A cause for....apathetic disinterest?

[susie123]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Are they lighting a beacon on The Coppice tonight or will it be Pendle Hill?

Try this, Di

http://www.diamondjubileebeacons.co....ap_171898.html

[mobertol]

Madness on the roof of Buck. Palace singing "Our House" now that's MAD!!!

[Boeing Guy]

Nearly as good as Macca, how anyone can think they could over Live and Let Die, is beyond me

[MargaretR]

There was a distasteful side to the Sunday pageant -
Unemployed bussed in to steward river pageant | UK news | The Guardian

jobseekers were bussed in from Bristol Bath and Plymouth to work unpaid as stewards, and had to sleep rough under London Bridge.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

There was a distasteful side to the Sunday pageant -
Unemployed bussed in to steward river pageant | UK news | The Guardian

jobseekers were bussed in from Bristol Bath and Plymouth to work unpaid as stewards, and had to sleep rough under London Bridge.

Yeah ... just read that ... pretty sad and pretty sick ... But what can you expect from the tories ... after all, it's "part of the government's Work Programme."

[jaysay]

Well put the news on this morning and again it was wall to wall QJ, having already looked at the TV schedule on both BBC and ITV, when the outside reporter said she had a choir who had been waiting on the Mall since 10pm last night and they broke out with GSTQ, I finally lost the will to live and switched over to Vintage TV, a bit of sanity, records from the 40s and 50s

[Alan Varrechia]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

There was a distasteful side to the Sunday pageant -
Unemployed bussed in to steward river pageant | UK news | The Guardian

jobseekers were bussed in from Bristol Bath and Plymouth to work unpaid as stewards, and had to sleep rough under London Bridge.

Apparantly this is the same company thats in charge of the stewards at the olympics so maybe there will be more forced labour there.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Alan Varrechia

Apparantly this is the same company thats in charge of the stewards at the olympics so maybe there will be more forced labour there.

Perhaps the use of slave labour is a new directive, issued by our German masters at the E.U.

Who found the system most effective, as a means of keeping people busy, in WW II.

[susie123]

The Guardian only interviewed the whingers.There might be people there who would be grateful to have got this close to a real job if they were being assessed for the Olympics. They might have to face far worse hardships in the real world of work.

[MargaretR]

If that in any way resembled a 'real job' then we are regressing towards feudalism.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

If that in any way resembled a 'real job' then we are regressing towards feudalism.

Don't disagree with you Margaret but when qualifications like NVQ Level 2 in spectator safety are on offer you have to ask if there is much future in the world of work for the masses.

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

There was a distasteful side to the Sunday pageant -
Unemployed bussed in to steward river pageant | UK news | The Guardian

jobseekers were bussed in from Bristol Bath and Plymouth to work unpaid as stewards, and had to sleep rough under London Bridge.

The simple truth is that this lot got a free ride up to London to see the Queen; there are many, many others who wish they had been so lucky. It's the usual nonsense that we have come to expect from the Guardian. I only have to see that pinko liberal rag in my local newsagents and I need to vomit.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

The simple truth is that this lot got a free ride up to London to see the Queen; there are many, many others who wish they had been so lucky. It's the usual nonsense that we have come to expect from the Guardian. I only have to see that pinko liberal rag in my local newsagents and I need to vomit.

You put it far better than I could Tealeaf.

[Margaret Pilkington]

And the Guardian love to root out these stories...it seems to be their main aim in life.
Putting negative spin on things....these people were voluteers(it says so in the article)
The Guardian wouldn't want a perspective from anyone who saw this as an opportunity....30 people...two complainers....a lot like life really.

I would have loved an opportunity to get this close to the celebrations that were happening in the capital. And it wasn't exactly back breaking stuff was it.

[MargaretR]

Not everybody wanted 'a free ride to London'.
...... a return to the naval press gangs of the 18th century?

That fits the theme of a Canaletto flotilla nicely