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I just checked, it's on You Tube. Pretty clear that the police were having to battle with 'spectators' to keep them back. :-(

I assume the garden will be part of the refurb though?

As it's main draw is the big garden, you would have thought they'd be moving heaven and earth to get it open in time for the summer. Does look a long way off completion though. :-(

It's not against the law to give a 'bad' reference, but it does have to be factual and therefore should be objectively justifiable. In other words, you should avoid bringing up deficiencies which weren't raised with the individual at the time, addressed and recorded. If you say for example "their time keeping was awful", but you never raised it, or kept any records, you could potentially end up with them suing you for the impact of your reference on their ability to get another job. You would have a hard time proving that the statement was objectively true. I would keep it simple. Include the basics (what the role was, how long they were there) and say which bits of the job they did well. If you raised specific concerns with him at the time, then it's fair to mention these too.

Weird. No idea, but would be interested to know.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rye lane is fully covered with CCTV and is full of > people day and night. Perfectly safe. How does CCTV keep anyone from being stabbed? It'll make sure the incident is filmed as will all those people who are around day and night.

Jakido Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's an M&S opening?! Why has no one mentioned > it on the Forum? Very good. :-)

My guess is they'll get a slap on the wrist and a fine, which would seem proportionate IMO.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rrr - I think the general feeling seems to be that > it will ultimately either lead to longer hours, or > thinner coverage (more patients per doctor). Yeah, this was kind of my assumption. This seems pretty undesirable and potentially dangerous to me.

@Londonmix - The government's current approach doesn't scream 'recruitment drive' to me. They may want to reconsider their 'attraction and engagement' strategy.

This is what I do not understand (genuinely, if someone can explain it, fair play). How can you ensure that there are more doctors at weekends, the same amount during the week, but with no increase in staff numbers and with them all working the same or less hours?

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No one is asking junior doctors to work more > rahrahrah! > > Doctors are being asked to work the same or fewer > hours. However, more of the shifts on the rota > would be weekends and evenings, when cover right > now is comparably low. > > Because the NHS pay more for weekend and evening > work under the old contract, the reduce the > financial impact of this change, the NHS want to > reduce pay for unsociable working times. They > have redefined basically what's considered > unsociable so they don't have to pay for early > evening shifts and shifts on Saturdays. But with no more doctors?

There are two issues here though. One is pay, on which I get that some people are fairly ambivalent. The second is how far you can stretch an already stretched resource before something breaks. I can't believe that anyone feels that doctors in training work short hours, or that it would be good for them, or their patients if they worked more. There is a shortage of Doctors in the NHS already. To increase the hours they work, without increasing overall staff numbers seems very dangerous to me, regardless of pay. I think it's here that they have extremely strong grounds to resist the changes and where most of the public are supportive.

Whilst it's true that neither employee or employer may unilaterally vary the terms of an employment contract, it is possible for the employer to serve notice (following consultation), dismiss and re-engage staff on new terms. In order to do so, the employer must demonstrate a sound business reason for needing to enact the dismissal. I think Hunt would be mad to try this however. You could see substantial numbers of staff just walking away. I have heard it suggested of course, that this is the point. It would leave him with 'no choice' but to privatise /outsource large parts of the service for the 'sake of patient safety', whilst laying the blame at the feet of the BMA.

Kind of surprised there isn't already a thread on this (unless I've missed it). What are people's views of what's going on? From what I can tell, the government are looking to take an already stretch service and stretch it further, without increasing the numbers of doctors, in fact actively driving many more out of the profession. I am not one to look for conspiracy where incompetence is nearly always a simpler and more likely explanation, but it does seem that both tactically and strategically, this has been handled so badly as to make one wonder... Is there something else going on?

There was a good debate on Radio 4's 'Any Answers', re. Brexit this weekend.

Unclegen - I support free schools and academies - the creation of many different providers is a good thing. But forcing academisation on successful schools who dont' want it however, is ridiculous (and very unconservative, as you wish to make this, like everything, into a pro tory political rant). It's moving power and decision making away from local communities and schools in order to centralise power in Whitehall.

Bit unfair on Fox there Seabag. He ran his own business, which isn't easy. From those plans it definitely looks like a restaurant which is great in my book. There are loads of convenience stores on the Lane.

Social media changes the scale of this stuff though. It was a really big crowd at tower bridge, in the thousands I would guess.

Forgive the typos, on my phone.

Did anyone see the thousands of kids cycling through central London yesterday, doing wheelies down the wrong side of the road, jumping lights and along the pavement? I saw a couple of very near misses. Apparently this is an extension of the motorbike / scooter thing, where kids cover their faces and ride on mass through town. All organised through social media and promoted via YouTube channels such as bikelife.tv.uk. The hashtag for yesterday's stunt was #bikestormz3 . These guys are really dangerous and the police don't seem particularly concerned with stopping it. They were about, but in very small numbers and keeping their distance. It reminded me a lot of the riots, the way that the police were just standing back. It wouldn't have taken much for somethings to kick off and they would have been powerless to stop it. A lot of the kids were putting themselves and others in danger, openly smoking weed and doing wheelies through pedestrian crossing as people had to jump out the way. All whilst the police just watched. It was a direct challenge to the polices authority IMO. Can't help speculating that the feeling of impunity will inevitably lead to escalation. Weird it wasn't reported in the news too.

Yeah, I'm not that impressed by Sadiq Khan, but Goldsmith's tactics have made pretty sure I'll vote for him. I think the attempts to imply that Sadiq Khan (who has campaigned against extremism, defied death threats to vote for same-sex marriage and stated publicly that he considers himself a feminist) is somehow allied with radical islamists is patently absurd and horribly cynical.

The passive aggressive posts wind me up, the ones that say things like "its tough when you find that you cant rely on the people you thought you could". Always followed by "you OK Hun? Message me" etc.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > People holding vigils and > stuff for people they never knew is just odd, but > then again Christians do that stuff for Jesus > every year, so perhaps it's not so odd. That's an parallel with religion / religious dieties and death rituals.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Anyone else concur or is it just me? I totally agree. Whilst I admired Prince and enjoyed his music, I didn't know him personally. It's sad of course, but some of the reaction seems extreme to me. Post Diana it's seems to have become the norm to grieve celebrity deaths as though they were part of your family.