desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 You'd go on holiday, then come back and bludge off the State? Think of all the 50" Telly's genuine scroungers could buy with the money YOU would be claiming. For shame, Skiv McSkivington, for shame! I thought you were of a higher calibre than that, put it seems you're just a spud gun. If only you were so focused on your own dealings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 39186 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Which are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3284 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 With respect they are not all like that. At a rough guess: 30% percent work for a living 50% do even less than monkeys fist and KCG combined weekly output 20% percent pensioners (no idea of previous working status) What do you think I do for a living? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Dinner lady? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3284 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Dinner lady? That would be well cool only working lunchtimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 39186 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 That would be well cool only working lunchtimes. Well it's either that or the lollipop in the evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3284 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Well it's either that or the lollipop in the evening. And how is life as a plumbersmate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 And how is life as a plumbersmate? First class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3284 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 First class Yeah I can imagine wallowing around in piss and shit would be right up your street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Yeah I can imagine wallowing around in piss and shit would be right up your street. At least it's not my own piss and shit i'm wallowing in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 39186 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Every cloud ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 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. The 50p man, 'Nice fella', sells other items in his spare time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-25894192 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 18061 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 The 50p man, 'Nice fella', sells other items in his spare time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-25894192 Nice bit of libel there, he's not even mentioned in that article. You really are a grade one twat, aren't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Nice bit of libel there, he's not even mentioned in that article. You really are a grade one twat, aren't you? Well, his name is Marvin. Could be somebody else though couldn't it you little spaz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 18061 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 His name's Stephen Smith you prick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3284 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 His name's Stephen Smith you prick. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 His name's Stephen Smith you prick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/27/great-migration-south-private-sector-jobs-london The great migration south: 80% of new private sector jobs are in LondonBoris Johnson got into hot water recently with his claim that London, not Liverpool, was responsible for the success of the Beatles. The Fab Four might have been born on Merseyside, the capital mayor's said, but London turned them into the biggest band of all time. While that was the cue for Liverpudlian indignation at what was seen as cultural piracy, a new report out on Monday suggests the arrival of the Beatles at Abbey Studios in 1962 to cut Love Me Do was an early example of a now dominant trend. Talented young people are leaving provincial cities in their 20s, making a success of their lives in London and never go back. London is where the work is: the capital was responsible for four out of every five jobs created in the private sector between 2010 and 2012. The brain drain meant that every major city outside the south-east is losing young people to London. One in three 22-30 year olds leaving their hometowns end up with Oyster cards and Boris as their mayor. They don't always stay in the capital. Alexandra Jones, chief executive of the thinktank Centre for Cities, says that in their 30s many of those attracted by the bright lights of the capital tire of London and move out when they want to start families. But they follow the example of John Lennon, who bought a mansion in Ascot, Paul McCartney with his farmhouse in Sussex and George Harrison with his spread in Oxfordshire in plumping for the home counties over returning to their roots. Jones says this pattern explains why it is misleading to see London, as some do, as the equivalent of a city state, cut off from the rest of the country. It is more accurate to say Britain is divided between London and its south-east hinterland and the rest. London does not end at the M25 but extends up the M11 towards Cambridge, down the Thameslink line to Brighton and along the M4 corridor where many high-tech companies are based. If the giant sucking sound of London draining talent from the rest of the UK is one highlight of the Centre for Cities report, the other is the capital's ability to create jobs. Young people come to London because that's where the work is. In the three years from 2010 to 2012 –a period marked by weak growth and austerity – London accounted for 10 times as many private sector jobs as any other city and also bucked the national trend by seeing an increase in public sector employment. Highlighting the need for better infrastructure, investment in skills and reforms to planning, the report noted that Bradford, Sheffield, Bristol, Southampton, Blackpool and Glasgow saw employment shrink in both private and public sectors. Jones, said: "Cities Outlook 2014 shows that the gap between London and other UK cities is widening and we are failing to make the most of cities' economic potential." She added that Britain was one of the world's most centralised countries. In Germany, she said, the government was in Berlin, the financial centre was Frankfurt and there were cultural hubs in Hamburg and Munich. In the UK, London had it all. What's more, the Treasury kept a much tighter hold of the purse strings than finance ministries in other rich nations. Local government raised 17% of its income from local taxation in the UK, compared to an average of 55% for other members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, a club of more than 30 rich countries. Jones said the government should build on City Deals – an attempt to allow some of the UK's bigger cities more control over their economic destinies – and "devolve more funding and powers to UK cities" in order to ensure a "sustainable, job-rich recovery across the country." Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister said the report showed the value of "tailoring policies to the distinctive needs of different cities". He added the government had been working to free cities from Whitehall control. Hilary Benn, the shadow communities and local government secretary, said the report drew attention to "persistent and widening inequalities between different parts of the country", and agreed with Clegg and Jones that more power, resources and responsibility needed to devolved. Centre for Cities said regeneration strategies in some of the UK's bigger cities were starting to pay off. Birmingham and Manchester saw an increase in both private and public sector jobs between 2010 and 2012, while in Liverpool the loss of public sector jobs was more than compensated for by the creation of private sector employment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14143 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 http://www.beyondpositive.org/2014/01/30/mps-push-home-secretary-control-movement-people-hiv/ Blyme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14925 Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 That's as maybe, but there's been a Tube Strike in London so y'know, priorities man. Tube strikes tend to make me smile when I hear about it on the news. I fuckin love Bob Crow me like.... Maybe Michael Gove is right about decades of trendy teaching reducing our brains to the size of a gnat’s. Because I’m unable to understand basic English. Why is hitting the rich with a 50p tax called “the politics of envy” while hitting the poor with a bedroom tax is deemed “a necessary re-adjustment of the economy?” Why are young men in baseball caps who peddle stolen cigarettes in pubs called “thieves” and prosecuted, yet young men in suits who flogged bent PPI plans are called “mis-sellers” and let off? And how come, when a CEO safeguards the security and wealth of the people they represent, do we call them titans of industry? Yet when Bob Crow does it he’s called the sperm of Satan. I long ago concluded that if Crow ran the disgraced, tax-payer owned RBS the way he runs the RMT, he’d be on a national treasure pedestal alongside that other Eastender David Beckham. Because, like Goldenballs, he is a genius at promoting his brand and protecting his clan. Although such is the right-wing demonising of trade union leaders, sorry dinosaur militants, you’d be forgiven for viewing Crow as nothing more than a fat, yobbish enemy of the people. Take the London Underground strike . Boris Johnson wants to close every ticket office despite pledging, when standing for mayor, that there would be “nil” closures. Crow understandably opposes 750 redundancies and wants to negotiate with Johnson. But Johnson won’t negotiate with him. In fact, for five years he’s refused to sit down with him. Instead he chooses to paint him as a red wrecker opposed to inevitable “modernisation”, and labels the strike immoral because only 40% of RMT members voted. Johnson was last elected mayor on a 38% turnout. As Tube drivers who next year will be on £52k salaries can testify, Crow is brilliant at what he is paid to do. Purely but legally acting in his members’ interests. Just as every FTSE boss acts in the interests of their shareholders. And contrary to right-wing media reports, many Tube-users back Bob Crow. Channel 4 News asked four women commuters about the strike earlier this week . One said good luck to them for trying to save their jobs, another said she wanted ticket offices open because she felt safer with staff on duty. Another said Crow was wrong, while the fourth, who was shown a photo of him on a Brazilian beach, slagged off the newspaper for attacking a man for going on holiday. Which hits at the heart of Crow’s crime – being a working-class man who has the audacity to earn £145,000 a year and drink pina coladas on a £7,700 foreign cruise. Even though he booked it last March through a reader’s offer in the same paper that demonises him for being a Marxist hypocrite. While the real hypocrite is Boris “nil closures” Johnson. I hope Crow carries on doing what he’s paid to do. With one slight change. Next year, instead of taking his missus on a cruise, he goes cruising on his own around Hampstead Heath. Thus making Tory heads implode with such rage that cranial surgery is required. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bob-crow-not-real-hyprocrite-3123297#ixzz2sjYdakmm Follow us: @DailyMirror on Twitter | DailyMirror on Facebook http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bob-crow-not-real-hyprocrite-3123297#ixzz2sjYVcAlt Follow us: @DailyMirror on Twitter | DailyMirror on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 9245 Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 As Tube drivers who next year will be on £52k salaries can testify, Probably wouldn't need to cut costs by closing offices if their members weren't grossly overpaid for what they do. £52k man, that's mental for that job. I'm all for protecting the employees, but the only reason the tube union is as powerful as it is, isn't because of some genius leader, but simply that a strike costs the country billions and so every time they strike (and they do it often) it's too expensive to ignore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 27606 Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Cracking read that, Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14925 Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Probably wouldn't need to cut costs by closing offices if their members weren't grossly overpaid for what they do. £52k man, that's mental for that job. I'm all for protecting the employees, but the only reason the tube union is as powerful as it is, isn't because of some genius leader, but simply that a strike costs the country billions and so every time they strike (and they do it often) it's too expensive to ignore. You've just proved the point that Brian Reade is trying to make in this piece tbh. Grossly overpaid for what they do?...anyone else in that little box you've made for them?... And how does a tube strike cost the country billions?...it'll cost the tax haven know as "THE CITY OF LONDON" a fair bit, I'll grant you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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