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Chomper Higgot

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  1. Like I said, you can find my comments in the awful news of Kate’s cancer diagnosis in the thread specifically opened to discuss that very topic. I believe I made that very clear. So jog on Jonny.
  2. I wish I had pound for everything e I heard a Brit in Thailand say words to the effect of ‘You couldn’t pay me to live in the UK now’ Only slope off back home when they are I need if ‘nanny’.
  3. Well you obviously didn’t die. That you as a child were not aware of people dying of cold is not proof that it never happened. I’ve provided a link to a news article giving a recent example. In incidentally, do you recall the price of coal and oil for your heating back then? Did the price shoot up like it did over the past couple of years? Or were they relatively stable in price and affordable?
  4. Why does it matter? Not one of those millions has any say I the matter. They are all Subjects, of the hereditary Crown.
  5. Can you please provide a link for your statement on basis of calculation and too for the source of the ‘statement’ of a recently surveyed parent that you have quoted.
  6. You stated “No , no one dies from the cold these days”. It would only take one ‘example’ of someone flying of cold to prove your categorical statement false. I provided a news article that gave such an example. Perhaps, and it’s just a suggestion, rather than trying to wriggle out of the trap you set for yourself you could learn a bit more about poverty in the UK or at the very least refrain posting obviously incorrect assumptions on your part.
  7. There’s no reason for such ignorance. Try reading: https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2024-the-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk#:~:text=More than 1 in 5,in 10) working-age adults
  8. Easily dot down as the falsehood it is: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11676661/amp/Pensioner-87-died-hypothermia-telling-doctor-afford-heat-home.html
  9. I’m expect you might have a particular individual in mind, perhaps someone close or a family member. But it’s a bit of a sweeping generalization once you start to apply that to millions of people living in poverty in the UK of 2024. Don’t you think?
  10. I’m almost inclined (I said almost) to start watching FOX News in order to cut out the idiot middle man.
  11. Or invented and transmitted by sources tasked with the duty.
  12. You obviously didn’t get what you expected from the faux ‘Impeach Biden’ inquiry and have failed to recognize that the same people who lied to you the first time about ‘Biden Crime Family’ and other such talking points, are still lying to you.
  13. I last month helped a friend in the UK sort his UK pension application. First attempt was using the online application, which came against the problem the OP mentions, a request for details of spells spent working/living overseas plus dates. Having added details for three, out of about a dozen, such spells overseas the website page did not offer the option to add more. So we (I on his behalf) called the helpline. After personal details and permission to speak on behalf of the applicant was settled (simply by asking the applicant if Chomper can speak on their behalf), the DWP staff member told me only one period overseas is required. This will trigger a check of the applicant’s NHS record and if periods were spent in the EU will also trigger any rights to EU nation pension rights. So details of one period living and working in EU was given over the phone and the rest of the application completed over the phone in less than 15 minutes. The applicant received his confirmation of pension payment within a ten days of that call. I’ve not heard if he has had any contact regarding EU pension rights. In summary. Use the online application page and where you have a record of working overseas provide just one example, preferably a period of working/living in the EU if you have one.
  14. Republicans desperately seeking anything at all to spice up the nothing burger they are all gagging on.
  15. You’ll find my comment on the matter of Kate’s cancer diagnosis in the thread that has been opened specifically for that sad news. If you feel the need to make use of this awful news to score points off your soap box please leave me out of it.
  16. 14 years of failing to build affordable housing and the previous madness of selling off council houses coming home to roost.
  17. Republicans learning the lesson of the frog and the scorpion.
  18. Dreadful thing for anyone, worse still for a young mother. She has my wishes for this being caught early. Maybe the press can leave her alone for a while, though that’s a slim hope.
  19. A claim that the person who made it refuted when under oath.
  20. And yet you presented this and had absolutely no idea what it was telling you:
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