can you give a nasty gnash with your gums too ?? 🙂

al queeda won’t be near your house now your being watched 24/7 !!

your self portrait does one no favours !!

from a helicopter after 5 days training in the jungle or arctic !! home sweet home !!

@ppp.

Hi. Do all the Xpats who live in Spain and Aus get the same benefits as they would, if they had stayed here?. I know those who live in Spain, get the Winter fuel allowance:rolleyes:.
I agree with it being given here in the U.K. as in the Winter, whilst working folks may work in a heated office and such, the Pensioners are forced to stay at home all day, so they do need the heat, As somewon said last year, it’s a choice of “Heating, or Eating”.
But why should X pats get the allowances when they chose to leave the U.K.?.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

i agree there are plenty of bennefits that should be attaked before attacking bennefits that are actualy needed

like you say heating allowances being paid to those in spain , but my main concern is child bennefits etc being paid to the well off that don’t in reality need it

to some bennefits are a lifeline to others they are the difference between buying a new car and having to decide wether to have a baseline model or buy the ghia model with the bennefits and that is an unsustainable situation that was fine when we were a country of plenty but needs to stop pretty swiftly now we are not !!

Paul178 @ 7.

Paul, have you stood at the counter at the Post Office on a Monday?. If so, you will have seen many of these workers sending money “Back home” Lincoln .7

my brother worked in the forces in germany he put what was necessary into the german ecconomy but mainly he saved to give his family a better life in the uk !!

the difference is ???

i can only post from observed behaviour the organisation i work for has a mixture of brits and immigrants

the immigrant

the biggest percentage are punctual , polite , take pride in what they are doing ( often juggling college or university in a “job” related subject , are not shy of overtime , do not pick and choose tasks while there , are smartly dressed ( even if not to our tastes ) and try to get along with everyone

then you get the brit

more often than not they will be late if they can bother turning up atall , they will probably have a bad work attitude , in what they class as menial work they don’t give a c**p about work standards just mooch around till payday , more often than not they take university courses that are well above what thier realistic employment actualy is having this makebelieve world of employment where thier first job is going to be the chief executive with a 100’s of k sallary , they begrudge being there to do a normal weeks hours believing employers should revolve around tasks they want to do during work hours let alone mentioning overtime to them , dress wise often they are wearing sports gear often with t shirts with offensive slogans
and often can’t get on with workmates

i have recently worked in an area within my company and was working with a brit that tiked most of the above boxes and p***ed most of the staff off around him i now work in an are of the company that has mostly older generation brits but outnumbered by immigrants the workplace attitude could not be better !!

i’ll leave with a conversation my brother had in a local pub where he lives in a south wales rural area

man , your place has been taking on recently hasn’t it ??

brother ..yes

man taken on immigrants haven’t they ??

brother yes

man bl**dy typical employers giving our jobs to immigrants !!

brother did you apply ??

man no !!

brother well it isn’t your job then d**k head now **** off and leave me alone !!

They certainly don’t need me to tell them that, when they have had £78.000 worth of Cardio vascular equipment stolen, or the fact that across 110 NHS Trusts, 522 Laptops, containing thousands of patients records stolen.
What about Patient confidenciality contained on those computers?.

I am afraid Kev, as usual, we will continue to disagree with each other. and as such, these are my last words on the subject.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

agreed they arn’t the best but you have to put it in context the NHS is about the 3rd largest employer in the world put the figures against another employer of the same size and they would probably be lower than most just how do you fully protect a large building like a hospital that needs to remain free flowing and at the same time is treating some of the dreggs of society ??