Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 8:57 pm
In England you can get a bus pass for free travel when you reach the State Pension age.TGG wrote:I am now 60, but I am not sure if I am entitled to a bus pass.
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 9:01 pm
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 9:02 pm
Which is currently 66 I believe.
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 9:05 pm
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 9:21 pm
Don't forget it will be 97 by the time you get there..................... 
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 9:28 pm
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 7:42 am
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 8:41 am
Our illustrious Prime Minister is promising to “...fire up the economy to beat the cost of living crisis.”
So we can now emerge from the self-inflicted doldrums and rise to new heights of prosperity at a single stroke of his bus-pass generating rollerball pen.
Here is one idea which hopefully is being assessed for development by our BAE Systems friends at Warton in Lancs;
https://rumble.com/vxhehz-cola-powered- ... d-jet.html
Upsides: Revival of manufacturing industry, replacement for the jets we may have donated to proxy war countries, removal of vast quantities of sugary drinks from the British diet resulting in a leaner meaner population.
Downsides: The Green lobby will complain about the CO2 emissions, the proliferation of single-use plastic and the consumption of cardboard in arms manufacturing at a time of cardboard shortage due to the explosion in home delivered goods resulting from lockdown and high street business closures thanks to BigCorp.
That’s my initial look at the project but I hope the lads and lasses aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth are putting the ski jump ramp to good effect with their own trials? 
Maybe other O-N members have more thoughts on the benefits and drawbacks of this novel revolutionary concept?
So we can now emerge from the self-inflicted doldrums and rise to new heights of prosperity at a single stroke of his bus-pass generating rollerball pen.
Here is one idea which hopefully is being assessed for development by our BAE Systems friends at Warton in Lancs;
https://rumble.com/vxhehz-cola-powered- ... d-jet.html
Upsides: Revival of manufacturing industry, replacement for the jets we may have donated to proxy war countries, removal of vast quantities of sugary drinks from the British diet resulting in a leaner meaner population.
Downsides: The Green lobby will complain about the CO2 emissions, the proliferation of single-use plastic and the consumption of cardboard in arms manufacturing at a time of cardboard shortage due to the explosion in home delivered goods resulting from lockdown and high street business closures thanks to BigCorp.
That’s my initial look at the project but I hope the lads and lasses aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth are putting the ski jump ramp to good effect with their own trials?
Maybe other O-N members have more thoughts on the benefits and drawbacks of this novel revolutionary concept?
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 8:44 am
My friend who is a bit of a fitness freak and thought himself in rather good condition for his age went to get his bus pass. Of course the office was on the third floor of the municipal building and predictably he run up the three floors then beaming brightly fronted up to the strumpet filing her nails behind the appropriate counter. "I have come for a bus pass please" he said and hardly pausing the strumpet asked "Initial or renewal".
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 11:09 am
I started getting my state pension 6 months ago. Anyone want my bus pass? Is there a train pass or just pensioner's rates?
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 12:01 pm
Do the Pensions People think you live in Greece or Botswana ?
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 12:16 pm
Generally we try to stick to Greece for financial matters. Think I told pensions that we are Greece but stuck here due to Covid. It is all a bit complicated as we are residents here but not in Greece now.
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 1:53 pm
I think, but do not know, that if they think you are EU resident then you will get the invaluable rate increases, not for the non EU resident. How Long this will last who knows.
How Long is a Chinaman innit.
How Long is a Chinaman innit.
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Fri May 06, 2022 12:56 pm
Media rumours that the Durham Police WILL now investigate 'Beer with Keir'. If there are strong calls for resignation for rule breaching, we could strike gold and get both BoJo and the Charmer out of the way, leaving the luscious Angela to face the frumpy Liz.
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Fri May 06, 2022 1:39 pm
The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole!
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 9:53 am
Disgraced ex-mayor Lutfur Rahman is back from the slime pits of corruption as the new mayor of Tower Hamlets, London. Never thought that would happen. Have the voters no sense at all...
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 10:31 am
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 1:17 pm
Tower Hamlets got what it deserves, however the situation in Non Iron could be very serious indeed
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 1:35 pm
Fingers crossed.Undried Plum wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 10:31 amWill she flash the gash in a Sharon Stone sort of way?
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 1:38 pm
Fingers?