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.

Hammond's tax arrangement only saves him £200/month. That's hardly earth shattering or even very much.

You need to worry more about Philip Green who put his Top Shop business in his wife's name. She lives in Monaco, so there is no tax on dividends. It saved him close to £1b in one year on his dividends. He lives in Monaco as well and flies in on Monday mornings by private jet for the week. That is all legal as well.

Of course Philip Green did all his tax adjustments under Labour.

£200 a month is enough to feed 4 YTS trainees or should I say LOL ohhhhhhh LOL apprentices.

As for Philip Greeen we will catch him or at least make it so that he cant visit these shores again which will really shatter him and dont think it wont.

Yes under Blair.

You forget Hays dim wit, I was supporting the Conservative party at the time.

sticky - stop being a wriggly worm ..... you really can't bear being shown up - yet again, i'm afraid - for distorting what i have written, and just resort to silly antics to try to divert attention

Councils using controversial lie detector tests to catch benefit fraudsters
'Voice risk analysis' being used by 24 English authorities at a cost of millions – despite scientists' claims that it 'does nothing'

Randeep Ramesh, social affairs editor
The Guardian.

Local councils are using voice risk analysis software against benefit fraudsters, even though the Department for Work and Pensions has dropped the technology.

More than 20 councils have used or plan to use controversial lie detector tests to catch fraudulent benefits claimants, even though the government has dropped the technology having found it unreliable.

Responding to freedom of information (FOI) requests, 24 local authorities confirmed they had employed or were considering the use of "voice risk analysis" (VRA) software, which its makers say can pick out fraudulent claimants by listening in on calls and identifying signs of stress.

Although in 2010 the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced it had given up using VRA software, the FOI responses show some councils have been spending millions of pounds on it.

Local authorities have continued to use the system to check whether people are honestly claiming the single person council tax discount, which allows single adults to pay 75% of the amount levied on a family.

Tory-controlled Derbyshire Dales said it had taken part in a county-wide review of council tax in 2011 that had used the technology – a contract worth £280,000 to Capita.

The same company was hired by Labour-run Southwark in south London and was paid £2.5m over three years. IttThe council says VRA technology "was used as one tool to assist in determining the customers' eligibility for the discount".

The council said it did not record how effective the scheme had been, but did say that its real worth was in making the public aware that it would crack down on benefit cheats. A council minute last year records: "Although [VRA was] used in a minority of cases, a significant amount of publicity was received that assisted in communicating to residents the council's intention to remove discounts if property occupancy could not be evidenced."

VRA is supposed to detect signs of stress in a caller's voice by analysing short snippets of speech, and is still used in the insurance industry to catch fraudsters. But critics say the system is not powerful enough to distinguish cheats from honest callers.

A number of councils – Redcar, Middlesbrough, West Dorset and Wycombe – said they were convinced of VRA's merits and were considering using it in the future.

False Economy, the trade union-funded campaign group that put in the FOI requests to more than 200 local authorities, told the Guardian: "It says a lot about council outsourcing – and the benefits-bashing agenda – that this pseudo-scientific gimmick is now making its way in through the back door. Capita is a firm with a long rap sheet of expensive failure. Neither they nor their technological snake oil should be trusted."

There have been complaints from claimants who were assessed using the technique. In South Oxfordshire two people formally protested after having their voices tested in 2013. The council says that Capita's system helped reduce the number of people claiming the single person discount by 3%, and it would consider using it again.

Voice risk analysis has been mired in controversy since scientists raised doubts over the technology soon after it reached the market. In 2007 two Swedish researchers, Anders Eriksson and Francisco Lacerda, published their own analysis of VRA in the International Journal of Speech, Language and Law. They found no scientific evidence to support claims for the device made by the manufacturer.

Lacerda, head of linguistics at Stockholm University, told the Guardian that VRA "does nothing. That is the short answer. There's no scientific basis for this method. From the output it generates this analysis is closer to astrology than science. There was very good work done by the DWP in the UK showing it did not work, so I am surprised."

However, the Local Government Association, which represents English and Welsh councils, said the tool was used to help identify possible fraud. Peter Fleming, chair of the 's improvement board, said: "Councils detect almost £200m-worth of benefit fraud committed every year.

" No one is going to be prosecuted for benefit fraud on the result of voice analysis tests alone. But, in a small number of areas, councils use this technology as part of a wider range of methods to identify cases which may need closer scrutiny."

The DWP told the Guardian: "Local authorities are free to design their own approaches to preventing benefit fraud."

In a statement Capita said that, when it "undertakes a council tax single person discount review, councils can choose to use voice risk analysis technology as part of the process. The technology was never used in isolation. It is only used in cases which are deemed 'high risk', when earlier stages of the review have indicated that more than one person may be living at the property."

Capita added: "The selective use of VRA technology is a useful additional tool in the validation process of identifying potentially fraudulent claims for single person discount.

This technology is also going to be used to catch Tax Evaders by the treasury and I say for once well done Osbourne.

Manuel shown up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol lo lol lol lol lol lol lol

do you really think I care a jot what as been said and put down here about me LOL LOL LOL.

I just love taking the pi-s out of you and Hays its very entertaining for me and beats fishing in the cold catching nothing.

Why are you called MANUEL??????????

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i called you a wriggly worm for being found out yet again for distorting what i wrote
you might not care, but perhaps you should just be more careful if you want to carry any credibility

"if you want to carry any credibility"......ends

Well that puts me miles in front of you then..............Manuel. he he hoho ha ha

very droll, very droll ...... glad it keeps you amused over your several pints anyway
you're good company when you're being sensible, but every so often, you just get exceedingly silly - as now

For all the Tom Winnifrith fans, a complete character assissination of Bob Crow:


RIP Bob Crow of the RMT – You will not be Missed in the slightest (apology for earlier article)

Tuesday 11 March 2014


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I have been panned for criticising Bob Crow who died today. In that vein I apologise for that piece and have amended my original piece with the change in italics. See below.

You are not meant to say bad things about those who have just died…but for fat hypocritical selfish bastards like Bob Crow, the head of the tube driver’s union, the RMT, one can make an exception. Crow died of a heart attack this morning.

Crow lived the high life as a Union boss. He was paid a huge wage and his expenses bill for fine wining and dining was a disgrace. His lifestyle did not exactly show solidarity with the workers.

Moreover under his leadership, the tube drivers have held Londoners to ransom for years, blocking change when change was needed and negotiating wages which are thoroughly unjustifiable. By 2015 a tube driver ( who takes just six weeks to learn his or her trade) will, for a 35 hour week with generous holidays be getting a package worth £52,000 a year. That is just shocking and cannot be justified.

Crow has extracted such a package by regularly holding Londoners to ransom with strike action which causes misery for us all. And then of course he also launched strike action for purely political purposes, often on days when England were playing a soccer match, so the drivers could see the game.

While trousering £150,000 a year plus grotesque expenses Comrade Crow lived in a council house paying a trivial rent. That meant he was even richer and a really poor person was deprived of social housing. In practice, such was the solidarity this fat, selfish, greedy arsehole showed with the working classes. I apologise for omitting this fact from my earlier piece.

Britain is better off without this blackmailing bastard who grew fat thanks to inflicting misery on the rest of us. While his family may miss him and have my sympathies I would be a hypocrite if did not say that I – and 99% of the population – will not miss him at all.

PS I see that uber-scumbag George Galloway is to write a glowing tribute to Comrade Crow in the Guardian later today. That says it all.

ref ; Aldwickk....far out man....I can see stars....cool....yeahh....no seriously ; beer or wine...nibbles plus a tipple before bed....nothing at lunchtime...no drugs...do not agree with them at all...

d4
I would say the same of Bob crow as Tom Winnifrith. Both surplus to requirements.

I see it is the 25th anniversary of the miners' strike. There is a program this evening about the strike on ITV at 22:35. A date to celebrate.

Winifrith is heading for the funny farm and as been for a while.

It wont be long now.

Check this thread out and youl see what I mean.

A trully respected person..........NOT.

SHAME THE TIPSTERS (T1PS)

http://uk.advfn.com/cmn/fbb/thread.php3?id=16657908&from=2819

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AdR0Jm4tt8A

Perhaphs hays or Manuel can put him up for the night and take him off the street.

Re: Tom Winnfrith

His Gold Fund done very well for a time , but the wheel's started to fall off and he kept going thinking a high Gold price would save him. The US printing vast sums of money didn't mean the Gold price would reach a all time high in real terms.

Thats why he got the sack Alders, I heard it from the bosses mouth Jim Mellon on twitter.

He got his pizza joint as pay off for his resignation and they had to bring in directors to uncover the scale of the loss and mess.

How on earth he dare have a go at Bob Crow is beyond me.

goldie

Just watched Tom's Video , funny with all that's going on in the Ukraine he didn't mention any Gold shares to buy