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I reverse on to my drive and even then getting out is like Russian roulette. More often than not I have cars parked on the street overhanging my drive on both sides as there's not actually enough room to park on the street but they do it anyway. Along with someone parked right in front of me...

Cheers mate, not sure I'd say on the mend but I've not had a visit to hospital for a few weeks so that must be good 😂 It doesn't seem any great mystery to me why sickness benefits are increasing. We are an increasingly unhealthy nation. Some in obvious ways, like the obesity crisis, but also...

well at least he managed that

You can apply this to pretty much every public service.

this is not a public sector thing at all. I've worked in the private sector for years and every company I've worked for has had people who do fuck all and get away with it (not unusual that they are related to the owner!) or are always off sick. at my current company, where there's 7 people in...

Congratulations, you've just invented the benefits cap https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/benefit-cap/

People cling to this idea that there's huge numbers of people who just don't want to work but the evidence just isn't there. I'm sure there is a tiny minority that don't but in reality most people want to contribute to society. When there has been large scale UBI trials one of the findings is...

Tesco's were literally putting out job ads where the pay was in benefits

the one group of benefits recipients we did do it for, and who it was a success for, was those with learning disabilities. So of course those schemes were scrapped.

At least we don't have to worry about him leaving to pursue an acting career!

We tried this a few years back, it was called work fare and it was a complete disaster. The end result was essentially big employers enrolled in the scheme replacing low paid staff with people on the work fare scheme knowing the government would pay them rather than the employer. So it was...

That's great if you're renting, although its capped isn't it and often below what you're actually paying in the real world. I don't exactly live in a mansion but the housing benefit cap would be about £400 a month less than rents round here. And of course that assumes everyone who suddenly...

When people talk about average train driver pay you have to factor in that you're talking about an industry which has built up an operational model entirely reliant on overtime. There is a massive shortage of drivers. Anyone who uses the trains regularly will be able to tell you about...

How is this possible? My doctor recommended that I leave my job for health reasons. Essentially a quit your job or the stress will end up killing you conversation. I looked into how much I could get. Being hugely optimistic about how a health assessment would go the total I would get came to...

When people compare doctors starting salaries are they factoring in the cost of training. We're being told to ignore the likes of Australia and the US and instead compare with countries that pay new starters less. But are the new starters in those countries starting with effectively an...

This forum makes me laugh sometimes. A few pages back we were having a discussion about how the country is going downhill and one of the things that came up was piss poor wages leading to people who are qualified in certain things leaving the country to get better pay. Move forward a few pages...

I would never buy from viagogo or stubhub. Firstly you're supporting resale at inflated prices. These aren't people who happen to have a spare ticket, its industrial sale touting that stops the tickets ever reaching the primary market and frankly should be illegal. But secondly seen far too...

well at least they've had a successful year and didn't have to shut down for days because they'd ignored warnings to sort out the power supply to the airport

Probably worth pointing out they weren't happy with what they got a couple of years ago. What happened was a change of government in the midst of the longest running dispute in NHS history. There was a will on both sides to get a deal done. The reason the deal was only for 2 years is that it...

1st (Lancs) vs 4th (Bears) tonight, nice weather. Edgbaston is empty, got to be one of the lowest crowds they've ever had for a T20. This competition has been absolutely destroyed by the powers that be.