I hate this government

[BimboBob]

I love you mcmanus.

You sound like my mam or my mates.

The same person

I'm deffo your mam. Look at me son, I'm wearing your favourite underwear, look, no touching now, stop that oooh stop it stop...ooooh....

 

[mcmanus]

You sound like my mam or my mates.

The same person

I'm deffo your mam. Look at me son, I'm wearing your favourite underwear, look, no touching now, stop that oooh stop it stop...ooooh....

Hehe.

I remember that photo of you dressed as a lady.

No..... I didn't a hard on.

 

[BimboBob]

The same person

I'm deffo your mam. Look at me son, I'm wearing your favourite underwear, look, no touching now, stop that oooh stop it stop...ooooh....

Hehe.

I remember that photo of you dressed as a lady.

No..... I didn't a hard on.

Wait until this years. We are Madonna, through the ages...













Pink leotard?

 

[mcmanus]

I'm deffo your mam. Look at me son, I'm wearing your favourite underwear, look, no touching now, stop that oooh stop it stop...ooooh....

Hehe.

I remember that photo of you dressed as a lady.

No..... I didn't a hard on.

Wait until this years. We are Madonna, through the ages...













Pink leotard?

Waiting for your call baby night and day.....I'm hung up.....I'm tired off waiting on you.

 

[mcmanus]

I don't give a flying fuck for the supermarket checkout girl or bank teller to be honest but I'd like to know that firemen, nurses, teachers and the old bill are paid appropriately.

And there we have it, the bastards have won. Divide and conquer. Public sector workers look down on private sector workers with a sense of snobbish superiority. Private sector workers resent the sense of entitlement displayed on occasion by those looking down on them. Both blames the other for their problems.

We're all in this together, the workers of the country, whether we work for the NHS, Emergency services, Banks or McDonalds. We shouldn't be looking down on each other. We should be fighting for what we deserve. We've got a government which isn't tough on taxes owed by big business. That is having to pay out more and more money to working men and women because they aren't being paid enough. Yet at the same time we have a culture which demonises 'benefits scroungers'.

As for the person deriding a £25k salary as shite, come and live in the real world. The world of zero hour contracts. Of a minimum wage which takes the piss. Where the only way to get a pay rise is to get promoted (or wait for the minimum wage to go up).

All power to anyone who wants to strike. I wish them well but do issue a warning. Be careful. Because we are all in this together and it's a fine line between standing up for your rights and pissing off people who feel the same grievances but don't have the luxury of being able to strike. You risk being seen as moaning and not willing to make the same sacrifices as the rest.

We have a general election coming up but instead of standing up against the career politicians who haven't got a clue about the real world we'll be too busy voting for/against UKIP over an issue most people don't even understand.

Top post.

 

[Vic]

I think we should have a thread about the firefighters' strike, as this one no longer is.

Was retirement after 30 years at 55. Now keep going to 60, and find your lung capacity can't meet the fitness standard, then - not early retirement on health grounds but get the sack for being "incompetent". Now tell me, if your house was on fire and you needed rescuing, would you want a crew of 60-year-old firefighters turning up?

Fewer fires = fewer firefighters sounds good, until there's a major incident.

 

[FantasyIreland]

I think we should have a thread about the firefighters' strike, as this one no longer is.

Was retirement after 30 years at 55. Now keep going to 60, and find your lung capacity can't meet the fitness standard, then - not early retirement on health grounds but get the sack for being "incompetent". Now tell me, if your house was on fire and you needed rescuing, would you want a crew of 60-year-old firefighters turning up?

Fewer fires = fewer firefighters sounds good, until there's a major incident.

Or,better still,a 68 yr old paramedic carrying the 20 stone heart attack victim down stairs?

 

[Blue Maverick]

I think we should have a thread about the firefighters' strike, as this one no longer is.

Was retirement after 30 years at 55. Now keep going to 60, and find your lung capacity can't meet the fitness standard, then - not early retirement on health grounds but get the sack for being "incompetent". Now tell me, if your house was on fire and you needed rescuing, would you want a crew of 60-year-old firefighters turning up?

Fewer fires = fewer firefighters sounds good, until there's a major incident.

Or,better still,a 68 yr old paramedic carrying the 20 stone heart attack victim down stairs?

Or a 60 year old copper chasing a scrote down the street.

 

[FantasyIreland]

I think we should have a thread about the firefighters' strike, as this one no longer is.

Was retirement after 30 years at 55. Now keep going to 60, and find your lung capacity can't meet the fitness standard, then - not early retirement on health grounds but get the sack for being "incompetent". Now tell me, if your house was on fire and you needed rescuing, would you want a crew of 60-year-old firefighters turning up?

Fewer fires = fewer firefighters sounds good, until there's a major incident.

Or,better still,a 68 yr old paramedic carrying the 20 stone heart attack victim down stairs?

Or a 60 year old copper chasing a scrote down the street.

To be fair Mav,most 25yr old coppers aren't capable of that......

 

[BimboBob]

Or a 60 year old man hitting a tough pick rate in a warehouse.