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It is by far the best documentary series ever made. Can watch that again and again.

Apart from the obvious of dining, drinking out and entertainment, fresh food also costs on average more. And I think it is reasonable to argue that someone who is working full time should be able to afford to go to a pub ocassionally or go for a family meal.....instead of relying on top up benefits just to make ends meet. And just because other countries have no or a different safety net is not an argument for saying everything is ok here. A first world wealthy country like the UK should not be having to subsidise a third of it's workforce's wages along with however many millions are unemployed and deemed as too ill to work at all. There is something fundamentally wrong with our economy and the balance of rich/ poor, working and unemployed within it. And all parties admit the growing gaps are not right - on moral grounds as well as economic ones.

What if they call an ambulance though....?

Cameron I think is a rabbit caught in the headlights - his weaknesses not just on the international stage but at the dispatch box are becoming increasingly apparent. As for WWII...we have to remember what the mindset of the time was. WWI was still in near living memory. There was no telling where Germany would stop (imagine the same scenario today - there's no way the international community would tolerate that level of invasion). Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I personally don't think any peace agreement with Hitler would have lasted. The Germans reneged on every agreement they made, be it Russia, France, Italy the moment their priorites changed. Many neutral countries were swallowed up too. We'll never know for sure of course. Churchill and others also knew that if Britain were to fall, that would be it. As for our Empire, it had well and truly already declined long before 1939. Were we a junior partner? No, because our influence in the planning and execution of the fight back was an equal partnership and our scarifice greater. Yes the provision of manpower and resources was the greater part American, but our contribution in key things, from 'the Battle of Britain' and early Radar, to cracking the enigma and special ops were just as crucial to defending Britian as the manpower and resources provided for D-Day ....if indeed such things can be measured. Something that can be measured though are losses. We suffered more. 400,000 british soldiers died during WWII compared to 300,000 Americans. We also lost 60,000 civilians. So nothing junior in those figures I think.

Quit griping and do the job your paid to be there to do - no wonder the country is in the mess it's in >:D< *runs to the hills before Rosie finds something worthwhile to do in harpooning me!*

Not sure about London weighting though, shouldn't the more expensive living costs in London be addressed by housing benefits? They already are. Rents are not the only more expensive aspect to living in London. Similarly the oyster card gives reduced bus travel to the unemployed but I'd like to see that be free. I would suggest something which would be of benefit to the community and teach skills, rather than sports. Sport is a known combatent to depression so providing free sports (in addition to other things) to the unemployed (aong with those suffering from depressive mental health problems) would be very beneficial to society. On the issue of skills - there are many skilled people who are unemployed too and that is another area where support fails. The skilled often get very poorly served, usually because the cost of additional specialist training is more expensive than training an unskilled person in something that costs less. It's a rationed resource.

Yeah foxes will use cat flaps. Solution to that is to use a magnetic cat flap, one that then requires the pet to wear a magnetic attachment on it's collar. Useful for keeping out other people's pets too.

I think everyone that wants to work should be helped and that help should start from day one of unemployment, not six months. Some problems are regional. I keep giving Sheffield as an example but where you have only one job vacancy for every 8 unemployed there is going to be a lot of LTU and most want to work as much as the next guy. The problems are complex and so the solutions need to be tailored to deal those complex problems. But you are quite right that help tends to be focussed at certain groups (with Labour it was 16-24 year olds)....when what is needed is far more investment in helping ALL groups of unemployment and investment in employers to help them grow and create jobs. We especially need more jobs that provide a 'living' wage (at present a third of all jobs don't). I think the minimum wage needs to rise to ?7 per hour, with additional London weighting, which isn't that far off the minimum you need to live on. Employers will complain but they complained when Labour introduced the minimum wage - which the conservatives also opposed on the premise it would cost jobs - something that has not turned out to be the case. There is nothing more demoralising than working 40 plus hours a week and not being able to at least meet reasonable basic living costs. And then we need something to keep the unemployed engaged, productive and 'out there', and hopeful. Because there's nothing worse than having no hope. I totally understand the stress that unemployment brings and am very aware of the hardship that prolonged unemployment also brings. A persons life can quite literally fall apart very quickly and yes one of the first things that suffers is social activity. The unemployed cannot afford to go out for a drink, or network or do very much. After a few months of that kind of isolation, is it any wonder that low self esteem kicks in. Depressive illness is something that is not taken seriously enough in this country and many LTU are suffering from it. I really do hope you get something from the department store. Would be curious to know how many are applying for those jobs though.

A Starbucks overlooking the powerboat marina (from Quids) with my casino next door......it'll be fabulous, the riviera del dulwich! Err but what should we demolish to make way for it?

Obviously time to start the Dulwich Hunt!!! Yes I'm all for the hunting of people from East Dulwich...especially litter louts and the terminally ill ;-)

See you are exactly the kind of person I often talk about. The kind of person that the Jobcentre has no idea how to help (mainly because the vast majority of jobs that go through jobcentres are low waged). You have a good working record and are trying very hard to find work but because of market conditions are struggling. Governments never talk about you....because they don't want to admit that there are too few jobs out there, to match the unemployed workforce that we have. If it is so difficult to find you a job at the moment...how on earth are they going to get the LTU and mentally ill back into work? The group they do constantly attack. At the end of the day, only employers can change anything, by creating more jobs. Hopefully you'll find something soon....I wish you the very best of luck.....

Are there any laws that require postions to be advertised? Otherwise the practise I guess can employ who it likes. Nepotism happens everywhere. It's only natural to help family and friends first. There are some laws I think for public sectors jobs.

I don't think anyone would deny that there are a lot of urban foxes, but just because they die somewhere, as we all do, doesn't make them a problem. Every day council workers similarly find elderly people that have died and not been discovered for weeks and that's similarly not pleasant. Death and decomposition are a natural process. The main gripe with foxes is scattered rubbish after bin bag raids. That's where the nuisance is (but easily fixed by using enclosed bins). There are far more people than foxes, making far more mess and nuisance though. *waits for onslaught*

I watched a documentary called 'The Cove' last night. It was heartbreaking, about the Japanese culling of dolphins in just one cove. The most alarming point the film made was that if nothing major is done to curb fishing overall (so that stocks can regenerate), there'll be nothing left to fish within 40 years. Billions of years of evolution will be gone. It seems part of the problem for dolphins is that although they are technically part of the porpoise family which is a sub species of whale, the IWC (international whaling commission) doesn't recognise that, so the Japanese since the ban on whaling switched to dolphin instead, killing 23,000 in this one cove every year alone. And the Japanses are also now paying smaller countries to join the IWC and lobby with them for the abolition of the ban on whaling (effectively a bribe) too. The thing that really needs culling it seems, is humans. There's just too many of us and mostly we are wasteful. The planet can not keep up.

That's an amusement arcade...a casino would have poker, blackjack, roulette and be built in the shape of some famous landmark with foreworks every Friday >:D

A casino hasn't been tried before....

A casino!

It needs a 'poundland' lol

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If by 'bury' you mean 'crap wherever they please > before half-heartedly scuffing three crumbs of > soil over the top then and sauntering off to be > made a fuss of somewhere'.. then yes - they bury > it. Some effort is better than none...not like birds, who literally poop anywhere and are beyond reproach.

LOL and I can shoot anyone that makes any kind of noise when I'm trying to sleep (including babies)......that'll be half my neighbours taken care of! ;-)

Cat owners always claim that cats bury their poo, Along with VETs and animal scientists, zoo-keepers.......and just about ever one that ever observes animal behaviour in cats. Sure, some might do it better than others but they do attempt to bury it. And the odour of poo depends entirely on diet so if a lion eats the same as a cat (and both are well) the poo won't smell a heap lot different.

What does owning a cat or not have to do with what I or anyone else posts? Most cats dig a hole and then bury their poo.....which actually helps to compost the soil.....not pleasant if not buried properly, granted.

Can only mean one thing - a sacrifice is about to happen!

Cats bury their poo. It's probably fox poo.

OliviaDee Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > millions of dead ones all over my living room > carpet this morning - all clapped out males i > presume Are you running a brothel? :-S