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.

HAYS.......Can I ask you whether Lord Freud is one of the senior tories you are pally with?

I was thinking birds of a feather!

Well Call Me Dave is taking it seriously, hes thinking over Frauds position.

Another Hunt then.

Fred, my wine bill varies each month. I've stopped drinking really expensive wine now as some of the prices are just silly. I found a lovely Bergerac when I visited France in August which was the equivalent of around £6, but couldn' t find a cheap way of shipping over a lorry load!

Shortie yep Gold is looking to be the real deal at last. Might be tempted myself.

IDS playing tricks again...............whats new.

400,000 ESA Claims Disappear due to DWP trickery



ESA on the rise: Figures from NIESR’s Jonathan Portes show the number of people receiving ESA is increasing – but there are none for those in the ‘mandatory reconsideration’ queue and it seems 400,000 claims awaiting assessment have gone unrecorded.

Vox Political is grateful to Same Difference for bringing this article by Work Test Whistleblower to our attention:

The old men of Caxton House might seem unworldly, but they know how to pull off a conjuring trick: they’ve made 400,000 claims vanish into thin air.

The Atos bottleneck has led to a huge number of jobless people getting stuck in welfare limbo (or “limboland” as IDS said in the House the other day). They wait…and wait…and wait for their ESA claims to be assessed.

In the meantime, how does the DWP classify them, in its official stats?

JSA claimants?
Unemployed?
ESA recipients?
Employees?

Answer: none of the above.
They aren’t recorded anywhere in the data fed to the press.

Read the rest of the article on the Work Test Whistleblower site.

FRED how do they manage to keep lying to the press?????????????

The DWP is corrupt from top to bottom.

Cant see how even manuel can argue with this and the above post.

I am not sure why, but I cringed with a little shudder when I hear or see Ester!

Normally I have a strong stomach.

Mind Cruella (Theresa) has the same effect.

Perhaps, I am deep down frighten of women or what they can do to you!

8-)

Latest figures from Children in Need show that even before this year's appeal it has an £87,705,000 cash pile

The BBC will soon be getting out the begging bowl again for Children in Need, but the charity is at the moment flush with cash. In the small print of its latest figures, it discloses that it has an astonishing £87,705,000 stashed away in bank accounts and other investments.

A spokesman for the corporation sees nothing wrong in sitting on quite such a huge sum. “BBC Children in Need typically awards grants over a three year period. Money is released on a quarterly basis as projects demonstrate the impact they are having on young lives,” he says.

“The level of our investments reflects the record amounts raised in the charity’s appeals over the last two years and thus our ability to award record amounts to change young lives.”

Daily Telegraph

GF.

I agree with your reading of the figures.

DB4.

There are some very drinkable wines at low prices.

Unfortunately there is junk at high and low prices.


I tend to drink plonk and in an attempt to not routinely finish the bottle, Recently I bough some boxes, hoping to have just one two or three glasses a night. Some have been very enjoyable, others almost put me off drinking, after 55 years of steadily imbibing.

Some of these boxes are said to have an "open life" of up to 2 months.

Don't think that is accurate as I have made Beef Bourguignon to-day to use up some I had open for 3weeks.


Hope it hasn't spoilt the meat.

The attraction of the boxes is that when I return from France the boxes are easy to store in the van when I am travelling!

Freud should be sacked for saying disabled workers are “not worth the full wage” 15/10/2014

Freud – made a disastrous comment at the Conservative Party conference.

At Prime Minister’s Questions today (October 15), he was revealed to have said on September 30: “There is a group… where actually… they’re not worth the full wage and actually I’m going to go and think about that particular issue, whether there is something we can do nationally, and without distorting the whole thing, which actually if someone wants to work for £2 an hour, and it’s working can we actually” [make it possible for them to do so].

Labour leader Ed Miliband, challenging David Cameron to act on the remarks, said they represented the Tories’ “worst instincts”.

Cameron’s response – that these “were not the views of anyone in government” – was appallingly weak. Clearly they were: Lord Freud is, after all, a member of the government.

Commentators across the UK, watching the exchange on TV or the Internet, were quick to comment on the fact that Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Freud’s boss, was seen scuttling out of the House of Commons before PMQs ended.

Do you think Cameron has made another Freudian slip and exposed himself for what he really stands for?

GF,


Didn't this government cut back on REMPLOY?

Most certainly not just cut back but have binned it all together. Small pockets are being left to run down.

Shame on them, Shame on Camoron.

Esther McVey on Freud comments about disabled people
4 hours ago

A Conservative minster said Lord Freud's comments about wages for disabled people "will haunt" him, and they were not party policy.
Employment Minister Esther McVey told the Daily Politics: "I cannot justify those words, they were wrong."
She added that the government spent £50m annually on supporting disabled people, when she spoke to Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics about her work.

If Britain is booming, why is the deficit growing?

Britain's economy is booming – but tax receipts aren’t, forcing the Chancellor to borrow yet more. Here is the Treasury’s dilemma


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11162272/If-Britain-is-booming-why-is-the-deficit-growing.html

The roof is falling in on the Nasty Party and the corrupt DPW.

This just the start and Mcvey is going all out to save her own neck with the deflection comments made above.

Soon we will have the death statistics and this time the Right Wing Press wont be able to cover this up.

Max 400,000 people not accounted for in todays unemployment statistics.

It doesent surprise me gf...none of the stats are massage free, they're all bent!

Update - Labour lead at 4
by YouGov in Politics
Wed October 15, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 14th Oct - Con 30%, Lab 34%, LD 8%, UKIP 18%

Ipsos MORI/Standard – CON 30, LAB 33, LDEM 8, UKIP 16