See i don't walk round with my fingers in my ears and my head up my arse singing tra la la and reading the Daily Mail for my information.
Don't mock. Someone risked a severe stoning in order to decorate that gate in a traditional Christmas manner.
Question A fair chunk of the leaving bill is the pensions of previous and current eu employee's. I'm not sure why we have to give it to the eu for the eu to then give it back to individual brits? but that isn't the question. If we went to wto, so not a penny paid as per article 50, who would pay those pensions? Personally I thought every year we pay in, a part of that annual fee was put aside in the European central bank to cover all pensions costs as all pension funds do. On that basis would it not already be there so there was no need to effectively pay twice for the same pension?
That is not how our own state pension systems work. With a few exceptions state pensions are paid out of current income and not from funds previously put aside.
You would be amazed, and probably disgusted, with how much certain left leaning liberal readers are prepared to forgive and forget just to get another name on the list of stopping Brexit. Once again many showing the upmost hypocrisy in the (now closed) comments section of the recent story ran in both the Guardian and Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-leader-theresa-may-david-davis-a8089946.html https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/03/tony-blair-confirms-he-is-working-to-reverse-brexit The independent actually had people using the words 'he made a mistake but that's all it was '....honestly I couldn't believe the level of desperation I was reading from comments. The fella is toxic beyond words, yet seemingly ok when he's saying what they want to hear.
I went to a pension seminar at work the other week on invite (I don't know why I was invited, as I'm 9 years away ). They told us the same thing, there is no "fund" and pension payments are made from current N.I / tax income. Oh to have a government like Norway's, that has actually had some forethought and put some oil money aside for a rainy day and not managed to saddle themselves with a debt mountain. McDonnell was on the news again yesterday I see trying to tell anybody that would listen that renationalization of the railways would be "free" Slightly off topic, but at this pension seminar, I was told of a bit of a horror story that happened locally (true apparently) about transferring assets to your nearest and dearest. Widower lives with his son, getting on in life and transfers his home to his son. Son marries and moves his new wife in to the home. Everyone seems to get on well with no issues. Son dies and widower ends up living with his new daughter in law (that has inherited the house) Daughter in law remarries and the new husband doesn't see eye to eye with the Widower. Daughter in law dies, Widower gets kicked out of his house by husband no.2 Widower is now living in a council house 1 mile down the road while a total stranger now owns his old house outright.
Today's debacle was all very predictable so who did what and why ? The idea that the DUP was ever going to agree to a different regime in NI as the rest of the UK was never going to fly, so why did May suggest to the EU that it could ? Were they hoping they could bounce everyone into an agreement or were they setting someone up to take the fall ? It makes you wonder whether they want it to fail ?
