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.

To be honest TANKER if we went back 20 years or so their would have been national outrage.

This is a terrible situation and one nobody from the government wants to take responsibility for.

To say that a person with eg, terminal cancer is fit for work is a total disgrace, I D Smith should hang his head in shame. ATOS (french company) should be sacked.

Doctors not admin staff should make an assesment on these people and should not leave it to a computer to say a person as so many points etc.etc.

Its a National Disgrace and should be immediatly looked into.

goldfinger, you made an absolute twit of yourself on the COMS thread early this morning. Well done.:-)

PMQs Conservatives 100 Labour 0

GF,

I agree with you.

IDS is a simpleton and his simple solution appeal to the Alds and tinkers of this country.

The con party and its leadership are seen to be repeating learnt mantras and rhetoric handed down their party HQ.

The public are beginning to yawn at the pronouncements.

There are problems with false claims, but the approaches to the problem by IDS and crew will create more problems than they solve.


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I think they will backfire, when the extended families of "claimants" see the "injustices".

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Lost another game last night, back to opening analysis.

UMMMMMMMMMM

LOL, at least you have a SOH Haystack.

Whats that punk above doodlepip squacking about. Then again, no I dont care.

Just a wannabe that chap.

on a slightly different subject ......

did anyone watch BBC Breakfast this morning?
there was a slot about visiting health workers for the elderly
one specific company was an absolute disgrace, but their name was not published, so does anyone have any idea who/where that was?

Fred even staunch Tory back bench MPs are now questioning what on earth is going on as local people visit their weekend surgeries.

As you know I give 10 hours per week voulantry on the web giving out information on claims for ESA and JSA,mostly ESA.

I can tell you their is some terrible cases and fraud is now next to nothing those types have been weeded out.

At some point their will be a call for some kind of public enquiry and I hope I d Smith and his cronies get their come uppance.

Sorry Cyners cant help, didnt see it. But my mothers getting to the point where she may need that kind of help. If you find out anymore please let me know. cheers.

gf
The public are in the majority of even tighter rules and caps on benefits. Due to previous Labour governments, we now have a benefit culture.

Chariots of fire on Channel 4 at the moment. A great film even though it ignores many of the facts and alters others. Putnam was a socialist and couldn't bear to have a Lord winning races so changed the result. Once again the lefties distort history to suit their politics.

it'll depend where she lives as another company gave exemplary service
the contracts for this health work are awarded by the "local authority", though i'm not entirely sure what that means
apparently some authorities will not pay properly - e.g. insist that 4 x 15 minute visits can be done in an hour; won't pay travel allowance between visits etc etc - but of course there is no compulsion on any company to accept that contract

i'ld guess "local authority" means your local health body rather than the council, and it should not be difficult to find out to whom these contracts have been awarded, and I dare say it should also be possible to discover the detail and more

Home owners will have to separate more recycling, says minister

Home owners will be forced to separate recycled material into more boxes because of new European Union regulations.






By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent

6:00AM BST 16 Oct 2013



Lord de Mauley, a minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, told local authorities that they would be required to follow new EU guidance which requires homes to separate waste more efficiently.


The comments raise fears of further “bin blight” which has seen homes having to cope with an increased proliferation of different bins for their recycling and rubbish.


Many residents have as many as three wheelie bins - one for household rubbish, another for recyclables and a third for garden waste.


However, some have as many as ten bins, bags and boxes to accommodate all their household waste, prompting claims they are an “eyesore”.



More €U nonsense here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10381188/Home-owners-will-have-to-separate-more-recycling-says-minister.html

cynic, if you go into the BBC Breakfast part of the BBC website I think you can find various clips if you click on the episodes link.

I wasn't aware that this had anything at all to do with EU directives, but certainly our own "sorting" is about to become even more complex, yet in Harrogate, I believe there is no domestic recycling at all

DD - the name of the offending company was intentionally not given to give some protection the lady who works for them and was brave enough to speak out

Well it's a pity the company couldn't be named and shamed, but perhaps one of the newspapers will get hold of the story and find out.

Hays,

The public are in the majority of even tighter rules and caps on benefits.

The public are not always right and are often fed on misinformation and political propaganda and media hypocrisy.

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MK.

Until I looked closer, I thought the image was an advert for homes for the disabled and elderly.

i'm sure they will, and a good job too
the company was appalling in many respects, but of course the question that still remains is why they were stupid enough to tender let alone accept the contract at (well) below economic rates in the first place

fred - it is; the inmates are being taken for their weekly exercise!

camerons family making a fortune out of EU land subsideds