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Yankee

You sound like somebody I used to work with who complained about his taxes going towards educating "other people's children". Yes, there cannot be a set figure, it is a ridiculous assumption. One Local Authority I know of had to stop taking children into care because by January of one particular year they had spent the budget allocated to that purpose. I don't think there s an "endless pot", but neither do I think a set figure can be applied. Once you have determined what exactly you will be providing, and what the qualification criteria will be, then the cost is whatever it turns out to be. You can change what is delivered, you can tighten or withdraw qualification, but you cannot arbitrarily stick to a fixed fiscal allocation.

The welfare budget should be whatever it needs to be, rather than measured as an exact figure. Undoubtedly there is a small degree of misuse, and some areas where the vagaries of setting qualification criteria create anomalies, but simply making judgements based on a crude total expenditure is misleading and unhelpful.

We have several Clematis plants around our gardens, this one, growing up an old pear tree, is the biggest and first to flower each spring....

Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir were looking for an excuse to blitz Gaza and push for the annexation of the West Bank, and HAMAS handed it to them- although the exact date might not have been known they knew full well something was imminent. What happened on October 7th was appalling, but the Israeli response has been hugely disproportionate.

185 reported religiously motivated attacks by Jewish people on Christians in Israel last year.

GBeebies quoting research about the benefits system by the Centre for Social Justice on behalf of the Tories. I am sure there are some facts in there sonewhere.

Fly

Is there a financial hit from relegation ?

It popped up on his FaceBook feed.

Remember that the 7 games after Tonda was made permanent, including the next game after Boro, defeat at home to Hull, were 3 draws and 4 defeats. That followed his stint as interrm, 6 wins and 1 defeat. So up to Hull Tonda's record in the league was P 14, W 6, D 3, L 5.

The next model I am going to make, 2 puffins at a burrow entrance.

League table since 0-4 away at Middlesborough

Great to see Tonda so happy.

Lolz at Wrexham. No Hollywood ending.

Goal machine Manning replaces Welington.

Bring back Baz !!!

Ha ha ha ha ha

Just looked back through our results, the last time we failed to score was Boro away on 4th January.

No, that engine is an Austin A-series 1275cc.

That's one hell of a tilt on that table.

Depends on how old you are, I suppose.

"Wanna hear a joke about Russia`s Victory Day Parade?" - "No Tanks!"

Vet