Reply to: Unemployed had to sleep under bridge to work for Jubilee

[NickFitz]

The Royal Family comments:

[amcdonald]

The point is that Prescott is trying to garner publicity for his election to "Police Chief"...

"We need more plod on the street, not private security firms!" - that kind of thing.

He's a self-serving fat bastard who should be harpooned, sliced up and fed to the Japanese.

What have you got against the Japanese to inflict Prescott on their culinary experiences

[BrilloPad]

Styles junior has smarmed himself into a paid job on security at the Olympics during the school holidays. I'll warn him to steer clear of the totty.

sure

More for MTT then?

[Doggy Styles]

The danger is that he ends up patrolling the car park and seeing nothing but cars, rather than Olympic events.

He probably hopes so, that's easy money. However he's had to go on training courses, take exams and get through panel interviews, so the smug sod might have to do some proper work!

[TimberWolf]

Styles junior has smarmed himself into a paid job on security at the Olympics during the school holidays. I'll warn him to steer clear of the totty.

The danger is that he ends up patrolling the car park and seeing nothing but cars, rather than Olympic events.

[Mich the Tester]

Styles junior has smarmed himself into a paid job on security at the Olympics during the school holidays. I'll warn him to steer clear of the totty.

sure

[Sysman]

Who picks up this tab? yes its the taxpayer.

I don't know enough details. Coal Board probably, but failing that the social services.

But you are missing the point. It was more about discouraging you to go on strike than about taxpayers' money. An awful lot of taxpayers' money was blown on paying the police the kind of overtime that gave them holiday villas in Spain. Oh, and keeping an oil fired power station on standby at great cost.

[Doggy Styles]

14 hours standing around is hellish eternity though. Unless as you say you are less than 30 years of age and looking for totty.

Styles junior has smarmed himself into a paid job on security at the Olympics during the school holidays. I'll warn him to steer clear of the totty.

[Sysman]

Why not?

a) because evicting strikers would have been extremely bad publicity, back to the Victorian era etc
b) old fashioned tenancy agreements which made it difficult to evict tenants

[Sysman]

14 hours standing around is hellish eternity though. Unless as you say you are less than 30 years of age and looking for totty.

But at that age I would have preferred working outside to spending that amount of time working in a shop or Maccie D's.

Probably still would given the levels of pay offered.

[DodgyAgent]

If you were renting your house from the Coal Board and went on strike, the Coal Board could not evict you for not paying the rent,

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Who picks up this tab? yes its the taxpayer.

[KentPhilip]

If you were renting your house from the Coal Board and went on strike, the Coal Board could not evict you for not paying the rent,

Why not?

[Mich the Tester]

14 hours standing around is hellish eternity though. Unless as you say you are less than 30 years of age and looking for totty.

How much totty was there among the crowds?

[Sysman]

It isn't just the efficiency - By eliminating and avoiding public service monopolies as far as possible, they can prevent bolshie unions holding the country to ransom as they did in the 70s.

(And despite being partly bankrolled by unions, the same incentive holds as much for Labour as the Tories.)

And that was the basis for persuading so many that home ownership was a desirable thing.

If you were renting your house from the Coal Board and went on strike, the Coal Board could not evict you for not paying the rent,

If you'd sunk your life savings into your own house, you were going to think twice about going on strike then risking repossession and getting landed with hefty penalities for moirtgage payments in arrears.

Ditto on a smaller scale if you'd taken out a hefty loan for a car.

Labour followed this through with a policy of easy credit.

[TimberWolf]

I rmember doing stuff like this for free in my student days.

If I were still young and on JSA I would have seen it as an adventure and a chance to meet some totty.

Better than sitting at home writing out job applications, even if the totty failed to matetialise.

14 hours standing around is hellish eternity though. Unless as you say you are less than 30 years of age and looking for totty.