The Tories

[Lucysgirl]

Originally Posted by davebtelford

Think you're mixing your metaphors there Luce - 'Smoking Gun' or 'Smoke AND Mirrors'.

for pointing out the obvious - altho' at the time I typed the darned message I hadn't realised my brain had gone on a walk about. (most probably stood in the middle of the room wondering what it was doing there)

[cmonstanley]

another cock up well well BBC News - Hundreds of thousands hit by benefits backlog, another near miss or was it by william hague when he shouted from rooftops arm the syrian rebels who we know now are foriegn nationals to syria .

[cmonstanley]

BBC News - Passport delays: 'We've been held to ransom' another cock up then lol just blame the last labour government not so funny for people who have earned a holiday.

[DtheP47]

Interesting though cmon eh?

The Head Honcho in the passport office says the improving economy is to blame for delays in issuing passports as more people booked foreign holidays.

[cmonstanley]

zero hour contracts 16 hours included as full time employment people on the work program included in employed figures 250,000 self employed people on the bread line you are purely mental lol everybody knows the reasons are they made half the work force in the passport office unemployed. i cant believe people are believing the hedge fund news .

[cmonstanley]

really BBC News - Fees cut as part of emergency passport backlog measures she should resign anybody else not doing their job properly would get sacked

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

everybody knows the reasons are they made half the work force in the passport office unemployed.

And All the Johnny Foreigners who were let in by your beloved Labour are now eligible for a British Passport & as such are now claiming for one, not to mention the earlier hordes who are going for renewals so they can go on their hols back Home ..... er sorry, abroad, silly me!

[DaveinGermany]

Here you go C'mon, adopting your style of posting "C&P", I also apologise for it being a daily fail article, but at such short notice, well beggars can't be choosers. Paragraph 9 about sums it up.

Over 2million UK passports handed to foreigners since 2000: One immigrant is made a British citizen every two and a half minutes | Mail Online

[cmonstanley]

so why did they sack half of the passport employees if they knew the population was still rising ? answer they haven't got a clue. the tories have destroyed everything British when they have been in power. 1. British telecom mostly owned by foreign companies and over seas governments ,all profits leaving these shores,British royal mail mostly owned by the Singaporean and middle east governments,British rail carved up to hedge fund investors who have raised prices so much people are on the bread line because they can't afford to travel to work,british nuclear half owned by the french government fully owned by foreign powers, the British water board owned by Saudi Arabian and other middle eastern governments with hedge fund connections. all sold to their tory mates no wonder working people are struggling the tories are the enemy from within. everything johnny foreigner loved about Britain destroyed they must think we are mental. another thing how many british people have been given passports form countries abroad . i think it might be about the same.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

another thing how many british people have been given passports form countries abroad . i think it might be about the same.

I see your mouth moving but all I'm getting is blahdy, blahdy, blah, same old repetitive tripe & gripe, what did your boys do that was so wonderful? What would they do in the future? (I'm pretty sure I know, same o' same o' Labour!).

As to your last comment, I think I can help you there, NONE! (No-one is just given a passport, you have to apply funnily enough) You see, although we live abroad mainly due to better opportunities, a sense of adventure & to get away from the dogs dinner various Governments have made of our once proud country, I & others like me are still "True Brits" & would not willingly relinquish our claim to our British heritage.This is mainly due to the misguided belief that one day, just maybe, the country will return to its former glory & we might just want to come back home to stay.

[cmonstanley]

there must be some the only way our country would get its former glory if the infrastructure was put back into the hands of the population and proper government of britain. ie nationalization . we could control our own destiny instead of being at the mercy of the tory hedge funds.

[mallard]

They are back stabers there is one in hyndburn and lies like hell

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

there must be some the only way our country would get its former glory if the infrastructure was put back into the hands of the population and proper government of britain. ie nationalization . we could control our own destiny instead of being at the mercy of the tory hedge funds.

I agree that proper governance would be a step in the right direction, but out of the whole shower of She-ite we've got to choose from, even mixing & matching across the parties you'd still be hard pushed to drag together a halfways decent, honest, reliable & trustworthy government.

As to nationalization, it isn't the answer, its been tried & look where it ended, dominance by the unions, work to rule, strikes which didn't help the general public, the employees or for that matter the employers. A balance between privately owned & nationalized "should" in theory be the way forward, but not so unbalanced as it is today.

Government should read the companies & bidders the riot act, allow them to tender, make a reasonable profit for their investment, but should maintain control over things. If someone starts getting greedy or fails to effectively carry the agreed terms & conditions they signed up to they should be immediately stripped of their contract, hammered with fines & sent packing. Not rocket science is it? But there's no-one with the backbone or balls to see such conditions through & until that changes, UK will continue to wallow in the cesspit of ineffectual mediocrity it finds itself in today!

[Less]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

If someone starts getting greedy or fails to effectively carry the agreed terms & conditions they signed up to they should be immediately stripped of their contract, hammered with fines & sent packing.

The same should be applied to the (dis)honorable members of the trough.

[cmonstanley]

under nationalized industries people could afford to travel to work the share holder wasn't paid billions it just doesn't make sense to pay companies to pay their shareholders a dividend private firms are not the answer. we could have good of the country clause in their contracts and i think people would just be content having a full time job with decent wages these days not the zero hour full time 16 hours classed as full time jobs.