Originally posted by Pauldo@Jan 30 2006, 04:44 PM
I'm in the USA at the moment. Petrol is $2.30 a gallon, which is about 40 pence a LITRE. Wranglers jeans are $15 a pair: £8. A Ford F150 V8 truck is just over $11,000. In the UK you can barely buy a midget comedy Smart car for that
Why the hell do we have to get shafted so much in the UK? So they can pay a billion dollars a day to the EU to support Spain and Polands economy?? So we can fight somebody elses war in Iraq?? :huh:
The first and second world wars bankrupted the UK, so you think we'd learned a lesson or two? Naaaah! :unsure:
Blair brags we are one of the richest countries in the EU. So why do we have the crappiest pension scheme, the most expensive petrol and a failing NHS? :o
And lets not even discuss the bloody weather
When my wife finishes her nursing we are getting out, to Oz, Canada or the USA, but anywhere other than England.
We All AGREE - and believe that Oz will be best for you and your family
Please be sure to tell us your new address in (make sure it is Sydney or Perth or Brisbane) as we are all going to visit you from the Philippines and we dont want to be anywhere that the sound of a zipper can cause alarm ..
