Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

ill have a look later on. Must carry on with my so called HOLS just got a smalljob of cutting about 4 mile of hedges now.

At least Ive advertised in local wrag this weekend and got an unemployed youngster at £12 an hour helping me out.

More people should do this. Hes a grand lad so might try and get some more jobs inside for him next week.

Ill take him for a pint/gallon later on. (hays be carefull dont want to set you off)

Laters.

don't forget his NICS + PAYE!

As long as you don't forget the country will be OK.

i suppose it is now non-pc to call casual labour part of the black economy!

"doodlebug4 - 11 Jun 2013 14:15 - 25972 of 25982

A lot of it goes to 'help' other countries gf !"

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It is peanuts compared with total GDP.

Secondly do you decry a company advertising to sell its goods.

Overseas aid can be seen as an investment with the hope of future returns.


I couldn't see a Tory government doing it out of altruism.

(Especially this lot.)

8-)

no country or gov't gives significant overseas aid for altruistic reasons ..... very occasionally, a fairly modest sum gets handed out following some disaster or other, but even then, i reckon it's pick-n-choose

Foreign aid (disaster aid aside) seems more to do with "our money" being given away by "our Political Crooks" to their "Political Crooks".

a reasonable analogy, though it is a bit more subtle than that of course :-)

Cynic stop talking wet,he just reports it to the Job Centre as simple as that. they take care of the rest.

why should i not tease!? ..... i pretty much know how these things work, and also how benefits get mangled very easily ..... i'm afraid there's always going to be people on the fringe who, self-esteem apart, are no better off working for a certain fairly modest amount

If the lad is offered a job I would let him go immediatly. I wouldnt stand in his way.

Plus I will be pointing out to my chums Ive got a good one here and asking if they have positions in their business

PLUS

I am paying 3 times minimum wage or summat like that.

Certainly not slave labour like baldy ID smith wants to set up.

Big national demo this weekend by the way against Workfare, ie, jobs paying nothing.

If it's not paying a wage then it isn't a job.. avoid.

current minimum wage if you're over 21 is currently £6.19 ph, which i admit won't get you far in london or even much of southern england, but has significantly more buying power in other parts of the country.

is it enough?
it's a personal view, but don't forget that the employer has to be able to afford it too.

to my mind, it is getting young people of all/any ability into a job that is so difficult.
apprenticeships are great, but again, small companies/employers need to be able to afford same and also have meaningful work to offer

building tradesmen across the whole spectrum, have the ability to earn serious money (check out the guy who set up pimlico plumbers as a fine example), but having gone through the necessary course, it can be next to impossible for the post-student/trainee to get the necessary field work and experience to permit him to offer a good service, or perhaps even to have the full registration for that trade

Cyners said "apprenticeships are great" ends.

What is an apprenrticeship these days, the 12 months touted by camoron?

I dont think so.

I know in the engineering world an apprenticeship is still 3 to 4 years duration.

After 12 months kids flung back on the dole and then placed on another apprenticeship, its happening in the real world and covering up the already record high unemployment figures for british youth.

PS not talking about over 21s either, under 21s.

Eating very nice crusty roll at Victoria stn. Just dropped one son at Gatwick Express for trip to Barbados on a cricket tour for his university. It is 30C there at the moment.

it'll be a damn sight hotter in dubai/saudi! .... just hope it's not too humid ..... saudi has also been having massive sandstorms that have caused offshore rigs to be shutdown

PMQs Milliband 9 Camoron 1

Camoron once again lost his cool under the pressure placed upon him by Milliband.The crimson tide once again returned.

He really does need some type of training /counseling in public speaking.

He trys to use his back benchers to beat Milliband but anyone with their head screwed on can see its a defensive mechanism.

Bit like Cyners calling for hays help when TANKER was rambling on.

I deducted a point from Miliband as I reckon hes not attacking the Lib Dems enough in order to break up the coalition and leave the Tories more abandoned and at the mercy of UKIP.

Ive sent Rachel Reeves a peronal tweet and asked her to get this point over to Milliband. A bit of playing dirty is required.

now that really is a barefaced lie!
i have never ever ever asked for hay's help in anything, nor from anyone else on this site

Cameron 50 Milipeed -10

Unemployment down. Record numbers in employment. Mili drowning as usual