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.

sorry fred, but your persistent one-way diatribes betray your colours, albeit that labour may not be sufficiently far left for your taste ......

in any case, your bluster does not preclude you from answering my question nor of course from explaining your clear contradictions, except of course you cannot bring yourself to do so

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your rhetoric and polemics may convince yourself, but they do not seem to have mustered any support from anyone else here

Labour MPs accused of hypocrisy over use of zero-hours contracts

Almost 70 sitting Labour MPs have been accused of using zero-hours contracts to pay their staff, according to reports



By Telegraph Reporter

10:46PM BST 01 Apr 2015





Nearly 70 Labour MPs have been accused of using controversial zero-hours contracts despite Ed Miliband's election pledge to severely limit their use.


Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, Lucy Powell, Labour’s elections chief and Karen Buck, Ed Miliband’s parliamentary aide are alleged to use the employment agreements.


The Sun has reported that 68 Labour MPs are affected - nearly a quarter of the Parliamentary party.





If you work regular hours for three months, Labour will give you a legal right to a regular contract, not a zero-hours contract.
— Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) April 1, 2015


Meanwhile Ed Miliband's flagship proposals to limit zero-hours contracts will threaten jobs and risk higher unemployment, influential business groups have warned.


The Labour leader on Wednesday announced plans to limit flexible contracts to 12 weeks, after which employees would have a right to a regular contract.

The CBI, Institute of Directors (IoD), Adam Smith Institute and manufacturers' organisation EEF all raised concerns about the proposals, warning that flexible contracts were popular with many workers and helped boost employment.

John Cridland, director-general of the CBI warned: "The UK’s flexible jobs market has given us an employment rate that is the envy of other countries, so proposals to limit flexible contracts to 12 weeks are wide of the mark.

"Of course action should be taken to tackle abuses, but demonising flexible contracts is playing with the jobs that many firms and many workers value and need.

"These proposals run the risk of a return to day-to-day hiring in parts of the economy, with lower stability for workers and fewer opportunities for people to break out of low pay."

Manuel.

You are blustering and remind me of Dodgy Dave. Blustering when either he cannot answer the question and squirming.

I am sorry you are too blinkered to understand what I have posted, but that is your problem.


Unlike you I don't pander for support.

But you will be all right Cameron needs fodder like you.
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Manuel.

You are blustering and remind me of Dodgy Dave. Blustering when either he cannot answer the question and squirming.

I am sorry you are too blinkered to understand what I have posted, but that is your problem.


Unlike you I don't pander for support.

But you will be all right Cameron needs fodder like you.
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Chris Carson post 58276
That is disgusting but it's Brent council so we could really go in to one here .
However we are now so stretched with the NHS and Schools full of immigrants that the old war vet who fought to save Britain should just be chucked on the heap while we pay for all our new arrivals ..

Where's TANKER when you need him , don't let TANKER get hold of that story eh Fred ?

JB.

Well, well, if you need emergency treatment at this weekend do take your postings with you and put them up on the walls in Casualty before you are seen.

Just watching the ITV political debate...

Well they are all arguing the toss and saying their way is best and the other party's ways are the worst.

How the hell anyone can choose, what party to vote for and which methods are best to manage the very many problems of Britain, beats me.

What a stupid way to run the country! There has to be better way to pick the decision makers than this.

Other thoughts....

1. Since Nigel Farage, as he spouts fact after fact after fact, is winning hands down, then let's put him in charge of any new government.

2. Will Nick Clegg ever get re-elected as an MP? Probably not.

3. Nicola Sturgeon is doing pretty well for her SNP and isn't coming over as being quite as frightening a threat to the Labour Party as she is made out to be.

4. We should geographically move Wales into the UK. Ha Ha. Then it might get a better deal.

5. We certainly need a lot of re-negotiation to change the way the EU is run. I wonder who would get the best deal for us? This TV debate isn't really answering this question for me.

My reflection is that Cameron came over as a bigger creep than I previously thought!

That was some performance by Nicola Sturgeon :0)

That was some performance by Nicola Sturgeon! :0)

I watched what looked like a game show at the Frontline Club (a club for journalists, political journalists, foreign correspondents and war zone journalists). It was interesting to see reactions from the journalists present. Miliband got laughed at a lot.

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DEBATE RESULTS
having happily watched none of it, the post match results indicate not a great deal between dc and em with dc perhaps edging it
clegg looks like a disaster
farage did himself no favours - which will no doubt please dc especially + em
sturgeon did well - which will further discomfort em and make dc chuckle
others didn't count

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fred failed dismally yet again, displaying his usual boring bullshit and left of mao mantra

DEBATE RESULTS
having happily watched none of it, the post match results indicate not a great deal between dc and em with dc perhaps edging it
clegg looks like a disaster
farage did himself no favours - which will no doubt please dc especially + em
sturgeon did well - which will further discomfort em and make dc chuckle
others didn't count

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fred failed dismally yet again displaying his usual bullshit embellished with his customary and meaningless left of mao nonsense, and not remotely answering any questions asked

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It was like 'the weakest link'. "Ed Miliband, you are the weakest link, goodbye".

Fred1new - 02 Apr 2015 22:02 - 58289 of 58298
My reflection is that Cameron came over as a bigger creep than I previously thought!


Get a new television/ get your eyes and ears tested and your brain as the cells are diminishing at an alarming rate/ concentrate/ own up to the truth.

The tory party came out very unscathed and the labour party well damaging.


To me you clearly vote labour as their never seems the daft drawings put up by you for them or the stupid comments made all the time.

Well that was the opinion of some.

Sturgeon came out as sensible and informed.

I can understand why she is the leader of the SNP and spokeswoman for Scotland and her party will be in an alliance with Labour and perhaps the remains of the Lib/Dems.

I also understand why there will be a SNP alliance in government at after May with Miliband as PM, and not a neo-fascist cons and ukip coalition with "flash in the pan" Dodgy Dave.

Bye the way, where did Shifty Dave leave is barrow.

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But what is apparent that the public want rid of Cameron.

A loose alignment of Sturgeon and Miliband anti-austerity moderate program will appeal to a majority of left of centre and moderate voters.

Cameron represents the past.

Happy easter Fred. The public to me seem happy with DC as shows in the polls. I think you are writing what you would like to see and not the truth.