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.

Absolute twaddle being spoken by Hays once again. He takes everything from the Torygraph. IDS and is department the DSS are in a real mess. The only reason he is still in a job is because he as something on Camoron..........

Haystack Send an email to Haystack View Haystack's profile - 06 Nov 2014 10:42 - 49414 of 49418

The comments about the work programming come just from Labour MP Margaret Hodge who is chairman of the committee. The other complaints are not directed towards IDS. It is the DWP that is being criticised together with some of the companies involved. The report is not that critical. It accepts that thing are improving and gives some recommendations. But that doesn't make a good story.

Work Programme adviser: ‘Almost every day one of my clients mentioned feeling suicidal 6/11/2014

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/05/work-programme-adviser-box-ticking-sanctioning-sick-people?CMP=share_btn_tw&commentpage=1

Work Programme clients were left suicidal – Guardian 6/11/2014



Iain Duncan Smith has stated* that the Work Programme “revolutionises the way we provide support to those who are the hardest to help, supporting a move from dependency to independence and getting people into work so that they have financial security for the future”. This is because he can no longer distinguish facts from his own deranged imaginings. *https://www.gov.uk/government/news/work-programme-boosts-prospects-of-long-term-unemployed-in-wales

A scandalous picture of suffering, trauma and destitution is painted by a former Work Programme adviser who was tasked with getting claimants off the employment and support allowance (ESA) sickness benefit, according to Melissa Viney in The Guardian.

Anna Shaw (not her real name) said some clients were homeless, many had had their money stopped and were literally starving and extremely stressed.

Many had extreme mental health conditions, including paranoid schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar disorder and autism. One – diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and homeless – said he had not eaten for five days.

Shaw can only speak out anonymously, because when she resigned, after just a few months in the job, her employer made her sign a confidentiality clause.

Ask yourself what kind of government department forces departing employees to sign a confidentiality clause about matters not covered by the Official Secrets Act.

There can only be one answer.

A criminal government – or at least, one that fears exposure as such.

Crucially important for those of us who study the government’s behaviour towards ESA claimants is the revelation that “fundamental issues”, such as physical and mental conditions, homelessness or domestic abuse, simply were not addressed.

And many clients were wrongly assessed as fit to work, including one with multiple sclerosis – a degenerative condition from which it is impossible to recover.

For the full, sorry details of Ms Shaw’s “non-job” of “ticking boxes” and sanctioning benefits, visit the story in The Guardian.

cynic no nhs in Poland to call it so very poor country and corruption is ripe
that is why they want to leave Poland and set up home in jersey uk

Thought you had to be there for 10 years before you could buy a house in Jersey TANKER.

Haze.

As forecasted by many, before they were initiated, the ideological tory policies have failed and are continue tofail.

Tax payers money palmed off to incompetent private companies who don't have the expertise and are "failing".

Are they making donations to the cause, or attending dinner parties at No 10?

The persons responsible are IDS and Cameron.

In my opinion both should be sacked without pensions of ongoing negligence in spite of advice!

If they were in the public area themselves the share holders would have got shot of them by now on the grounds of not fit for purpose.

Theyd have been sacked 3 years ago never mind now Fred.

the following info came thru the door from the local tory peeps



Employment Boost


Conservative policies are working nationally


*1.3 million of the jobs created since the election are full time

*redundencies are at a record low and there is a record number of women in work

*two thirds of the rise in employment since 2010 has been higher skilled

*employment totals 30.6 million..up 70k this qtr and up 1.8 million since the election

*long term unemployment fell by 213k over the past year

*the claimant count is below one million for the first time since 2008

Absolute Bull sh-t.......

*two thirds of the rise in employment since 2010 has been higher skilled


stands out immediatly.

Max your local Tory peeps are bigger liars than central office.

MaxK
Sounds like good news. The plans are working well.

If the plans are working so well, why is the SS bill still going up?

LOL, yep go on Hays explain that one away.

One explanation low skilled part time jobs and subsidised by the goverment through Tax Credits and Housing Benefit.

Watch the new John Lewis Christmas TV ad' which features 'Monty' the penguin and has cost £1m to make. Once again, you'll struggle to hold back a tear as it gives a subtle tug at your emotions with a very clever reminder as to what the Christmas time of year is really about.

I chose this link because it also allows you to look at previous JL Christmas adverts if you want to do that.

Once again, John Lewis gets 10/10:

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/hot-tv/408918/John-Lewis-Christmas-advert-2014-watch-video-Monty-The-Penguin

At least religion is being kept out of Christmas.

Haystack, don' t you believe in Santa Claus?!

The feast was Saturnalia based on the Roman god Saturn's. The 25 Dec is the winter solstice in the Julian calendar. It was a time of gift giving. The Christians set their own feast days to coincide with the Roman ones to suppress them. There is no real association with any religious event in history such as the birth of JC.

even the mail is saying the immigration report is a load of bollocks .
have they found the millions of illegals the man who did the report read about the stupid prat

Re: The Luxembourg VAT scam.

For a change, I have to say how good it is to read something like this concerning the EU and its law changing.......

LUXEMBOURG will be the big loser – to the tune of between €600m to €1.1billion – when new EU VAT rules on digital services sales come into effect in 2015.

Luxembourg VAT revenue
The 2014 budget for Luxembourg was a tough one as the country comes to grips with losing between €600m and €1.1billion in VAT revenues due to the new EU rules.

The winners and losers of the VAT reform note that Luxembourg’s competitive advantage will be swept away by the new rules.

The new rules are enshrined in the 2015 VAT Directive which dictates that VAT collection on digital services (e.g. software, music and image downloading as well as ebooks) will be based on where the end consumer is located. The existing rules use the location of the supplier as the basis for applying VAT.

This is the reason that companies such as Apple, Amazon and Microsoft located their European HQs in Luxembourg. Luxembourg’s VAT rate is very low, its standard rate is 15% but it offered a super reduced rate of just 3% on ebooks, as well as the country’s hotel and catering industries. However, as of from January 1, 2015, that competitive advantage will be erased with the introduction of the new EU VAT rules.

Necessary steps by Luxembourg
Luxembourg has already taken the necessary steps to address their €545m budget deficit by increasing its key VAT rates by two percent, their standard rate from 2015 onwards will be 17%. However, the government of the Grand Duchy has not raised their super reduced rate of 3% stating that it wants to protect jobs in its hotel and catering industries.

Luxembourg has estimated that it will lose 70 percent of its VAT revenue from the rule changes, ranging between €660m and €1.1billion.

However, Luxembourg officials believe the country will remain attractive as an EU HQ for global companies.

“Companies like Amazon are based in Luxembourg because we are business friendly and we offer them a great gateway into the [EU] and excellent talent . . . the VAT tax regime on ebooks is not going to be a game-changer,” said one official.
On the flip side of the rule change is the benefit that countries with a large digital services consumer base will receive. The UK Chancellor for the Exchequer George Osborne outlined in his 2014 Budget speech that the UK can expect to receive £1.2billion in extra VAT receipts between 2015 and 2018, that’s £300m per year.

The rules – according to the European Commission – are a levelling of the playing field when it comes to EU VAT. Luxembourg’s competitive advantage will be wiped out and the larger EU economies will receive the VAT revenue created by their own consumers. For example, the UK will receive the VAT collected from UK sales on e-books; Germany will receive the VAT collected from music downloads in Germany, and so on. A fairer taxation system and one that returns VAT to being a consumption tax.