Oh Heck!......When things go not quite as planned

[Paul]

Thanks Jonathan. I couldn't agree with you more in all you say. I know only too well about figures from my time in banking as we could make figures & stats fit just the way we wanted them too.
An old friend of mine sent me this & I think it really sums up the country.

The British Government provides the following financial assistance: -

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER (bearing in mind they worked hard and paid their Income Tax and National Insurance contributions to the British government all their working life) Weekly allowance: £106.00
IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN (No Income Tax and National Insurance contribution whatsoever) Weekly allowance: £250.00

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER Weekly Spouse allowance: £25.00
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN Weekly Spouse allowance: £225.00

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER Additional weekly hardship allowance £0.00
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN Additional weekly hardship allowance £100.00

A British old age pensioner is no less hard up than an illegal immigrant/refugee yet receives nothing

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT £6,000
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT: £29,900

where did you get this one from

[Ian M]

Really thought you'd turn this one around Ian - sorry to hear they won't listen.

Thanks John but, I've got the impression it's happening to a lot of people like us. I could have gone on & on with appeals but there just didn't seem any point because of the fixed ways they have of working it all out. I've never thought it fair when the person who looks at an appeal is the same person who made the original decision. They are always going to be biased towards themselves otherwise they'd be out of a job.
I'm still going to try to carry on in some way as they are not going to completley grind me into the ground. Now what was that name they used on the video Adam poted the other day?.....ah that's it BAAAA-STUDS :biggrin:

[Ian M]

where did you get this one from

An old friend emailed it to me just after I had told him what had happend. He also told me about just a couple of years ago pople from Ireland could get a cheap flight to the UK & then say they were seeking political asylum. They then would be given £500 & then they'd jump back on the next flight to Dublin £500 better off. Ever thought you might have done it wrong mate?

[Paul]

this dont look right to me... how on earth you can ask for political asylum and then go back to your country? when you seeking asylum they take your passport away and you can not leave this country. if you do. you not asylum seeker... :/ so there is no money...
with respect to your friend but those figure look like bad propaganda against assylum seekers
Iam not trying to deffend anyone btw

[Ian M]

this dont look right to me... how on earth you can ask for political asylum and then go back to your country? when you seeking asylum they take your passport away and you can not leave this country. if you do. you not asylum seeker... :/ so there is no money...
with respect to your friend but those figure look like bad propaganda against assylum seekers
Iam not trying to deffend anyone btw

This is how it's done :-

Under the current situation, passengers arriving on flights from Ireland arriving at a UK airport, Irish passengers are not vetted by immigration officers.
Because of the Common Travel Area (CTA) agreement, they, along with passengers from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, present their boarding cards and are given speedy entry via a channel next to immigration.

They don't need a passport.

[Ian M]

As some of you will remember HMRC decided to stop my Working Tax Credits last year because, I could not prove I was working the hours I needed too because I was working on new ideas at the time. You could say it was my R&D period to help grow my business. Today I have seen this news report about Lola Cars who have suffered the same fate as me but, in a much bigger way.

Lola Cars has announced that it is going into financial administration as it continues to search for possible investors. The group, which was formed in 1958, said the latest economic downturn has caused a serious cash-flow problem that had forced it into making the decision.
It also blamed the move on the HMRC not paying ongoing R&D tax credits.

It seems this government & the HMRC just don't understand the need for R&D to develop new products & designs. How the hell is the country supposed to grow without any support for R&D?