Are you over 50?

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  1. JamDrop

    JamDrop Well-Known Member

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    Well, get on your bike!

     
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    they haven’t a Scooby have they?
     
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    Another piece of stupidity from clueless tories.
     
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    I'm over fifty and prefer eating takeaways
     
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    Im over 50 and guess what I wont be voting Tory next election (Not that I ever do)
    Us older ones remember Norman Tebbit ( another chunt of the highest order) telling those they had caused to lose their jobs to get on their bikes - it was a pathetic bit of right wing rubbish then and its just as pathetic today
     
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    be no good to me, I’d have to keep stopping for a snack, just to make sure it wasn’t getting too cold! :D
     
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    It’s like they don’t want anyone to vote for them. Aren’t the over 50s supposed to be their target audience?
     
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    Order yourself one and get paid to pick it up :D
     
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    Some of these could try it when they lose their seats at the next election
     
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    Horrible, horrible people.

    I’m barely past 40, never mind 50. I have a pretty bad mobility issue due to injuries sustained in a car crash nearly 20 years ago, but I don’t and have never claimed a penny in benefits as I’m fit (enough) to work sedentary office based roles and am fortunate enough to have a skill set that allows this. I am contracting at the moment, I have done for well over a decade for various banks/financial institutions.

    However these contracts don’t last forever. I will always intensely look for work, contract, temp, perm. So far I’ve been fortunate to not be unemployed for longer than a few weeks at a time.

    But if the supply dries up, and I can’t find work, I will not be held responsible for my response if I’m told to get a bike and deliver McDonald’s. Although as I can stand up and walk (of a fashion) without much aid I doubt I qualify for pip or dla or whatever it is these days so they’ll probably expect me to do that or something else that I’m not physically able to.
     
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    You beat me to it Norman Tebbit .
    Looked like an SS General.
     
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    Norman Tebbit’s Dad..? :D
    For people of a certain age. :)
     
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    They can shove their suggestions right up their penny farthing. Complete charlatans
     
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    Just like the wheeze of getting doctors to send sick
    People to medically unqualified ‘life coaches’ the dying throes of a government that gives not the smallest toss about normal people.
     
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    Could deliver a Naan bread.
     
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    More Gestapo, I always thought.? This is going to be a good thread..:)
     
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    Well the best statement ever from the little weasel of a prime minister.
    The reasons waiting lists are so long are due to the strikes by the NHS.
     
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    maybe they don’t ,? They haven’t a clue and it must be easier to get paid sitting on the opposition benches just shouting insults.
     
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    I thought this thread was going to offer me a Nationwide Sun Awning, Stanner Stairlift, AXA life insurance, funeral and Parker Pen.

    Can you imagine my disappointment?
     
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    It’s a clueless, ignorant comment. Typical of a spoilt public school brat, who can’t even pull a decent pint.
    That occupation (& no disrespect) has a certain demographic. So what happens to these people, where do they work, when their jobs are taken by people closer to retirement..? o_O
     
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