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Pondering, and while slightly more optimistic than we once were, still really quite unhappy Lefty thread

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Hassled · 08/05/2010 17:20

Where had we got to? We'd agreed that we all love Cameron, right?

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TDiddy · 09/05/2010 21:55

Prolesworth - do i listen to Prince or politics on the run. Hmmm

Prolesworth · 09/05/2010 21:34

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TDiddy · 09/05/2010 21:33

My late night run will coincide with Carolyn Quinn's Westminster Hour tonight at 22:00hrs. A must listen this one is tonight.

CatIsSleepy · 09/05/2010 21:28

'Brilliant analysis today on this thread: am a bit in awe.'

yep me too-am feeling distinctly un-clever...(actually that's my usual state of mind)

sorry for those with sad news, hungry and beachcomber.

We had a restorative afternoon out in epping forest with some friends and their two boys. Dd1 had her least grumpy afternoon in ages, which made me happy.

PfftThePinkoLeftyDragon · 09/05/2010 21:23

Sorry, beachcomber and hungy, for your bereavements recently

ISNT - well done, do it, join the Green Party! We would love to have you. I would love to be more involved, but until DD is older there is no chance.

DavidHameron · 09/05/2010 21:22

Hi all

Hungy/monkeysavingexpert sorry about DH's uncle: if you need me to have the kids etc, drive places, let me know...

Beachcomber: sorry for your DH too...

Brilliant analysis today on this thread: am a bit in awe.

Went to parents for the roasted lamb: no Tory victory so the penitential lentils were put back in the cupboard . Anyhow return home to find fuck all has happening. Which is interesting, don't you think?

After all, if anyone, Cameron and Clegg most in thrall to The Big Bad Markets. Therefore to NOT have resolved things by Monday morning very telling, I think...

CatIsSleepy · 09/05/2010 21:17

have had a largely politics-free day

it's been quite relaxing

and I have no idea what's happening, needless to say

allegrageller · 09/05/2010 21:13

I've missed you all too, been out of loop for a while....so somebody please tell me WTF IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING? It's surely still looking like LibCon coalition, but I am kind of hoping they can't find enough common ground to form one thus causing both parties to lose credibility utterly and leave Labour to come back and do sensible things again...

BecauseIAgreeWithGordon · 09/05/2010 20:55

I've missed you all so much. It's difficult to keep up when you've only got a phone (even if it's a lovely, new, shiny iPhone) and you're having to be polite and talk to your inlaws.

(I realise this makes me sound very sad, but I did, really, truly, miss you all ...)

policywonk · 09/05/2010 20:51

Thanks ISNT and Norkily

AppleTreeWick · 09/05/2010 20:49

It's all about the emerging economic chaos on BBC rolling news now rather than slashy innuendo pah this is why they lose share to sky

taffetacat · 09/05/2010 20:44

somebody witty and clever please make a tongue/ham joke

NorkilyChallenged · 09/05/2010 20:41

policywonk - with both of mine it was about 8 days from first sign of spot to all scabbing over.

Hope ds doesn't have it too bad.

allegrageller · 09/05/2010 20:40

taffeta, now there is an image to bring up one's dinner

AppleTreeWick · 09/05/2010 20:39

I'd say a bit of tongue maybe (is that first base?)

taffetacat · 09/05/2010 20:37

do you think Dave got to first base?

AppleTreeWick · 09/05/2010 20:36

So breaking news from BBC...Nick n Dave have had another date. 45 mins face 2 face cheek to cheek jowl by ovum

ImSoNotTelling · 09/05/2010 20:30

About a week til scab time PW, we've just done it all here.

That's chicken pox scabs BTW, I'm not veering off into a discussion about teh miners strike

LeninGrad · 09/05/2010 20:16

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policywonk · 09/05/2010 20:13

Thanks for that Mme - do you pay income tax as well as all that? And what happens with people with chronic or terminal illnesses - do they still have to pay a surcharge for each episode of care (or whatever the terminology is) or are there different arrangements?

DS2 (5) appears to have just come out with chicken pox, though I will take him to GP tomorrow to confirm. He has decided that this will probably mean at least three weeks off school How long until they scab over, as a rule? DS1 only ever had it very mildly.

MmeLindt · 09/05/2010 20:11

Lenin
If I have understood the website correctly, the average is about eu 2500 a month(before tax). But it is dependent on how much you pay in, my FIL gets more than that, my MIL much less.

And that is what the current pensioners are getting. By the time we retire, we will be lucky to get half of that. They have the same problem as we do, elderly population, not enough young people paying into the system.

LeninGrad · 09/05/2010 19:56

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justaboutacompletedfamily · 09/05/2010 19:56

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MmeLindt · 09/05/2010 19:54

Yes, that is for all employees. There is a provision for those earning under a certain rate, part-time workers. I think it is about eu600 at the moment.

State pension payments are 19%, Unemployment insurance 2.8% and I forgot the Pflegeversicherung - a care insurance that pays for care for the elderly, that is another 1.9% (2.2% for those without DC - which I find unfair)

LeninGrad · 09/05/2010 19:47

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