‘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...
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....
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.
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...
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....
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...
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.....
And today’s thought:
Brazilian at Wimbledon
Angus
