comment by Robbing Hoody - At the end of a storm (U6374)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 12 minutes ago
Starmer asks the most relevant question, are working people better off today than they were 13 years ago? We all know the answer.

The Conservative party have failed the country, its people, its institutions and its future.
Still people, let's call them incurable masochists, will continue to vote for them.
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Yeah but Corbyn
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They don't say Corbyn anymore, he cannot be named, just alluded to through mentioning "Islington North"

Sky News are reporting that having run the numbers the govt can hope to bring only around 110,000 of the 7million potentially economically active but currently inactive UK residents back into the workplace.

Since the start of the pandemic, there has been an *increase* of 493,000 potentially economically active but currently inactive *amongst over 50s alone*.

For all the mammoth spend, these measures are barely going to make a dent.

Economic outlook is better than previously feared - but it's still very bad. What does that mean for humans? This is on course to be the worst parliament on record for living standards. By a country mile.

https://twitter.com/torstenbell/status/1636054312747925504?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

BREXIT FOOOOKING BRITAIN

Tik Tok getting banned in the UK, best news ever

comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
Tik Tok getting banned in the UK, best news ever
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Lets hope Twitter is next.

comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
Tik Tok getting banned in the UK, best news ever
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"...TikTok is set to be banned on phones and other devices used by government ministers and civil servants on security grounds."

Have a feeling will eventually be banned here following bans in the US and EU.

That’ll show China

I quite like TikTok. Really is better than YouTube once you train the algorithm. So many things I’ve learnt from it and some really interesting ways to view the world.

comment by Robb #teamlineker (U22716)
posted 6 hours, 58 minutes ago
I quite like TikTok. Really is better than YouTube once you train the algorithm. So many things I’ve learnt from it and some really interesting ways to view the world.
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You can see the same content on Instagram, and that makes money for a US based company, so it's a matter of time

Happy St Patrick's day!

Sympathy to all Fenians that gave up the booze for lent!

Doctors on strike.
Railways on strike.
Passport office to strike.
Racist, sexist and homophobic Met police report.
DVLA failing drivers 3 million delays in licences issue.
Tourist numbers down.
Privatised Royal Mail failing in its primary purpose of delivering letters.

Front page of BBC news, failing, declining, Tory led country.

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 29 minutes ago
Doctors on strike.
Railways on strike.
Passport office to strike.
Racist, sexist and homophobic Met police report.
DVLA failing drivers 3 million delays in licences issue.
Tourist numbers down.
Privatised Royal Mail failing in its primary purpose of delivering letters.

Front page of BBC news, failing, declining, Tory led country.
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On the Royal Mail story they don't, and won't ever know the half of it,

My manager routinely fails to properly report the office failures, and I'm currently suspended from work for challenging my manager on prioritising tracked parcels over mail on 6 duties last Saturday. Apparently I questioned his authority in front of other employees and it was bullying 🤷🏼‍♂️

comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 22 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 29 minutes ago
Doctors on strike.
Railways on strike.
Passport office to strike.
Racist, sexist and homophobic Met police report.
DVLA failing drivers 3 million delays in licences issue.
Tourist numbers down.
Privatised Royal Mail failing in its primary purpose of delivering letters.

Front page of BBC news, failing, declining, Tory led country.
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On the Royal Mail story they don't, and won't ever know the half of it,

My manager routinely fails to properly report the office failures, and I'm currently suspended from work for challenging my manager on prioritising tracked parcels over mail on 6 duties last Saturday. Apparently I questioned his authority in front of other employees and it was bullying 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Oh ffs. Sorry to hear that Insert

comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Finest (U17054)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 22 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 29 minutes ago
Doctors on strike.
Railways on strike.
Passport office to strike.
Racist, sexist and homophobic Met police report.
DVLA failing drivers 3 million delays in licences issue.
Tourist numbers down.
Privatised Royal Mail failing in its primary purpose of delivering letters.

Front page of BBC news, failing, declining, Tory led country.
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On the Royal Mail story they don't, and won't ever know the half of it,

My manager routinely fails to properly report the office failures, and I'm currently suspended from work for challenging my manager on prioritising tracked parcels over mail on 6 duties last Saturday. Apparently I questioned his authority in front of other employees and it was bullying 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Oh ffs. Sorry to hear that Insert
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It's the third time in about 6 months 🤣

Royal mail managers have been emboldened by the hierarchy to try and force employees out, we have had a few leave in the last few weeks, one left because his round of 20 years was taken out while he was on leave without him being told. I'm pretty sure his round was chose because he was of retiretment age and they knew he would just go.

A woman who couldn't complete her duty anyway quit without another job to go to because they gave her another 30 minutes of work and told her the round was completable and she would face investigations if she wouldn't complete.

We have a member of staff who has been suspended from work for 6 weeks now for refusing unsafe workvans (they have taken out the royal mail fleet workshops as a cost-cutting measure) the RAC recently had a meeting with the companies fleet manager and told them if they don't start fixing their vans RAC will drop the breakdown contract as the vans are unfit for the road.

It's an utter asset stripping cost reducing shiiiitshow, ended the cross subsidy and are cutting it to the bone, why conservatives continue to believe public services should be delivered in the private sector is beyond me.

Jeez! And they say you're the bully ffs!

Privatisation has been a disaster.

And fair play to you Insert for not taking their s**t.

“why conservatives continue to believe public services should be delivered in the private sector is beyond me”

None of them believe that privatisation leads to improved service provision.

But that isn’t their concern. Their concern is reducing the tax ‘burden’ in any and all possible ways.

comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Finest (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
“why conservatives continue to believe public services should be delivered in the private sector is beyond me”

None of them believe that privatisation leads to improved service provision.

But that isn’t their concern. Their concern is reducing the tax ‘burden’ in any and all possible ways.
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Which they could do with arms length NPEs

It's far more.about feathering their own nests.. look at how badly undersold royal mail was, and then they have sold off huge amounts of the real estate, to boost dividends, selling old post office buildings and replacing them with expensive leases on industrial units (some owned by board members) and I fully suspect that GLS (Royal mails highly profitable overseas service) will be split off in the next few years with a lot of infrastructure and the letter business will be dumped back on the government.

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 13 minutes ago
And fair play to you Insert for not taking their s**t.
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My sense of justice is too strong, that's why I haven't allowed the first case against me to be dropped, it was intended to try and intimidate me but at two levels I've now ripped it apart citing collusion between my manager and two colleagues to try and get me fired.

It's been escalated to it's third and final stage now, meeting is on Monday, I'm very much looking forward to it 🤣

RM overseas is an absolute joke.

I was told about ‘5 days’ to send an important document to Cyprus, Tracked and Signed.

It spent 17 days in my local sorting office before it even left the UK.

Total bag of shizzle

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 6 minutes ago
RM overseas is an absolute joke.

I was told about ‘5 days’ to send an important document to Cyprus, Tracked and Signed.

It spent 17 days in my local sorting office before it even left the UK.

Total bag of shizzle
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Was that during the recent hacking issues?

comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 6 minutes ago
RM overseas is an absolute joke.

I was told about ‘5 days’ to send an important document to Cyprus, Tracked and Signed.

It spent 17 days in my local sorting office before it even left the UK.

Total bag of shizzle
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Was that during the recent hacking issues?
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Sent on Feb 23rd, they still haven’t received it

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 6 minutes ago
RM overseas is an absolute joke.

I was told about ‘5 days’ to send an important document to Cyprus, Tracked and Signed.

It spent 17 days in my local sorting office before it even left the UK.

Total bag of shizzle
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Was that during the recent hacking issues?
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Sent on Feb 23rd, they still haven’t received it
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I'll also guess you sent it at a post office? because that fits with the date when hackers had the international systems down at the company.

Mind you there's all sorts of things that can go wrong, they lose very very few parcels, but everyone seems to expect their posted items are handled with velvet gloves from posting to delivery, and they really arent

All the mechanical and human processes things go through you often get items with ripped off labels or obscure addresses, or outright ruined. Then they end up going "to Belfast" where they get opened up to find out if there's any sender's details to return the item to.

It was an A5 envelope containing 2 sheets of paper with the address typed on it

I sent him a link to the RM webpage where it said 3-5 days plus the tracking number. He still thinks it’s me who’s been inefficient rather than RM, their reputation is still intact in the former colonies

Surprised there’s not been much commentary on SVB, unless I’ve missed it.

Socialised losses, privatised profits like 2008 all over again. The Washington - Wall Street relationships are actually disgustingly hilarious.

2008 - nightmare let’s put regulations in place to stop this happening again

Few years later - let’s take these rules out as we’re not making enough money.

‘Wait didn’t you personally put these regulations in place?’

‘Yes but I’ve now been paid by the banks to lobby against them’

Dodd Frank lol