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.

Merkel is hostage to her coalition partners. Very little of what she does or says is what her party wants.

D4

Still in the UK and possibly running the Welsh NHS. That should keep them pretty quiet.

A nasty little floater just bobbed to the surface....




Government ‘considered cuts to employment and support allowance’

Internal documents seen by BBC suggest officials considered cutting ESA by as much as £30 so it is effectively worth the same as jobseeker’s allowance



Patrick Wintour, political editor


The Guardian, Thursday 30 October 2014 08.40 GMT






The government is considering cutting the value of the main employment and support allowance (ESA) sickness benefit by as much as £30 so that it is effectively worth the same as jobseeker’s allowance, internal documents seen by the BBC suggest.

New claimants, judged to be capable of work with appropriate support, could be given just 50p more per week than people on jobseeker’s allowance (JSA).

The Department for Work and Pensions said the ESA proposals were not government policy, but that they reflected ministers’ search for a solution to the backlog of claims for ESA and its higher than forecast cost. George Osborne, the chancellor, has said he is seeking a £12bn cut in the welfare bill, and has so far identified a quarter of these cuts mainly through freezing the value of most benefits for two years.

The DWP has been struggling with ESA ever since it replaced incapacity benefit. The main contractor, Atos, quit the contract assessing claimants after a massive backlog built up and criticism grew of the way in which the medical assessments were made. The backlog is currently running at more than 600,000. It is thought an American firm, Maximus, has been selected to replace Atos.

Government officials will be looking at cutting the value of ESA, partly because of concern that JSA claimants are moving off JSA to claim the higher value ESA.


More: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/30/cuts-employment-support-allowance-papers-jobseekers-allowance

http://guerillainvesting.co.uk/2014/10/30/titan-investment-partners-fca-complaint-ref-anti-semitic-director-richard-stephen-jennings/

Has anyone ever used Joomla before?

I see Cameron won the 2.20 at lingfield

Was he being chased by Harriet Harman wearing her feminist T-shirt?

you mean the pedo lover

the thread is dead without gf

Yes. Pity he went off the rails and got a deservant ban. MAM management clearly didn't want to do that to him and tried to avert the need for it. But he wasn't having any of it and left them no choice.

I do hope his ban was only a temporary one and, providing he behaves himself according to the MAM posting guidelines, I would like to see him back.

Now MAM do provide us with lots of slack and do hope, that individual incidents and 'little wars' will blow over or sort themselves out. This is the best way. Often some of us don't see it like that and, IMHO, GF was one of them. But I would like to see him given another chance after a while away and posting back on here about stocks and stuff. In that respect, he was a very valuable contributor.

Are you trying to stir it Tanker? :-)

Aye, you might think that TANK, I couldn't possibly comment :0)

I have decided to stop posting no fun any more its a dead thread
good bye and good luck to all and I mean all .
will look in at times

We think our politicians are bad, they seem quite sane compared to some in America!


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/11197064/US-midterms-seven-crazy-candidates-to-watch.html

at least we may get away from the monotony of the predictable political postings :-)

Don't count on it cynic. Watch out Red Fred is always about! :0)

even fred seems to have furled his flag for the time being :-)

Lol, this is what a T-shirt looks like ------- excellent Fred!