Welfare Minister Lord Freud

[cappy]

What did you have them with cappy roast,boiled and two veg.
Regards.
Jim.B.

###i like that jim starts the day of with a laugh .......no we barbecued the old buggers ......but to be fair 4 or 5 hours was enoughwith them as they both turned awkward on there 2nd bottle of wine ......and would carry on alarming.......god bless them ...both gone .....both had hard times as there generation did but they never moaned .....and loved the pensions which they lived very well on ....as for food banks or charity they would have died ist......regards cappy

[Jim Brady]

Lou will be pleased with this one.Lou lives life to the full and one of his pastimes is having his daily bet on the horses and we discuss this in our regular pm's.This morning I was telling him that I was going out for a few pints and a gamble on the geegee's.Anyway I went down to the Pier Head first,I went to the FEPOW Memorial and I gave the Monawai (Lous repatriation ship) a rub for luck,believe it or not I backed four winners on the bounce all at good prices so I would say I had a good day with nothing to moan about and that is exactly what Lou is saying.A good day out plenty to drink and came home with more money that I went out with.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Lou Barron]

Well all i can say Les if we did not live in the past regards to some of the stories on this site there would be no Merchant Navy Site.
My idea of life enjoy it while you can your a long time dead.

[Braid Anderson]

#22..." is there any member on this sight who is in very dire ways". Actually I am Lou. But I chose to live in the wilds of Papua New Guinea, so no good complaining! Anyway, the good times will come again, I'm sure.

[Red Lead Ted]

The point Lou is making is that there are not many pensioners these days in dire straights.I am a pensioner and quite happy with my lot,pensioners today have a far better life than when my father retired it's no wonder many of them never lived past 70.So who won or lost the war is immaterial pensioners are doing very well thank you and it is the younger generation that are struggling,oh tobe young again,no thank you !!!
Regards.
Jim.B.

Jim, Long may it to continue that you are comfortable in your retirement. As for the youngsters well this prime minister and his government has created another few million jobs for our youngsters. Took them out of the income tax bracket, They only if there lucky earn £10,000 a year if there lucky, The problem is all this austerity and misery has done squat sh*t for the countries deficit, In fact we have never been borrowing as much money in U.K. History each month as we are now. UKIP With there promise of an in out referendum from the E.U. has Sir Cameron getting tough on migration influx to the U.K. with Brussels. shame no one hadn't informed him that as a member state and signing the Lisbon treaty he would be breaking E.U. Law by imposing sanctions on the free movement of any migrant wanting to come to Britain do a few months work then bleed us dry through claiming welfare benefits. George Osborne has all the answers in a word AUSTERITY....And lots more of it over the next 4 years. All in it together enjoy your pension while you can Jim, They are running out of things to cut and getting deeper into debt. Not a good sign buddy Terry.

[happy daze john in oz]

#22..." is there any member on this sight who is in very dire ways". Actually I am Lou. But I chose to live in the wilds of Papua New Guinea, so no good complaining! Anyway, the good times will come again, I'm sure.

Wish I had your optomisim about that. I cannot, with things the way they are in the world just now, see any better times for many years to come. There is no REAL global concensus on any issue, plenty of talk and signing of papers but that is about it.