Potwalloper
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Public sector staff cuts seem to be of the same type as the Greek Bailout.
Is this denile delta?
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Maybe you should improve your life
I've heard that brushing up on literacy skills can be rewarding....
There are plenty of books on your subject.
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Probably insulated from those kinds of insults.
Good because you're in for a rafter them. Oh joist!
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Can we both despise the 'chavs' and at the same time demand that they embody all the values of hard work and sacrifice that the idea of a work ethic entails?
I don't see why not. All we have to do is stop feeding them quite so many chips.
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Yep - the ultra thin, unbreakable, bendy LCD's that are about to be put in all mobile phones, TV's and eventually huge advertising displays etc was invented by the Blitish!
Why do we not have World beating Industries being set up to provide the finished product in this country?
Because working in world beating industry is so non you. Learn to make films, become an Estate Agent or an Interior Designer. Whatever you do, if you are naff enough to work in industry for goodness sake call yourself an inventor.
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my facetiousness is aimed at those who are wishing economic gloom and hihg unemployment on everyone so their pile of cash goes a bit further because they are not prepared to pay current market rates for something.
Or in other words, with trembling lower lip, "Why could it not carry on? Bring back Liz Jones. Hooray Phil Spencer! Stupid is good...."
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You're so right. I've just resigned, and start work with Goldman Sachs next week doing something useful.
You do not exhibit the lateral thinking required from a good researcher.
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http://www.flexible-...wage-dissolved/
Employers will be rubbing their hands together with glee I imagine.
Are you a web bot?
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you lot have let blair get off very lightly..i do wonder why? This is what you get when you let loose a bunch of right wing idiots...watch...
What? Incoherent babble?
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Well, they lost the election three months ago. It'll be you guys that will have to defend the indefensible now.
You guys? How dissimissive!
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Tell her that the stagnant puddle of the public sector you find yourself in is about to dry out. That should do it.
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Wonderpulp, Hilltop and AZ must be on a Fabian Society nght out....
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I get the impression that some people on here don't believe workers should have any rights at all, & should just be grateful they have a job ?.
Yes, you can cut jobs, but there is/will be a resulting cut in the level of services provided as a result.
Or is it that you don't like what people here say, and you think "workers' rights" sounds nice, so you thought you'd say it.
Can we afford the current level of state spending?
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I have to comment on this myth of non jobs and massive over staffing. All these folk who will not be missed when they are no longer doing whatever it is they do now. This idea that we can slash loads of jobs and this will somehow improve the economic outlook.
When I started work in the late 70's I was with British Airways. In the run up to privatisation it was deemed that BA needed to slim down.
Over an 18 month period the workforce was reduced from 42,000 to 24,000. That's a massive drop by any standards. Did they really have that many surplus staff?
About 15 years later I read that BA needed to cut 10% of their workforce. 5000 staff were to go. It turned out they had nearly 55,000 employees.
Either they went through a period of massive growth or they should never have got rid of the first lot.
BA had also farmed out catering, ground support engineering and many other tasks leading up to privatisation so this new figure of 55,000 was for a company doing far less of the business of running an airline than before.
Cuts will be made but to think that these jobs are not needed is wrong. The cuts are an accounting exercises and nothing more. That's all they ever were at BA and nothings changed.
Oh, and they also attacked the airways pension scheme back then so nothing new there either.
I get it. Because BA shrank, became an efficient and therefore a growing and successful airline for a long period of time, you assert that we need all the trappings of the nanny state that we have built up. All you're really saying is that you are sympathetic to the idea of an all encompassing and all expensive state. I admit I absolutely loathe and hate it, so I have no problem in coming up with a counter argument: we can't afford it.
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Honest about what ? You may not agree with the analogy but it's not misleading.
Taxing someone more for something they own but don't use seems perverse.
It is misleading, because you are pretending that houses are not a government controlled resource. They are - look at planning laws.
If the government restricts the supply of houses as it does, it is liable for a lot more control work to make things function, including taxing empty ones heavily.
You are either simple or disingenuous.
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Incorrect,
I don`t use it as much as I used to.
I like to know that it`s going to be there if I need it and I`m willing to pay to keep it open for when I do and for the people ( like my 5 year old self ) who can`t afford their own books.
Although I appreciate that may be difficult for you to comprehend
No, no, I understood. I really did.
There is no 5 year old version of what you are any more. There is not the need that there used to be. At all. That's why you don't go, and why libraries have ceased to be a place where you or anybody else experiences reading, and instead have morphed into another outpost of our newspeaking, risk avoiding, brightly coloured, singsong voiced, numb brained society.
Still, you have a point. I could be wrong.
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But that is what between 50-60% of your total council tax gets spent on.
You make the point that the efficiency of this spending could be improved as if that is a minor point. That's yer problem. The waste is big. I mean BIG!
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I must admit I have an emotional attatchment to my local library.
I joined in 1965, aged 5, and basically sourced all my reading matter from there. Just the usual stuff. I remeber Bobby Brewster, Just william, Jennings etc.
What would I have done at 5 years old if there had been no library.
Granted I don`t use it much now, I sort of like Amazoon too, but I`m more than willing to chip in to keep it open for others. You never know I may want to use it again sometime and once you lose these things you never get them back.
In other words, you don't use it like everybody else, so it should close.
In my experience, libraries have turned into an all-inclusive brat fest. (readers excluded)
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They should have been in a union
It's always 'should' with you lot.
I'd rather take responsibility myself, thanks.
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I knew that this would come up as soon as I hit <return>
Presumably (and you can correct me here), there are contributions made by employers and employees which notionally accrue interest?
Otherwise, if it's all from current cash, in what way can interest rates affect anything?
Peter.
I think it's something to do with the yield on a capital sum having to provide the anuity. If you have low interest rates, you need a larger capital sum to provide the necessary annual pension payment.
Edited to add - it's true. The only pot is what the treasury smokes.
Ooh and another example provided this time by macca of obdurate refusal to face thruths. Instead, his lot talk about decency, fairness and they spit out the word 'Tory'. I'm not a Tory. I'm not anything political - but I can count.
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Nothing worse than a baby boomer. Except perhaps a baby boomer with an iPad?
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You're so full of sh*t It's almost frightening. This gov't will bring riots back to the streets of London, glad you're so happy.
So you are angry about the dependency culture being dismantled. You wanted to pay housing benefit to keep the unemployed in swimming pools?
Or are you just a child whose team isn't 'in'?
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There is always an army of tech zealots that scream, cry and moan about every new Apple or any other device for that matter on the web just for kicks as far as I can tell.
You're right there....
Some of them on here too.
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Sorry, I have just cut my nails. I couldn't unpick it...
Relax,we Are All Going To Die (Earlier Than Expected)
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I know! It amazes me that people grow geraniums when in another part of the world thousands wear rubber.