign aid route for decades and it's got us no further forward. Heaven help us when there are another 1 billion people in Africa in 25 years time! |
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The overseas aid budget is 0.7% of government spending.
Think of it this way. if spending was a total of £1 then the total spent on overseas aid is less than one penny of the total spending. Of course it could be targeted better but that's down to the department responsible. Percentages don't really mean much when you are talking such huge numbers. It's a great lefty, liberal trick designed to look insignificant, 0.7% looks so insignificant, might as well up it to 0.9%.......what tight arses we are. Let's look at it another, more meaningful way. The average wage in the UK is £25k per annum, the average individual would therefore pay around £2,900 in income tax, after allowances. Our foreign aid bill is £12,000,000,000 per annum This is equivalent to the income tax of 4,137,931 working people simply being GIVEN AWAY that's over 4 million people's taxes being given away, with very few checks and balances on how or where it is being spent, doesn't look so insignificant when expressed that way, does it? |
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Only listened to J O'B's opening gambit. He started his same old wrung out provocative rhetoric, "you can blame the immigrants for the NHS" ... "but only the ones in this country". The narrative is so tired, and lazy. Should 'we' buy him a new drum to bang on for Christmas?
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The overseas aid budget is 0.7% of government spending.
Think of it this way. if spending was a total of £1 then the total spent on overseas aid is less than one penny of the total spending. Of course it could be targeted better but that's down to the department responsible. |
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Lies Damn Lies.......and statistics
Percentages don't really mean much when you are talking such huge numbers. It's a great lefty, liberal trick designed to look insignificant, 0.7% looks so insignificant, might as well up it to 0.9%.......what tight arses we are. Let's look at it another, more meaningful way. The average wage in the UK is £25k per annum, the average individual would therefore pay around £2,900 in income tax, after allowances. Our foreign aid bill is £12,000,000,000 per annum This is equivalent to the income tax of 4,137,931 working people simply being GIVEN AWAY that's over 4 million people's taxes being given away, with very few checks and balances on how or where it is being spent, doesn't look so insignificant when expressed that way, does it? |
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Only listened to J O'B's opening gambit. He started his same old wrung out provocative rhetoric, "you can blame the immigrants for the NHS" ... "but only the ones in this country". The narrative is so tired, and lazy. Should 'we' buy him a new drum to bang on for Christmas?
If we scrapped tax credits - how did we cope before they were introduced 15 years ago - we could increase spending on elderly social care by nearly 400 per cent! Should we prioritise our most vulnerable or continue to subsidise cheap labour employers. We are nearly £2 trillion in debt and all JOBs ranting won't change that - what is your answer rather than blaming our social care crisis on Farage and Donald Trump!
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And central government funding for elderly and disabled social care is an Even smaller percentage!
Let's start by actually collecting the 34 b of tax which goes uncollected annually. Let's stop paying UK pensioners living in Spain a heating allowance. I know that your ukip thinking believes that the foreign aid budget will pay for everything in the country but it an it so. |
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Lies Damn Lies.......and statistics
Percentages don't really mean much when you are talking such huge numbers. It's a great lefty, liberal trick designed to look insignificant, 0.7% looks so insignificant, might as well up it to 0.9%.......what tight arses we are. Let's look at it another, more meaningful way. The average wage in the UK is £25k per annum, the average individual would therefore pay around £2,900 in income tax, after allowances. Our foreign aid bill is £12,000,000,000 per annum This is equivalent to the income tax of 4,137,931 working people simply being GIVEN AWAY that's over 4 million people's taxes being given away, with very few checks and balances on how or where it is being spent, doesn't look so insignificant when expressed that way, does it? Let's look at the billions of tax that goes uncollected. About 34b per annum |
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