BS: Happy Days Are Here Again - Cameron UK

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Days Are Here Again - Cameron UK
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 05:33 AM

We're very happy here in The West Country, as we have water bills TWICE the price of the rest of the country..and now, to make us even happier, the Government and the Water Industry are looking at moves where they can actually cut water supplies OFF from people's houses, if they don't pay their bills, or...reduce their supply to a trickle.

This is because so many people in 'their' words *won't* pay their water bills...Indeed South West Water (spit!) had to take over 8,000 people to court last year..

Hohoho....

In my words many people down here CANNOT AFFORD to pay their water bills..

Indeed, if Nanny wasn't living with me, thus enabling me to claim their Water Sure scheme, I'd be paying over £1,000 a year, purely for water...As it is, EVEN ON the Water Sure scheme I'm still paying exactly the same amount as my friend does, in a house twice the size of mine, in a rich area of the country, not far outside London, where jobs pay a great deal more and are easier to find..

Boy, we're so HAPPY down here we're dancin' in the streets! :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Days Are Here Again - Cameron UK
From: GUEST,crowsister
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 05:29 AM

"Waking up in my cardboard box under a bridge, listening to the ducks quacking happily, the lovely fresh air. By jove missus am I happy. :-)"

Well of course there's quite a lot to say in favour of a more minimal lifestyle in which people are 'closer to nature'. I know a number of people who do it in their own way - on boats, in vans or in Tipis and so-on. The major obstacles they face in being happy with their minimal non-consumerist lifestyles are the police who move them on, councils who tell them they can't live in that caravan or tent. No, not there. You're breaking the law. Cardboard box under a bridge? Move along, move along.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Days Are Here Again - Cameron UK
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 05:25 AM

PS - it's just a remake of "God save the squire and his relations , and keep us all in our proper stations".

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Days Are Here Again - Cameron UK
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 05:24 AM

Cameron is already mad and we wish he would die.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Days Are Here Again - Cameron UK
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 05:21 AM

By the way, that's not me, but it could be.

Subject: BS: Happy Days Are Here Again - Cameron UK
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 05:19 AM

LOL
From the Guardian Newspaper

In 1991, the author Michael Frayn wrote a book, A Landing on the Sun, about a British prime minister who tasked his advisers with looking into happiness and what the government could do to promote it. The prize proved elusive, the adviser went mad and died.

Despite the fable, politicians aren't so gloomy about the prospect of knowing what makes us happy – but substitute "happy" with the compound noun "wellbeing". So much so that David Cameron is trying to get the concept up and running even in the midst of public service cuts and soaring living costs.

He is sticking to a policy commitment he made before the economic crash when growth figures were still rosy. He said: "It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money and it's time we focused not just on GDP but on GWB – general wellbeing."

Speaking at the Google Zeitgeist Europe conference, he added: "Wellbeing can't be measured by money or traded in markets. It's about the beauty of our surroundings, the quality of our culture and, above all, the strength of our relationships. Improving our society's sense of wellbeing is, I believe, the central political challenge of our times."

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He he Lets be happy.

Got no job, got no home, got no money, but hey am I happy. Waking up in my cardboard box under a bridge, listening to the ducks quacking happily, the lovely fresh air. By jove missus am I happy. :-)