Piss Poor Policies Crowd sourcing: No jobs for old farts: Fake Banker: Fly me to the Moon: Cool dogs: and pluck a duck-or five thousand.

‘Tis warm, sunny, calm and dry at the Castle this morn, been dahn to Tesco on the second stale bread, gruel and his Maj’s food run of the week.

Monday his Whiskas meat selection in jelly cost £3.45 a box, this morn it was £2.00 per box...no wonder I am so confused....

And his Maj has discovered the joy of ambush from above-top of the wardrobe/up the tree...

The Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club Coalition

Has come up with yet another shit for brains load of old bollocks; they want us to send in our thoughts on “Gov” policy to develop new policy ideas.

Apparently ministers would ask people to suggest problems that the Government could try to solve before ideas were put out to formal consultation.

One idea involved “getting wide public input by ‘crowd sourcing’ questions to shape the definition of the problem, not just consulting on the solutions”.

Sir Bob Kerslake, the head of the Home Civil Service, said: "The default being that we develop policy in an open way with those who are more affected by the policy and collaborate in a more collaborative way." 

So why do we need six hundred odd useless members in the leaning tower of Westminster then....

Here’s one problem they might like to take a look at

According to The Policy Exchange think-tank older workers are more likely to suffer long-term unemployment than younger ones.

To test employers’ attitudes to jobseekers’ age, the researchers sent applications for over 1,200 bar jobs and personal assistant positions, one from a 51-year-old and one from a 25-year-old.

According to a Policy Exchange report, the responses to the otherwise identical applications showed a “huge bias “against the older worker.

The 25 year-old received more than twice as many positive responses to applications for bar jobs. The younger applicant was half again as likely to succeed seeking personal assistant posts.

There are around 8.3 million people aged between 50 and 65 in employment, making up around a quarter of the entire UK workforce.

Around 440,000 older workers were unemployed at the end of 2011, and 43 per cent of them had been without a job for more than a year. By contrast, 35 per cent of unemployed 25-49 year olds were long-term jobless.

Of those workers currently unemployed, only 40 per cent of those aged over 50 can expect to return to work in the next 12 months, the report found. That compares to over 60 per cent for those aged under 25.

 

And according to the PPPMCC old age begins at 54, whereas ‘yoof’ ends at 32.

 That’s me buggered then....the next step is for all old farts to have their expiry date tattooed on their foreheads.

East to the place that staged the last Olympics

Rice trader Lin Chunping invented a U.S. bank and claimed he bought it.

State media reported that he had taken over Delaware-based Atlantic Bank. The acquisition brought him praise: His hometown gave him a prestigious political appointment and state media called his business experience "legendary."

But like a lot of WBanker he was a lying git, Chinese reporters could not locate an Atlantic Bank or a bank registration by Lin in Delaware.

He's under arrest for an unrelated fraud and has been forced to give up his municipal-level appointment to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the government's top advisory body.

Oh dear what a shame...

Back in dear old Blighty-almost

Isle of Man-based Excalibur Almaz is offering seats to adventurers willing to go the extra mile on a historic journey to the Moon.

The first 500,000-mile round-trip in a converted Soviet-era space station could take place as early as 2015.

Art Dula, founder and chief executive has acquired two Soviet “Almaz” space stations, designed for orbital spying operations. Thrusters attached to the stations will convert them to long-distance spaceships.

Four re-entry capsules, or re-usable return vehicles (RRVs), will ferry three people at a time to the orbiting space station and return them to Earth.

All the space vehicles – the cost of which is confidential – are housed in hangers on the Isle of Man. One of the RRVs is currently being exhibited outside the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre in Westminster, London.

 

Pink Floyd will be chuffed....

East a bit to the stiletto of Europe

As it is so hot in the place where ruins excel an Italian ice cream maker has come up with Gelato for dogs, containing no milk, eggs or sugar, which are harmful to woofers and comes in vanilla, rice and yogurt flavours at the cost of a mere 2 Euros or abaht 5p in British at today’s exchange rate...

Barking cool...

 And finally: 

East even further than Europe to the fake place

A farmer caused chaos when he walked his ducks almost 1.5km (1 mile) from his farm to a pond in a quest for food.

The mini migration was timed to avoid rush hour but commuters could not help but get caught up in the parade.

At one point, several scooters were marooned in a sea of brown but the ducks’ feathers remained unruffled

Farmer Hong – who was armed with just a (very) long stick and a few assistants – managed to make the journey without losing a single duck en route to the water.

He regularly undertakes the perilous journey in the booming coastal city of Taizhou, in China’s Zhejiang province, about 305km (190 miles) south of Shanghai.

Wonder how much orange sauce you would need for that lot.....

 That’s it: I’m orf to probe stuff that may not exist

And today’s thought:

Brazilian at Wimbledon

Angus