A rambling blog covering, gardening, computing, employment and anything else thats currently in my realm of having issues with :-)
Saturday, 26 July 2014
Unbelievable spin from Esther McVey in Daily Telegraph interview....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10991122/Esther-McVey-Benefits-I-have-always-said-there-but-for-thegrace-of-Godgo-I.html
And she's been in the job a year too - even say that IDS is compassionate!
Monday, 2 June 2014
Now the coalition does not send back students!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/479417/Foreign-students-stay-on-in-UK
The coalition - truly awful!
Thursday, 29 May 2014
Universal Credit gets reset - the only project out there that has!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10861087/Government-claims-digital-success-with-Universal-Credit.html?placement=CB2
It deserves to be reset, it is truly lousy!
It won't even tailor results via email to my local area - useful! Not!
Mandatory Work Activity - going down!
http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/mandatory-work-activity-is-wobbling-keep-kicking-till-it-breaks/
Just because we are unemployed, why should we do it for free??
Monday, 19 May 2014
Government sanctions up 334% - ESA
http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/2767-new-dwp-statistics-show-a-334-increase-in-esa-sanctions
Not getting better, getting worse Mr Cameron!
January to November 2011 - 10,600 disabled people died!
http://jaynelinney.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/the-scandal-of-dwp-silence/
Just proves how much we hate the coalition!
Friday, 16 May 2014
Petition to stop ministers spining statistics at the DWP!
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/house-of-commons-stop-ministers-spinning-statistics-accept-the-recommendations-of-select-committees-stop-ministers-spinning-dwp-statistics#share
It is essential that this is stopped immediately!
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Benefit fraud - same now as it was in 2006!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ministers-urged-to-publish-more-accurate-figures-on-benefit-fraud-that-show-it-is-07-of-claims-9372335.html
Yet somehow we're all skivers etc.
About time the coalition got their facts straight!
Sunday, 11 May 2014
One in five people fail trial periods with firms...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/475098/One-in-five-British-people-fail-trial-periods-at-work-due-to-poor-performance
Hardly surprising with the way the recruitment agencies and job websites treat the candidates!
Yet still the coalition will not change the rules on recruitment agencies and job websites!
Saturday, 10 May 2014
Universal Credit boss is on the sick since xmas & CIO is also working his notice!
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2014/04/is-dwp-looking-for-yet-another.html
6th boss of universal credit in 2 years!
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240215747/Andy-Nelson-quits-as-DWP-CIO
Must be great working for the DWP - i think not!
Friday, 9 May 2014
£157,000 golden handshake for unelected EU MPs!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/472835/European-Union-EU-MEPs-leaving-Brussels-to-receive-golden-goodbyes-of-up-to-157-000
Nice work if you can get it!
Thursday, 8 May 2014
MPs - even claiming 10k for their children now!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/10161087/MPs-use-children-to-claim-more-expenses.html
MPs in the UK are still scrounging and fleecing the taxpayer!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10431738/Brian-Binley-MP-We-have-to-be-careful-politicians-scrounge-all-the-time.html
Monday, 5 May 2014
Even the immigrants at a UK detention centre are going on hunger strike!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/asylum-detainees-stage-hunger-strike-over-poor-treatment-9322812.html
We want immigration into the uk stopped!
Sunday, 4 May 2014
Even worse in America for unemployment!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/10805350/Shocking-US-jobs-data-impugns-recovery-Fed-tapering.html
Looks like Obama is in trouble again!
David Cameron thanks the bosses for a recovery that hasn't happened!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businesslatestnews/10805990/David-Cameron-thanks-bosses-for-reviving-economy.html
Unbelievable!
Saturday, 3 May 2014
The EU! Now they want to tax our pensions!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/473323/EU-tax-raid-on-pensions-Value-of-your-retirement-pot-will-be-slashed
So out of touch!
Amazingly this kenyan fraudster has not been sent back by the Home Office - why do we pay the Home Office?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/473379/Kenyan-fraudster-committed-26-000-benefits-scam-despite-NOT-having-permission-to-be-in-UK
Cameron amazingly has the cheek to say others are all talk and no delivery! Thats you Cameron!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/473558/Renewing-his-EU-referendum-pledge-David-Cameron-will-do-whatever-it-takes
Is there any way he can get to be more hopeless!
Friday, 2 May 2014
Shows how out of touch the Labour Party is with public feeling!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/473192/WATCH-Paxman-steps-in-as-row-between-Ukip-chief-and-ex-Labour-minister-gets-personal
An incredible display from Labour - they really just don't get it at all!
Sunday, 27 April 2014
Now uk workers are leaving as there is absolutely no work here for them!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/472498/British-jobseeker-forced-to-go-to-China-after-he-was-turned-down-3-000-times
How did the coalition allow it to get like this?
How did vince cable make the recruitment process so bad and get away with it?
Friday, 25 April 2014
Why is David Cameron sticking to the EU line when he doesn't have to?
See transcript from the EU website
They can be contacted here:
citizen_reply@edcc.ec.europa.eu
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From: "Europe Direct"
To:
Cc:
Subject: [Case_ID: 0779865 / 3897383] Unemployment in the UK
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:39:28 +0100
Dear Simon,
Thank you for your message.
Please note that Member States are not obliged to follow the Employment Package. The Member State’s policies and reforms are monitored under the European Semester.
We have provided you with all the information available on this matter. In line with the code of good administrative behaviour we will now cease correspondence with you on this issue.
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We would like to ask you 4 questions about the enquiry that Europe Direct has just answered. The whole survey will take only 3 minutes of your time.
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Date: Thursday, 10/04/2014 17:16:00
From: Simon
Subject: [Case_ID: 779865 / 3897383] Unemployment in the UK
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Good afternoon,
Well done for stating the obvious - in that the neither
the Employment package or the EU create actual
jobs. We can see that every day we live here!!
If that is the case, and pretty much everyone I know
in this borough is crying out for work, or
has work but is working much longer hours
for less pay, or reduced hours on minimum wage -
what is the point of being in the EU if you
are just advisor's on employment to member governments?
From where I sit here in Bedfordshire, UK
the job growth rate is abysmal.
It is is either part-time or minimum wage.
What has the EU employment
package done to create full time
permanent work? Nothing
from what I can see here!!
The government we have obviously is
not implementing the employment
package correctly or is not doing it at all?
Which is it?
And what happens when this occurs?
Do they get fined or do their people
live in poverty forever whilst they
work out how to implement your directives?
Are you monitoring what individual
countries are doing?
In Britain we have not created jobs
despite what our government states,
I can assure you!
Kind regards
Simon
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:15:46 +0100, Europe Direct wrote:
> Dear Simon, Thank you for your message. Please find below the answer
> provided by the relevant within the Directorate-General for Employment,
> Social Affairs and Inclusion: “The point is that the Employment package
> of
> course does not create jobs by itself, nor does the European Union (EU).
> The
> package recommends what Member States could do (or would be wise to do)
> in
> order to create jobs, i.e. it sets the conditions for job growth. How to
> implement the package and what policies exactly to pursue is a matter for
> the Member States, as it depends on the economic and labour market
> situation
> in that particular Member State." We hope you find this information
> useful.
> Please contact us again if you have other questions. With kind
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>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Date: Sunday, 06/04/2014 12:20:03
> From: Simon
> Subject: [Case_ID: 779865 / 5897333] Unemployment in the UK
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Good morning, Where is this 'more competitive economy with higher
> employment'? If one job applicant is up against 135 other applicants for
> one
> vacancy how is it your policies are still valid? Nine months on from my
> original email the situation is actually DIRE!!! The Employment package
> heralded in 2012 is not creating jobs - it is NOT working here! Or have
> we
> got to wait nearly six years for these policies to actually work? I put
> it
> to you that the EU has next to no understanding of what the residents it
> purports to be representing are going through! What a farce the EU is!
> Kind
> regards Simon
HMRC want to sell of our tax details....
I kid you not, its here in black and white....
http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/2014/04/24/your-tax-record-for-sale/
Friday, 18 April 2014
2014 - worst year yet for unemployment in UK!
The worst year yet for unemployment.
Every time i apply for a job i am behind 134 other people for the role as a minimum.
Local jobcentreplus has closed down, now at Luton - even if i went all they would do would be to sanction me.
http://www.dunstabletoday.co.uk/news/local-news/closure-of-job-centre-will-not-mean-job-losses-1-3850129
They have closed down 631 jobcentreplus sites now in the worst depression ever!
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmpubacc/1034/6032910.htm
Last time i went they double booked me for a training course at seetec and a careers advice session at houghton regis for the same day!
Talking to jobcentreplus is like talking to a brick wall, your supposed to magic up a job when the coalition just doesn't seem to be able to create any! Despite the fact that they say they are!
http://alittleecon.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/michael-meachers-speech-on-benefit-sanctions/
Is Iain Duncan Smith the most despised man in britain, he is in this household.
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=867FAB2C68E9AD9D!192&app=PowerPoint
The BBC do not report any of the issues!
And don't seem bothered that they aren't!
https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/?reset=#anchor
Even the tuc is saying there are up to 6 million unemployed!
https://fullfact.org/blog/true_unemployment_measure_TUC-3314
Meanwhile we have thousands of migrant workers coming
in for IT jobs, meaning that the residents get beaten
to the roles:
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240206159/Labour-would-force-offshore-suppliers-to-create-thousands-of-apprentice-schemes
The Labour Party's answer is to put us residents on a apprenticeship and let them keep coming in!
Meanwhile the EU is showing all of Britain jobs
to the whole of the EU via their own website:
http://www.government-world.com/eures-site-means-uk-jobseekers-face-competition-from-500-million-europeans/
Is it not true that the resident british white people are being
ethnically cleansed by the three main political parties in the UK?
Labour, Conservatives and Liberals all want us to stay in the EU!
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/5648-ethnically-cleansing-the-english-02
I reckon jobcentreplus is so broke it is now beyond repair
under Iain Duncan Smith:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24829866
I hope you find the above useful.
Simon
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