24954 posts you’ve done on here over the years. I’m sure if I wanted to I could find out how many hours you’ve spent browsing the forums. On top of all that you’ve been a pretty active moderator. Yes people do have a life outside of the internet but don’t try use that excuse as the reason why you can’t ever expand on what you write in detail. Because clearly you’ve had plenty of time to do so.
Owned by damo

Most sensible post I've read on the Sin Bin in a long time. Are you're sure you're not my husband, he tells me exactly the same thing when I get annoyed and upset on here

Dally, will you stop posting sensible economics on here. It will just confuse people.......




You are, of course, spot on with your analysis. A lot of people just look at the "Made in China" thing and think that's the entire value chain.

Take a pair of Nike trainers. The value there is in the brand. The shoes may have been assembled in Taiwan, and the $5 or so of materials made there.

The $50 worth of marketing is "sold" from offices in New York.

As you said though, the real driver for the world economy will be if China can develop it's middle classes. If this happens it's not unfeasable that in 20 years they will be posting on their forums moaning about the fact that everything they buy is made in the EU

Me too. It's not like he's just appeared either, his MO has been the same for years. Either way, he's effective. From those lining up to attack the stupidity of his posts, to the ever so earnest statements of support, he's attracting all the attention he craves with the minimum of effort. He must be laughing his arrse off!

I hope he is laughing is 'arris off and having the last laugh - he's just show up some people for what they really are.

Just an update.

I’ve filed a report and I’m leaving it at that.

Hopefully this thread will stay so we can continue to debate about all kinds of issues around unemployment as opposed to just focusing on my own. I have a few other points I want to make in regards to the bigger issues that I will post later.

But hopefully my aggravators will lay off trying to drag the points I make into a tit for tat d[ii[/ick slinging match about the problems I face on a day to day basis.

[uUnemployment in the UK just under 3 million - REALLY ??

Deceptive Government !!

Jobcentre officials have moved hundreds of thousands of unemployed people claiming jobless benefits on to a separate training allowance over the past year, raising concerns the Government is fiddling the figures to mask the true extent of unemployment.

218,700 jobseekers were taken off Jobseeker's Allowance and moved on to training payments of equal value in the year to September 2011, while attending job-hunting courses and classed as officially "employed".

Unemployed people were on a training scheme during any one month over the period, with each course typically lasting six weeks. The courses are generally completely useless and often did not result in finding work.

All these courses do is help reduce unemployment figures, for a right wing government who wants to be seen as reducing unemployment & the green shoots recovery are around the corner !

Lies & deception !![/u


No official link for this as it was posted on a FB group. You can all make up your own minds as to what you think.

Some people will be surprise to know that I have met Sal Paradise briefly at a rugby match. He didn’t spend his time on the terraces preaching about what he see’s as the errors of my ways. It was a pleasant encounter and so it should be because we was both they to enjoy a rugby match.

Everyone else I’ve met from RLFANS in real life has been a pleasure to meet also because I met them in similar circumstances to that of Sal. One person even invited me to sit in the press box at Headingley.

However if me and Sal were to frequent each other in circumstances other than rugby in real life then it probably wouldn’t work because of our clash of opinions. It’d be great entertainment mind - me and him slagging each other off at every opportunity we’d get. I’m sure that some people on here would revel in such camaraderie if those real life clashes carried on here. But I’m sure that Sal doesn’t want that as I certainly don’t. It's best that we debate on here and just leave it at that. If we bump into each other then I’m sure it’ll just be like last time. He certainly won’t be threatening to confront me on the terraces like one member once did on the Leeds forum.

I’ll always be grateful for whatever Sal tried to do for me that time he PM‘ed me with a job opportunity. But how he’s gone about after my rejection to his help in that particular time is a totally different matter all together.

.....Unemployment figures being manipulated????.....They don't do that, do they??....



Its been happening for years and years, under Tory, Labour and coalition governments, so why some clown creates a facebook group about it, I really don't know.

The clown that created the facebook page is disabled and its a page for disabled people who are worried about how we are being treated. In this group we all support each other, give words of encouragement and I have met some brilliant, kindhearted people through being in this group. Afterall we're all in this together!!

The Conservative Party 60sec Ad 'Coming Shortly'.1979 mp4


type this into a video hosting site. A lot of us older people will remember this from the cinema.

I think it’s great that we live in a time when we have got such strong disability campaigners. Sue Marsh was absolutely fantastic on Newsnight the other week and apparently she‘s going to be on more. To top that off the Guardian have won an award for the way they represent people who have disabilities like ourselves.

I have engaged in activism against ATOS via my now defunct Dole Years website (I think you can still get catches). Overall I found it a thankless and underappreciated task so I gave it a miss after a really good try at pushing it. Disability activism isn’t really for me but I’ll still support it in any way that I can and normally it’s by just speaking on about it on social networking websites like this.

The best part of this activism is the people you meet through them and I’m proud to call people from all walks of life my friends and not just those who I share the same circumstances with.