slackAlice wrote:Curly wrote:And take their cold weather fuel payments to spend on Sangria
Good luck to em as well I say Curly - given the choice of freezing your n*ts off and /or four months of rain OR slowly getting sloshed on your sun lounger / playing Bingo in Benidorm ?
What would you take ? Mind you you'd miss the Footy season !
Something for us all to look forward too !
Don't get me wrong brian, I'd do exactly that, I've never had any tax back from government, have no kids using schools and rarely get ill needing NHS support (excepting occasional bouts of narcolepsy at Lancaster games!)
I'd take every legal penny I could get in my retirement and best of luck to Keiths friends parents.
It's just the irony I find amusing, as a british national should you come to the decision that you'd be better off outside the country in a warm sunny climate, the government will pay you money to spend on sangria/bingo avoiding the british winter, rather than having to stay here to qualify for payments. Rarely, in these days of means testing are people allowed to legally use their "benefits" to truly benefit themselves.