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.

Part-time Britain: Record numbers now have jobs but most finding employment work for less than 25 hours

Number of part-timers people looking for full-time work doubles to 1.45m
Overall unemployment rate falls to 7.7% but mostly part-time jobs
Four out of five new jobs since 2008 have gone to part-time women


By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor

PUBLISHED: 12:24, 11 September 2013 | UPDATED: 01:55, 12 September 2013


Rising levels of employment are being fuelled by people being forced to take part-time jobs, official figures showed today.

In the last five years since the financial crash the number of men in work has remained almost unchanged, but 280,000 who were in full-time jobs have been forced to cut their hours.

At the same time four out of five new jobs in the whole economy have been taken by women working fewer than 25 hours.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417392/Part-time-Britain-Record-numbers-jobs-employed-work-25-hours.html

Excelent post Max.

Truth is this so called recovery is built upon unskilled jobs and cheap labour.

The recovery will be very weak imo.

Skinny, is that a Bedford Commer?

Yes - in hindsight, one of the best holidays I've ever had.

The so called recovery is built on shit imo gf!

These people may have "jobs", but they are not real living wage jobs. Most appear to be part time or zero hour contracts.

Most people cant build a life on temp/part time incomes...as for buying a house..LOL.

Thought so Skinny, I nearly bought one from a work colleague about 20 years ago.

It was actually hired from a place that's not a million miles from 'Nunhead village'!

i'm amazed you numpties don't get bored out of your skulls - perhaps there's nothing in them - churning out variations of the same old crap day after day, week after week and even month after month

Oh Nunhead?... You mean the new Centre of the Earth -):

Here's our latest revamped Web Site of my pub http://ivyhousenunhead.com/

Do you like it?

The hire centre was actually opposite what was one of my favourite pubs - the Clock House - alas it has apparently been 'modernised'.

Yep Cynic, it is truly amazing. They sound like embryonic politicians, in practice for the day that they become the real thing.
Think the clue is in the thread title.

Ed Miliband’s popularity has slumped to its lowest level ever – rivalling even Iain Duncan Smith’s appalling personal ratings during his disastrous spell as Tory leader.

The latest Ipsos MORI survey shows that six in ten British adults say they are dissatisfied with the Labour leader, compared to just 24 per cent who are satisfied.

His net satisfaction rate of minus 36 per cent is comparable with the low point of Mr Duncan Smith's leadership, eight months before he was ousted as by the Tory party in 2003.

"Have to agree with Baggydave.
The ale here is always warm and lifeless.
I thought it was just the Youngs beers, but I tried the Tribute (which I love) at the weekend and it was awful."

Skinny, That's a quote from the usually very reliable Beer in the Evening site, same old story when big business moves in and the short term thinking accountants get power and sway within the Company, quality diminishes sadly.

Acer, yep the biggest thread on the board. (check the stats)
The most visited thread on the board.

Must be something right. Must admit the Tory boys are a big bonus as the clowns bring in the punters.

Why dont you start a thread and lets see your stats.

who cares whether it's the biggest - except i suppose it massages your ego for no good reason ...... one could just as easily comment that it shows what a load of tripe is posted, primarily by <10 numpties

Stan - I've just checked a couple of pubs on that site and the postings all seem to be 2+ years old?

Yes that's true Skinny but unless we can actually try the place out then that's all we can go by, Big business outfits like Well & Young's (or is it the other way around)? Have plenty of capacity to update the details if they are that interested themselves, and if they want to dispute other peoples comments they can.

True - certainly where I grew up, we had some of the very finest Young's pubs (as previously discussed) and although I haven't been back to many of them for some years, I'm reliably informed that they are largely soulless and sell insipid beer.

Stan are we talking REAL ALE here?.