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Listed below are comments made by sjhoulton between Wednesday, 1st October 2008 and Wednesday, 3rd December 2008.

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Winter of discontent 12:49pm on 03 Dec 2008 The government are a bunch of incompetent morons. A 2.5% reduction in VAT will not make the slightest difference to consumer spending. The reasons for reduced consumer spending?
1. Extortionately high Gas and Electricity prices.
2. Extorionately high Water charges.
3. Extortionately high Petrol/Diesel prices.
4. Extortionately high Staple food prices.
5. The Refusal of Mortgage Lenders to pass on the full benefits of lower interest rates to ALL borrowers.
These five reasons mean that the average consumer cannot afford to splash out on a new LCD Tv or buy a new family car etc. What has the goverment done to reduce the cost of these necesseties? Jack Sh*t, Thats What.
Do prescription charges make us sick? 3:56pm on 01 Oct 2008 I beleive there should be a token charge for prescriptions for one off medication - repeat prescriptions for long term/permanent illnesses should be free.

The big issue here, is why is there enough money in the budgets of Wales, N.I. and Scotland to allow the abolition of prescription charges yet us English are still having to pay? Are their PCTs more efficient than ours or are the English yet again being disadvantaged by unfair funding systems?

It seems to me that this is yet another example of countries that no longer want to be members of the UK having their cake and eating it.

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