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.

And then comes Rochester!

Ed does his Mr Bean impression

http://awkwardedmilibandmoments.tumblr.com/

Back to reality!

Haze you will have to pop down to HQ again.

Drop in at the Food bank as well while you are on your way!

live and learn ..... i never knew a cartoon was reality :-)

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Has Osborne halved the EU’s £1.7bn bill? 7/11/2014


George Osborne: It seems he can save money when he wants to.

The UK will only have to pay half of the £1.7bn budget surcharge demanded by the European Union, according to George Osborne.

The EU itself has yet to make an announcement at the time of writing.

Osborne’s words came after a four-hour meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels, in which he said it had also been agreed that the UK would pay the money in two interest-free instalments, totalling £850 million, before September 2015.

It seems the Treasury wants to claim it has cut the 2.1bn Euro top-up charge in half by ensuring the UK’s rebate applies to the payment.

But even the BBC’s Tory-supporting Political Editor, ‘Tricky’ Nick Robinson, said the deal would be scrutinised.

he he he ha ha ha.........caught out yet again Giddeon.

You have to laugh when you look back and wonder how they chose their leaders such as Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, Gordon Brown and now Ed Miliband. All it wants now is for Ed to call someone a bigot. He has 6 months to make a few more gaffs.

Reality is what you make it.

Cartoons often get to the heart of the matter!

Not sure which are the most interesting dreams, nightmares, or cartoons?

But sometimes wonder if the old boys and sniffing in the club again!

8-)

MPs call Duncan Smith’s Work programme a ‘scandal’ (#ids #welfare #bedroomtax #uk #politics)
NOVEMBER 6, 2014 BY ORDER OF TRUTH

The way private companies have been running the Work Programme under contractual conditions imposed by Iain Duncan Smith and his Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has been called a ‘scandal’ by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

Despite ‘promises’ to focus in hard-to-help claimants, less than half of the financial resources companies originally pledged to help claimants with disabilities and mental health problems have been spent.

The companies have been concentrating on finding jobs for people considered easier to help in to employment, and have ‘parked’ people with more complex needs who have been placed in the ‘work related activity group’ of the Work Programme by the DWP.

Margaret Hodge, the PAC’s chairman, said: “Evidence shows differential payments have not stopped contractors from focusing on easier-to-help individuals and parking harder-to-help claimants, often those with a range of disabilities including mental health challenges.

“Data from Work Programme providers shows that they are, on average, spending less than half what they originally promised on these harder to help groups.

“It is a scandal that some of those in greatest need of support are not getting the help they need to get them back to work and are instead being parked by providers because their case is deemed just too hard.

“The Department must do more to encourage providers to work with harder-to-help groups.

Mrs Hodge also warned that the DWP’s sanctions regime could cause “significant financial hardship” to individuals.

“Feedback from some constituents suggests the number of sanctions has been increasing, and some providers have been recommending sanctions more than others,” she said.

Many of the work programme providers are subsidiaries of large, government ‘preferred partners’ such as Serco.

The £5 BILLION scheme has been criticised and been described as ‘worse than doing nothing’.

In half the areas where the scheme is being run, people would have been more likely to get a job if they hadn’t taken part in the programme.

Other figures showed that just one in 20 people on sickness benefit who were on the programme found work. The target was one in six.

The government has been accused of “spin” after claiming that there had been a “profound” improvement since the scheme was launched in July 2011.

The facts are that the Work Programme has cost the taxpayer far more than if the scheme had not been implemented, primarily because of the lucrative contracts given to private companies, and the government has used the programme to manipulate unemployment figures.

The number of people who have found employment is no higher than would be expected without the scheme, and there have been no savings in welfare payments. In fact, costs have sky-rocketed directly because of the incompetence of Iain Duncan Smith and his ‘reforms’.

Class War 2014: The Rich Kids of Snapchat
Posted by David Hencke 5/11/2014



If ever David Cameron’s claim that we are all in it together needed to be proved false, look at a site on Facebook called the Rich Kids of Snapchat.

Set up by a 17 year old British public schoolboy and liked by 244,000 people this site celebrates the life style of the super rich public schoolboys – the new generation expecting to run Britain in a decade or so.

Far from having any concern for the rest of us, this ” fun ” site worships money, fast cars, Gucci, luxury yachts and private jets,champagne and has an unhealthy interest in guns.

It is virtually the calling card of the new ” Bullingdon Club ” and the kids know they are the new ” boss class ” – the future generation of Tory Cabinet ministers, entrepreneurs and flashy businessmen and bankers. And some will have the vote in next year’s election,

Among the fun pictures are kids using £50 notes as toilet paper, £20 notes for tablecloths, handling guns to protect their estates from the ” peasants”, and commuting from home to public school by private helicopters or showing they have a £10m private bank account at Coutts.

Not surprisingly this has produced a reaction across the net with people calling for the site to be taken down, and a spate of hostile comments – sometimes producing ripostes like warning people to shut up as they will be their boss in future life.

More seriously as the Inforrm blog reveals these antics have posed problems for the more mature seriously rich parents who wish to hide their opulent life styles from the rest of us and pretend “we are all in it together”.

As the Inforrm blog says : ” The consequences could be very serious for those wealthy teens, and their families, where potentially inflammatory images appear which include identifying information such as faces, car registrations and locations.

One 19 year old, who frequently posted about his lavish lifestyle and who was featured on Tumblr site “Rich Kids on Instagram”, has already run into trouble, having had several luxury cars from his father’s rental business subsequently set alight by vandals, causing over £500,000 worth of damage to his father’s business.

Another featured ‘rich kid’ was Alexa Dell, daughter of Dell Inc. CEO Michael Dell, who posted an image of her brother tucking into a feast onboard a private jet, bound for Fiji. She also used her Twitter account to regularly post details of her location, complete with GPS location tagging- somewhat undermining the annual US$2.7 million her father reportedly spends on family security. Upon discovering this, Alexa’s account was removed and her image has been taken down.”

The blog rightly points out that in an era of unemployment and poverty where ceo’s have made people redundant this can be inflammatory.

It rightly adds:” a teen bragging about the lavish lifestyle of his or her CEO parent who has recently made redundancies or been the recipient of a sizeable bonus can easily catch the eye of a journalist on the hunt for a story – as can any images posted by a naive child who has a parent in the public eye. “

But to me the whole site seems symptomatic of a yawning divide opening up in the UK and the last thing I would want to see is it taken down. Such antics provide the perfect foil to attack the wealthy Lynton Crosby and the image he wants the Tories to present to the electorate of the ruling class in the next election. Spoilt brats revealing themselves for what they really are!

Meanwhile in true entrepreneurial fashion the site is up for sale by its 17 year old owner. He has been offered $150,000 by an American but might let it go for a mere $40,000 to a Brit with spare cash from his pocket money.

The man running the Tory Party and its scandals.

cynic have never said you are not clever and you saw the con has well
it just shows how low this gov will go along with the eu scum

Perhaps Haze should refer to the contributions leading tory lights Arthur Neville Chamberlain Earl of Halifax made to the nation.

But GF. it is sensible to look at the Posh Boys and who will climb out the pile the quickest.

Haze will be trampled over.

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But where is Boris?

What is he up to?

And with whom is he doing it with?

Watch your back Dave!

BacK to the surcharge heres the real truth.......

wanda williams ‏@wandawilliams 24 minutes ago Coimbra

@MidWalesMike hes conned us to believe we will only pay half in fACT WE WILL LOSE NEXT YEARS REBATE SO TOTAL STILL 1.7 BILLION NO Q& A ALLOWED

Ohhhhh dear this is going to really back fire on the Tories now.

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS TANKER????????????????????????????????

Do you think it time to set up in the UK, a Court for the Trial of Political Crimes.

So that members of the government can be tried, subsequent to losing power, can be tried for the crimes they committed when in office.

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Can I be the executioner?


8-)

no gf I will open the trap door you can put the rope on

I think I would like to be at Farage's PM, just to see the size of hie liver in relationship to his brain.