Koop:
Go on the dole??So then i’ll be sitting on me arris all day, eating crap food, whilst reading crap newspapers, havin a kip when i feel like it. Smokin way too many roll ups??
Hang on!! i’m doin it allready…except i’m required to do a bit of driving.
nichia:
My point is: when people complain about the taxes being so high and that the gov’ts coffers are being filled - where do they think that money really goes?
well for a start, it wouldn’t hurt them to pay for their own kitchen (think it came out they get an allowence of £3,500 for that). They could pay for their kids to go to university etc, get the wife a cheap run about rather than let her spend literally thousands a year on taxi’s! But no, WE, the tax payers pay for it 
There’s no end of scandals about these “expenses” and I bet that’s just the unlucky few - They’re paid a wage like everyone else, probably a lot more than any of us get paid (and they seem to be bloody useless!) so why does the tax payer have to treat them to nice things all the time as well!!? Wasn’t Blair’s wallpaper at no.10 something like £600 a roll!? Wonder who paid for that 
can’t remember who it was, but not Blair. he lived at no 11.
Nah, the expensive wallpaper bloke was Derry Irvine. I don’t think it was £600, probably nearer £350. Whatever it was a roll, the bill for the wallpaper was £59,000.
We could do with proportional representation and lots more accountability. Plus a better turnout at elections.
Quinny:
Bloody good rant Baz.Don’t suppose you would like to stand for Parliament would you?
Ken.
NO, all that power, all that cash (sorry I mean allowances), all the little people to ■■■■ on from a great height, no thanks.
Then again, given the choice of candidates I reckon I could’ve got somewhere today.
Hi truckyboy,
I’ve got the Panama hat and the page three girls on my arm just send me the money, I’m sure we have heard it all before. I’m sure you were around in 79 when the last big effort to have a national lorry drivers strike took place, it did achieve something and things did change for the better but only for a short while. The transport industry in this country is regarded as a total inconvenience to everyone and that is battle we will always have. Joe Public has never appreciated that the lorries they see are actually delivering and providing all the things that they require 24/7 and that lorry drivers have to work anti-social hours to make all that possible.
Until there is a massive media campaign to change public perception of the Transport Industry, and how it is essential to the lifeblood of the UK, we will always be regarded as something that is just a massive inconvenience to commuters and sales reps who have much more important things to do than delivering their food,clothes & their beds!
nichia:
The Biker:
I bet the Government is laughing all the way to the bank with the fuel increases - their tax % of course goes up.Yes then they can continue to fund schools, the NHS, local councils, libraries etc etc, all the things that you use/need everyday to survive!
I think you’ll find most of them now are ‘self funding’ through private investment money, called PFI…Private Finance Initiatives. The same as the ones who build our roads and civic amenties, and who also make MASSIVE profits and have just been found funnily enough to be screwing us in price fixing cartells. Thats where our extra taxes are going.
Another fuel protest in/near liverpool. Anybody know anything about it?
stormnation:
Another fuel protest in/near liverpool. Anybody know anything about it?
They don’t usually pay for it here mate, they usually just drive off !!! Makes no odds to us 
stormnation:
Another fuel protest in/near liverpool. Anybody know anything about it?
This one mate?
Refinery protest over fuel prices
Stanlow Oil Refinery, Cheshire
Lorries had queued up outside the plantAbout 100 farmers and hauliers have staged a demonstration outside the Stanlow Oil Refinery at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire over rising fuel prices.
Source: BBC News
Look who used to work for the news team - lol