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.

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

Haystack - 16 Oct 2013 13:55 - 31150 of 31160

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..................ends

That may be the case for these scroungers with 10 kids etc who have no desire to enter work again, but believe me more and more Tory MPs are starting to question I D Smiths policy on the genuine sick and disabled.

ARE YOU IN FAVOUR OF THOSE WHO HAVE NOT WORKED OR SAVED VIA A PRIVATE PENSION GETTING BENEFITS whilst those who have saved and have a small pension being disqualified from benefits and just get NI credits???????? truth please.

and today Cameron sniggered at the people with CANCER he is a very nasty turd
even a piece of shit is better than him

Cyners cheers bud, Ive printed that off ill pass it on to my mother.

Many Thanks.

TANKER yes you mean when Dennis Skinner put to him his question about ATOS in PMQs. Disgracefull considering he had a disabled son who died.

Dennis Skinner (aka The Beast of Bolsover) is always ready to exploit any story for political gain.

It's a vigorous, voracious press that keeps our country honest

Regulating the media would undermine its ferocious ability to highlight wrongdoing, writes Boris Johnson



I hope the press will tell the Privy Council to stick it in the privy Photo: Alamy


Boris Johnson

By Boris Johnson

8:07PM BST 13 Oct 2013



Good for Fraser Nelson. It strikes me that he is 100 per cent right. The editor of The Spectator has announced that his ancient and illustrious publication will have nothing whatever to do with any new system of press regulation. He will neither bow nor truckle to any kind of control. He will not “sign up”. He will politely tell the new bossyboots institution to mind its own beeswax, and he will continue to publish without fear or favour.


I think the whole of the media should do the same. Stuff all this malarkey about the Privy Council and a Royal Charter. Who are the Privy Council, for goodness’ sake? They are just a bunch of politicians, a glorified version of the government of the day. We are on the verge of eroding the freedom of the press. We are undermining the work of everyone from John Milton to John Wilkes – men who fought for the right to say and publish things of which politicians disapproved.


Why are we embarking on this monstrous folly? Because of a string of essentially political embarrassments that led to the Leveson Inquiry – and at the beginning of it all was the expenses scandal, and the sense among MPs that they had been brutally treated by the press.


More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10376382/Its-a-vigorous-voracious-press-that-keeps-our-country-honest.html

HAYSTACK ANSWER PLEASE.........

Haystack - 16 Oct 2013 13:55 - 31150 of 31160

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..................ends

That may be the case for these scroungers with 10 kids etc who have no desire to enter work again, but believe me more and more Tory MPs are starting to question I D Smiths policy on the genuine sick and disabled.

ARE YOU IN FAVOUR OF THOSE WHO HAVE NOT WORKED OR SAVED VIA A PRIVATE PENSION GETTING BENEFITS whilst those who have saved and have a small pension being disqualified from benefits and just get NI credits???????? truth please.

The problem with the ones who have not saved is that they may never have been in a position to save. Benefits are there to help the most in need.