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MoD to stop benefits - who is next?

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    #11
    Originally posted by BR14 View Post
    showing your caring, empathic side again then ?
    You'd be a miserable mean-spirited misanthrope too, if you'd had Brillo's life.

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      #12
      MoD to stop benefits - who is next?

      Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
      You'd be a miserable mean-spirited misanthrope too, if you'd had Brillo's life.
      Who hasn’t.



      Oh, sorry, I thought that was a W not an L.
      Last edited by WTFH; 25 September 2017, 15:09. Reason: Misread the last word
      …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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        #13
        They could cut back on mobile phone use.

        MoD spent £64,000 on internet usage for a phone last year | Daily Mail Online

        Ministry of Defence spent £64,000 on internet usage for ONE phone last year, new figures reveal
        The top ten most expensive charges for mobile phone internet use revealed
        Most expensive bill was staggering £64K followed by another which cost £54K
        Labour's defence chief Nia Griffith slammed the 'astronomical' charges
        "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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          #14
          Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
          I'm not convinced stopping the benefits of traumatised trained killers is a good idea. Unless of course it's for ex-catering corps types like Shauny.
          Oh I dont know.his beef Wellington can kill a man at ten paces
          What happens in General, stays in General.
          You know what they say about assumptions!

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            #15
            Originally posted by WTFH View Post
            Just read this in the DailyMail.
            And you are a so called mod here?

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              #16
              Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
              And you are a so called mod here?

              This place has gone downhill.

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                #17
                They should set up pension/health/benefit via a private company which would be contributory. Like wot we haz to.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                  Just read this
                  MoD to review benefits |MailONLINE

                  Looks like they are starting their cutbacks with ex-soldiers.
                  Wait till you see - next week all soldiers will have to buy their own guns and ammo.
                  Link goes to a page no found.

                  Can't find anything relating to it through googling. Dodgy story possibly?
                  "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
                    Link goes to a page no found.

                    Can't find anything relating to it through googling. Dodgy story possibly?
                    Yeah, the link is dead, not sure how it could be a dodgy story, it was in the Daily Mail!
                    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                      Yeah, the link is dead, not sure how it could be a dodgy story, it was in the Daily Mail!
                      Maybe it died of cancer.

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