Comments by driver44

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07/03/2012 - 14:18

This article talks about women who have had a break from work to bring up children being badly affected by the current system.  Have I misunderstood something?  Surely they get HRP (Home Responsibility Protection) credits for the time they get Child Benefit but are not working. ...

01/12/2010 - 09:27

I am completely happy with the BT broadband service - simple to set up and no subsequent problems.  I consider the price to be quite reasonable when taking into account the discounts offered for a 12 month contract.  After reading about the experiences of others, I'd never...

23/06/2010 - 06:37

It is hard to assess everything in the budget, and people naturally think about those elements which will affect them.

I think that, to some extent, Labour had the right approach - spend in the recession and tighten the public-purse later when the (private) economy could absorb those...

26/08/2009 - 20:33

After using the internet, my credit card details were cloned and purchases were made using the details.  Fortunately both my credit card company and the supplier of the goods queried the transactions which were refused. 

Perhaps the suppliers and the credit card company were...

13/06/2009 - 16:49

There are other ways to save the government money when paying the winter fuel allowance.  Unless told otherwise, they assume that all pensioners are in the UK for the winter.  I know several cases where this is not true.  I have personal knowledge of people who spend the...

07/06/2009 - 06:48

I believe that the economic policies being carried out by Brown and darling are correct.  We MUST spend our way out of the recession.

 

Doing nothing, or cutting back on expenditure, would lead to much higher levels of unemployment with all that entails.  It is...