I would start worrying Billy because before long they are only going to be collected every three weeks. I wonder if my council tax will be reduced.
On the topic of school teachers my daughter in law took the granbairns out of school on the friday ( and they are both one year ahead for thier age ) to go on holiday and she received a text to say she had to report to the headmistress when she returned, after a hour long lecture about thier education and what harm it was doing them keeping them off for the day she was told she could be fined for keeping them off the following monday they went on strike. I can't understand why teachers just refuse to do any extra work on evenings and holiday time I am sure this would have a bigger impact.
Typical Civil Servants Billy, put them to the lash.........................No Billy put them to the lash not go on the lash
OK I'll add my two penneth. The debt level, of the country, was smaller when Labour left office. That's a fact. And, before I'm accused of being a myopic "Liebour" supporter, that's, simply, not the case. I don't think you can trust many politicians. Despite all the austerity measures, we now have a a national debt that is much bigger, and runs into the trillions. So, you have to ask yourself, what is all this austerity for? It's got to be an ideological crusade to increase the pressure on the 99% of the population, whose taxes are no longer required;instead the Bank of England prints endless amounts of fiat currency, and this is given to banks at, almost, zero interest rates to gamble on high frequency market trading. This is why nobody(public or private) gets a pay rise - they don't need to take more tax; it's just a case of printing more money. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to use use payday lenders, with rates as high as 4000%. So, I think you can blame the banks and the Tories. And that is based on sound facts.
Billy, I'm sure they'll be there tomorrow. Mind you, they'll be getting double time. Sound your horn, for support, when they turn up!
Speaking of percentages to go on strike here is a more interesting fact - its a little frightening I think you will agree Quorum A minimum number of politicians must be present when the Houses are sitting to make Parliamentary decisions valid. This minimum number is known as a quorum. In the Commons the quorum is 40 Members of Parliament, including the Speaker. There is no need for a quorum to be present at all times - in fact, Commons debates could theoretically continue even if attendance in the chamber dwindled to just one MP and the Speaker. But if a division is called and fewer than 40 MPs are present to vote, then a decision on the business being considered is postponed and the House moves on to consider the next item of business. The quorum in the House of Lords for votes on legislation is 30, but a minimum of three peers, including the Lord Speaker, need to be present for a debate to take place. So what is being said here is that a law can be passed as long as there are 40 mp's present and 30 for the UNELECTED house of lords
Well I got telt yesterday that the bin men won't be around until Thursday. They will empty the green bin then but not the blue one that they were supposed to empty this week. Oh well, more rats running around the estate, provides a bit of sport I suppose.
Yes I did not know about the quorum stuff and the 6% until Dennis Skinner mentioned it yesterday at the miners gala so thought I would share - amazing thing about that is how the hell did I manage to switch the laptop on when I got in last night!
I love Dennis Skinner, I don't know that fact either. Hope you had a good day and not feeling too fragile this morning I can remember a lot of years ago, having too much to drink at the Big Meeting and making a nuisance of ourselves. The Police put my mate and I in the back of their van and dropped us off in Lanchester thinking that we would have further to get home. They actually did us a favour because we only lived up the bank at Catchgate. Happy days
Dennis Skinner is brilliant - he was saying that he was trying to ask a question at PM question time the other day (they must have to submit the question prior to the session) but they never got to his question which was basically "Has the PM put some time aside in his calendar to visit Coulson in jail" He was also saying that whenever Cameron is lying his face goes red - so every time Cameron gets up Denis shouts "He's gone red again" Excellent day out by the way culminating in me learning a new chat up line - (bearing in mind we are all around the 60 mark) went in the Bridge for a "nightcap" or a coup-de-grace is probably more accurate description by then and standing at the bar my mate said to the very young barmaid "you've got hair like a greek goddess" - the look on the lasses face was a picture she just looked at me as if to say "is he f*****g wired up right" - probably had to be there but I am still laughing about it now
