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 yerWhat the fucks to do?
donate to Boycott Workfare
btw, i suspect many people will be shocked and offended by this not just urbanites, etc, the contrast with the expense and luxury of the jubilee, etc is just so stark...
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
At the very least they should have been treated well! Really should have been paid though no excuses for a company to treat its staff like that.
one of the interesting things about social media, is that in some ways it acts like the samizdat of the old Eastern Bloc countries(which in many ways England is mirroring)the 'people' are talking about one thing, while the elites are discussing another, and ignoring the former, at some point the contrast becomes too great and things change...
btw, it was discussed in some detail on the Sky News paper review..
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Doesn't fit the 'we all love the queen' narrative though does it?
e2a: Christ the BBC site really is nauseating today. Not a whisper of any of this workfare stuff, even though it is far more relevant to the real lives of British people than some stupid old bitch on a boat waving.
See my post on samizdat, etc, the BBC is beyond the pale on welfare...
over 1600 posts on Guardian CIf though, thats a lot...
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
First thing I thought when the 'news' came on this morning. ITV and the Beeb are devoting all day to the Jubilee with no mention of this, or indeed anything approaching criticism of the Jubilee celebrations. Sickening
bmd
Island in the stream.
Well that explains it!
Does it work like that in the armed forces? "Here's your jet, it cost 1 Billion and each time you take it out that costs £40K. Obviously we won't be paying you and if you can just sign here, that's your family indentured for the next 300 generations".
Where's Derf when you need him?
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Excellent.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Got it in one.
You do what you can. Join a union; cunt off your MP about it; spread the word. Anything. And remember: The most intricate machines are the ones that are easiest to break.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Like a grotesque real-life re-enactment of the Derek and Clive sketch about removing lobsters from Jayne Mansfield's arse.
likesfish
You can't park here sir
Sia bit of paper costs about a £100 pretty fucking worthless qual but you need it to be a secuirty guard
While decent boots could cost over a £ 100 no doubt those the stewards got werent.
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Although they do add covert shopping trips to their services
While decent boots could cost over a £ 100 no doubt those the stewards got werent.
Most private secuirty firmsare mickey mouse closeprotectionuk add a walter mitty Name as well.
Although they do add covert shopping trips to their services
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
There aren't any, unless you count using the Thames as a latrine. There's public bogs, but they're locked at night.
ska invita
back on the other side
On the plus side a real chance to sink workfare
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
While the BBC News Channel pretends it never happened and carries on with their gushing sycophancy.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
They could be winning by a mile, all it takes is for someone to stick a stick through their spokes when they're looking back and laughing.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Because that would have affected their bottom line.
TBF, I can't even put a gloss of incompetence on this. They got the logistics (as far as they existed) right, so they're very obviously not incompetent, but rather they're a bunch of ravening capitalistic dickwads who don't give a toss who they exploit and how, as long as they get weighed out their wedge.
I find it hard to completely exonerate whoever it was who commissioned them!
teqniq
DisMembered
WTF is that it???
About 20 secs on world at one where they said the 'company had been criticised' and 'people had been expected to camp out' not that they had actually done so and that the 'company had apologised' no mention of the company name. This preceded by lots of gushing sycophancy.
About 20 secs on world at one where they said the 'company had been criticised' and 'people had been expected to camp out' not that they had actually done so and that the 'company had apologised' no mention of the company name. This preceded by lots of gushing sycophancy.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
One minuite claiming they were volunteers
Bbc let the fuckers off the hook.
Why the fuck would you get stewards from bristol for an event in london?
Because no self-respecting Londoner would do it, but instead assert that they're staunch republicans of the violent type?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Less than a minute. What the fucking fucking fuck?
likesfish
You can't park here sir
More likey its much harder to bin a job if you have a lot further to walk.Because no self-respecting Londoner would do it, but instead assert that they're staunch republicans of the violent type?
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