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I couldn't understand a single word he said tbh, Ibra.
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Neither could I saddo and I'm Scottish.
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I listened again on the later news but still no good
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What is shocking is that someone can come up with an arbitrary silly definition of "poverty" as a % of a median income, and lefties don't see what's wrong with that and get on their high horses and mouth off. It's a nonsense. It, almost by definition, will create a section of people in "poverty" regardless of what their actual quality of life is. If everyone was well off, you could have two cars and 4 holidays a year and eat champers and cavear and still be in poverty if other people in the sample were better off than you. Also, 60% of 25k across the UK? In london that would be a very different prospect than in a place in the North where the cost of living (rent, a pint etc) was hugely lower.
It's a rubbish measurement. And as for the lefttards going on about the supposed austerity, in what way would reducing "austerity" increase the income of someone who already actually has a job? Riddle us that? Would keeping a library open help? |
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spending money on infrastucture will cause inflation of wages
austerity has deflated wages if everybody in uk earned over 1 million a year we would still have a large percentage in technical poverty by current mesures poverty should be defined along other lines |
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Wot austerity? hooze suffering ossteritory? You ain't seen nuffink yet ho ho!!!
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I have a friend who doesn't like to work. he said last time I saw him that he would really have to see to it soon that he would start to work hard.
Iron resolutions like that are a good thing but for all that he hasn't started work. when I last seen him in the summer he was eating whole handfuls of wild strawberries. Possibly the time will come one day when anyone caught in such idleness will be thrown in jail and sentenced to hard labour. |
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big problem is foreigners and foreign businesses leaching off the uk.
it all costs dosh and wages less jobs for our younger people and as for the EU - look at the strides forward it has done for most of southern europe's young people a glittering example |
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When I saw him eating the strawberries I thought to myself, they look nice.
and I am glad that in Britain even the most lazy loafer is allowed to eat strawberries and not thrown in jail. |
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fewer jobs
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Keeping this warm. Someone has something to say on the matter.
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IMMIGRATION IS GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY?
1 in 8 of the working population of the UK is allegedly in poverty. The HMRC defines poverty as children living in households receiving ‘out of work benefits’, as well as those receiving Tax Credits, whose income is still below 60% of the Before Housing Costs (BHC) How many of those 1 in 8 are in London, where housing costs are higher than anywhere in the UK? |
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The cheapest housing anywhere in London is in the east end in the Criminal Republic Of Newham.
The population of the C.R.O.N. is 320,000, but only 16% of those (51,200) are white indigenous. The unemployment figures for the C.R.O.N. are higher than any other London borough. Those that do work full time are mostly minimum wage earners. Minimum wage in the cheapest borough, the C.R.O.N. - won’t even pay the rent on a Victorian 3 bed-roomed house, never mind feed a family. Figures from 2012 indicate that: 4.9% are on income support - The figure for the rest of London is 4.4% 35.6% are on council tax benefit - The figure for the rest of London is 25.3% 40.1% are on housing benefit - The figure for the rest of London is 27.2% JSA (Jobseekers Allowance) Claimants in February 2013 Males - Newham - 5.8% Males - London - 4.8% Males - UK - 5.1% Females - Newham - 4.4% Females - London - 3.2% Females - UK - 2.7% ========================================== JSA Claimant count by duration 2013 UP TO 6 MONTHS Newham - 2.9% London - 2.2% UK - 2.2% OVER 6 MONTHS UP TO 12 MONTHS Newham - 0.8% London - 0.6% UK - 0.6% OVER 12 MONTHS Newham - 1.4% London - 1.1% UK - 1.0% |
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immigration is good if the immigrants are great people
 . we can do an exchange and send the UK tw4ts over there |
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How many people have starved to death in 'Poverty Britain' after these last 6 years of the "Savage Tory Cuts" ™ ?
(Excluding any children starved to death by monstrous neglectful parents in London loony left boroughs, where lefty (Anti) Social Workers 'saw nothing' to concern them). |
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Poverty is to be redifned by the Joseph Rowntree foundation as "having an iPhone that's more than 3 years old".
Guardian in uproar at these horrifying stats! Something must be done! Vote Corbyn, he'll outlaw it! |
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In April 2013 - 31.1% of Newham’s children lived in households where all the adults were ‘out of work’ and receiving jobless benefits (JSA or Incapacity Benefit).
The figure for the whole of London is 26.3%. ====================================== From the 2011 census: The main language in the C.R.O.N. is English, with 58.6% speaking it. The figure for all of London is 77.9% The figure for the UK is 92% |
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CRIME
The total crime figures for London fell from 2012 to 2013 but increased in Newham NUMBER OF OFFENCES - LONDON 2011 to 2012 - 816,609 NUMBER OF OFFENCES - LONDON 2012 to 2013 - 787,121 NUMBER OF OFFENCES - NEWHAM 2011 to 2012 - 31,829 NUMBER OF OFFENCES - NEWHAM 2012 to 2013 - 32,809 ======================================= Based on the Index of Multiple Depravation, Newham is the 3rd poorest borough in the country. In April 2012 - 51% in Newham lived in working households receiving Tax Credits. This was the highest percentage in all of London. The London average is 31%. ======================================= So, we have lots of lovely benefit claimants in the 3rd poorest borough in the country. Due to the way housing benefits payments have changed, instead of the rent going directly to the landlords, it now goes to the tenant, and naturally, as they are ‘in poverty’, it gets spent on food, so there are loads of evictions for those ‘in poverty’ who didn’t pay their rent. With so many ‘in poverty’ it makes you wonder where the money comes from that keeps open the 80 (yes, eighty) betting shops in the borough. Not to worry if you do your JSA in the bookies, Newham has TWO food banks, Wages do NOT need to go up. The cost of rent NEEDS to come down. And best not to name the female Newham Councillor who owns 19 (yes, 19) buy-to-let properties in the borough. If the rest of the UK knew the cost of the annual Housing Benefit bill for the whole of London, the sh*t could well hit the fan. cmat |
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Hard to get a taxi in Newham nowadays.
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not a glimmer
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More boring shyte from glimmer and posted by his main fan
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Good to see him back.
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Good to see him back.
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You didn't answer the question, crage. He wants to know if you would like to take part in a scientific survey. Well?
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I can remember when poverty was defined as earning less than a dollar a day. Which may date me. But invoking some arbitrary level based on % of average wage and then looking sad? The people who come up with these figures are the educated middle classes who use the system to bulk up their wages and pensions. No official poor people, no loot for the parasites.
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Metinks the lefties have had a good kicking in this fred again..
When will the seethe end? |
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Question for Facts
Which one of you leftie Cambridge Punts has taken in the most refugees? You or Slob Geldof? You said you had, and in September 2015, he said he would. |
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geldof took in bono
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facts should have taken in the romanian family on my 'what housing shortage' thread.
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but he didn't
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He has conflicting views, too many poor people in the country, but all for making it worse for em by letting more poor people in to spread the jam even thinner.
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Some of the so called poverty stricken we see on telly look like sumo wrestlers in sweatpants. How is that possible? Also, why did Facts write "sent from my iPad" at the bottom of his post? Was it supposed to signify something? All mine are sent from an iPad and that line doesn't automatically appear. Unless he was just pasting somebody else's words from an email?
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Shock horror, copy and pasting !!
it was an extract from an email id sent someone. So ? |
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So what? I was only asking.
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And now you've told me. No need to get all shirty about it.
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Anyway, how is it possible for a whole family who are supposedly poverty stricken to resemble hippopotamuses?
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Hi Torquemada.
How did the rally go? |
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Anybody living on benefits for more than a couple of years has no right to be fat, that's just liberty taking as far as I'm concerned. I don't hold down two jobs to pay for some lazy lard arses to sit on their backsides eating crisps and watching Jeremy Kyle on a 50 inch telly all day. Some people's sense of entitlement is staggering.
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Hi EK. I must be having a brain freeze. What rally mate? Oh, hang on, I'm probably setting myself up for a punchline here, am I?
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The EDL or something of that ilk must have been marching T.
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