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.

Its not from VOX.

Its from Welfare News Service recognised by the DSS.......and IDS.

He might have it on his blog but Ive got it direct from above.

Anyway the company are right about the exploitation.

Remember this when the down turn comes Zero hours contracts wont exist anymore, all of them will be sacked immidieatly. In fact they wont be sacked, they just wont ever hear from their employer again.

2.5 million aded to the unemployment figures overnight.

I am surprised at how many people who don't bother to vote in any elections before are voting today for UKIP

gf
The same would happen in a downturn even if normal employment.

Bedroom Tax Was Never About Freeing Up Housing
20/05/2014

I knew it You knew it and the people faced with ‘Bedroom Tax’ knew it!!!!!!

The BEDROOM TAX was not about freeing up houses at all. It was simply about saving money!!!!
Never mind all those poor souls that have moved and now regret doing such!!

Please take time to watch, and listen very carefully to PMQs on Weds 14th May. (27mins 30secs in)

Cameron was asked by Jonathon Reynolds MP

“As the Prime Minister has acknowledged, the number of people who are in work but who have to claim housing benefit to make ends meet is growing, but the cost of that will be an extra £5 billion over the course of this Parliament. Does the Prime Minister consider that a sign of success?”

To which Cameron replied: “……. in order to make savings housing benefit should not be paid in respect of spare rooms that people are not using….” the key words there being IN ORDER TO MAKE SAVINGS.

For the last 18 months Cameron, McVey, IDS and co have been banging on about how their beloved ‘spare room subsidy’ will free up homes for Families. They insist on repeating that line.

I for one believe that no one should ever be put in a position of being made to leave their HOME. However, as I only said to my own MP last week, ” …….if the Bedroom Tax were about freeing up homes for families, then they would have included Pensioners…” to which I was met with silence. No answer!!

Keep talking Mr Cameron and slowly but surely you will drop right in to that big hole come General Election 2015.

We the People are watching, and listening. We are WAKING UP!!!

Good. The right reason.

Haystack - 22 May 2014 17:50 - 41165 of 41166

gf
The same would happen in a downturn even if normal employment....................ENDS

WRONG, employees had contracts with their employers before the Tories came to power. Contracts i might had that would have meant redundancy payments to most.

Zero Hours Contracts mean just that...........ZERO.

Hays you mean Camoron as put his foot in it again and now will face another committee.

How many more. !!!!!!

If the results are as poor as the papers are predicting, they'll be wanting everyone to vote again till they get the right result.

gf
Redundancy payments for staff who have worked for a short time is peanuts. I have paid it out several times. It is no deterrent to letting staff go. It is just a few hundred pounds. The point is that if you had staff that were important for your business then you would employ them on a permanent basis. Companies only employ staff on zero hours if they can be replaced easily.

Zero hours have been around long before this government. There has always been casual employment. It creates a flexible jobs market. When the economy improves enough these contracts will lessen as companies will be competing for staff and will want to keep them.

MaxK
Let us hope so.

.

Here's an interesting viewpoint, spot on the money...what think you Haystack?


6.18pm BST


Telegraph columnist Janet Daley has made four predictions of today's elections, local and European. You can read the full column here, but here's a precis of her thoughts – which she caveats as 'just a punt'.



1) Turnout will be much higher than usual for either European or local council elections. This has, in effect, become a referendum on the EU and so has caught the imagination of a greater proportion of the population than a normal (yawn) EU parliamentary election.

2) One paradoxical consequence of the above is that the Tories will do better in the local council elections than they might otherwise have done. This is because all those Right-of-centre voters who ordinarily support the Conservatives, but who this time are going to vote Ukip (to "make a point") will still vote Tory in the council contests.


3) There will not be as great an effect for Labour. In some London Labour boroughs, there may be an anti-Ukip Left-wing movement but it will be largely a middle-class phenomenon.

4) Because of the media assault on Ukip, the exit polls will be more accurate than usual. Fewer people will be reluctant to admit that they voted Ukip than might otherwise have been the case …



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2014/may/22/eu-and-local-elections-polling-day-live

Scientists Theorise Light/Matter Collider

MAY 22, 2014 SCOTT LEENO

Approximately 80 years ago, two researchers predicted there would be a method for turning light into matter in the future. Now, 80 years later, a new team of scientists are proposing a technique, which may make that theorised method actually happen.

This proposed method involves colliding two photons, the massless particles of light, which have extremely high energy, to convert them into two particles with mass. In past experiments, such as the Breit–Wheeler pair production, they had to introduce particles that had mass into the process. The research guys over at Imperial College London however, claim that it is now possible to create a collider, which only includes photons.

The photon-photon collider works by firing high-energy photons into a field of photons emitted as blackbody radiation. When these photons smash together, it is believed that a significant number of them will turn from light to matter, (an electron and a positron).

Is a replicator too far away?

Einstein said that with enough energy, massless particles could be transformed into matter. But in order to come up with all of that energy, most methods have used electrons to provide an enhancement.

This experiment works in a similar way, but the critical difference is that this collider maintains all of the electrons outside of the vacuum where the collision occurs; thereby matter is created inside an environment that is devoid of it.

To accomplish this, researchers intend firing electrons into a piece of gold. This would send high-energy photons into the direction of the radiation chamber. The electrons would go through the gold, but they would all be filtered out from the photons by using a magnetic field.

The London researchers haven’t said if they plan on production and then testing of the new collider. They did say it would be easy to produce with existing technologies. The Department of Physics Professor Steven Rosesays said, “What was so surprising to us was the discovery of how we can create matter directly from light using the technology that we have today in the UK. As we are theorists we are now talking to others who can use our ideas to undertake this landmark experiment.”

So although we are far from a ‘Star Trek’ replicator, things are moving in that direction. A paper that describes the researchers’ “photon–photon collider,” is being published in Nature Photonics.



SOURCE: http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/18/5724658/photon-collider-could-turn-light-into-matter

Which Browser is the best? Some Poll Results:

I think the results for the browser are false. The trouble with those types of polls is that the people who reply have some point in voting. There is a sort of anti-MS attitude among some people. Personally I still like IE, but would not bother voting at all.

Rubbish post above on Zero hour contracts . Shows Hays is way out of touch with the present labour market V the established labour market of the past.

He doesnt even mention Zero hours contract workers, well 99% of them dont have a link to a trades union. And to suggest its just hundreds of pounds pay off is silly.

It all depends how long you have worked for someone.

Its obvious he has run a BUCKET shop and not an established business employing a few hundred people like i have.

And under labour even Zero Contract employees HAD a contract and this was legaly enforcable, now under Camorons cronies we have gone back to victorian days with no rights whatsoever and no right to the legal minimum wage especially unskilled workers.

I tell you this, the WORKHOUSE is just around the corner and it wont be many years away if people vote for the Tories.

Hays I will be watching the local Election prog on BBC1 AT 11.30, feel free to join me and I will be making comments here as long as my battery doesnt go kaput.

I will thrash you.

In fact anyone can join us here.

Ive got my stela, popcorn and bombay mix ready.

Judging by the shite your spouting gf you have been on the Stella all day. Cheers!

lol :-)

Chris, just because you missed out on the Champions league.

Wheres your bitch manuel?.