Quote Scooter Nik="Scooter Nik"uk.news.yahoo.com/unpaid-jubilee-stewards-probe-urged-132642492.html If it was in Korea, or some other country where 'spontaneous celebrations' rarely are that, someone would be talking about this. I wonder why they're not doing?'" They are talking about it, its been all over Twitter and there's articles in the Guardian and Independent about it, and now John Prescott has published on his website the letter he's sent to Theresa May: johnprescott.nationbuilder.com/a ... _secretary Now Prescott has put that out in the open with a direct challenge requesting the contractor's behaviour be checked to see if it breached the approved contractor terms and conditions something will have to be done about it. The cynics will say well Theresa May will just carry out a cover up to protect the contractor so they don't lose the contract, but if she does that she puts herself exactly in the position her opponents want her, vulnerable to a resignation level scandal, and journalists will sniff and dig around the truth here to unleash it on her at a time of maximum damage to the government. Prescott knows what he's doing here and if the contractor has done something seriously bad Theresa May is going to have to come down hard on them else take a massive risk with her own future. Also this involves the Secretary of State for DCMS (Jeremy Hunt) as well as the Home Secretary so it's dragged him into it just after he's squeaked through Leveson. Prescott is of an age and stage in his political career where he has nothing to lose and he can drop this like a ton of poop on the government and not let it go.

Quote Scooter Nik="Scooter Nik"uk.news.yahoo.com/unpaid-jubilee-stewards-probe-urged-132642492.html If it was in Korea, or some other country where 'spontaneous celebrations' rarely are that, someone would be talking about this. I wonder why they're not doing?'" They are talking about it, its been all over Twitter and there's articles in the Guardian and Independent about it, and now John Prescott has published on his website the letter he's sent to Theresa May: johnprescott.nationbuilder.com/a ... _secretary Now Prescott has put that out in the open with a direct challenge requesting the contractor's behaviour be checked to see if it breached the approved contractor terms and conditions something will have to be done about it. The cynics will say well Theresa May will just carry out a cover up to protect the contractor so they don't lose the contract, but if she does that she puts herself exactly in the position her opponents want her, vulnerable to a resignation level scandal, and journalists will sniff and dig around the truth here to unleash it on her at a time of maximum damage to the government. Prescott knows what he's doing here and if the contractor has done something seriously bad Theresa May is going to have to come down hard on them else take a massive risk with her own future. Also this involves the Secretary of State for DCMS (Jeremy Hunt) as well as the Home Secretary so it's dragged him into it just after he's squeaked through Leveson. Prescott is of an age and stage in his political career where he has nothing to lose and he can drop this like a ton of poop on the government and not let it go.

To follow Sally's post, there is certainly talk on the social media that the company in question dropped paid staff in order to replace them with free labour. It's not going to simply go away. There's already plenty of momentum around the government's 'work experience' policies and the culture that it seems to be producing of unpaid 'internships', as illustrated last week (IIRC) by such things as an online magazine advertising for an unpaid sub-editor and a retro clothing shop wanting an unpaid 'intern' too.

The company, incidentally, is saying it was a "logistical" problem. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18338724Story[/url

So that's okay. They didn't have much time to plan things, after all.

I saw a bit of all the ballyhoo on the news and was struck by the Prince of Wales' uniform.
My Grandfather was in the first World War and got three medals for all that sheer bloody awful hell ... so how come the Prince of Wales has virtually an entire gong orchestra on his left chest?

Also, in these austere times, I think maybe the extended Royal family could do with a bit of rationalisation.
What I'd be looking for is an initial headcount reduction of around 10% (cut out the dead wood) plus a further 10% year-on-year, plus flexible contract terms including a productivity-related pay deal for those remaining who would be TUPE-ed out to the winning privatisation bidder. (All that ribbon-cutting and "Have you come far?" chit-chat could easily be virtualised and offshored to India.)
Palaces and staff could be centralised at Buckingham Place which would free-up Windsor, Sandringham and Balmoral for bids from hotel chains.

Because he's the Prince of Wales and a vewy, vewy bwave man.

And because his mummy gave them to him.

Phew.
Well that's all right then.

Aye, but it's not you I'm gently trying to wind up


Afraid I'll be glued

The only bit of the wall-to-wall Jubilee celebrations I was unfortunate enough to catch was Jimmy Carr's link between two of the acts at the concert. Oh, and I watched Kylie with the sound off.

The rest of the whole nauseating spectacle was carefully avoided.

Oooh, cruel. But really, it's just keeping informed. Not hard




Sorry but that's just bollox and you know it. I made no such assumption so take your straw men and shove 'em. I would say the plan was to have a bit of a jolly knees up and this they seemed to me to passably well do. Overall I enjoyed it, though being able to FF through the recorded highlights was a bonus. But in terms of catering to all tastes, I reckon not too bad a job, what with Madness on the roof, the superb Bucky Palace graphics, military band, big-nmae and unknown acts, spectacular fireworks, and a bit of a Last Night of the Proms feel. I'm not overselling it, but you're definitely going OTT to deride it.


Leaving aside that you have no clue whether and to what extent she did or didn't like the entertainment, and I doubt she would agree with "idiot son", would that be perhaps because this old woman is in fact the reigning monarch whose diamond jubilee was being celebrated, and was (as per) doing her duty? (And leaving aside the fact that she did spend the first part of the concert at the hospital, so did both?) Major fail, especially missing Charles's attempt to be funny by the incongruous use of "mummy", which was in fact amusing and got a decent guffaw.

I also note your medical qualifications and diagnosis. Impressive. Just how do you get a bladder infection from being out in dismal weather, though, as I would like to avoid this myself. What did the hospitals do with teh queu of several million other people who got bladder infections from the self-same dismal weather? Must've been damn busy in A&E.