Evacuation from Libya

[sweetgilly]

AIBU to expect those individuals who accept high tax free salaried positions in hostile environments, to then meet the costs of evacuation should the need arise. Why should the British tax payer meet the costs?

insurance is invoked in certain circumstances.civil war isnt manageable,nor can an employer or insurance company easily hire safe transport and carriage out of a civil war.or call upon skilled staff to facilitate this safe transport

Nobody is talking about teachers or charity workers either but families enjoying a lucrative expat lifestyle

Who? Where?? What evidence do you have for this?

Milamae & Sweetgilly.

Answer me this question. Should protection which a govt provide have conditions attached?

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It appears that your interpretation of having a reasonable argument is to resort to personal insults.

Anyway, i'm not prepared to have any further discussion with you as I do not want you to be late for school, tomorrow, lol.

Heartless, ignorant and stupid wasn't aimed at anyone in particular, sweetpea :) Any argument against helping UK citizens in times of warfare is all the above. Please elaborate your argument so I can understand you a little clearer :)

OP, that's the first time in my life anyone has ever accused me of being a bully. I am anything but that. IRL, in case you are still wondering (like) you've made me cry and now I can't sleep, so thank you for that. Well done, you've made a pregnant woman cry, very witty.

May I suggest most respectfully that if you start a contentious thread on a political subject you should be prepared for some robust responses, some of which may be from people who don't agree with you.

I was merely pointing out, albeit tactlessly, the existence of a very recent and very similar thread.

I shall not be troubling your thread again.

Actually I didnt think Captain was insulting. I thought he was just being observant.

If I wanted a lucrative expat lifestyle I would hardly have chosen to go to Libya under a mad dictator in the middle of an undeveloped desert... I think you are confusing Libya with Dubai.

Times are a changing, our Nimrods have gone,our ships are dwindling, we have to hope America will use their planes to help us to locate people in the desert.Maybe throwing money at huge rescue missions like this without help won't be an option for much longer anyhow.

NotSoPukeyMummy

Yawn

Right Captain so they go for the weather

Niceguy2 Thu 24-Feb-11 23:33:30
Actually I didnt think Captain was insulting. I thought he was just being observant.

Really. Well thanks for that contribution.

No Mila. They go for the money.

OH works thousands of miles away - not the the M East. He spends days at a time in the middle of nowhere, uncontactable, in dangerous parts of the world.

He does not live a lucrative lifestyle. I look after the family for 11 months a year on my own in a rented house.

You are ignorant of the lifestyles of these workers and are guilty of making ridiculous assumptions.

Some people are so silly and so ill informed.

I hardly think ringing up More Than travel insurance is going to help in such a situation.

The liklihood is they will be paying tax. My DH has had to go to Libya for a couple of months a few years ago - was still very much paying tax.

Working out there doesn't mean a high salary - my DH didn't get paid anymore than his hourly rate over here. Yes he worked more hours when there but the rate was the same even though he was stuck in a camp in the desert.

If people like my DH and others didn't go and do necessary work you wouldn't have any petrol. How silly of them to go and do a vital job that benefits you.

I do wish people wouldn't start an AIBU about stuff they blatently know nothing about. How daft.

Yes tax free money Captain so they're more than capable of contributing to the possibility of their own rescue.

The problem is not the contributing - where have any workers complained about the cost of getting out? They need national government assistance because that is help you cannot buy. BP paid for a charter flight. I am sure the other companies either contribute in tax or will help pay for any assistance. But they need government help NOW!

"We're not talking about vulnerable refugees but people enjoying stonking great salaries with a lot of money at their disposal "

Is 38k a year a stonking great salary? Thats what my DH earns (before tax) doing a job where he goes to Libya working for the oil companies. Oh well, I can rest easy in the knowledge that if he was caught up in such a conflict then he could afford to ring his private jet to go and pick him up. We have so much money at our disposal.

Captain nobody is saying don't help them now.

lets be clear here the situation is volatile and a charter flight and some just in case insurance wouldn't do the job.

govt have logistics,and ability to commandeer,command and safely get uk citizen home in crisis.this is a crisis

Then I am at an utter loss as to what you think you are talking about :)

"Yes tax free money "

I repeat again - the chances are they are paying tax. The majority of them will work for a British company, be based here and go out there for periods of a few weeks/couple of months. Then be back here for a while before going back. Thats what everyone I know who works out there in the desert camps does. They all pay NI and income tax.

Milamae - do you know many people who work out there what you being so informed?

Is 38k a year a stonking great salary?

Erm...it's not bad.

Why don't you re-read the thread

We're talking about in the future expecting workers to contribute before they go.