By the way Damo, you missed the last intake of aircraft cleaners at Leeds Bradford Airport a few months ago, evening and night shifts, 30 to 40 hours a week, no experience needed, 50% above NMW - have a look at your JCP and see if they are recruiting again with Easyjet moving to LBA.

christ when I was off work with my knee that was one of the most horrible & boring periods of my life, I missed working

When the company I worked for closed the division I was in I was made redundant it took me two weeks to find another job.

Just thought I'd share that with you guys.

have you ever thought of pm'ing ramrod?
surely he could clearly offer you something out in dubai

..and they don't have any internet access. FACT

i would love to google his mansion though wouldn't you?

I did, thats him in the middle trying to go native

he does look a bit out of place

There was this program I remember watching about immigration and migrant workers in Kent. This bloke came over from Croatia, moved in with his sister who already lived here and got a job ‘the next day’. Granted it was back-braking work picking butternut squash 8 hours a day but a job all the same.

There are plenty of jobs out there it’s just no-one wants to do them.

Both my daughters are doing their A-levels, both of them have part time jobs. Most of their friends have part time jobs.

Anyone (and I really do mean anyone) can get a job if they really want one.

Then as a matter of fairness you would also have to say that the Labour party (new and old) will always be the party of financial incompetence having played as big a part as the bankers in getting us all in this mess with no plan to sort it out other than higher taxes!

Back to the thread....

I always remembered Wilf Rosenberg as the "Flying Dentist" I suppose now he will be thought of as "the Flying Don"

The Tories were seeking an even lighter touch re-regulation of the city and backed Labour's spending plans right up to the global crash that started in the sub-prime market in the USA. The major difference then being that the Tories would have probably seen the likes of Northern Rock and the Halifax go under and their depositors left penniless, with unempolyment and home repossessions hitting the heights of previous recessions under Tory rule.

I think you will find the Tories did not agree with the flawed system of regulation introduced by the Labs which split responsibility three ways and totally failed to regulate the banks. "Oh I though you lot were going to check that!" "Ooo..No we thought that was your job"

The US sub-prime mortgage market may have been the start of the crash but the cause of the problem was the long period of low interest credit based overspending by both governments and consumers alike which ran up debts that we now have to pay back.

In the UK the New Labour Government after promising "an end to boom and bust" went along with a spending spree which as a country we simply couldn't afford and was gross financial mis-management. You can speculate all you like about what the Conservatives may or maynot have done had they been in power but you have to accept the fact that it was on the Labour government's watch and therefore their responsibility.

The UK as a very wealthy country had enjoyed a sustain period of growth based on a world boom, yet its Labour government failed to save anything for the rainy day that they never saw coming. Like Viv Nickolson, we went on a binge of "spend spend spend" but whereas she used her own pools winnings Labour borrowed the money for our binge.

With regard to the bank bail outs. Mr Brown showed us with his handling of the Lloyds episode why he is a politician and will never be professional manager.

I think we need a period of "nasty" government to fix the "nasty" problems left by that "nice" Mr Blair and that "naive" Mr Brown!