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Samwise's latest comments
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16th Oct 2016Samwise commented on:
Win a fabulous 7 night holiday courtesy of The Gambia Experience!If West Africa is half as good as East Africa then it will be a great place to visit.ViewDate:
27th Apr 2016Samwise commented on:
Which travel adventure is top of your Bucket List?It was a toss up for me between diving the Barrier reef or my eventual choice of seeing the Taj Mahal. My decision was swayed by the fact that I have dived many world locations that are actually as good, if not better, than the Barrier Reef... and the fact that my fathers war was spent in India and Burma, and I have a wartime photo him and the Taj Mahal which I would love to replicate - and I love curry with a passion !!!ViewDate:
27th Apr 2016Samwise commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?I am staggered by the current polling and am dismayed if this is genuinely what the UK think. Having worked for a very large US technological company for many years prior to my retirement 18 months ago I know that they already have plans to abandon the UK if they ever leave Europe ... and that several similar companies were also undertaking the same planning. It seems that people seem to believe that the grass will be greener on the other side of Europe, but I am absolutely convinced that this will not be the case. People want control of their own borders, but this will be much worse if we leave. The worry is not EU migration (and remember that we have more people living and working abroad than any other EU country) it is terrorism - people from within being turned against our values by religious fanatics. Any move to leave will leave us with 3500km plus of coast to protect, along with the border between Eire and NI and all of the small islands around the coast ..... we will end up like the Lesbos of Greece, and the EU countries will be happy to let pirates take people from their nations and dump them around our coast. Seriously it will be absolute folly to leave, as we get far more from being in than people seem to realise.ViewDate:
27th Apr 2016Samwise commented on:
Should Inheritance Tax be abolished?My parents paid the appropriate amount of tax on all that they earned, and my wife and I have done the same. Why therefore should their be tax paid again on that money or items that were purchased with that money - it has already been taxed once??? If there has to be some tax then the threshold for paying this should be much, much higher than it is currently.ViewDate:
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4th Jun 2015Samwise commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?We have to stay in the EU - anyone with an ounce of business acumen would know that. But it must be on terms that suit us ..... thank Tony Blair for throwing away the hard earned vetoes that Thatcher earned - the vetoes that would have given us the control we needed for the UK in Europe.ViewDate:
4th Jun 2015Samwise commented on:
Should National Service be reintroduced in the UK?The youth of today seriously need to be taught some disciple and respect........ National service would do them no harm at all, and would probably go a long way to giving many of the less well educated the skills to make their way through life without resorting to a life on benefits.ViewDate:
4th Jun 2015Samwise commented on:
Is it right for the EU to impose refugee quotas on the UK?No it is not, and even if they do we just tell them where to go.ViewDate:
4th Jun 2015Samwise commented on:
Should the World Cup be held in Qatar in 2022?... and it shouldn't be in Russia eitherViewDate:
4th Jun 2015Samwise commented on:
Would you consider Botox® injections?To start with I'm way too pretty already. Secondly I am not vain enough to need my looks played around with, and finally I have never seen anyone who has had botox whose face doesn't look like death - of course they must think they look good, but they clearly haven't looked in a mirror very muchViewDate:
24th Apr 2015Samwise commented on:
Which party do you trust to manage your pensioner benefits over the next 5 years?Wrong .... bankers just did what they always have done, and speculated in the markets. The last government allowed that to happen because their financial controls were so massively weak. To then tip up £65bn to bale out 3 banks, with not one guarantee of payback, or control over the future activities of those banks (i.e. massive bonuses) was nothing short of criminal. If anyone now, having been through the pain of the last 5 years of recovery, wants to hand over the reins to Ed Balls to throw that all away .... well IMO they need their bumps feelingViewDate:
24th Apr 2015Samwise commented on:
Which party do you trust to manage your pensioner benefits over the next 5 years?For now we are, but that wouldn't be for long if Sturgeon and Salmond had their wayViewDate:
24th Apr 2015Samwise commented on:
Which party do you trust to manage your pensioner benefits over the next 5 years?Doubled our deficit? have you been reading the Guardian?