Has the Queen died?
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Starry Wisdom
for someone who claims to have had me on ignore for years you quote me with depressing frequency
magneze
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Argonia
Happy go licky
So how does this George Cross for all NHS workers going to work? Are they going to mass produce one each for the 1.5 million people working in it? Are they going to made in a Nike sweatshop in east Asia?
Royals celebrate NHS anniversary with George Cross and tea party
The Queen awards the NHS the George Cross while Prince William attends a thanksgiving service.
www.bbc.co.uk
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
No doubt the SCG corporation will invoice the DHSC for the cost of producing the empty symbolism of the single representative medal and that cost could be deducted from the nurses pay cut 'award'.So how does this George Cross for all NHS workers going to work? Are they going to mass produce one each for the 1.5 million people working in it? Are they going to made in a Nike sweatshop in east Asia?
Royals celebrate NHS anniversary with George Cross and tea party
The Queen awards the NHS the George Cross while Prince William attends a thanksgiving service.www.bbc.co.uk
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Just what you need instead of a decent pay rise.So how does this George Cross for all NHS workers going to work? Are they going to mass produce one each for the 1.5 million people working in it? Are they going to made in a Nike sweatshop in east Asia?
Royals celebrate NHS anniversary with George Cross and tea party
The Queen awards the NHS the George Cross while Prince William attends a thanksgiving service.www.bbc.co.uk
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
As my (politically incorrect) late Uncle used to say...the 3 most useless things in the world; a man's tits, the Pope's balls and a vote of thanks for the staff!
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Son Q's girlfriend is a nurse, Son went and fetched her home from work one Thursday last year as we were all stood on the doorstep duly clapping away.
"Well this is all very nice" she said "But I'd rather have some money"
There will probably only be one actual medal minted, there was one awarded to Malta at the end of WW2 which is now currently in the Maltese National War Museum.
Argonia
Happy go licky
About as useful as the gesture politics of clapping for them.
Boris Johnson says he would not take the knee: 'I don't believe in gestures'
Prime minister adds that people should not be ‘bullied’ into acting contrary to their wishes
www.independent.co.uk
Argonia
Happy go licky
My New Zealand born grandfather Ian who fought in the Navy in the Second World War and recently died aged 102 saw action in Malta. He commanded me to "get political" and "get the flags and banners out" so I got political. Fortunately he survived the war and had a good career in radar.
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Starry Wisdom
he'll wish he'd paid more attention to gestures when he stares in abject horror down the gullet of a penguinAbout as useful as the gesture politics of clapping for them.
Boris Johnson says he would not take the knee: 'I don't believe in gestures'
Prime minister adds that people should not be ‘bullied’ into acting contrary to their wishes
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Starry Wisdom
and there will be no minted nurses
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Starry Wisdom
oh and if people shouldn't be bullied into acting contrary to their wishes i hope johnson will take this laudable notion to dr therese coffey at the dwp and instruct her to end sanctions forthwithAbout as useful as the gesture politics of clapping for them.
Boris Johnson says he would not take the knee: 'I don't believe in gestures'
Prime minister adds that people should not be ‘bullied’ into acting contrary to their wishes
Argonia
Happy go licky
Private so probably shouldn't say but my brother has been unemployed for 3 and a half years - one of the roughly 2,.6 million - so I live in fear of sanctions and if necessary will have to get a second job to get him food. Luckily he has dutifully done his jobsearches so no sanction yet. He has also been doing voluntary work editing fiction which uses his editing qualification so at least has something on his CV and a reference. I have had my fair share of time in the JobCentre Plus and hated every minute of it. The whole system treats you like some sort of petty criminal and is far from a Universal Basic Income.
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Starry Wisdom
i've had some good times in job centres. like the time in may 1998 i quit a temping job and walked up to the dole to start my claim, where i had a very enjoyable chat with the man who signed me on - nothing to do with my claim but a mutual and not dole related interest. or the auld-ish man who had been there since 1976 and didn't give a shit, so if he signed you on it was done and dusted in 30 seconds and no questions asked. and i've mentioned the time where i thought i was owed a tenner but was in fact owed a whole giro. yeh the good times are few in comparison to the meh or bah but they were still there. however, i haven't signed on since november 2005 so i'm well aware that much has changed since then and little of it for the better.
Argonia
Happy go licky
I had mixed experiences. Some of them were tyrants who really got on my case but there were some kind people working there as well who listened to me and did a good job despite the awful targets they were under from their managers.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
My last visit to the Labour Exchange was in 1983; the bloke at Catford told me that there were so many claiming that I wouldn't be expected to sign-on again for 6 weeks! That took me nicely through to the start of next term.
But, yeah...well aware that things are totally different now and the neoliberal shitstorm blows hard against those in need.
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Starry Wisdom
sadly we're never going to return to the halcyon days of my first period on the dole where you queued up in the job centre and signed and went on your way. but that was in the nineties and things were different then.
Argonia
Happy go licky
It wasn't too bad when I tried making a concept album based on Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in Todmorden. We used to make up names of companies we applied to in our job diaries and nobody ever checked. There was even a special system for young musicians like my mate from Oxford James Rutledge which allowed him the space to make music without being hassled (he lived down the road in Hebden Bridge).
en.wikipedia.org
James Rutledge - Wikipedia
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Starry Wisdom
can't help thinking you might have done better to make a concept album based on ovid's ars amatoriaIt wasn't too bad when I tried making a concept album based on Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in Todmorden. We used to make up names of companies we applied to in our job diaries and nobody ever checked. There was even a special system for young musicians like my mate from Oxford James Rutledge which allowed him the space to make music without being hassled (he lived down the road in Hebden Bridge).
James Rutledge - Wikipedia
Argonia
Happy go licky
Never occurred to us! Used to schlepp off to an internet cafe in Tod run by a crazy old guy called Pete who had no custom but was amazed to see us turn up printing off Latin verse.
Argonia
Happy go licky
I'm trying to find out how many benefit sanctions there are each year and the government statistics websites are driving me up the fucking wall. All I want is a nice clear number without a load of garbage in the way. I found out one source that said there were 686,000 in the year 2014.
Argonia
Happy go licky
From Russia Beyond:
Did you know that even Queen Elizabeth II has some old pieces of jewelry that once belonged to the Russian royal family?
www.rbth.com
Did you know that even Queen Elizabeth II has some old pieces of jewelry that once belonged to the Russian royal family?
What happened to these priceless Romanov tiaras after 1917 Revolution?
Even Queen Elizabeth II has some old pieces of jewelry that once belonged to the Russian royal family.
I haven't liked to do that before but have now changed my mind. The ignore button is great.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Can't have too many sparkly hatsFrom Russia Beyond:
Did you know that even Queen Elizabeth II has some old pieces of jewelry that once belonged to the Russian royal family?
What happened to these priceless Romanov tiaras after 1917 Revolution?
Even Queen Elizabeth II has some old pieces of jewelry that once belonged to the Russian royal family.
Argonia
Happy go licky
Alright for some. The one million disabled sanctioned since 2010 don't have very sparkly hats as their carers rush them to food banks.
More than a million benefits sanctions imposed on disabled people since 2010
Groundbreaking Demos study reveals ‘culture of disbelief’ about disability among jobcentre staff leads to money being docked
The study found that disabled claimants receiving jobseekers’ allowance – given to people who are out of work – were 26-53% more likely to be sanctioned than claimants who were not.
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Starry Wisdom
i wish you could have explained what's so scandalously offensive about saying someone protests too much. i'd love to know. but it seems the task was too much for you.
Argonia
Happy go licky
Iceland is a very sane country. We in the Republic can learn from them.
Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success" and led to many workers moving to shorter hours, researchers have said.
The trials, in which workers were paid the same amount for shorter hours, took place between 2015 and 2019.
Four-day week 'an overwhelming success' in Iceland
The majority of workers in Iceland now look set to move to shorter hours for the same pay.
www.bbc.co.uk
Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success" and led to many workers moving to shorter hours, researchers have said.
The trials, in which workers were paid the same amount for shorter hours, took place between 2015 and 2019.
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