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.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3022239/Miliband-vows-abolish-zero-hours-forgets-Labour-use-them.html

A bit like a party for slashers and U-benders.

what a bunch of total buffoons lead the political parties .... they'ld all be better employed at a circus as clowns throwing custard pies

i can't remember what the recent avoidable tory blunders were, though assuredly there were some

however, labour are just as incompetent ....

the high profile actor featuring heavily in their broadcast was known as a hard left trotskyite and won't vote labour, while his partner (not hugely relevant) was bankrupted for non-payment of her tax bill

we now have this nonsense about zero hour contracts which beggars belief
even disregarding labour MPs use of these, how on earth can a company just magic up permanent positions for someone who happens to have worked x-number of hours for them for 12 weeks?

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thank goodness i'm out for dinner tonight so i shall not even be tempted to watch the "bunga-bunga 7" at play

it is also an amusing coincidence that the the public are fleeing in greatest ever numbers today - just for the eater break of course; why else?

:-)

Fred , if that is true what you wrote in post 58241 then cynic's reply makes sense ,so why not answer him ?????????

jimmy - i wasn't having a dig at fred per se, but merely suggesting that his recollection of all the facts might not be quite accurate ..... a bit like most politicians really :-)

I didn't think you were but what you said was correct ,what's the difference ??

JB,

The sale of the houses were over 55 years ago.

The tenants not only paid rent for the grand parents "pensions" but also help them when they were infirm and also when my parents were "father less" in in their childhoods.

The majority of fathers and mothers families became "high" earning professionals, but my father and mother had severe illness and were for periods in their adolescence and later and were supported during those periods by their later tenants.

They had what I think of a Christian morality and in general applied it.

I was summarising.


Manuel's suggestions did not apply.

Satisfied.

Sums it up nicely!

Very nice of them to do that ....Satisfied about what ??

If a zero hours employee becomes eligible for permanent employment after 12 weeks, the employer will dispense with them after 11 weeks and use another person starting at 1 week and so on. The net result will be people losing their zero hours job.

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 1st April -

Con 36%, Lab 34%, LD 8%, UKIP 13%, GRN 4%;

Reality dawning?

FRED - so it's a good christian move to allow "your" long term tenants to buy their house(s) on the cheap, but not for council tenants?
curious logic

cynic Send an email to cynic View cynic's profile - 02 Apr 2015 10:47 - 58263 of 58265

FRED - so it's a good christian move to allow "your" long term tenants to buy their house(s) on the cheap, but not for council tenants?
curious logic
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Your bang on cynic ,however Fred will come up with something .It's hypocrisy ..

Makes him a perfect match with Labour.
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Cynic and Manuel,

"FRED - so it's a good christian move to allow "your" long term tenants to buy their house(s) on the cheap, but not for council tenants?
curious logic"


Stop being stupider than usual.


There is a difference.

Never had an objection of selling tenants of council houses buying the properties they are in a market value, as long as it is not to be sold immediately again for personal profit. No reason for it not being sold back to the council at market value.

But the money gained" from sale of "social housing" should be utilised by the council to build the necessary replacement of "decent" housing at affordable rents for in society who do not have income or "financial ability" to purchase for themselves, or income to rent in the materialistic market.

Even MacMillan had sufficient intelligence and sensitivity to understand and enact policies to attempt this. His attempts led to the destruction of many slums.

It is the responsibility of the individual to return some of what they benefit from society back to it, rather fattening themselves up at the expense of with their snouts and bellies getting bigger and bigger.

As far as individual "wealth" is concerned then as long as it responsibly and "legally" obtained, then it is the right of the individual to be disposed of as that individual wishes to. Again as it is legally done, but personally I think there is a need to examined the development of hereditary dynasties built on the handed down of "unreasonable and often tax avoided" hand downs.

I think the is your own, and based on your own immediate self gratification, perhaps justification yourself on what you possess and boast of to others.

Trinkets of your existence, a bigger house, a bigger house, a bigger ring on the finger the latest "toy" etc..

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As far as "Christian" values are concerned I have been an atheist since early childhood, but I respect many of the values and probable intentions of much of the "philosophy" and believe in general the practices have benefited society in the UK.