Oh yes!
It also comes with fracking rights for the land.
Loaded I am ......lol

Yes, we know.

How many people are only getting £70 a week? I would assume your council tax will also be covered through benefits?

Many who are singularly unemployed I would imagine.
Council tax wasn't paid if unemployed but as of last year a percentage has now to be found.
Think it's 25% of the annual bill.

You obviously don't you annoying little !

Unemployment down again. Austerity is working.

And underemployment?

All those having to use foodbanks or rely on Red Cross parcels?

Is austerity working for them.

Have you got anything to contribute other than soundbites and a habit of running away whenever you're asked a direct question?

Come to think of it, have you yet answered Sheldon's remarkably simply one about what you do for a living?

Never mind his slightly more complex and philosophical one – well, for a limited intellect – of what value you place on human life?

Or will you just run away. Again.

Like a little troll with nary an idea of their own.

Something is happening - it could be just a timing thing - I am being asked about my interest in more jobs and I will not be the only one. There does seem to be more activity on the job front than there has been for several months.

I suppose you cannot see the potential flaw in your comment.
I am not being nasty or snide but it stands out like a sore thumb!

So, are there more jobs? Or just more people asking?

If the latter, what does that suggest to you?

Definitely more jobs - one company a supplier to Asda has increased turnover from 1bn to 3bn in the last 4 years and are expecting similar growth over the next three years. Another is a food manufacturer MBO linked to Booth's - both offered through connections in each firm.

Work is out there I myself am looking for someone - I am going to offer today to someone who came through this very forum. There is definitely more activity in the job market at all levels IMO. This is in the grimey north!!

And are those jobs all full-time and paying a living wage?

I think we'll make a lethal partnership after I've sorted your politics out.


To be serious for a moment though, I have heard little Ajwy ... makes a mean cup of tea.

=#FF0000Let's stick with trying to remember the watershed. Mintball

Well today Carney has confirmed we have underemployment:

[url=http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/24/uk-economy-escape-velocity-mark-carney-interest-rates?commentpage=1UK economy well short of escape velocity, Mark Carney tells Davos[/url

And before anyone says "It's link from the Guardian, si it is biased" his [uquote[/us are being reported in the same vein elsewhere.

He is not going to raise interest rates because:

"Crucially, unemployment remains above the level that is likely to be consistent with maintaining inflation at the target in the medium term. It is not just that nearly three quarters of a million more people are out of work than before the crisis; [uanother three quarters of a million more people are involuntarily working part time[/u."

The following comments are also interesting in the context of this thread:

"A few quarters of above-trend growth driven by household spending represent a good start, but they aren't sufficient", Carney said as he discussed the prospects for permanent exit from the deepest recession of the post-war era.

"It will take sustained growth, more balanced demand and a recovery in the supply side for advanced economies to break free into a more normal universe."

Seems to me these comments vindicate the position of many of us on here that the recovery is not a balanced one and that falls in the headline figure of unemployment mask the problem of underemployment.

Any of the right wing element going to disagree with Mark Carney's opinion?

He's doing one of two things...

1. He's got his head screwed on properly and sees exactly what is going on and knows a false dawn when he sees one in which case you have to have confidence in him.

2. He's buying another twelve months low interest rates for Gideon.

There will always be a number of people who work part time who want to work full time. I suspect this is nothing unique to this point in time. Whether this 'means we have underemployment' is dubious. Having a job is better than no job at all.

Mark Carney was pursued for a long time by Osborne to head up the Bank of England, so credit must go to him for his appointment.

What is clear is that nearly every indicator of economic growth is now positive after the mess Labour left.

Do you always call people by their middle names? His name is George.

Yes, yes I do actually James.

Ah yes: Gideon – the name he decided to ditch as a teenager, because he (allegedly) considered it too Jewish sounding for a future prime minister.

You apparently do. His name is Gideon" George" Oliver Osborne.

No his first name is George.

No, his first name is Gideon. He decided he wanted to be known as George from the age of 13. I doubt he has changed it by deed poll, so his name is Gideon Oliver Osborne aka George Gideon Oliver Osborne.

Edit: He has changed it by deed poll to add George before Gideon, but theres no getting away from the fact for the first 13 or 14 years of his life (depending on who you believe) his name is Gideon and no hiding from why he changed it in the first place.

I'm sorry you are wrong.

"At age 13 he dropped his given name, Gideon, in favour of George (and added it officially to his name by deed poll), in what he subsequently described as a rare act of rebellion"

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica

So you will call him George now then instead of his middle name?

See post above. He was still baptised Gideon whether you (or he) likes it or not!

WTF?

He changed it because he didn't like it - is that ok with you?

When you meet someone do you ask them if they have ever changed their name in their life and if they have do you then call them by their old name from then on, instead of their preferred new name?

Just bizarre.