Recent content by charliegolf

Because they are made up.

Not for much longer.

There's a company in rural West Wales that empties cesspools and septic tanks. The Green Apple Sludge Company. Love it.

Well, bugger me!

that's pension credit, not state pension.

Nobody who never paid in gets a state pension.

Update... Came 3rd in the old codgers' section of my local triathlon today, nine mins faster than my best hope for the race; and 87th out of 180 finishers. Life in the old dog yet. (Had to go to bed for 3 hours- am wrecked.) CG

Just a thought: if he's all for a united Ireland, he's obviously not as Orange as he looks eh?

Half the parties were in favour... Funny thing that.

No point in telling you (again and again), I suppose, that the welfare spend has been within about 1% GDP difference whoever was in power in the last 40 years? With the highest being during Tory rule. No? Didn't think so.

Careful scratching yer nads.

Just sneaked under 32 mins for 5k. Not too shabby for 70 in early October. Knackered now!

Mine renewed on the 1st. Down £35. Aviva.

I'm describing the system, not whether it's a good idea (I think it's not); or how the inhabitants view it. I was kinda saying communism is virtually extinct as a political ideology; and that calling us lefties commies is dishonest.

In communism*, the state owns the means of production. The state owns the factories, the farms, the financial systems. It has elections, but not free so don't need to be fair. Leaders cannot easily be replaced. The leaders' friends can, of course live outside the confines of the regime. There is...