What a wast of time this is? Only £10?
What can you do with this? (apart from buy your Xmas dinner at Iceland!)

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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:00:37 -0000, "Enzo"
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>What a wast of time this is? Only £10?
>What can you do with this? (apart from buy your Xmas dinner at Iceland!)


Two dessert platters?
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On 30 Nov, 12:00, "Enzo"  wrote:
> What a wast of time this is? Only £10?
> What can you do with this? (apart from buy your Xmas dinner at Iceland!)
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Well if you don't want it, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who
could do with an additional tenner.
The government isn't in the habit of paying for a slap up Christmas
dinner complete with presents for people. £10 is what they give, and
what they've given for years.

Martin  <><

Enzo wrote:
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Better than nothing, I'm sure I'll find something to spend mine on!
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:00:37 +0000, Enzo wrote:

> What can you do with this? (apart from buy your Xmas dinner at Iceland!)

Give it to charity, in the spirit of Christmas?

"Robin T Cox"  wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:00:37 +0000, Enzo wrote:
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>> What can you do with this? (apart from buy your Xmas dinner at Iceland!)
>
> Give it to charity, in the spirit of Christmas?

Bah Humbug!
I hate Xmas at the best of times! Think I'll spend it on a bottle of 
Bourbon.

On 30 Nov, 16:38, "Enzo"  wrote:
> "Robin T Cox"  wrote in messagenews:uPW3j.51081$T8.36097@newsfe5-win.ntli.net...
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> > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:00:37 +0000, Enzo wrote:
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> >> What can you do with this? (apart from buy your Xmas dinner at Iceland!)
>
> > Give it to charity, in the spirit of Christmas?
>
> Bah Humbug!
> I hate Xmas at the best of times! Think I'll spend it on a bottle of
> Bourbon.

Not the sippin' kind at that price!

Mike

mart2306@hotmail.com wrote:
> On 30 Nov, 12:00, "Enzo"  wrote:
>> What a wast of time this is? Only £10?
>> What can you do with this? (apart from buy your Xmas dinner at Iceland!)
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> Well if you don't want it, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who
> could do with an additional tenner.
> The government isn't in the habit of paying for a slap up Christmas
> dinner complete with presents for people. £10 is what they give, and
> what they've given for years.
> 
> Martin  <><

The first year it was paid it was equivalent to the weekly basic 
retirement pension rate. In Ireland it still is the equivalent of one 
week's pension. In the UK, I think it's safe to say that it hasn't kept 
pace with inflation!

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On 30 Nov, 17:50, Robbie  wrote:
> mart2...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > On 30 Nov, 12:00, "Enzo"  wrote:
> >> What a wast of time this is? Only £10?
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> > Well if you don't want it, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who
> > could do with an additional tenner.
> > The government isn't in the habit of paying for a slap up Christmas
> > dinner complete with presents for people. £10 is what they give, and
> > what they've given for years.
>
> > Martin  <><
>
> The first year it was paid it was equivalent to the weekly basic
> retirement pension rate. In Ireland it still is the equivalent of one
> week's pension. In the UK, I think it's safe to say that it hasn't kept
> pace with inflation!
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Rather like the old funeral allowance which did at one time cover
funerals. Not any more.

Still, if the government decided to get rid of the £10 christmas bonus
in order to save costs (might save a few million on admin alone), you
can bet there'd be people complaining loudly.
To me, its just £10. But to some it will be every meal for a week at
christmas.

Get a turkey for £10, cook it for a couple of hours - and you have
dinner meat and sandwich meat for 1 person for over a week, come to
think of it.

Martin  <><

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:50:38 +0000, Robbie wrote:

> In the UK, I think it's safe to say that it hasn't kept pace with
> inflation!

In the UK the State Pension has been deliberately pitched since 
Thatcher's day *not* to keep pace with inflation.

Mind you, when you are paying your tax and NI to pay for your State 
Pension, you can be very sure that your *contributions* are deliberately 
pitched to keep pace with inflation.

So the fact is, that everyone who receives a State Pension gets short 
changed.