And this comes from the same man who is currently wasting even more taxpayer’s money AND the valuable time of our Police Force simply because he is STILL “denying” a speeding fine, how DO these people ever get into positions of power!
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And they are insisting on building more of these because???
I personally am all for greener living wherever practical, BUT not when it causes a blight on our landscapes, drops entire villages property prices to a crippling level, destroys wildlife and actually has no real benefit to anyone except the manufacturer ( often outside of the UK so no jobs for us Brits) and whomever’s pockets are getting lined for giving the “green” light for these projects
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This video is well worth looking at, many thanks to Tory Aardvark for sharing this with us all
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News like this just makes me want to cry, I see a bleak future ahead of more struggling for me, and an impossible one for my son!
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Just a little over 10% of your disposable income spent on bills places you in fuel poverty? Good grief, where does that place me then?
After paying my rent alone, my leftover income is a mere £77.62 per week ( often £10 less if less hours available) so after paying out a minimum of £24.50 to the Water Board, £22 to the electricity company, and currently £16 for gas ( I daren’t use it in the winter now!) that leaves me with just £15.12 per week on average to buy food/clothes/transport/all life’s other expenses for myself and my son!
For the record, we do NOT live like Royalty, we rent a tiny damp-ridden horrid flat, best I could manage, rarely have any lights on after sunset, we share one bath per week to save water, ( there is NO shower here sadly), and don’t run the central heating at all, there is only a 2-ring gas hob that rarely works anyhow, and I rarely have anything worth actually cooking in the electric oven!
Since the local bus company recently decided they wanted £24 per week for a local travel pass, we now have to walk everywhere, which on a very poor diet is actually not doing us any good.
I currently hate the Government for preaching one thing to us all with regards to austerity measures, some of us have been living in austere times for a heck of a lot longer than they realise, especially when THEY themselves are lording it up at Wimbledon, and various posh dinner parties lately, and I also hate the utility companies who do seem to be taking the mickey out of us mere mortals, the less I use of anything the more it is costing me………yet they cry “repairs and carbons taxes” yet proclaim such ridiculously HUGE profits on a regular basis!
Rant over
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and ps no i am not in debt…yet, the amounts above are what i have to set aside weekly so that I DONT get into debt.. they are what it works out per week when I break the bills down
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Yes, It Really Is A Religion….
Another great post I came across from a fantastic site that I follow almost religeously ( sorry Aard lol)
This reminded me of when our local council introduced the two-weekly rubbish collection, and please do bear in mind that I actually personally campaigned in our area for better ways for us to recycle in our homes.
I live in a tiny 2 bed flat, albeit the building itself is actually the equivalent of a house, split into two flats, I have the bottom flat, but with the building being sat on a steep hill, there are steep steps leading up to the front door. I also have pretty much no outside space, and the interior makes my previous bedsit appear extremely spacious!
When the council delivered the myriad recycling containers and big green bins, they appear to have completely missed my little flat out, assuming it was just a house, even though they took away the TWO old-style bins from the property!
I have called and let them know, and even had a visit from a council officer shortly after the deliveries to check all was well, with the assurance in both cases that a set WOULD be delivered to me..so far nothing has appeared.
End result thus far, especially now that the bin-men refuse to collect anything that ISN’T in one of their preferred bins, is that I have nowhere to leave my rubbish, (my kitchen is literally touchable on all four walls by standing in it), they removed the only outside rubbish receptacle that I had, and now I am having to rely on kindly neighbours allowing me to place unsorted rubbish in their bins!
I am really dreading the day that they start fining householders for not “doing their bit” as 27 phone calls and 3 visits to my local council doesn’t seem to be getting me anywhere!
There are four other households in my street alone in the same binless predicament!
One thing we have all noticed even with the majority of homes using the waste bins provided is the high incidence of the following:
bins left out on the pavements, thus forcing walkers and pushchair wielders out onto the busy roads – most homes here are accessible by steep steps only, so lifting heavy bins up and down them isn’t actually a safe option ( previously we all used soft black seagull bags not rigid bins)
the local rat population has increased exponentially, all those food waste bins are easily accessible to rats with their inbuilt ingenuity
flies are prevalent to a degree I have only previously noted around stagnant ponds, and every time the waste bins are emptied, the bin-men seem to delight in “knocking” the maggot layers from the inside of the bins onto the pavements all along the street!
As mentioned above, I am actually all in favour of better recycling, but when I see the cut-rate ill thought out plans in action, and then further read that our local council isn’t actually recycling anything at the other end, it is all still getting mixed into landfill, then you do have to wonder why they are bothering at all. They seem not to have simply just cut back on services, but also cut out common sense!
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Given the information in this article, and as I am only a mere speck of uneducated sand in the sea of folks in this world, can somebody please explain to me where all the money raised from Carbon Taxes, rising utility bill costs, and all the other extra charges levied by various bodies in the name of “Green” is actually going?
Or would it be too cynical to believe it is all a huge fairy-tale in order for the few rich fat cats to get even fatter whilst we all freeze/starve and generally go without essentials?
I am getting very sick and tired of paying almost 80% of my income just to keep a cheap and nasty roof over my head and use a bare minimum of services, BEFORE I can even think of buying that luxury called food, only to keep reading and hearing in the news of all the profits these companies are making, closely followed by the ” we all have to tighten our belts” or ” We are all responsible for the Carbon Footprint” mantras that these fat cats preach from their fancy restaurant tables that they arrived at no doubt in fuel-hungry vehicles.
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Another illuminating post from one of my favourite authors, I wish all those highly paid, well-travelled politicians and so-called experts would just put these matters into simple easy-to-understand words that don’t actually cost us a fortune for no apparent gain whatsoever!
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Of course our Nuclear Power costs are going to rise here in the UK, we do after all get hundreds of nasty earthquakes and Tsunamis here all the time!
Doh!
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All I can say is about bliddy time too!
Britain – Feed In Tarifs Cuts Cause Government To Scrap Its Own Solar Power Project.
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