Taxpayers’ Alliance Rebut Union Scaremongering Advert
UNISON, the public sector trade union, recently launched an online video which claimed that cutting public spending meant leaving people without 999 operators, bin men or nurses. In response the Taxpayers’ Alliance produced an edited version of their film which demonstrates the wide range of absurd non-jobs throughout the public sector which could be abolished without any impact at all on front line services. A good example of how it is hotting up in the iCampaign…
tax avoiders alliance
Tax Avoidance is good. Every Tesco two for one offer is tax avoidance. Every discounted product is tax avoidance.
Wheres that twat Georgie Porgie letting the side down now
fuck the public sector, fuck it good.
Fuck it with a big Tory cock.
We’re all condemning profanity together.
MAybe I should levy a jizya tax ??
same old sub daily mail far right wank from idiots
Why do you keep coming back for more ????
to laugh at them of course
You need to get a life after they release you from the strait jacket.
Good luck with the medication.
if only you knew how foolish and amusing a little squit you were
but you are an idiot so don’t have a clue,which makes it even funnier
good luck with being one of life’s twats that everyone enjoys laughing at
I prefer five finger discount these days
You plebs pick up the bill Fnar Fnar
“Every Tesco two for one offer is tax avoidance”
No, food does not have VAT, so getting one loaf free has no effect at all on the taxes going to the government.
Try again OH.
the “makers of the food” pay tax on their earnings, so when “their” tax goes up….they put the price of food up to recoup the extra tax they have had to pay out , so buying 2 for 1 is a “form” of tax avoidance, so OH is “kinda” right
Prepared food is subject to VAT
All food will be subject to AT before long, mark my words. OH is right.
Damien, isn’t it time for your litter round?
“luxury ” food like chocolate biscuits does have VAT
only the chocolate, not the biscuit.
Fod may not be liable for VAT (yet) but many things sold by Tesco don’t fall into that bracket. Many of those things are offered in “two for one” discounts.
Try again, Peasant
My men at H.M.R.C. are watching Tesco closely, they have numerous offsure companies and are also filtering goods through the Jersy Islands avoiding the V.A.T.
Unfortunatly as soon as any of my boys get remotely close to nailing them they are offerd a job with much improved pay in the private sector.
Bit delayed, but good work on the pub landlord case OH.
What’s the odds the twat gets cancer and dies?
They are going to cut nine hundred and ninety nine operators….? Well, it’s a start.
They can cut a whole load from the inland revenue, bunch of useless f*cks, they are b@stards towards small businesses and sole traders, but let big businesses and multinationals get off with racking up millions or even billions in losses.
The public sector must be savagely cut. Enough of the diversity officers, bin police, CCTV operators, police and all the rest of the non-jobbers.
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF PAYING FOR THESE PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!
You mean tax avoision?
That’s a perfectly cromulent word.
LM this is for your ears only: FUCK OFF……..The next time you pray ask that he grants you a little more intelligence. Tax payers pay for everything in this wretched country, including your benefits. A little more rspect for your betters boy!!
So does that mean I am paying for your psychiatrist?
No!!! Is that a precise enough answer for you or are you the type that is so choc full of New Labour lies that you can no longer tell the difference between an honest answer and a salad bowl full of crap
Leave London Muslim alone you racist
Shut the fuck up, you fucking coconut!
Whenever did race, nationality and religion get so confused?..
Why does the fact that L.M. is i) from London, or ii) a Muslim, mean that he is of a different race than P.I.P?
I suppose this type of thing happens when leftyism, laziness, stupidity and outspokenness all get confused?
Paying tax subsidises immigration which harms YOU.
Want to help the People of the U.K. ? Avoid tax extortion.
Avoiding tax is a patriotic duty whilst Labour is in charge of the economy.
Kinda made me laugh when Ashcroft tacitly admitted he’d be happy to pay UK tax once this piss-poor, shower of useless fking bunch tossers and booted out of Government.. But not until
There is nothing illegal whatsoever about tax avoidance as any chartered accountant would tell you. You probably mean tax evasion which is a criminal offence.
and we all played a part in asking for a law that makes us have to pay tax. I don’t remember it being in any manifesto or voting for it. so fuck off I’m not playing,paying
Tax avoidance?
Like ISAs?
Like not buying cigarettes?
Like not buying booze?
Twat
Gordon Brown is the saviour of mankind. Without him, there would be no public sector at all, because the Tories would have eaten it. Just think, no state-run schools, no state-run hospitals, no councils, no diversity outreach co-ordinators! Horrid!
I was deeply impressed by his sincere performance at Stourbridge. You just knew how much he felt everybody’s pain. Such a nice man. Such a shame he is about to get flushed down the bogpan of history.
Think again, electorate, before you pull that chain!
I am not only going to pull the chain I am going to take my plunger and push it several times to ensure he passes through that S bend. The sewer is to good for him.
you’re obviously round the bend already so no chain pull needed
Tax avoidance: I s’pose if little people do it it’s ok, but if big people and companies do it and avoid £1000′sand millions it’s not so acceptable.
What about those fridge police that gordon was going to send around to every house to inspect the contents of our refrigerators and make sure we weren’t wasting food??
Not to mention the wheelie-bin monitors.
Household energy performance advisors.
Compulsory annual health assessment.
Multiply that across the whole country, and there’s a couple of billion pounds a year saved without even trying.
I am a crack in the pavement measurer and I do a good job for the 25k I’m paid.Imagine how many people I have saved by knowing what cracks are dangerous.
We live near a country park, lovely place – rough paths through woods , routes for horseriding, cycle paths, that sort of thing.
Over the last year we’ve noticed that someone has started to mark tree roots , where they are crossing over the paths, with white paint.
A countryside tree roots safety officer??
modded for talking about tree roots?? Interesting!
what sort of tree was it?
Oh sweetie what are you doing down here?
What sort of tree ? Thinking of gordon – it’s possibly a monkey puzzle tree???
A Plonker Tree?
He’s not even a tree- just dead wood.
thanks Nell, I’ve never been down here before. It’s kinda scary. And cold. I don’t know how I came to be here in the first place …..
It’s a DEFRA initiative, nell. It’s so that the squirrels and foxes can see the obstructions, and don’t fall over them. Hillary Benn probably thought it up all on his own.
They were going to paint them in black and yellow stripes, but used plain white to save money. Thinking of the taxpayer, you see.
Mr. Mark Tree Roots is a friend of Guido that he doesn’t like us to mention.
My word. I was modded for the above.
Here we have Estate Wardens who paint Dog turds with yellow spray paint, I don’t understand why they won’t just pick it up.
They say it’s to raise public awareness.
Personally I become very aware once I’ve stepped in it.
Here we have Estate Wardens who paint Dog t#rds with yellow spray paint, I don’t understand why they won’t just pick it up.
They say it’s to raise public awareness.
Personally I become very aware once I’ve stepped in it.
Nell.Guido is really Gordon, he’s cracking up and modding every thing.
it’s the turnip police nell
they are going to find all the turnips you hide up your arse
I am a crack tester and I do a good job for the 25k I’m paid. Imagine how many people I have saved by knowing what crack is the best quality to smoke and what crack is whack.
Send us your CV and some samples whenever you like. You sound like just the sort we’re after, and we can double your salary. It’s all from the license fee, so there’s no shortage of funds.
We’ll need to see your Labour Party membership card of course, but we’re sure that’ll be up to date.
Caio babe – ring us soon!
With the unions effectively owning Labour, surely any adverts like this during the GE10 campaign should be included as part of the Labour parties overall campaign spend?
The Tory argument against Unite/Labia funding is not working. The real scandal might break if Tories highlighhted where Unite got the £11m in the first place, was it not from government to restructure or some such shit
Bin men?
Bin Men?
Bin MEN?
Haven’t our equality agents taught you anything?
In an article on the BBC news website the story on the Select Committee criticism of the Equalities commission had a quote from “Equalities Commission Spokesman”.
Spokesman?
Delicious.
AAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oi, never mind this jabbering woman, where’s me dinner?
I’m a piece of furniture, you know.
Sofa…….so good!
A joke worthy of a TRUE tossflap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sofa………. so good!!!
A joke worthy of a TRUE tossflap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that you, Jobless Oddball?????????
Still overdoing the punctuation, I see.
And you double-posted.
Tossflap.
Don’t worry, Dear
Tesco have an ad where they are selling a six person tent
Balance is restored…
feminists agree
Quite right Harry – the councils should start employing more BIN WIMMIN. Get some of the lardarses out of their bedsits and on the streets throwing bins around.
The fight against obesity!
harpyharriett is going to oppose it!!
Nell,OT.
What about planting japanese knotweed outside houses of corruption that should have hillary bendy wetting his knickers.
Not a bad idea. Mortage lenders are beginning to refuse mortgages on houses with knotweed in the vicinity.
Those fellows should have planted it in Alan Duncan’s garden. HOWEVER … as you know, everything in Britain is against the law:
bin there, dung that
Bin laden then
Howcome the man in the wheel chair has no trousers where they stolen by the tories?
Yes we’re going to start rationing trousers to boost our exports.
British trousers for British patients.
Can anyone recommend the best place to get a mail order bride from?
Not a Damien McBride either you cheeky articles!
Bangla Washie…
$500….
pornorussianbrides . ru* ?
* I made that up before someone starts to search for it.
is it better to get them pregnant quickly so they can’t do a runner? or hold on incase they do a runner then order another one?
confiscate their passports..
Thats the way the Arabs do it…
I dare say it’s googleable.
Quality! Look what has come up already on google;
http://www.rosebrides.com/polish-brides.html
madeleine or monisia at the bottom look top quality.
Have madeleine shipped over pronto! and make sure she fetches her dumpling boiler.
Golfish looks like she’s been around the track a few times
Hottequila scares the s**t out of me..
Iness is pushing her luck.
Market, cattle. Rearrange to make a well-known phrase.
I didn’t accept you were joking and looked anyway.
well you could try order-order.co.uk !!
Ask Gordon.
first stop labour’s all women candidate list but make sure you check its not a dromey in drag
Hopefully public service cuts will see fewer of those ads in the Guardian for expensive jobs useless jobs for Labour luviees.
Aye.Tory aim is to clip the Guardians wings by moving government job ads online and could have serious implications for its financial survival.What a wee shame.Och the new
Fuck the Guardian.No-one will miss the sanctimonious,handwringing,patronising,hypocritical bastards.Good fucking riddence.
Not a fan then, you ball bag?
I’d miss polly – her deluded shite’s always good for a giggle
I will.I light my fire with it.
If I got the Guardian, I’d use it to line the litter tray for the cats to shit on.
If Brown gets another term you’ll be using it for bog paper.
Or possibly food.
The problem is that the 400,000 odd Guardian readers are the loonies buggering up the UK. The Guardian going bust will be one factor in fixing the UK.
I apologise for pushing the boat out on the other thread
Listen you guys, as a five-a-day outreach co-ordinator and smoking cessation officer I’m voting labour, just like all the hidden unemployed who depend on the tax payers for their living. Ok?
Don’t like it? Emigrate.
OK, we’ll emigrate.
Which will leave you with lots of peeps working for HMGov who can’t smoke and everyone else on the dole who can’t afford it.
Give it a few months and you’ll even be of less use than you are now.
Who on this Blog voted Labour in for a third term?
Go on be honest admit it!
Are you proud of yourselves?
YES
Me too
yes
no
yes
no
yes
hmmmmmm time for tea.
I do fancy David Cameron and Samantha Cameron
Any chance of a threesome?
Is that you Gordon?
What about including the young lady that Cameron “asked directions from” in Bristol? Or maybe George’s brother’s girlfriend would like to join in, it’s her business after all.
Talking of which, what’s happened to Natalie Rowe?
Do tell us more
fuck off Damien
The problem arises from the fact that most of the Non-Jobs come from the fact that most of the posts mentioned require Non-Degrees, all because little Timmy got an “Ology” means we still have to pick up after them because in real life instead of the socialist utopia they inhabit they wouldn’t stand a chance.
So the simple solution to get rid of the Non-Jobs is to get rid of Media Studies etc. etc. then we’ll all benefit.
Media Studies is not an ology.
It isn’t an ology it’s ocracy…..and we have to keep giving little Timmys, Euans and Leos non- jobs because the Labia party want to keep the low paid, menial jobs for their imported vote colonists
Loyal subjects of your great leader Herr Brown! This is now the Federal Republic of ZaNew Labour. Disobedience will not be tolerated! All future general elections have been cancelled. Welcome to the new era! This is Year One! All hail Herr Brown and ZaNew Labour!
Why do you have to sign on the dole by the phone now?
What do you need to say? Do you need you NI number and everything?
Your call will be routed to India?
yes blud don’t ring them till the afternoon it’s quiet then.
Jobless said: “Why do you have to sign on the dole by the phone now?”
Because Gordon closed all the benefit offices and relocated the claims to the nearest large city.
Claims here are dealt with by Taunton, which is approx 35 miles, and a county away.
The countryside does not vote for the one-eyed mong
Simple
All benefits for the urban Labour scum…
You sign on online. Then they call you and ask you all the same questions again. Then they call you to the dole office and ask you the same questions a third time. FFS.
You cannot comment on this blog unless you fill in the appropriate form. If you want to comment on Labour fill in the red paper. Tories Blue. Lib Dem Orange. For BNP we have Bog Roll.
Pushing the boat out there aint ya.
Pass me the bog roll then
The left eye of cyclops is a CCTV camera.
Not a lot of people know that.
Like the Terminator
I told you it is the only one he can see though…
Is the type of person who would starve to death while locked in a Tesco’s overnight.
Huh.. Well we know you wouldn’t, Y.F.B!
Return of the Mack! Once again!
Mackkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk the knifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Guido, I think Khan’s disgraceful and criminal behaviour over the cards calls for a welcoming committee outside his constituency office tomorrow holding a giant greeting card as he arrives. You can make it happen!
I’ve behaved with integrity and honesty. You’re all just racists. Isn’t that right, Trevor? See, Trevor Philips agrees with me.
My friend Sadiq Khunt is 110% innocent and has done nothing wrong under Allah’s laws.
have another toot cow
Well, considering you’d both get your hands chopped off under Sharia Law, just shut up ad be thankful your parents had the foresight to emigrate.
Trevor probably wouldn’t, he aint that highly strung.
If Lee Jasper was still around however………
Police investigating the sudden death of MP Ashok Kumar have refused to comment on speculation involving oranges,stockings,ligatures,drugs and rent boys.
They have confirmed however,that his expense claims were entirely within the rules.
Allah told me to do it. If you say it’s wrong, then you’re say my religion is wrong, and that’s racist. Only baby eating Tories think what I’ve done is wrong. Allah has blessed me. All praise Allah!
Behave Sadiq! I am the most powerful muslim in the land!
Or not……..
Ah yes. Quality arrogance from Allah’s own fuckwit…
‘You [a woman] want to talk to me [a man] about the koran…’ [don't you know a woman can never tell a man anything according to mohammed? Stupid woman]
Just another five-star fuckwit doing his bit for Allah. An arrogant arsehole of adolescent proportions. A bearded jackass.
If I’d been her I would have grabbed a beard in each hand and knocked their heads together – very hard.
Let go!
God help us…
Look at my electors
Luvly people
I’m an Untouchable you know !!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257902/Gordon-Brown-condemns-BA-strikes-deplorable-unjustified.html
the Mail couldn’t resist this headline – I’m afraid you’ll have to click it to see it.
“Tories accuse Brown of turning ‘blind eye’ to BA strike crisis because of Labour’s link to unions”
Sorry, but that’s only the second funniest headline of the day.
Number 1 was surely: “Heather Mill’s leg causes airport security alert”
‘Claps’
I have never seen eye to eye with the Daily Mail.
What we really need is for some people (not me, cause I ain’t techy enough) to take each and every Liebour promo and tear it to shreds. Splice in some old footage, or newspaper articles indicating how they’re simply lying sh*tes.
Let’s highlight how corrupt these people really are.
“cause I ain’t techy enough”
I wondered who the Tories got to write the technology manifesto they published last week.
At least it spells the end of the flying Nokia.
i am but i am also fucking lazy
Hey, my Islamofascist brothers! These evil infidels like to get stoned. Let’s show them that the only real way to get high is to stone a woman to death! Allah akbar!
Excise her first though..
Opiate addition in Iran is per head of population is the highest on the planet
If Labour lose the election, I’ll join my mate Trevor in running some expensive quango and getting paid lotsa lovely lolly to do fuck all. Isn’t life grand?! Which reminds me, I now charge a grand for my constituents to see me at my surgery. Allah said it’s OK to fleece kafirs!
If?
Labour and Tory use taxpayers’ money to fund trade union placemen: http://eotp.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/labour-and-tory-use-taxpayers-money-to-fund-trade-union-placemen/
I will have a wank tonight over this Taxpayers Alliance bird now Guido has brought the subject up
Ohhhhhhh that is more like it fap fap fap
Susie Squire makes my willy grow higher and higher
Mark Serwotka is sweating like a pig.
The guy on the right is sweating like a pig.
That’s Mark Serwotka, he likes it hard in the arse.
Serwotka is sweating because he’s a devious c*nt.
The sort of c*nt i’d like to smash into tiny pieces.
SKWEEEEPP!!! SKWEEEEPP!!! (ting)
You’re wanking over Mark Serwotka, you dirty little c*nt.
I’ve worked in the public sector. No room for efficiency savings? Bollocks! Sparing the Police etc you could sack 1/3 of them and not notice.
The problems is when the cull comes, it will be managed by the very people who should be losing their jobs and they’ll cut the frontline and low paid jobs.
You could sack a third of the police if Criminals were KEPT in jails where they belong.
“Who caused the problem? [*splutter* it was the damn Private sector]”
Well, for example, we’re paying Doctors in General Practise about x3 what we were paying them in 1997… And are we getting x3 the quality of service?… No, we aren’t.
They’ve all gone “part time”, doing only ‘office hours’, with out-of-hours service provided by foreign, contracted Locums who don’t speak English… Brilliant
Run a business like this (where you put up costs at the same time as reducing the quality of service) in the Private sector, and you rapidly go out of business..
Say what you like about the UK’s greatest mass murderer – at least Harold Shipman used to do home visits.
Did Ashok have some embarrassing info on McDoom which made him a liability to the greater good of ZaNew Liebore?
Or maybe there’s nothing suspicious about it and he just had a dodgy tikka and fell into a korma.
I’d spoken to Ashok at a local surgery. He claimed that Brown was against him because he didnt back the Government on a vote. He also had the Chair of some committe taken away from him.
Funny how Brown pays tribute to him on telly, but behind the scenes he loathed him.
He seeems to have been one of the few hoest Zanu Labour MPs..
It must have got him down…
She has lovely Come In Me eyes. Sorry, I meant Come To Me.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gndihhslUB8/SuYvVcAgffI/AAAAAAAAAIk/tljPNIHimO0/s400/Squire.jpg
Look at that body! I need a new keyboard now after drooling on this one.
“Events are going to overwhelm you and you’re going to be swept away.”
If any of you twats think there is going to be a hung Parliament,you obviously don’t get out much.
He will lose this General Election very very badly.
That’s a fantastic line. What was the lead up to it?
I can’t be bothered to watch the show. I gather it was a mix of squirming and tractor stats from the gorgon.
Dave pays the Pollsters a small fortune for private polling as does Brown as does Clegg
He does this for a laugh and because politicians don’t believe the polls or base election strategies on them
Brown had a country and he pissed it away.
Opinium poll for the Daily Express
Tories 39%
Labour 28%
Libs 16%
The Purcell scandal has blown Labour fortress Scotland.The Jonah curse is going to stiff the Parteh.
wah
Inopium poll.
gordon will do it all on his own – britain’s nixon!!!
Has he wished Raith Rovers good luck in the semi-final yet?
1-0 win if he doesnt, 7-0 defeat if he does
yes sky have it on but cant find the poll on the BBC.somethings will never change
Labour own Television station.ffs
9%?
BBC was telling me that there’s nothing in it?
11% and Labour titaniccing.
Take a look at Toenails’ blog. Nearly 500 comments on his latest Labour Party Political Broadcast (comparing McMental to Winston Churchill, FFS) and only two of them had anything supportive to say.
2 out of 500. I don’t think I have ever seen such unanimity of hatred and contempt for a Prime Minister.
The BBC = Labour’s propaganda unit.
ICM poll for Sunday Telegraph
Tories 40%
Labour 31%
Libs 20%
Others 9% seems a little unlikely TBH.
The electors seem to realise that the Limp Dems are a Boy’s Band encouraged by the odd porno producer…
Non-jobs and/or jobs done by too many:
-turnstile jockeys in tube and train stations
-posties
-politicians
-white hall munchers
-union officials of which there are hundreds employed by the public sector
-beeb
-grauniad journalists – have you noticed how many politics nonjournos they have, all courtesy of the Net taxpayer who pays for all those public sector job ads?
-BA staff (5 cabin staff on a 737 compared to 3 or 4 at other airlines)
I have had occasion to complete three 14 page or so forms in over last 6 monts or so, eac time a ‘case officer’ attended my house to fill in the form with me FFS. Once he brought a trainee shadowing him.
If you wait for an hour in the local hospital, you will see at least 17 uniformed staff shuffle past with a filing cabinet on wheels. And then return from a slightly different direction.
Welcome to Terry Gillians’ Brazil, Browns Beaurocracy
Here in the north east the enterprise and job creation Quangos take some beating. On a local business park, the only occupied office block belongs to one of the many public sector organisations (I forget which one; there are so many) that hands out paltry amounts of taxpayers cash to local businesses, whilst keeping 90% to pay for made up job titles, nice offices and fully expensed company cars.
One recent fund of £1.9m incurred ‘administration costs’ of £1.6m – I shit you not.
Turnstyle jockeys ??!
You mean know riders dont’ you?
Like the ZanuLabour Cabinet ??!
Homo gang bangs and all that…
Just today an old pal of mine, a graduate from Bradford University’s ‘Peace Studies’ Department and state tit sucker for 15 years announced to me today that she was going into private consultancy…’the money is better’
Yuck! – and the fuckers think the world needs them! Who’s paying now?
I know – some fourth rate pretentious poly now renamed a University perhaps?
I hope you fucked her cos’ she sounds like she’s got no fucking other uses.
Interesting few days sadiqkhan -transport minister ( yet another labour non job) has had.
Faced with annihilation in his own constituency he has issued a statement saying he is going to forego any payrise to his mp/ministerial salary in the coming months (well he’ll have get re-elected first!)
He’s had to admit that he has claimed, from the taxpayer, for £1000′s for cards, which he has sent en masse, to constituents, for christmas, eid, divali and 18th birthdays. Bit confused about his cultiral r++oots isn’t he?
On top of that, in the last fews days, he has issued a blizzard of statements, as transport minister, saying that:
He is giving £20million to dorset and somerset for transport investment ( labour marginbals?)
He’s giving £80million to bedfordshire for an 8mile buslane (trying to offset the margaret moran effect ?)
He’s going to build a high speed rail link between london and birmingham (at present uncosted)
None of this, you understand, has nothing to do with the coming election, and all of these projects “will happen”
Of course they will!!!!
Ahh the Forces of Nell unleashed. Go girl!
Dave will buy nell a pony
And he’s going to write out the cheque – himself!
The election narrative is hideous for Labour.We have Prince Charming(Cameron) battling an ogre(Brown).Labour are in for a nightmare.
Isn’t Prince Charming usually played by a girl in pantomime?
Oh, I see your point.
albacore doesn’t like girls
Speak for yourself, pouffie.
If Dave in fishnet tights waving a tinsel sword is what turns you on, don’t let me spoil it for you.
He’s behind you,albabore
He’s behind everybody in coming forward, even that shrinking violet Gordon.
No end of ugly sisisters and numerous both ends of the horse. Child catcher. Strawman. Drama Queen
Everything but a decent plot and script
Brown and Whelan = the very ugly sisters.
Just watched Cameron doing a Q&A at Lewisham college. The old sleeves rolled up job, relaxed, confident and happy to engage with the public. Answering all their questions. He’s so good at this, and the contrast with Brown and his uncomfortable, rictus grin gurning when he meets an unscripted question from the great unwashed is striking.
Just two more months to wait before we can actually have a human being as Prime Minister. Somebody who doesn’t make you cringe whenever you see or hear him speak. Somebody who wouldn’t chase the President of the United States through a fucking kitchen for Christ’s sake.
It was pretty good. He does seem really comfortable even when faced with hecklers who have no intention of listening to him.
shudder
Thanks, now I have a mental image of Gordo chasing Hussein like a fat boss chasing his secretary around a desk.
Really stoopid question but has anybody ever seen their Council Tax bill (for the same, physically unchanged property) reduce from the amount charged in the previous year?
It must be possible. Our water rates bill has, incredibly, gone down this year – by all of £1.
The Council Tax bill arrived today. Increased from last year’s, of course.
Is there a natural law which prevents local authorities fromever achieving a reduction in annual expenditure?
Yes. It is called Parkinson’s Law. Work expands to fill the void created for it. Prevalent in the civil service/local government – if not managed.
Our borough managed to amass a £5,000,000 surplus from Council tax.
Couple of years ago HMGov wanted to merge us with Durham. People were given a vote, HMGov lost. HMGov then stated that the democratic vote was illegal. Our council was merged along with the £5,000,000 suplus.
Zanu Liebore, bending us all over a barrel and giving us it up the sh*tter since 1997.
They’ve had a tough year – Labour’s already cutting their grant (while pretending only the Tories will cut) and an estimated third of LA employees will have to be made redundant.
Neighbouring Cambridge City Council (LibDem) lost £9 million to Icelandic banks and has a £16 million pension deficit, whereas ours has a £129 million pensions deficit.
Fair dos, Susie but my question was: have you ever seen your Council Tax reduced year-on-year?
Council Tax has been running since 1993.
In all that time, has no local authority had even one good year?
My Tory council has just announced it can ‘probably’ guarantee no council tax rise next year. Is there an election looming?
Here’s one. Cambridgeshire education. Teacher to join the Life Education Centre (LEC) Team. Pays between £21k to £35k, not sure what that comes to by the time you factor in employer’s NI and the guaranteed public pension.
LEC provides a key component of the PSHE Service’s strategy for Health and Drug Education for 4-11 year olds through programmes suitable for each age range delivered in an exciting mobile classroom environment. The team, led by Louise Augarde, operates two classrooms, which cover about 80 schools in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough each year.
In my experience the PHSE syllabus is worthless and should be deleted completely or replaced by proper teachers of English and Maths, both of which provide better protective education for children by giving them real skills and abilities. There is nothing the PHSE teachers can do which can’t be done better, cheaper, and more efficiently by the existing school staff. Either save the money on the whole shooting match, or spend it on real education.
Like the ‘mobile classroom environment’.
They must mean the portacabins which are in use in thousands of primary schools (especially in East Anglia) to house the increased immigrant school population.
My LEA have a classroom that is on wheels, 2 days at each school, twice a year. God knows where the staff stay, and at what cost. Complete cost for the sake of it
Wonder what they cost to heat during the winter – the electricity bill for heating badly insulated portacabins must have been astronomic!
The staff must be gypsies…
Total cost of employment factors:
Providing on the job boarding and so on (ie oil rig workers etc): 1.9
Normal private sector job (here’s your salary, now sort yourself out and be here on time tomorrow): 1.2
My guess is government work falls in the middle, somewhere around 1.4 – 1.5
Thanks. Duly noted for future ref.
Enjoy Brown being grilled by an angry member of the public. Lots more like this to come over the next 8 weeks, Gorgon!
“We led the world out of recession”
I wanted to yell at my monitor at that point. Oh, and the tractor stats, and the continuing argumentive defensiveness (“Oh no you’re wrong”), and the squirming, and the shit-eating grin and Jesus tapdancing Christ what did we do wrong to be foisted with this Huhne?
Yes, these are not deluded Daily Mail rantings, positions like “Street Football Coordinator” actually do exist:
http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_48688.html
Be fair. It is in Scotland where nobody has a real non state job unless it is in a useless bankrupt bank. Sorry they are state jobs as well.
Privaten Eye have a regular feature
‘Teenage Pregnancy Coordinator’ is what I ended up doing
If you have a question (Such as Why have you closed all the public parks?) please contact
Street Football Coordinator
Elgin Community Centre
Trinity Road
Elgin
IV30 1UE
Tel: 07972 178 790
Well whelan/twatson/damian/alastairc/bals
At the end of these very long days- the electorate is going to decide whether your very poisonous message is worth voting for!!!
Labour took us into the Iraq War.
Was it legal??.
Did you give our lads all the kit that they needed?!!
Who killed Dr David Kelly??!!
Have you given our troops in Afghanistan every piece of kit that they need to keep them safe as you wage your political ,macho, war to get you votes in england and keep you in power ??!!
God bless the dead troops I try to exploit for votes because I am scum
God bless 5 more years of Afghan carnage because I am a hypocrite who supports another warmonger
God bless the Conservatives who backed the illegal War because they were too stupid to know Blair was lying when most of the public knew he was
And God Bless my excuses when the bodies keep piling up and the Warmonger Brown is gone leaving the Warmonger Dave to preside over a failed quagmire
May the great cloud fairy bless our troops in this illegal war so that they may kill others without getting killed themselves.
Verily, it is the righteous thing to do.
or just get the troops out so they aren’t killing others or are being killed
fucking obvious
innit?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1971955,00.html
I do hope this doesn’t give anyone any ideas
NHS is so good that for 26% of the week it is hard to find nursing and GP cover.
Last blood test for medication review:
Phoned to get appointment; was told I couldn’t get a blood test appointment for another 10 days; told them that my review GP appointment was the day after and the GP wouldn’t be able to do my meds review as the results wouldn’t be back in time and, furthermore, I would run out of meds; assured the results would be back in time for GP appointment; get to GPs for appointment and the blood test results were not (as predicted) in.
Make another appointment with GP.
If you’re not a customer, you’re a cost.
http://nationaldeathservice.blogspot.com/
Oh come now!, – we’re essential and need lots more staff. We have career choices to make.
And of course, it’s clear who will look after our jobs – and get our vote.
Public sector workers in my book are ok provided you are talking about the manual workers on the front line.
Most of the rest are shite jobsworths who are along for the ride and what they can screw from the hard working private sector.
The amount of fancy job titles is unbelievable,if I had my way for starters any titles containing such words as Eg: diversity,outreach,coordinator,integration,liasion,community,deputy,assistant,ecology and the list is endless should be given a P45 and told to try their luck in the private sector.
In my neck of the woods the council is responsible for around 330,000 people and the CEO cleans up 200K plus ex’s the council employs 9600 people.
Have tried to find out what proportion of these are jobsworths but the silence is deafening.
The other day a leaflet dropped through the door,the first one ever telling me how brilliant the council is and what they are doing to enrich our lives and can I tell you that because this council is rabid labour they even put in an article on one guy saying yes the council have done excellent in my opinion because they have put steel gates all around us to keep the yobs out,so I’ll definitely be voting labour.
My opinion is that this is blatant labour electioneering at the taxpayers expense and we do really by whatever means need to highlight this.
I am seeing this every day now with McCrap being given every opportunity by the MSM to spout his lies and spin,I do hope that the main culprits of this do realise that shortly when they are absolutely demolished THAT THERE WILL BE A DAY OF RECKONING.
I haven’t seen Climate Change in there anywhere but add that on.
So two new opinion poll show the Tory lead on the increase again and the EU is telling the UK to get its debt sorted out.
ITV report it as a humiliation for the gay one eyed mong, but Toenails claims that the Tories are desperate for anyone who agrees with them and that the EU are not saying cut now. Of course not Nick, let’s leave it for a few years, I mean fuck it, let’s borrow more so it can be free Cocaine all round.
The EU needs the UK to sort it’s finances out – so that the UK can then cough up cash to bankroll the Euro.
For eurosceptics does seem like pot calling kettle .
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!, Is it Unite?,
Fund Labour then go on strike, then Brown deplores said strike (another BBC sound bite).
We deplore the mong and the BBC
Just look at that advert
These people over ere with there 10 kids demanding an ouse then clutter our hosptals
No bladdy wonder we avent got enough money to treat the whites in this country.
Enoch was right , we should send all these c*ons back to the jungle , and dont get me on those thieving p akis
, and we have a government peopled by sodomites
Jesse Armstrong = not a real Cameron adviser but Armand Iannucci’s co-writer.
Yet more left-wing BBC propaganda designed to manipulate the very stupid and keep in this disastrous government. Time is running out for them fast.
you mean that wasn’t Alistair Campbell and it wasn’t a documentary !?!? Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhh !! what does comedy mean ?? Duuuuurrrr !!!
You are very stupid indeed.
Fuckwit.
“I believe that the BBC is a great national institution. I am proud of the BBC. I think that most British people think that we are very lucky to have a BBC and most people who aren’t British, if they don’t have a BBC, wish they did have one.”
“I don’t see the BBC as a State broadcaster.”
“I think people see the BBC as operating at arms length from the government and it’s very important that it should continue to do so and that’s why we’ve said we will protect the BBC charter.”
everyone knows Tony Cameron is a cheap lighteight clone of Blair
whining about it won’t change the facts
Horror as Cameron brandishes the B word
DAVID CAMERON, the young pretender to the Tory throne who came close to embracing Tony Blair in a conference speech, has already done so in private.
Mr Cameron who has put a modernising agenda at the centre of his campaign, clearly enjoys the comparisons that have been made between him and Labour’s most successful modern-day Prime Minister.
At a dinner with newspaper executives on the eve of his address, he took the comparison a step further. “I am the heir to Blair,” he said. If his hosts were in any doubt about what they had heard, Mr Cameron repeated the mantra. He also said that a Cameron Tory Government would not reverse all of the Blairite reforms in the public services.
His hosts were, to say the least, taken aback. Mr Cameron was guest, in the Louis Room at the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool, of The Daily Telegraph, house journal of the Conservative Party. The spirit of Margaret Thatcher, who was even praised by Kenneth Clark yesterday, still beats strongly in the editorial conferences of the newspaper.
Charles Moore, the former Editor who was at the dinner, is the official biographer of Baroness Thatcher, whose admirers include . . . Tony Blair. Mr Cameron, who was accompanied by his wife, Samantha, the creative director of a stationery company, was not isolated in the intimate gathering.
George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor and fellow member of the so-called Notting Hill set of young modernising Tories, was also at the dinner table. Mr Osborne, defending the heir to Blair boast, said: “We have nothing to be ashamed of in saying it.”
Martin Newland, the Editor of The Daily Telegraph, which has yet to declare for any of the five candidates, was not so sure. “David,” he said. “I would not repeat that outside this room.”
should be an interesting week for flight security,possible world trade 2 on something.
The biggest fucking non job has been a piss awful opposition that is so immersed in the governments corruption that they are unable to provide any meaningful alternative to the shit that floats on top.
I saved the world and i shall save BA. The sky’s the limit. Up up and away!
I saved the world and i shall save BA. The sky’s the limit. Up up and away!
Scarp Fuckin’ Access NI. To apply for most jobs now you have to pay 26 quid for a certificate which proves what you know already: that you are neither a thieving bastard nor a kiddie fiddler.
Bastards
Libraries ! CW has already had one run in over libraries locally , got useual ignorant speil from councillor , times have changed must progress ,did I know people now do everything on the internet etc etc Clearly had no idea what librarians and the like do, or that you can get a degree in it . Like all these “oooh buy kindle” luvvies , understanding and using english is still the most important idea for society ,never mind the gadgets .With review due I wont comment , I can feel it my water some tech company will benefit ,like those electronic voting machines that run by a company that had labour party politicos on its board. Besides with high levels of unemployment reading books with free heating may be all the rage .
Might be a bit of siren testing from lib/lab ohhh the cuts .I take it Libs can only do socialist lite then .
yeah right Arronovitch , lord of the flies an all that , proof youve been mind bending the kids to vote Labour for the last ten years then !
We will continue to invest in David Beckham. It’s the right thing to do. Without investment we will rapidly lose any notion of maintaining David beckham for the recovery. We cannot stop now because we have worked so hard under difficult circumstances and you rightly need to know that I will never resign even if the Tories win a majority …… guess who?
what’s the fucking point?
Poor Ann and Holly Greig what the Scottish Government and there cronies are doing to these innocent people is beyond our worst imaginings.
Come on Paul tell the people, make a real name for yourself?
I will cancel the election. Because that is the right thing to do.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7450454/Leaked-email-shows-how-BA-strike-union-is-campaigning-for-Labour.html
Why is Whelan so keep for members to use their postal votes?
What is wrong with their normal vote?
The fukin NHS is a joke !! my mother was taken to hospital yesterday and after the Dr phoned for an ambulance she waited 4 hours for it, when she arrived she was seen within the 4 hour window …..for about 2mins and shoved in an assessment ward which is just a waiting room full of other sick people in wheel chairs and no staff. Twelve hours later she finally got a bed after I repeatedly complained to any fool with a name tag in all this time not one Dr or nurse came to see anyone( approx 20 people) some were very old and some needing Oxygen and a lie down.
So from the Dr calling to getting a bed took 16 hrs when they asked her to come so how long if you just turned up?
dozens of admin staff wandering about with clipboards so money well spent there, didn’t achieve anything though.
90 billion quid for crowded waiting rooms and no cups for the cordial on a table that served as catering.
Just tell the voter plebs the same as I did yesterday “this is not the correct time to hold an election”.
Then send out the troops and shoot anyone in sight. (We can lend you some if you’re short, we have 50,000 on the streets of Bangkok)
Yougov if you want to. Down with Brown is not buying it.
Over the last 25 polls:
Average Tory lead with YouGov = 4.9%
Average Tory lead with all other pollsters = 8.1%
Who said that the £350,000 spent on useless Baroness Ashton (a.k.a. Mrs Kellner) being EUSSR High Representative was money completely wasted?
In the last election, in 2005, support for the parties generally held steady in the run-up to polling day. YouGov polling for The Sunday Times showed Labour leads of between two and five points from January through to the June election. Labour’s margin of victory was three points
The last time the gap between the two main parties came this close and the Tory support was so low was in autumn 2007. That was before Brown’s honeymoon ended with his failure to call a snap general election. The Conservatives went on to peak in May 2008 with a 26-point lead.
YouGov, which began polling after the 2001 election, has developed a reputation for accuracy. Its final Sunday Times poll in 2005 was precisely right, and it accurately predicted Boris Johnson’s victory in the 2008 London mayoral election and the results of last year’s Euro elections.
Just remind me when did Baroness Ashton become EU’s first ever High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Gordon Brown hurled a torrent of abuse at EU Foreign Minister Baroness Ashton in a row over the way she is doing her job, it was disclosed last night.
The Prime Minister swore repeatedly at the Baroness over the telephone, leaving her shaken, according to well-placed sources.
Details of Mr Brown’s latest bullying outburst prompted claims that Baroness Ashton, 53, is losing the confidence of her own Government, as well as Brussels. According to one source, he accused her of ‘letting Britain down’.
Criticism of her conduct erupted into the open after she failed to visit Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake there
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257793/Gordon-Brown-s-letter-rant-Baroness-Ashton-letting-UK-down.html
Crash Gordon’s expletives to the chinless Ashton were caused by her not “redacting” the EU Commission report telling Brown that his deficit cutting was “too weak”.
He really thinks that 1 commissioner out of 27 on the EU Commission can stop publication of EU Reports
He now knows otherwise…
What an utter (Brown expletive) prick !!
How’s the job at YouGov going nowadays? Cold in those streets – eh?
They don’t go out on the streets…
They “do” it by telephone..
and change their polling methods as will !!
All pretty doubtful I would say…
poor little twat
you were full of shit and it was proved in front of everyone
you must feel a complete bellend
Did you call?
the gurner in front of the studio questioners was painful to watch…his minders are as deluded as he is obviously. Cameron may not be everything to all men
but at least he is at ease talking to the public and comes over as being very normal however privileged his background may have been.
Labour is starting to lose its “Big Mo”.Has it peaked too soon ?. The price of petrol could top £1.25 per litre very soon for a variety of reasons not least the falling exchange rate….this will,affect towns outside the major connurbations most where public transport is a “joke” and unfortunately encompasses a lot of key Labour marginals;Europe tells Brown that his plans to cut the deficit are “too weak” and Brown is being accused of being too close to “Unite” and therefore was initially unwilling to condemn impending BA Strike until he was manoeuvered into it by Andrew Adnonis’ statements on the Andrew Marr Show.This smacks of putting politics above the national interest to large sections of the electorate who are likely to see their holiday plans put into disarray(never popular and the government is likely to pick up some of the flack for an unjustified and unpopular strike)
The final straw that probably has broken the camel’s back of a Labour recovery is Brown’s very own “Thatcher Moment” yesterday when he tells us that effectively that unless Labour is resoundingly beaten he will NOT go but remain both Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister. The electorate do like being told by an encumbent PM that whatever they decide he will ignore them …a brave and dangerous thing for a PM to do.The electorate are likely to give him an answer he won’t much like just as they did Heath when he asked “Who governs Britain ” in 1974 and got the answer effectively “Not you Mate !”..
Events as they always do are conspiring to blunt and stall Labour’s recovery in the polls and after a bad few weeks for Cameron & Co the pendulum appears to be swinging back in their favour BUt events as always could chnage that yet again.
“the electorate do like being told….”
should read DON’T of course
Heath’s answer in 1974 was a Hung Parliament.
Enjoy that event.
I’ve been lurking on this site for months now and have finally got the courage to post.
FUCK OFF ALL YOU HOONS WHO VOTE CONSERVATIVE
I feel better now
fuck off tat
Made me laugh….
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/call-us-'deplorable'%2c-union-orders-brown-201003152559/
Gudio
Thanks for the Mannisms link
We all now know what a hypocrite he is….
Nothing like threatening a libel writ to get all of this out all over the blogosphere…!!!
Let us not forget
LORD ASHCROFT
http://www.labour-watch.com/sleaze.htm
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2010/03/graham-stuart-on-bbc.html
Vote labour and get immunity from prosecution.
lots of moving tributes to former Labour leader Michael Foot at his funeral earlier today – RIP
http://twitter.com/sarahbrown10
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7450468/Moodys-fears-social-unrest-as-AAA-states-implement-austerity-plans.html
In other words the payroll vote
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You have to laugh about a group of otherwise unemployable tory astroturfers complaining about “non-jobs”. Do these people really consider themselves key workers?
speaking as a open spaces management co ordinator [ groundsman to you] of a hospital i get fed up with criticism. 70k a year , 6 weeks holiday, pension, must go got some pruning of the chief execs bizzy lizzies to do……..the pressure