Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: I believe that the government are trying to find a way to increase current revenues and make it sound like they are trying to look after the nation. The truth is that they probably have information which shows that they will be increasing the pension age over the years, so those currently under 40 won't be able to get their pension until 75. Government actuaries have probably worked out that with a pension age of 75, they will have only x percentage still alive to receive a pension.
This is getting pretty sick. There was a recent report that revealed that there is no country in the world where men have an average life expectancy of over 80. So this will mean for a very large percentage of people, that they won't have a period of retirement, unless they have private means to support themselves. Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: Amazing that the English are still sitting on their backsides doing nothing. You deserve everything you get. Churchill once said the best argument against democracy is a 10 minute conversation with an average voter. And that was when kids were getting a better education than now.
Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: Allow people to be paid the true value of their work and there will be no need for paying out 'benefits'. And get rid of the millions of people who have come here to help themselves to the smorgesbord that is the British benefits system. Send them back to where they came from, to the countries and cultures they miss so much, and we will be on the road to recovery. Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: Unemployment benefit is there to replace earned income during times of unemployment, so it should be directly linked to wages - in my view, the minimum wage for a minum work week. Other benefits are paid to supplement income when wages are too low, so, again, the only benchmark against which they should be measured is wages. parliamentary information office and online parliamentary yearbook
Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: I am 100% sure that these useless qualifications only exist so that private companies can make money off them. They are worse than worthless in the care environment and are insisted upon by the local authority.
Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: But surely many of the surveys have shown that it is the trained professional nurses who lack the right skills, aptitude and empathy - long before we come down to those outside that profession - perhaps not least because of the way new nursing grades were devised that seem to preclude the recognition of vocational skills.
Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: We either pay higher prices at the checkout without subsidies, or lower shopping basket costs, but robbed out of our back pockets to cover the subsidies. Funny that I never saw the same support for State Aid to the coal miners or car workers that farmers whine about.
Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: The only similar situation in the UK is Welsh hill farmers who get subsidies vastly greater then the revenues from the farm With these hil farms the basic business is collecting subsidies. THe farm is incidental to it
Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: Are those Senior conservatives & sources really so dim in just now waken up after 13 yrs of labours plunder ? Now realising the embezzling going on, and more to the point, the Tories are stuck...(serve'em right) they can't do anything now that would avoid them loosing votes. (They've lost it anyway) even before IDS tries to rectify the busted welfare system without causing even more problems, and those effected by welfare curtailment are bound to walk directly into the labour party by default. Just watch the socialist safety valve 'lift', in coming to the rescue.
Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: What about the disgusting treatment the unemployed are subjected to, by having their £71 per week benefits sanctioned for 13 weeks. Simply because they won't apply for a job that they cannot get to??
For an example.. A job advertised on Universal Jobmatch starts at 6am. Public transport doesn't start running until 6am, so the person simply can't get to the job.
Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: The simple questions about the senior awards are:
Does the recipient of the title truly believe that they are better than anyone else because of it
Are they so deluded that they believe that their title makes up for poor work or underhand decisions throughout their lives
Do they not see that if a title is given to them for such bad performance, then the title itself is debased and deserves no special treatment
Do any of us treat such recipients any differently simply because of the title
And lastly, would we follow any of these "knights" or "lords" into battle because that was the criteria for such honours in the past.
Online Parliamentary Information Office and Yearbook: How many times must I read that politicians at all levels 'deserve' recognition through the honours system because 'they could earn more in the private sector'? Bunkum. Let them attempt to do so; in the true private sector and not some sinecure provided by government and councils of all hues. Too many of our politicians have little or no experience of a real working life and wouldn't last a week in the private sector. There are thousands of real people who give their time and knowledge freely in the support of others. It is they who deserve "honours"
Online Parliamentary Information Yearbook:They are everywhere! Scotland's landscape has been destroyed by these ugly monsters. On a recent trip to Montrose I counted no less than 38 separate wind farms - There is barely a spot on the M74 where you can't see one! Online Parliamentary Information Yearbook:The big question is how many more turbines will it take to produce 100 percent of Scotland's Electricty 100 percent of the time and at what cost Scotland is being festooned with turbines and power lines at the moment with less than 5 percent of electricty requirement s on average being produced . Somebody in the UKs Energy departments need to get real and really work out what is required to meet power requirements of the future or is this too much to ask? Online parliamentary information office reviews
