Vince Green

Yes but virtually all of the cleaners and minicab drivers, waiters, builders etc are claiming full benefits AND working cash in hand on the side. Its fraud on an industrial scale, but they have no choice, as you imply they couldn't do it if they were legit Over 5000 families have been shipped out of London in the past three years. I cant post a link but google something like London Boroughs moving families out of London and you should find it

Universal Credit is one consolidated central payment per person, it comprises all the various benefits rolled up and made as a single payment. That's how it works rather than a collection of separate claims. It doesn't however take into account multiple identities which is still going on in bigger numbers than they would like to admit. Until they start DNA and fingerprinting claimants.

I don't think so, everywhere you go around London these days they are building blocks of flats, some are huge developments with many hundreds of flats but you never ever see houses being built. In fact developers are buying up houses to demolish and replace them with flats. The London skyline these days is a mass of cranes

People are being moved out to places in the country where the rents are lower. Often to the Midlands, its happening in large numbers.

When money is tight, recreational spending is the first thing that gets cut. Its not just guns, car dealers are doing fantastic deals, Vauxhall are offering 0% over 5 years with no deposit, Ford are doing similar. Toyota are offering minimum £4000 trade in on any old banger against a new car. All sure signs that sales are slow. Why buy a new car when most of the cars in my family are over ten years old and still running perfectly? Boats are the same, my mate is in the boat business and he says you literally cannot give away second hand boats unless they are live aboards. At my sailing club there are plenty of good dinghies on the notice board for sale that never move. The club's problem is they have an aging membership, they are not getting sufficient new blood in. Round London rifle clubs are closing or are under threat, and the common thread running through these closures is the value of the land they occupy. Sites get sold from under them for development. Many clay clubs you have to have a sgc before you can go along and have a go, making it much harder for newcomers to enter the sport.

Official Council rents in London are ridiculously low, I know a family member who has a 3 bed council semi in Surrey (London borough). Been there well over 30 years but her rent is only in the region of £260 pcm. That's why there is so much subletting going on.

That's being stopped by Universal Credit, which is capped at about £26k a year, it used to be very much true

What you describe is Universal Credit except that's capped at about £26K

Are there any marks on the dogs?

We have a really annoying voice over that keeps cutting in when watching TV. It describes whatever is going on in the picture "a car going down a country road " "she sits down at the table" things like that obviously its for blind viewers, does anybody know how to turn it off?

Corbyn has nothing to do with it, he's probably still in bed, he doesn't like to get up early

Do they charge extra for that?

Start a rumour of a shortage and the stock just flies off the shelf, even if they don't want it people buy five and hoard it. twenty years ago somebody started a fake story about a toilet paper shortage because of a strike or fire at a factory, whatever. The shops were emptied in hours.

Buying votes, plain and simple, and it will , no doubt about it. Labour has got a magic money tree that will pay for it all so you don't have to worry "every eligible CITIZEN of a country", yeah right. They could do well to apply that to the present benefits scheme.

Doesn't Hamilton live in Monaco? at least for tax purposes

Domination, and the desire to dominate, can take many forms. It is a normal part of human nature. Wars in this century will not be fought with tanks on the battlefield, they will be fought in other, more subtle ways.

Yes but its not about migrants it should be all about trade. They are not trading partners on an equal financial footing with us, and never will be. The rules of the EU said they had to be before they could join, but those rules were flouted in 2004 and nobody seems to be asking why?. What's the point in being locked into a trading community with countries that don't have any money to buy goods off us? but have an equal vote and can veto our plans?

You have to remember that more than half the countries in the EU now are bankrupt former communist countries who just go with the money and have no principles what so ever. bought votes

You are too kind to him, I would have been less charitable. The man is a snake

Holland have a problem, they hate the Germans with a hate you could only have if you had suffered what they had suffered during WW2 at the hands of the Germans. Seventy years doesn't heal that. But, and its a big but, about 50% of the EU exports go out through Dutch ports, Rotterdam etc. Germany would just love to undermine the Dutch shipping monopoly and feed the work through its own ports. Who needs enemies? If Hexit happens the Germans would screw them , again

Has anybody else seen that idiot Mandleson has opened his mouth again. The EU paid employee now reckons that everyone who voted to leave is a "Nationalist" is this the new hate word, like Racist or "Little Briton" Bigot etc. Well I have a word for you Peter Mandleson, its tos-ser, go look it up

Bang on the money, ? very well put

I would say, if you have to ask the answer is probably no because you obviously don't have the grass roots knowledge. Or you could embark on a learning curve but go back and tell them its only worth £400 tops if sold as seen because its obviously got faults, car of that age and milage etc etc, otherwise they wouldn't be selling it like this and the risks are too high. They might buckle. If they do, its not necessarily a result! they might be more than happy to get a few hundred for it, confirming your worst fears. Old cars with high mileage are worth absolutely diddly squat, even if they were a quality marque once. Dealers need the space, if that car goes to auction it will be sold to a scrapper who will sell the wheels the body panels, lights, and all the other bits on ebay. Every last nut and bolt. It would probably realise about £3K that way for the scrapper.

True!

Prison officers are afraid of the inmates, so would you be when they can so easily have somebody follow you home and threaten your family. We know somebody (stepdaughter's on/off boyfriend) who did the job for a couple of years after getting made redundant but he soon quit because he felt too vunerable outside of work The prisoners would taunt the officers saying we know where you live, and then sometimes they would actually tell them! Just to prove they weren't bluffing.We know where your kids go to school etc. Then they try to blackmail the officers to smuggle in phones etc Why do you think they can't keep prison officers? Its not like Porridge was on TV