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.

This is amazing during my time with the DSS only a few over 45 worked for them. A complete change now. Must be because they are paying pensioner rates.


Young? Unemployed? Don’t Expect A Job At The DWP
Posted on July 14, 2014 by johnny void | 23 comments

mcvey1“I have always said that I will do everything I can to help equip young people with the skills they need to get their foot on the ladder – everything I can to encourage employers to open their doors to young people – and everything I can to support the youth of today to get on in life.” Esther McVey responding to employment statistics February 2014

Despite endless government initiatives aimed at bringing down youth unemployment, just 1% of staff at the DWP are under 25 in a workforce that numbers almost 100,000.

The shocking admission comes in the department’s annual equality report which also shows that only 4.3% of DWP workers are between the ages of 25 and 29. These figures come despite the Employment Minister Esther McVey repeatedly trying to tell us that young unemployed people are on of her ‘key concerns’. Turns out she’s far more concerned about forcing young people to work in Poundland for no pay then she is about using her department to actually give people a real job.

Whilst anyone under 25 who wants to work at the Jobcentre should probably spend some time experimenting with drugs for a while first, these are damning statistics for a government that pretends to care about youth unemployment. The truth is that just like every other grasping employer, the DWP has no interest in providing any genuine help for young people to get started in a career. Why would they, when they can staff their offices with young people on unpaid ‘work experience’ instead of actually paying them wages.

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LOL he he....ohh so true......

Whilst anyone under 25 who wants to work at the Jobcentre should probably spend some time experimenting with drugs for a while first,

you're relatively young sticky, for it's only comparatively recently that the benefits of age + experience have been recognised ...... older people also don't need maternity/paternity leave and may also be very happy to work part time if that's what suits the employer ..... they are also less likely to flit from job to job

True but I still think young people who havent worked should be a priority. Proper jobs not workfare.

ps, surely you could see my p take post on TANKER above, I just got fed up of answering his questions and him not answering any of my questions so i thought ohh sod it be as ignorant as him.

Looks like a Malaysian 777 has been shot down with missile over Ukraine/Russian bordet. It had 295 people on board; all dead.

Whos in the frame Hays???? Ruskys

TANKER

Do you mean the Winter Allowence or the heating benefit ?

Pro-Russian paramilitary , the ones that shot down the Urkranian helicopter, i would say

Ohhhhhhhhhh sounds serious.

Maybe Russians. It is suggested that the rebels don't have the capability as it was at 33,000 feet.

The Russians wouldn't do it...what possible gain?

Maybe a mistaken plane?

Unlikely to be a mistake, if you have those sort of missiles, you normally have the kit with which to use them.

The Ukrainians have distributed a recording of two Russian Colonels discussing shooting down the plane. The type of missile that could down a plane at height has been seen in eastern Ukraine today. It is a BUK missile

But why would the Russians do it?

Theres nothing in it for them!

itchy twitchy digits

Also, how would the Ukrainians come by a recording of two Russian Colonels having a chat?

It looks like the Russians may have given the missile to the pro Russian groups. It could still be the Russians I suppose. It looks like the plane was mistaken for a Ukrainian transport plane. Two transport planes had been shot down over the last couple of weeks.

The Ukrainian intelligence monitor telephone traffic as do all countries. They even gave out the mobile phone number used by one Russian intelligence colonel.

OK, they're all dopes, and they dish out anti aircraft missiles to all and sundry, complete with training and all the back up needed for proper missiles to work.


But what do they gain?