A boss of mine at the airport used to work in a HR type role for the Irish prison service. Heād often say officer-prisoner intimate moments arenāt that unusual
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20 billion is fuck all. Itās the equivalent of roughly 1.6 billion here
Iād be thinking the same but when thereās so many in Britain who are already struggling any extra taxes will hit hard.
The problem she has is that 82% of britains gdp now comes from the financial sector, ergo London. Thereās fuck all manufacturing going on. Thus if she raises taxes , itās going to hit hard. She canāt borrow and with Britain running a corporation tax of 25%, sheāll attract little or no fdi. When you consider that the poorest in Ireland are still 63% better off that their British counterparts, I think her only option is to slash spending and hope for the best
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Where are you getting that figure from (not disputing it)?
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Scabies never went away, remember an outbreak in Cork and Limerick in the 80s,TB is also back
Iād say itās better here but not by a large percentage,
I can categorically state truthfully that thereās serious deprivation in parts of the 6 counties that we donāt have down here,
Strabane / Derry have major unemployment blackspots since forever,
Obviously any cunt drinking or drugging his / her dole away happens and wonāt ever stop but vast majority on the dole across the border donāt and struggle week to week
There was a discussion on news talk the other day. Twas brought up then
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I only found out recently that the UK only pay child benefits on the first 2 children.
Yeah shur thereās war going on over there. The birth rate is going through the floor. If it keeps going the way itās going, theyāll be laying on boats themselves from France in a couple of decades
Child benefits on a social welfare payment is how I understand that.
They limit the equivalent of our child allowance based on highish income rather than the number of children.
It is an interesting social experiment when you think about it (perhaps too much).
50k. Every Ā£100 over you have to pay back 1%.
So you could have one couple on 49k each and they get it or one on 50k and 20k and they donāt get it. But the work around is that you put the child benefit in the lower earners name.
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Thatās gone up to Ā£60k now and every Ā£200 you have to pay back 1%. Itās about Ā£25 per week for first child and Ā£17 per week for every other child. I struggle to believe anyone in the UK before the 2 child limit was having children for money-making reasons.
We just put ours in an ISA. Thereās no way it would cover anything. The monthly payment would barely cover nursery for a day. You do get 20% from the Government towards nursery and then thereās the 30 hrs free when they are three. Thereās also something coming in for two year olds. Then thereās something that covers summer camps etc until the child is 18 thatās linked to the government account youāve to set up to get the 20% relief mentioned above.
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You and your pampered English ways - no free childcare hours at all here.
Thatās what we did til they took it not long after hoppy was born.
Itās well needed. Double our Mortgage at the minute. Thatās with the hours!
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Weāre not far off it ourselves after herself got a promotion. Itāll be going in my name for a few years
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