Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

When I was a student I got my first tax return. Being discalculic and also not having a clue about money (or really any money to have a clue about) I returned it with a scribbled note saying “Since you know more about my finances than I do, please complete the form for me. Thank you” I never got a tax return for over fifty years, by which time I’d found someone who could help me out.

 

I live in a big valley that was cut through many years ago, so i could be living under a ice sheet if we go back in time

 

Funding provided to any foreign Government should be directly controlled and supervised by the UK. Very little actually seems to get to where it's needed but those at the top become very rich indeed.

 

Can we have a list of all the countries that are giving us foreign aid.
Only we appear to be on our uppers if Starmer is to be believed and a few quid from somewhere to fill the much, and much, referred to 22 billion Black Hole would be appreciated.

 

Well you can count out the EU countries, sunshine

 

Ah but the official line would be 'if you hadn't, you'd all be wearing furry hats and drinking vodka by now'

 

Yeah they never gave us anything anyway, infact I think we were helping to prop them up, being a net contributor at the time.
Sunshine? what's that?

 

Furry hat I could probably put up with but Vodka, narr, I got drunk on that when I was a teenager, never touched the stuff since.

 

Eristoff do a lovely ginger-flavoured one. It's the nearest we get to ginger wine over here