Workfare steward the Jubilee
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Logged in to urban cos I was proper shocked at this. How the FUCK has it come to this? Unemployed people coerced into sleeping rough for £2.80 an hour, long shifts, no accommodation or food or protection or minimum wage. Women sleeping under a bridge and changing in the rain to steward an event costing millions for the fucking QUEEN at a time when so many people are unemployed.
Honestly I feel as outraged as a tabloid journalist on paedos. It just seems fuckin INCREDIBLE that you can read an article like that in 2012 yer
What the fucks to do? 
Honestly I feel as outraged as a tabloid journalist on paedos. It just seems fuckin INCREDIBLE that you can read an article like that in 2012 yer
What the fucks to do? 
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Logged in to urban cos I was proper shocked at this. How the FUCK has it come to this? Unemployed people coerced into sleeping rough for £2.80 an hour, long shifts, no accommodation or food or protection or minimum wage. Women sleeping under a bridge and changing in the rain to steward an event costing millions for the fucking QUEEN at a time when so many people are unemployed.
Honestly I feel as outraged as a tabloid journalist on paedos. It just seems fuckin INCREDIBLE that you can read an article like that in 2012 yer
aye. fucking parasite scum.
Fuckin Jubolympics! Why are we spending money on this shit?!
Why are these not proper jobs, paying proper wages for these people. It's us spending the money on these show off bollocks events, I guess we've been told they create jobs or improve trade and industry. But it's fucking crap. Instead of creating jobs people are working for less than the minimum wage and being handed out fuckin ponchos. So companies can make money.
It's all so totally totally fucked it's like a joke yer. Completely transparent now, they don't give a fuck. But there's no alternative so what can you fuckin DO except join a union if your not self employed and try and support others? But it's like putting a plaster over a fuckin amputation. I hate em all so much but it's so fuckin pointless trying to do anything cos it's all so intricate.
Why are these not proper jobs, paying proper wages for these people. It's us spending the money on these show off bollocks events, I guess we've been told they create jobs or improve trade and industry. But it's fucking crap. Instead of creating jobs people are working for less than the minimum wage and being handed out fuckin ponchos. So companies can make money.
It's all so totally totally fucked it's like a joke yer. Completely transparent now, they don't give a fuck. But there's no alternative so what can you fuckin DO except join a union if your not self employed and try and support others? But it's like putting a plaster over a fuckin amputation. I hate em all so much but it's so fuckin pointless trying to do anything cos it's all so intricate.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Tomorrow's People have a long history of involvement in workfare in Bristol and elsewhere. They were one of the main culprits involved in the Major era Project Work pilot programme.
When you say that and believe it, you're already beaten. Do what you can, when you can, and hope that enough others will also do what they can when then can.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
it wouldn't be a royal affair without some unpaid serfs to give it an air of authenticity
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
I can't say I'm surprised
It wouldn't even surprise me if there are unemployed people cleaning the Queens arse as part of a workfare scheme
It wouldn't even surprise me if there are unemployed people cleaning the Queens arse as part of a workfare scheme
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Front page of the Guardian? Fantastic, the firm will have to get fucked over this now. Free Spirit has basically said everything I would have said, exactly right on everything.
Hopefully bring workfare generally back in the spotlight too, with the added bonus of it being the Jubilee so it'll anger daily mail royalist types as well.
Btw, on twitter - @molkellyprince is the boss of the security firm
Hopefully bring workfare generally back in the spotlight too, with the added bonus of it being the Jubilee so it'll anger daily mail royalist types as well.
Btw, on twitter - @molkellyprince is the boss of the security firm
Voley
🐀
This is grotesque even by Cameron's standards. Prosecutions, termination of contracts, questions in parliament and compensation for those exploited, please. I wonder if there are some employment solicitors out there willing to take this up? I'd really like to see this as the beginning of the end for workfare.
Mephitic
It's not easy having a good time
newbie
undisambiguated
how will they know? sfaics it's not mentioned on the Mail, Telegraph or BBCnews websites
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
It's amazing that people (just read a few responses on twitter) can still blame these poor sods for their unemployment when it seems they were so keen to get just temporary work far from their homes (at the olympics) that they felt they had to work for free.
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Have you looked to see if it's on mumsnet yet? I'm sure it will be... then there's twitter, facebook, friends, relatives... news travels faster these days. Front page of the guardian means more will see it at the newsagents as well. I'm not saying this story is likely to go any further than the guardian, not unless there's some new revelation, but people will hear about it even if they don't read the guardian.
They're winning so hard they're laughing at the rest of us.
Voley
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Even if you generously cut this company some slack for good old-fashioned management incompetence, it's impossible to avoid the fact that they've treated these people inhumanly. How could they possibly bus a bunch of people into central London on one of the busiest weekends of the year and not provide a bed for the night?
Absolutely disgraceful. Has anyone written to the minister, Chris Grayling? I have. Briefly, I have highlighted the abuses of working practices, and the deception of using apprentice wages when there are no permanent jobs on offer. That's got to be a criminal offence, surely? I have suggested immediate payment of NMW and suspension of First Protection UK and all related companies pending an investigation.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
CPUK's finances don't look too healthy, and its sole director has a string of failed/dissolved security companies under her belt. Probably best not to hold out for one of those promised "well-paid" Olympic jobs.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
...that and someone somewhere is probably gonna have to at least pretend to make an example of these fuckers. The workfare guys will be OK though, with that NVQ2 in crowd management the world is now their oyster.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Liberal Conspiracy saying £1.5m was budgeted, and people are reporting that paid workers were told they'd not be needed http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/06/05/where-did-1-5m-for-river-pageant-stewarding-go/
fakeplasticgirl
Keirleader
Disgusting.
fakeplasticgirl
Keirleader
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/End_the_disgrace_of_slave_labour_at_the_Queens_jubilee/
this been posted yet?
this been posted yet?
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves...well, apart from during Jubilee celebrations.
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
Anyone else having problems connecting to liberalconspiracy?
FabricLiveBaby!
Live Baby Fabric!
Someone on facebook posted:
It's a bank holiday today. Chances are no-one will be around to check this page till tomorrow. As Ozzy would say, go crazy!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Clos...Event-Services-Training-Provision/55796430241
It's a bank holiday today. Chances are no-one will be around to check this page till tomorrow. As Ozzy would say, go crazy!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Clos...Event-Services-Training-Provision/55796430241
teqniq
DisMembered
Yea no loady re liberal conspiracy. I see this has taken off bigstyle. I stuck a couple of links to blogs I came across on Twitter on the Jubilee thread and I think they just got lost in all the other stuff. Didn't say anything about people having to sleep/change under bridges though. Fucking disgusting indeed
past caring
The Cathars were right
Logged in to urban cos I was proper shocked at this. How the FUCK has it come to this? Unemployed people coerced into sleeping rough for £2.80 an hour, long shifts, no accommodation or food or protection or minimum wage. Women sleeping under a bridge and changing in the rain to steward an event costing millions for the fucking QUEEN at a time when so many people are unemployed.
Honestly I feel as outraged as a tabloid journalist on paedos. It just seems fuckin INCREDIBLE that you can read an article like that in 2012 yer
This is Edie the Tory, yeah?
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