Christmas Tree 3997 Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 The UK unemployment rate fell to 7.1% during the three months to the end of November, according to newly released figures. It was the biggest ever quarterly increase in employment. A total of 280,000 jobs were created in the period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 The UK unemployment rate fell to 7.1% during the three months to the end of November, according to newly released figures. It was the biggest ever quarterly increase in employment. A total of 280,000 jobs were created in the period. Huzzah Makes you wonder why there's riots at the 99p shop half price sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Huzzah Makes you wonder why there's riots at the 99p shop half price sale. Sorry, are 99p shops a direct product of Austerity Britain now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 3986 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Sorry, are 99p shops a direct product of Austerity Britain now? More and more people are that desperate as a result of attacks on their incomes - a simple concept for the non-imbecile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Laughable trying to link a shops mis pricing errors to politics (especially on a day of record job creation). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 3986 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Laughable trying to link a shops mis pricing errors to politics (especially on a day of record job creation). It's not the mispricing its the desperation to save pennies thats the point. Just like the food banks you simply have no concept of what people are being forced to exist on. As for the jobs if it's all along the lines of subway which is the headline today then its just more minimum wage shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 It's not the mispricing its the desperation to save pennies thats the point. Just like the food banks you simply have no concept of what people are being forced to exist on. As for the jobs if it's all along the lines of subway which is the headline today then its just more minimum wage shite. I don't think you understand food banks either or how they operate. Their increase is partly down to the Tories agreeing to advertise them in Job Centres, a long standing request of food ban operators and also one that was ignored by Labour because of possible bad publicity. Secondly, to use a food bank you must be in crisis and receive a voucher from a doctor, social worker etc. you only get three goes. They are there for people in severe crisis due to an event such as someone's whose had to flee a vicious partner or a mother whose partner has pissed the shopping money up against the wall or someone whose benefits haven't come through in time. Imbecile you say. I think you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 3986 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 So there are now hundredd of thousands in such a crisis? Coincidence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3212 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 I don't think you understand food banks either or how they operate. Their increase is partly down to the Tories agreeing to advertise them in Job Centres, a long standing request of food ban operators and also one that was ignored by Labour because of possible bad publicity. Secondly, to use a food bank you must be in crisis and receive a voucher from a doctor, social worker etc. you only get three goes. They are there for people in severe crisis due to an event such as someone's whose had to flee a vicious partner or a mother whose partner has pissed the shopping money up against the wall or someone whose benefits haven't come through in time. Imbecile you say. I think you are. When did they start being "advertised" in job centres? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26484 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 More fun from the Mayor who makes Boris look boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 More evidence on the recovery from the previous government. 7.1%. Nearly there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17828 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Unemployment's up in the North East btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Unemployment's up in the North East btw. I always thought you were a jock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Someone is about to lose their gold watch. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25850209 Shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14638 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 More evidence on the recovery from the previous government. 7.1%. Nearly there If you looked further back in this thread you'll find some other troll had mentioned this earlier today. No need to thank me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Shame how all the trolls are so capable though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 (edited) somebody lied to white D http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2543859/They-told-Benefits-Street-going-community-spirit-White-Dee-surprises-Nick-Clegg-calling-radio-tell-street-clean-NOT-scroungers.html Edit: Dee voted Labour, I can't work out why because she does not do any labour? Edited January 22, 2014 by desmondTUTU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 It's not about scroungers. This weeks episode concentrated on a lad doing his CV and looking for work. It followed him on his first day working door to door canvassing for charities. On 100% commission he was banging on doors late into the night. Hardly workshy. The fella that helped him do a cv was himself unemployed and working in the community centre as a volunteer. The week before the show followed the Romanian inhabitants who were collected at dawn and dropped off at bed time. They worked a full day, were paid less than minimum wage and lived 4 men to a room under the threat of violence if they complained. They rang the police who came and did nothing whatsoever. Another group had a van and would spend their days collecting scrap metal to be cashed in. They claimed no benefits. The week before you saw a bloke using his initiative to split large packs of consumables into smaller servings and sell them door to door. The 50p man. He would let the desperate parents and children he came across have servings for free as well. Nice fella. What's annoyed me most in the whole furore over the show is the way the media has portrayed only the negative aspects of characters in it. White Dee and Fungi are only a couple of the most hopeless cases on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I don't think you understand food banks either or how they operate. Their increase is partly down to the Tories agreeing to advertise them in Job Centres, a long standing request of food ban operators and also one that was ignored by Labour because of possible bad publicity. Secondly, to use a food bank you must be in crisis and receive a voucher from a doctor, social worker etc. you only get three goes. They are there for people in severe crisis due to an event such as someone's whose had to flee a vicious partner or a mother whose partner has pissed the shopping money up against the wall or someone whose benefits haven't come through in time. Imbecile you say. I think you are. Not true about needing a voucher and three goes at the Food Bank. That may have been the case at some point, before the Tories got in, but it certainly isn't now. Also there are churches in and around the city, certainly in the East End, who are feeding kids their tea every night as they're so hungry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 The other hypocritical view taken to Channel 4s programming is that Gogglebox is lauded as an hilarious and insightful look into the lives of ordinary Brits.....we watch the foul mouthed owners of a B&B sit on their couch getting slowly but surely pissed up on G&T, champagne, Vodka, Schnaaps and all sorts, but they're witty educated folk with a nice carpet we're comfortable to laugh along with. Foul mouthed piss heads like the rest of us. A week later we watch foul mouthed Fungi getting pissed up on Kestrel and he's Britains greatest monster. Nothing but contempt for the filthy animal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 Not true about needing a voucher and three goes at the Food Bank. That may have been the case at some point, before the Tories got in, but it certainly isn't now. Also there are churches in and around the city, certainly in the East End, who are feeding kids their tea every night as they're so hungry. The Trussell Trust is the main food bank operator throughout the country. Care professionals such as doctors, health visitors, social workers, CAB and police identify people in crisis and issue them with a foodbank voucher. Foodbanks partner with a wide range of care professionals who are best placed to assess need and make sure that it is genuine. Foodbank clients bring their voucher to a foodbank centre where it can be redeemed for three days emergency food. Volunteers meet clients over a cup of tea or free hot meal and are able to signpost people to agencies able to solve the longer-term problem. I have no issue with food banks or there use, just with people who dress them up as a political football and portray this picture of every family on benefit queuing up to give there kids tea every night. Virtually any one who has dealings with a food bank will point you in the direction of drugs, alcohol, domestic violence etc as the main culprit. Dramatising it the way some of you do is as simplistic as people using that Benefit street program to bash benefit claimants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoog 0 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 There would be a lot less ill-feeling towards benefit claimants if benefits were paid out in food and utilities vouchers, so that the scroungers out there couldn't spend them on luxuries beyond their means or drugs, alcohol and fags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Would they then not just sell them below market value for cash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 Would they then not just sell them below market value for cash? Aye, thats what used to happen with milk tokens for new borns back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoog 0 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Would they then not just sell them below market value for cash? There must be some electronic way of making sure benefits are used by the right people? Issued on chipped cards maybe? I don't know, I suppose the scumbags out there would still get around it by buying the correct goods with them then selling those on instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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