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Nine for Thursday - Wiggins.
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17 hours ago, craigkillie said:
What has been described on this thread isn't "fire and rehire" though, it's simply a refresh of conditions with the option of the legacy contract available to those who want it. Nobody is suggesting binning off the staff who don't agree, but rather removing this form of contract organically over time as these staff retire or leave.The goal of the negotation may well be pay for the employees, but by using their terms and conditions as part of their negotiating technique, I think that becomes fair game for the overall negotiation. Otherwise the government can quite easily be left wondering whether they could repeat this gambit again in six months time and look for another payrise.
The idea of "legacy contracts" has been a significant driver in Management being able to divide and conquer across various sectors in recent years. I could show you a random hundred Prison Officers, and there would be at least four, maybe as many as ten sets of T&Cs being adhered to - by Staff who are facing the same risks day after day, and for whom solidarity is not just a slogan, it's a vital component of their safety. This fragmenting of Staff alsomakes collective bargaining a fucking nightmare.
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3 hours ago, Snafu said:
In 20 years time I can see the UK Government which will obviously be made up of completely different people having to apologise to families for this debacle and the public will be shocked over what happened and questions asked why was one war regarded as different from another when regarding allowing people to stay in this country. Historically its going to look a bit racist.
Two issues with your last sentence:
1. "Historically"?
2. "a bit"?
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...and a pretty pleasing seven on the SCQ.
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Ten for Wednesday - total guess on number7.
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2 hours ago, Snafu said:
Stuck for good ideas JRM has appealed to the public erm.....Daily Express readers on what should be the next changes that the Governement should make. There were 2000 ideas. The most popular idea was emergency fracking (obviously not on Conservative ran constituencies, NIMBYs and all that) but the most workable idea and would hit all the Boomer nostalgia bells would be to doing away with the EU regulations that restrict vacuum cleaner power to 1400w.
Now this one I'm for, more power. need more power. Today's vacuum clears are piss poor weak like electric lawnmowers. If you are a man who demands more out of life, you need something powerful like a jet engine or a black hole for a vacuum cleaner, because reasons.
However despite that I think the whole list is a lie and Jacob Rees-Mogg made it all up himself and Daily Express readers are gullible fools, what do you think?
Nine of the top ideas named from the department are:
1. Encourage fracking, shortcut rules on planning consultation via emergency act.
2. Abolish the EU regulations that restrict vacuum cleaner power to 1400 watts.
3. Remove precautionary principle restrictions (for instance) on early use of experimental treatments for seriously ill patients and GM crops.
4. Abolish rules around the size of vans that need an operator's licence.
5. Abolish EU limits on electrical power levels of electrically assisted pedal cycles.
6. Allow certain medical professionals, such as pharmacists and paramedics, to qualify in three years.
7. Remove requirements for agency workers to have all the attributes of a permanent employee.
8. Simplify the calculation of holiday pay (eg 12.07 percent of pay) to make it easier for businesses to operate.
9. Reduce requirements for businesses to conduct fixed wire testing and portable application testing.Aye, fucking H&S gone mad, innit? Until the first factory burns down, or the first office worker gets fried by the office microwave.
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2 hours ago, Bairnardo said:
Yeah but that's the point, there are so few left now that their voices as the authority on the subject are drowned.
Back to Dulce Decorum Est.... we go, until somecunt gives us a reminder that war is actually really shit.There's a fair few wee brown folk been having that "lived experience" for a few decades now. Understandably ignored by the GBP, but now there's some folk "like us" having their country destroyed, you'd think we(as a Nation) would be paying attention..
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Nine for Tuesday - I enjoy Egyptian mythology, but tend to get the characters mixed up.
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Eight for Monday - State and Planet.
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8 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:
^^^ Hitler likes this.
..as does Churchill
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1 hour ago, PWL said:
No Maddie or Princess Di either.
Fair play to the Heil, that's more Excess territory.
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Not according to Raaaaaab. They've brought the "lock em up and throw away the key" strategy out again. Pity they can't staff the jails any more. Apparently HMPPS now see Amazon and the big supermarkets as direct competitors for labour. Someday soon, this is going to go badly, badly wrong, and I'm fucking glad to be getting out in one (slightly battered) piece."service user", shirley?0 -
10 hours ago, Suspect Device said:
You could say the same thing about many, many other useless shit that folk spend their money on. Cigarettes and alcohol, gambling, fake nails/eyelashes/tan, gym memberships, every streaming service going, takeaway food etc etc etc.
All unnecessary and should be the first thing cut back on. The problem comes when you've cut back on all the unnecessary shite and still haven't got enough money.
..and more and more people, many in full-time employment, have reached that point already. It isn't getting any better, either. In what we are repeatedly told is a prosperous nation, that is fucking obscene.
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6 hours ago, Salt n Vinegar said:
My perception is that because there's not much leaking of possible names, it could be someone quite senior....
(Please, please, please
let it be a particularly tall, lanky, bespectacled streak of piss whose name rhymes with peas-hogg)
5 hours ago, Zern said:My money is on the slithy Gove.
The erratic behaviour, the drug-fuelled dancing, and above all his moist lips.
We are spoiled for choice when it comes to Torys and sexual assault.
Neither is unbelievable, but this is a pretty crowded field. No matter the current form, mind, I'd have my normal five-pound "saver" on that oily wee cúnt
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6 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:
This probably makes me a terrible person, but it's things like this which bring a brighter ray of sunshine into my life.
Coungt me in on that as well. One of the few bright spots was having these types getting to understand the difference between "ex-pats" and "immigrants".
i.e. none.
The "discrimination" those pesky foreign airports are practising raises a wee smile, too.
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Massively relieved to see that you're alright, @Hoose Rice. For all the sniping and whingeing, P&B is a big family, and as such we absolutely care for each other. @Andy Dufresne, massive credit for your swift actions.
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Nine for Friday. Why would I be wanting to talk to someone in America anyway?
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Nine for Wednesday and ten for Thursday.
Oh, and a back-to-normal four fior the SCQ.
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34 minutes ago, dirty dingus said:
I've actually just realised I hate this gaslighting wankstain more than Thatcher.
Oh, that ship sailed many months ago. At least that bitch was competent. And had the decency to die.
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Nine for Tuesday - guessed fat wrestlrer, but not Indian state.
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A tumescent ten for Monday. Even got the cycling one right without totally guessing it.
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Well enough to avoid the TV show, the films, the spin of shows, the "rebooted" films, and most of all the kind of people who think dressing up as aliens to meet up in some provincial conference centre is normal behaviour.
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Haven't got a gif, but that wee welcome to Scottish football is absolutely burned into my memory. Lovely stuff.Joey Bartons time in Scotland can be hilariously summed up in a 2 second gif, if anyone happens to have one handy, of Greg Taylor absolutely melting him.0 -
2 hours ago, doulikefish said:
Sausage mixer
Mrs WRK has spent years asking me why I'm watching "that stupid low-budget shite". (I'm a long-term fan)
She was absolutely buckled for a good ten minutes after watching Ramsey and Horne getting battered by chipolatas. That Geordie lad is adding plenty of value with his mad games this series.
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The All New Occasionally Aussie P+B Quiz League and ☕ Occasional Cup ☕
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Seven here as well. Dickens, element and Statham did for me.