You want my answer, here it is. You say you have a problem with people who “beg off the state when they should be working”. Do you know what it is like to have to “beg off the state”?

I have no option but to “beg off the state” because Blair and all the other parties have effectively written off the over 25s. If you are unemployed and unfortunate enough to be over 25, then there is absolutely NO meaningful job training available to you whatsoever. OK, there is the New Deal, but for under 25s (who only have to be unemployed for 6 months before they qualify for this scheme) there is a training allowance paid for them to work towards a recognised qualification. The New Deal for over 25s (who have to be unemployed for 18 months to qualify, if that’s not discrimination then I don’t know what is) does not provide any money for training towards a qualification because it is assumed that all over 25s have the necessary experience. If you don’t have the relevant experience there is nothing available to you are you are on the scrapheap my friend.

In my entire life I don’t think I’ve ever heard such a complete, total and utter crock.
I’m 43 (almost) and I’ve just stated a second career–So am I too old?
I’ll give you a bit of free advice–GET A BETTER ATTITUDE.
Then take Norman Tebbit’s advice and get on your bike and look for work and stop whinging.
Andy

Wow, thanks for posting.

You’ll be upset if one of the Aviation Trustees turns up in his preferred mode of transport then 😉

A Scout/Wasp is not an eggbeater in the biblical sense. 🙂 :confused: :confused: 🙂 🙂

I’ve yet to find someone who knows the answer to this. There must be plenty of people who do.

I’ll ask it one question at a time and not move on until I have the correct answer to the current question.

Firstly: How do you write the number 4 in Roman numerals?

This is NOT a trick question – it’s just to build up the picture.

IV

They were probably burying the local Conservative candidate.

The BBMF Dak is a real favourite of mine.
Great pictures everyone.
Cheers
Andy

Seems to me that some Western governments find OBL far too useful as a bogeyman-at-large to ever seriously track him down.

The implications of what he might have to say once captured might be interesting too.

I imagine his address book might have some interesting ‘contacts’.
Later
A…

If my memory serves me correctly there were links between the IRA and Libyan terorism and the drug cartels in Central America.

So, I reckon they’re all one and the same thing.
Me personally, I think the war on terrorism has been a damp squib so far.
I haven’t got much sympathy for the people held in Cuba but they seem like pretty low grade stuff to me.
Probably a few mis-fits who thought life there would be better than South London or Bradford.
Probably ending up as foot-soldiers of one sort and another.

What I want to know is when are we going to see some some real action in stamping out the real terrorists people?
Bin Laden for instance–Where’s he? How many people are currently occupied in hunting him down? Not many I’d wager.
Seems to me that western Governments have no clue on how to do that.

Later
A.