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.

Jesus christ we do get them on money am these days.

I blame it on advfn stopping live links for non subscribers.

Best just to filter I suppose.

33845 - if that is indeed so, then i'm delighted to hear it, but i don't think that invalidates what i wrote earlier

Cyners to be honest I dont think anyone as a clue at the moment if the housing market is overheating or what. Seems to me like the economy its all REGIONAL, a lot more than it used to be.

That said I dont want central government leaning towards regional policys.

Labour Whips ‏@labourwhips 12m
Urgent Question from @RachelReevesMP granted on Government's Universal Credit shambles.

More 'urgent' nonsense from Labour.

a recovering economy is surely bound to be regional - e.g. where the businesses of all kinds are located - but eventually that permeates throughout

are there exporting or even manufacturing businesses of any kind in say barnsley?
probably not, or not of great substance

on the other hand, sunderland (nissan) and swindon (honda) are almost certainly starting to rollock along as well as the businesses in other regions that supply their support services

Interesting that whenZuma was shown on big screen at Mandela memorial the crowd booed him.

Universal Credit IT system can't yet cope with couples

Universal Credit IT system cannot yet cope with couples or people with children, officials admit


Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary Photo: JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES



The NAO suggested that the DWP was reluctant to admit problems with Universal Credit, accusing the department of having a “fortress mentality”.




By Peter Dominiczak, Political Correspondent

8:06PM GMT 09 Dec 2013




The computer system used to run Universal Credit cannot cope with the “complicated” lives of thousands of benefits claimants, officials have admitted.


Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, was forced to deny that the Coalition’s flagship welfare reform is a “debacle” despite officials conceding that the IT system was unable to cope with couples and families.


Mr Duncan Smith was speaking after he told MPs that more than £40 million spent on IT for the project had already been written off.


He also admitted that a further £91 million of software would effectively be defunct within the next five years as Universal Credit moves to a digital system.


Mr Duncan Smith has faced growing criticism over the project, which has been beset by rising costs and delays.


More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10507067/Universal-Credit-IT-system-cant-yet-cope-with-couples.html

cant cope with couples or kids LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Oh dear hays.

make no wonder our rachel is getting a prime spot.

It is hardly IDS's fault if there are computer problems.

At least he is doing something about our stupid benefits system.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL ohhhhh you tell em hays you tell em.

The truth is IDS as been under severe pressure ever since Greyling left that department over a year ago. its obvious to a blind man who was running the show.

The system will get there in the end. There is no great rush to have it finished.

At what cost to the tax payer???, it isnt even digital LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL .

There is a rush to finish, the costs keep getting ever higher.

The real truth is, no one is in charge, and ids does not understand the task.

The sums of money involved are not significant.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

hays in complete denial.

Tory back benches have the knives out for IDS, Call me dave will have to act.

Hays,


“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river.
We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”
― Desmond Tutu


Address the causes, not punish those with the problems.

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I am making a guess, that this government will be the last tory government for 20 years. It will have the IDS stamps all over it.

ID S live now on parliament channel facing Reeves point of order on UB.