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.

i thought it was already capped for "normal" couples or single parent at about £700 pm

Manuel,

"cynic Send an email to cynic View cynic's profile - 25 Feb 2014 14:41 - 37115 of 37117

welfare is subsidising stingy employers who pay the minimum wage or less.
what a preposterous and stupid statement that i'm afraid sticky trots out on a regular basis"


Engage your brain before rushing to print. You will find it behind the eyes and between the ears, if it hasn’t already deteriorated too far.

Take the "stingy" out of the statement and examine the "statement" again.

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What I have never understood is how palming out a state run service to a "private company" is successful.

I can see the "efficiency" and cost effectiveness of contracting out to a "technical development company" or similar small highly "intellectual" units while introducing new “machinery”, or even evolutionary techniques.

No problem.

But, if such are ongoing innovations then surely it is better to incorporate these “areas” into the main “business”.

Then the “savings” go into the original business and the cost of running the “new innovations” are kept in house and “profits of improved, or efficient services” go back into the original “business” to improve it further, rather than into the share holders’ pockets of the advising company.

To say a large public organisation can run an efficient cleansing agency within its own management is daft.

Losing money paying a smaller company to do so, and having no direct control over it is madness.

(I am in a hurry.)

fossy - like you, the statement is still a load of shit ..... you obviously didn't listen to Leahy this morning, as otherwise you might have learnt something

whether or not the minimum wage should be higher, or perhaps weighted according to region, is another matter, but even that may easily cause its own problems ...... but then of course you didn't watch and listen did you

therefore, engage your brain, eyes and ears before rushing to print

Manuel,

"i know sticky has squelched me, as if one cares one iota, "

Why mention it?

because it was relevant when written - since you seem to want to know

DLT RETRIAL: Why is a BBC dj more important as a cps sex-crime target than a former Home Secretary?

By John Ward February 24, 2014





It’s a reasonable question to ask. Dave Lee Travis is being retried on two charges of sexual assault, dating from the period when – according to pinched-goblin Miranda Moore QC – he had suddenly morphed from “aggressive sexual predator” to “dirty old man”.

The usual Plod Stepford wife crap about “girls as young as fifteen years old” continues to be trotted out. But there was one accuser who was aged 15 in 1976, and the jury dismissed the charge in short order.


More: http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/dlt-retrial-why-is-a-bbc-dj-more-important-as-a-cps-sex-crime-target-than-a-former-home-secretary/

Off the politics....take a look at Costain....looks good for 400p......

why? .... i've just posted a 5 year chart there and your optimism for 400 seems to have no foundation to me

Undervalued....and the way the sp has been moving suggests a sharper move upwards from now....

When did this become a share discussion thread and can anyone join in?

So is Afren undervalued , Barclays today set a overweight and target price of 225p

CEY also undervalued , but a little more speculative

AFR - yes almost certainly, not least because its considerable KRG assets are in the books at cost only, yet are due to start delivering in the very foreseeable future

Memories.

Fred1new....at times I wonder...socialist mental health problems ?....perhaps...you're becoming a pain in the... with these postings ...

No commie leaflet distribution this morning ?....come...come...

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I'll leave you lot of cranks to it...I'm off..