Dibden Purlieu Saint

I got the letter 4 days ago, so not exactly true is it? When applying in September there was no information informing us that it would change either.

We're not saying that it isn't??

You're failing to understand the argument, and are starting to look a bit silly.

£'s, and I'd take 12k. Very low mileage for age as well. I will probably keep it though and trade it in next year and see what I can get.

He is trash, no thanks.

Good stuff. Whatever you do, steer her away from mixing disciplines! I did Business Economic (major) and Law (minor) as I wanted to cover all bases. Turns out to be pretty hard work when the 2 disciplines are very different!

Is he a CB?

11k for me too! What is your daughter going to do there? Excuae me for saying, but you seem quite young to have a 17 year old...

I can see why it's been done, but I have a few friends who have suffered badly from mental problems exacerbated by their cannabis habit.

What are you on about? You seem to have got yourself all confused. I have not said I am deserving financially, however it's frustrating that something that has ALWAYS been available for everyone gets removed just after I have had my first child. The same with paying for University. You can be frustrated about something yet agree with the reasons why they came to fruition.

This makea me so sad, Hall is such a legend.

Who's "crying like a baby"? Why post something so full of hyperbole?

Pap, I don't think people are trivialising people who honestly need benefits, I think the issue is those sections of people who don't deserve welfare end up tarnishing the masses.

650 between us, 300 me, 350 her...Noadswood WAS a class school, went rubbish when I left (class of 2k, wooooooo)

That is speculative bull**** though, no one knows our position if we went down. However I would suggest we would lose our better players, common sense dictates this opinion.

Newcastle don't have the money to buy Lallana, and frankly their scouting does not tend to take in the English Leagues. It is based around getting high quality players from abroad for low prices whilst supplementing with academy/cheap English prospects. Lallana is neither.

Bet that'll be a lovely noose to be removed from your neck, fairplay! I think one of the biggest problems people my age (which is 28 by the way) face is through property. We bought our first place 2 and a half years ago, and looking at what it sold for 15 years ago we have paid 10 times that value, which is frankly mental. I know a lot of people that managed to get on the housing ladder in the late 90's/early 00's that have benefitted very nicely from the property boom. We will never know this unfortunately. But hey ho, life is pretty good at the moment, just annoying that we don't get that £20 a week that everyone has got for however long. Good article as well btw.

Excellent post, and a very similar position to myself and Mrs DPS. The amount spent on benefits it huge, and it has created our welfare state, so it was no real surprise that these were one of the first things to be tackled when the Tories came in. I just didn't think they would go this far.

Neither, just venting my frustrations at a system that did well for the previous generation (those with University grants etc) but has pretty much left my generation and those ahead of us paying higher taxes and receiving less from the Government.

This is not a controversial thread though.

I agree with what you say, but it is annoying. I feel like we are being penalised for having a better job. What you have done for your daughter is exactly what we planned to do with it, put the money towards University fees, which are ridiculously high. Which is another (kind of) bugbear. I realise it was the reason that we have the jobs we do now, but we lose £650 a month through our bloody student loans. Hopefully they should be paid off in a couple of years, it's just another cost to take into account at a time when money is tight.

Do you know what, this was a sensible discussion. There had been a few 'get over yourself and deal with it' type posts, but none that were really read and taken seriously as they didn't offer any sort of argument. Say what you want about my 'look at me' attitude to posting, but all you do Dig Dig is go to different threads and try to cause arguments, and you see me as an easy target. I've started to ignore you on the main board, and I think I will have to continue that on here if you are to continue following me around like a lost puppy. That seems to be your raison d'être with this board now.

I obviously did something to him...not aware of it myself.

I'm not bothered about it overly, but I think if everyone has been entitled to it for this long, I find it frustrating that at a time when myself and the missus are missing out on £27k after tax over a 9 month period we are actually in some need of the money. I have to currently live in the area I do for both mine and the other halves work, unless I want a 90 minute each way commute. I don't think it's unreasonable to want to get home to see my daughter is it? I was trying to have a sensible discussion, and also I don't see where I have even mentioned what car I have on this thread. It's a car we kind of need to get rid of, but funnily enough we can't afford to lose the amount of money on it that we would at the moment.

Playing RB for Stoke. But isn't he a CB? Do we have to refer to him permanently as a RB now then?