Need a hand choosing?

'Hog wrote

One?

 

Not according to that web site. I've just put in a colleague's
double-income amount, and it's capped it at 100k total.

I didn't know about the 5k(ish) personal allowance, that takes the
sting out of it quite heavily.

 

They sort of sit oddly with the grumpy Genghis khan image and then he
has a BMW as well which is more in keeping with fascist lunacy. The
Beemer also conjures up a pipe, slippers and a cardigan and again they
all fit with my mental image of the chap. Thous and Dukes don't.

At this rate he'll never want to talk to me

 

I fully understand those concerns and would agree with most of it. The
compromises over key aspects of economic control to suit the
difficulties encountered by the biggest countries do not bode well. If
there was ever very serious economic trouble in the Euro Zone then I can
foresee severe political and social unrest following swiftly.

The absence of robust debate in the UK about the Euro is a great shame
as I would certainly like to understand more about it.

I'd agree with that too.

Oh damn, time to join you in UKIP.

 

I read that as 'nice little Tomahawk' (as in the cruise missile) which
made me wonder if I should be greener.

 

Killed any black people lately?

You beat me to it.

 

Only visited the place once but it is very odd. The adherence to the
myriad of petty rules is quite amazing. You become scared of being
nicked if you cross a junction when the red man is still showing - even
when there isn't a car for miles.

There are other strange rules like tenants can be evicted from state
owned properties [1] if they make too much noise or if they don't put
their rubbish out on the appointed days. There were various articles
about this in the local newspapers.

The other strange thing was the number of murders reported in the press.
You'd imagine that such a controlled place wouldn't have many but it
seems the restrictions cause people to go bonkers and then murder people
for no apparent reason.

The criminality re homosexual practices also made for a daring do time
as well. While there is a gay scene people were extremely reticent
about declaring how they felt - especially to foreigners.

[1] i.e. made homeless with no right of appeal.

 

I'd be £1,118 worse off. As I think my council tax is far too high I
can't see why I'd vote for local income tax.

 

On 15 Apr 2005 15:08:56 GMT, "PeterT@Home" <>
wrote:

[hog's view on German democracy]

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Remind me not to provoke your ire.

 

Hmm, I'd be worse off under that system. Which is a bit of a bugger as
one of the factors in choosing this house was it's council tax banding.

 

Paul Corfield proposed

As you rarely[1] spout drivel of similar proportions there is only a
very slim chance of that happening. ;-)


[1] Make that never[2]
[2] at least as far as I have read your postings

 

I said it was *one* of the factors, as you well know. I should have
said the council tax bill was a factor and not the banding anyway. I
never asked about the banding for any of the houses on my short list
but I did ask the vendors what level of council tax they were paying.

Is that actually true? I thought council tax bandings were based on the
value of the property, albiet in 1993. Identical houses in different
locations could have different values, possibly putting them on
different sides a banding threshold.

In researching this post I found the site below. This is interesting as
it puts the houses on the opposite side of my street into a different
band to this side, even though they all appear to be of the same design.

http://www.voa.gov.uk/council_tax/cti_home.htm

 

And in other news today - darsy found with head jammed even further up his
own arse.
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
96 Tiger.
FRJACKUKRM AT GMAIL DOT COM
skype: fr.jack (without the dot)

 

If you feel strongly about one issue, and wishy-washy on
the others, of course it's going to count the one you
feel strongly about much higher. So, closet tory are you?

 

Again, that's not fair and I'm surprised you'd actually say that.

Whilst I may have selected no to the Euro and for that matter chosen
negatively on asylum, that doesn't make me prone to 'kill black people'.

 

darsy emerged from their own little world to say

and barking old ladies like my mum who would be about £1100 better off

 

Ever heard of the word "joke"?

I know it's a bit "pot and kettle" coming from me [1] but I was just
teasing and I didn't expect you to take it quite so seriously.

[1] Mr Terribly Serious all the time.

 

I'm sure my neighbours would thank me for increasing their council tax
bills.

In our case we knew what we wanted and just needed to find somewhere we
could afford it so location was everything.

I suspected as much.

 

So? There's more to the lib dem manifesto than local income tax.

I wouldn't be voting *for* local income tax, in the same way I
wouldn't be voting *for* an increase in anything that leaves me
poorer.

I'd be voting *for* the rest of the manifesto, and *against* the
alternatives. The fact that there might be a few bitter pills in
among the bowls of sugar is just something I have to offset against
the benefits. The funds for the things the lib dems want to do have
to come from somewhere, and I'd rather see the money come from the
haves than the have nots. Would you disagree?

 

**** off

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