Reply to: Lets have a sweepstake

[vetran]

Quality I am having that!

Happened to my old washing machine but the guy (and his son) did ask and they seemed just decent honest people trying to make good use of the things that they find, things that the everday folk leave behind.

was he called Tobermory?

[BoredBloke]

Personally I think it's because all the really poor ones willing to come and pick strawberries for peanuts were already here.

Somebody should tell them that we don't use bartering any more. Pick strawberries for cash!

[original PM]

Quite a bit of this around where I am. I had an old bedframe in a rental house I was clearing. Could have taken it to the tip but I knew it was pikeydegradable and would vanish overnight. Strangely enough, the pile of bricks i also took out are still there a year later

The thing is, there wouldn't ever be a hint of 'do you want me to take this?' It's straight on the back of the wagon, no questions asked.

Quality I am having that!

Happened to my old washing machine but the guy (and his son) did ask and they seemed just decent honest people trying to make good use of the things that they find, things that the everday folk leave behind.

[vetran]

By the Daily Wail?

James O'Brien - LBC.
The BBC
The Tories.

Its still 25,000 a year.

and its registered as working so excludes the 'informal economy' and benefits.

[barrydidit]

We had a van load of them down our street last week, looking for 'any old iron'

the last time i saw that it was a cart being pulled by an orse.


very enterprising folks, i thought

Quite a bit of this around where I am. I had an old bedframe in a rental house I was clearing. Could have taken it to the tip but I knew it was pikeydegradable and would vanish overnight. Strangely enough, the pile of bricks i also took out are still there a year later

The thing is, there wouldn't ever be a hint of 'do you want me to take this?' It's straight on the back of the wagon, no questions asked.

[darmstadt]

Personally I think it's because all the really poor ones willing to come and pick strawberries for peanuts were already here.

Personally I think its because the real figures won't actually be available until August 2014 (*) and then they won't be correct and a more informed figure will be available the year after. There is also the fact that these figures also take into account those that came at the end of last year but didn't start work until this year. Figures eh...





(* I have the official reason for this somewhere but can't currently be bothered as I'm writing a rather nice little program)

[Mich the Tester]

...being sold as a drop in numbers.

By the Daily Wail?

[vetran]

its still 25% up on last year. but being sold as a drop in numbers.

[doodab]

personally I suspect its poor record keeping.

Personally I think it's because all the really poor ones willing to come and pick strawberries for peanuts were already here.

[vetran]

its coz they can't claim benefits apparently :

'The influx has not happened': Number of Romanians and Bulgarians with jobs in Britain FALLS after work curbs lifted | Mail Online

The number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in Britain fell after employment curbs were lifted in January, new figures showed today.

Ministers boasted that the predicted 'influx' had not happened, in part as a result of new rules limiting access to benefits for new arrivals.

In the first three months of 2014 there were 140,000 people born in the two countries working in the UK, down from 144,000 in the last quarter of 2013, but up from 112,000 at the start of last year.

personally I suspect its poor record keeping.

[VectraMan]

140,000 Romanians and Bulgarians were in work in the UK in the three months after lifting of controls, down 4,000 on Q4 but up 28,000 on a year before

From Unemployment Rate Down to 6.8% - Guy Fawkes' blog

Bloody immigrants. Not coming here. Not taking our jobs. Vote UKIP!

[d000hg]

Plus, English people steal lead from church roofs, copper wire, and anything you "left for them" (i.e. it was not nailed down) all the time.

[Mich the Tester]

What, stealing metal of war memorials?

Na, we have not had much of that before.

Who said anything about stealing metal off war memorials? EO and oPM gave examples of immigrants doing enterprising stuff without nicking anythign; you now start on war memorials and theft.

[minestrone]

Comin' over 'ere, doing enterprising stuff...

I suppose no locals had the initiative to try these activities?

What, stealing metal of war memorials?

Na, we have not had much of that before.

[BigTime]

140,000 Romanians and Bulgarians were in work in the UK in the three months after lifting of controls, down 4,000 on Q4 but up 28,000 on a year before

From Unemployment Rate Down to 6.8% - Guy Fawkes' blog