
Lordo wrote:What a world we live in. There are 7.7 million people who need Universal credit to survive. Of this total, 3 million people are working and their wages are so low that they need to claim UC to survive.


Up to 150 more Eurofighter Typhoon jets are set to be ordered before the end of the decade in a boost for defence manufacturer BAE Systems, the company revealed yesterday.
The firm is ‘confident’ the Government will succeed in brokering orders with Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia for two-thirds of the aircraft, which will be assembled in the UK.


Lordo wrote:Oh dear we seem to be suffering from SwineCunteous fever today. Nurse please bring in your rectal thermometer, we have a couple of SwineCunts with fever.


In an answer to a recent parliamentary question, junior Armed Forces Minister James Heappey put the cost of Operation Herrick at £22.2bn, with the money coming from the Treasury Special Reserve, a pot of money often used to pay for wars.
Mr Ledwidge calculated that Britain had actually spent around £37bn in 2013.
He thinks this will have risen to £38-£39bn now, calling the government’s estimates “bargain-basement, lowest possible figures”.
But even this larger sum does not include the ongoing costs to the NHS of caring for wounded veterans.
The verdict
Recent figures put out by the British government put the total cost of major operations in Afghanistan in the low twenty billions.
But independent analysts think the true operational cost could be around double that figure.
And this is without trying to count the additional costs to the health service of caring for wounded veterans over their lifetimes.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) cannot identify how much tax is paid by UK billionaires, despite the relatively small number of individuals and significant sums of money involved, according to a report.
Its report on collecting the right tax from wealthy individuals said: “HMRC does not know how many billionaires pay tax in the UK or how much they contribute overall.”

Lordo wrote:Here are some figures to consider.
While our national debt..........................

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