benthebuilder
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Yep not a scam.
I have my first modern apprentice starting on Monday next week. This person will be funded all the way through university, they will eventually be qualified in their relevant profession without any of the debt most of their counterparts will have.
I am afraid the OP does not understand what is involved with the modern apprenticeships and the advantages they offer and would rather concetrate on the headline salary I guess to make some kind of polictical point.
He does keep posting these ads and shouting "outrageous" despite claiming to be worth and earn "considerably" more than 50k a year and not work in IT. Like I said on yesterdays thread, he has an agenda but I've no idea what it is.
Maybe Boom Boom is Gordon Brown trying to kick start wage inflation from the grass roots level?
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This has been done to death on here.
Is Boom Boom ever going to start a thread that doesn't involve posting jobcentreplus adverts and moaning about the rates of pay on offer in the IT sector?
He says he does this to highlight the shocking wage deflation taking place, even though he claims to not work in IT and earns more than £50k a year himself?
He has an agenda but fook knows what it is.
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I openly admit I dont know how significant an impact it can have on reducing the NHS bill, I'm guessing 50% and only suggesting a correlation of 70-90% based on the research I have amassed but without knowing the breakdown of NHS spending costs its anyones guess.
But until we try in the absence of any other credible cost reductions which dont impact services I think its worth a try.
Also consider this, is it cheaper to lay off Civil servants to do nothing on benefits in this current climate knowing services many of which are essential to society by virtue of them being civil servants?
Will it just be civil servants put out of work by this miracle discovery though?
Imagine the job losses at big pharma companies, cleaning contractors, maintenance companies to name a few.
Still...at least we could bulldoze loads of hospitals and build lots of apartments on the sites. That would perpetuate the recovereh.
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I've been looking into the benefits of vitamin D3. I'm so convinced of the benefits that Im now going to write to Johnston and Darling and the Tory & Lib Dem equivalents and let them fight over it.
The idea goes that if 70-90% of society is deficit in vitamin D3 then I'm expecting by getting those D3 levels up that could reduce number of people who are sick (not just long term unemployed but normal people who still try to lead a normal life).
The £100bn nhs bill could just be reduce by say 50% maybe even as high as 70-90% if its a direct correlation to the deficit levels in D3 we just dont know.
But another knock on is the long term sick like depression and other illnesses who are caught in a catch 22 of being house bound thus not able to get in the sun getting some D3 and return to normal interaction in society by virtue of working and interacting with people, could also see the benefits bill be reduced. By how much I dont know.
Not one cutback to service, but could pay off the £118bn bank bailout in 2.5 years on just a £50bn nhs bill saving.
None of the parties have a clue where to make savings they are all too close to the problem and need to take a long hard look at how society has changed and operates but this might just be it.
If it can also reduce the mental illness thats on the rise and reduce troublesome behaviour in kids we might also see cost reductions in policing as well. So lots of potential gains and nothing to lose except the cost of a D3 test and getting people on D3 maybe even adding D3 to fortified foods.
Watch this space will be interesting to see what the parties have to say once I present them with the data I'm amassing especially as I have found a link on a US govt website that states
"Evidence from clinical trials shows, with a wide margin of confidence, that a prolonged intake of 10,000 IU/d of vitamin D(3) poses no risk of adverse effects for adults, even if this is added to a rather high physiologic background level of vitamin D."
high physiologic background level = read as being in the sun sunbathing.
We have nothing to lose everything to gain imo and if its proves right we all win as a society!
Vitamin D3 may have some health benefits....but that it could reduce NHS expenditure by up to 90% is a ludicrous claim. I doubt very much indeed that D3 deficiency is going to be a major election issue fought over by the main political parties.
Good luck with your cause anyway.
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That`s very neighbourly of you.She's hot....a munter could bury her own fookin cadaver
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She should just kill him, she will be better off in the long run.
If she fancies doing that she should hurry up..drop him under the 10 tons of topsoil arriving for my vegetable patch.
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This guy sounds like a total nutjob, I`d stay away from him the next couple of years in case he goes postal.
Think he's on a one man crusade to show mummy and daddy that he's "made it".
His missus doesn't want to move as we have stunning open views and farmland at the back of our houses and she's worried about ramping up a big mortgage again. Unfortunately for her, she can't talk him round.
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Surely the accountant is seeing bad stuff re his/her clients? The accountants here on HPC, and former ones, still regularly post about how dire things are.
Yeah.....told me in the same conversation that his place had laid x number of people off. But they were just sh1tmunchers...not a partner like him. Told him in the past that I visit this website....rolled his eyes and said "oh...you're one of those people".
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I said a couple of weeks ago that it was all starting to look like 2007 again. Peak prices, people saying prices will go up for ever etc.
It's all doom and gloom at the moment though.
My gut instinct says things are about to plummet. No one in their right mind should be buying a house before the election now.
My neighbour (accountant) has just bought at £400k moving from £170k mortgage free house and my bezzie mate (copper) has just exchanged contracts on £200k house that last sold in 2007 for £180k? I asked if it had been renovated/extended, and he said no, there's loads of work for me to do on it.
Asked both of them if it maybe worth waiting to see what happens this year regarding the economy, the election and house prices and both said the same thing....the recession is over....property going up again, don't want to miss the boat etc etc.
I admire (but do not share) their optimism.
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Fiat!
Geddit?
Selling gold to fix my fiat (currency) and to go on holiday around election time.
Maybe I am Gordon Brown?
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too many zeros in there chap, 100g would buy you a new fiat, lol
Leaving some extra for flying off somewhere warm arounf election time!
Worst van ever!!! Only bought it as a cheap runaround as work got tight and it's been a nightmare. New clutch, battery, starter, filter head, calipers and flexi's, cam sensor and now high pressure fuel pump.
Though to be honest I don't think anybody makes a good van anymore.
Fraud Transits used to be bombproof but the latest are no better than the rest.
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Sold 100grams today.
Excellent service from Manchester Gold Company.
Paid 93% of current spot price in cash and came to the house for it.
Was gonna hold on to it but need a new fuel pump for the van...bleeding Fiats eh.
Fiat.....Fix It Again Time is about right.
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The whole european cafe culture thing irritates me most.
1. we dont have the weather for it
2. Cafe owners seem hellbent on creating dining areas on the pavement regardless of how narrow it is forcing pedestrians out onto the road.
So yes, i'll be glad to see them gone.
Save the outside dining for the med, its absurd in windswept Britain.
Always makes me pi55 myself to see the beautiful people in Alderley Edge, lunching along the A34 whilst 8 wheelers belch diesel fumes all over them.
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Actually, getting rid of it is easy. Your LA is obliged to accept it. It's finding someone to take it to them that's the problem.
tim
I'm a builder. Anything beyond chucking it in the skip is a pain in the ar5e.
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Well then how about yield in relation to risk?
Maybe...but surely there would be plenty of savvy Americans hoovering up these bargains right now if the time was right?
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How about they are so cheap because it is a buying opportunity, not because of the asbestos.
Not sure it's cheap because it is a buying opportunity.
Surely something would be a buying opportunity because it is cheap?
And nobody said it was cheap because it was made of asbestos.
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"Hand crafted in finest asbestos.'
Apparently that one was made in 1939.
Did they make them out of asbestos then?
Says so in the specs.
Only the exterior though.
Was truly the wonder material of its day.
Fooker to get rid of now...unless you know a farmer with a big hole to fill
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How about 3 bedrooms in Manchester New Hampshire for a packet of crisps and a couple of krugerrand,
Hand crafted in finest asbestos.
Cheap though.
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"I was nicely in profit."
The epitaph of how many private investors?
And Lehman Brothers.
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Estate agents also laid off loads of staff so doubling up on viewings is probably essential at busy times such as weekends.
Of course they won't spin it that way. Much better to give the appearance of being pulled out.
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I have previously written on HPC about the increase in Government Advertising. Last time I was suspicious it was being used to prop up the advertising sector, this time however I am sure that its being used to prop up the Government, aka the Labour Party prior to an election.
Just thinking about the currently list of Government Ads on commerical radio, I have the following and please add to my list:
1) Questions about child maintenance
2) Tax Credits
3) DVLA don't forget to tax your car.
4) TV licesning
5) Clamydia
6) Loft insulation
7) Carbon Trust
8) Binge drinking
9) Swine flu jabs
10) Direct Gov
11) Self assessment
12) Maths skills....back to school
There was a report in the Telegraph about 6 months ago, but I expect these figures are now out of date and the level of adverts has increased.
Frankly all these Government adverts make me want to vomit. I feel a huge sense of anger every time the Government informs it captive voters that they can claim this or claim that or remind me to pay my tax.
I'd slash benefits to zero for all but the overs 70s and the most incapactated, at least they'd then have an incentive to work.
...or burgle your house.
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Graduate wages have been terrible for the last decade or so, in fact Britain has become ever more a low wage economy. The average worker has not benefited in the good times, but will now suffer most in the bad times.
From what I've read/heard, graduate numbers have geen rising and standards have been falling for a while now. Maybe wages are reflective of this?
The gap between rich and poor is ever widening. Perversely so more under New Labour. But that's not really news either.
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Someone who complains about peoples sense of entitlement of certain wages has usually at some point had to pay them. So you accept decreasing wages are a problem and yet you seem to think adverts for degree level posts at £8/hr (part time too) are not worthy of scorn?
Plenty of graduates are unemployed or working minimum wage. There are loads of them about.
Can you not accept that wages usually reflect the health of the overall economy?
It is an advertisement for a vacancy...if it doesn't get filled the advertiser will think again before offering such a "derisory" sum.
The moaning about wages is usually done by those who've never had to find wages for other people when they've not been paid themselves.
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I'm worth and earn considerably more than 50k a year, and I don't work in IT. I post things about the job market because I see wage decline as a massive problem, and one that is only going to get worse. I can't help but get the impression from your attitude that you are an employer yourself, would that be accurate?
Read the question.....
I didn't ask what you were worth....I asked what you thought those jobs were worth.
Wholeheartedly agree that wage deflation is a massive problem in this country. It is one that I am painfully aware of. You think construction is rosy at the moment? It is a shrinking economy, (despite GDP figures) wages (or at least payrolls) have to shrink too.
Have been an employer of many before but don't see why you draw that conclusion from my attitiude.
Apprenticeship Scandal
in House prices and the economy
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These are offers of employment....if people think they are taking the pi55 there will be no applicants.
Simple.
Not saying it is right. Just the future of employment in this country.
Some bricklayers now working for £70 a day. Same lads were earning £300-400 a day 2-3 years ago.
I just wonder why Boom Boom always posts IT ads when he claims to not work in that industry and his concern is about UK wage deflation in general.