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.

Unemployed to do unpaid work or lose benefits

The unemployed will have to do unpaid full time work or lose their benefits, in a bid to reduce the amount spent on the jobless.


By Claire Carter
12:33AM BST 27 Sep 2013


Under proposals expected to be announced next week at the Conservative conference, people who have been out of work for a long time will be expected to earn their benefits by working for firms unpaid or in the community.

It has been suggested adopting a new US-style ‘work for the dole’ scheme will help to reduce Britain’s large benefits bill.

It is expected that those who fail to find jobs through the Government’s main back to work scheme - the Work Programme - will have to work for their payments, sources told the Daily Mail.

Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, told the newspaper: “It’s not acceptable for people to expect to live a life on benefits if they’re able to work.”

Sources in the Department for Work and Pensions described the reports as "pure speculation".


More serfdom news here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10338385/Unemployed-to-do-unpaid-work-or-lose-benefits.html

I think it is time to bring the workhouses back and consider NHS geriatric wards should become expeditions portals.

Should sort out many problems.

All this talk of insufficient jobs is a load of balderdash.

And of course unpaid work would increase profit margins and sort out the real economy out.

Mind a little bit of overproduction will never be a problem.

I suggest that the con party can start issue brown shirts to all who attend.

BNP and UKIP can have another colour.

Happy days are around the corner.

Mind housing prices are up and another coat of paint should double their price.

Pity they are built on sand.

Again we can always fall back on the sale of the Mail.

George, what can we sell after that before the balloon burst again.

Mind we can blame that b. foreigners this time this time.

Where is Carney bye the way?

Thing is if my competitior is using subsidised labour why on earth should I carry on and compete.

The whole idea is a gimmick and set up for the Tory party congress.

They get nasty and more nasty.

Fact is ID smith would be nowhere without his wife Betsy subsidising him.

Cynic ......po face.......got some good news this morning my villa purchase in Rhodes has gone through........all settled. 4 bedrooms and an outdoor swimming pool for £ 80 grand.

Flying out monday for 3 or 4 days to kit it out. They have a local Ikea so it should be easy.

Just waiting now for the papers to the other one and itl be the dogs bollox.

Hays hays hays..........labour on track for an overall majority.....new poll just out.....


electionista‏@electionista
UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 33%, LAB 40%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 11% // 30% approves of the Government's record, 56% doesn't.

The TREND is LABOUR........vote LABOUR.

Gap dropping. Wait till after Conservative conference and as the economy improves.

You do talk some bollox you Hays.

When ever as the economic cycle corresponded with the political cycle, stop Ill answer that for you..............NEVER.

When it comes to voting day the party that will be elected is the one that leaves the voter with more money in their back pocket ie, LABOUR.

Just as a matter of interest GF and Fred will you be purchasing Royal Mail shares?

Hays remember the lib dem leader Nick Clegg just before the last election, all smooth and swarf in them trio TV political debates 32% of the poll at one time.

What happened.

On PAY DAY the public realised he couldnt pay, and the voters streamed back to labour.

FACT is the Tories will never have a big enough majority. They dont look after the NORTH and MIDLANDS.

Vote Labour.

Hi Chris,

dont forget Im normally a TORY voter.

I cant stand this set of posh boys in the cabinet and if the Tory mere mortals cant get rid of them Ill vote labour and kick them out.

By all means stick with the Tory bum boys on here cynic and hays plus that other bloke Hillary but Im afraid Ill go my own way and Ill stick with it lose or win.

he he Nice one Skinny.

So GF all this socialism guff, paint the town red etc is just that then. Great tactics, wouldn't tell Fred though :O)

gf
Have you seen the populous twice weekly poll today? It shows Labour only 3 points ahead, with no improvement for Labour's conference.

CON 34%, LAB 37%, LDEM 12%, UKIP 9%.

Cameroon bottles it...



27 September 2013

David Cameron will not have TV debate with Alex Salmond



David Cameron has confirmed he will not have a TV debate on Scottish independence with Alex Salmond.

The prime minister has written to Scotland's first minister rejecting his invitation for a head-to-head showdown.

Mr Cameron said the first minister should instead face Alistair Darling, head of the pro-Union campaign group Better Together.

Mr Salmond has responded by accusing the prime minister of being too afraid to face him in a live political debate.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-24297286

Alistair Darling is Scottish, surely it makes sense for a fellow Scot to argue Scotlands future re Independance. Got jack shxt to do with the English.

Skinny,

If that is your water you need it testing.

They should be holding the same debate south of the border.

I remember drinking it in Matlock some years ago - the hand pump logo was a conversation piece!

Don't see why.