HM Revenue & Customs staff striking today in Derby

“Just small point but my mate works as job centre staff and he is clased as a civil servent - its on his contract. Of course he could be lieing to me but i some how dout it. Hes been with them about 3 years now.”

“@towercrane; I hope your self employment does not involve either literacy or inteligence or you will very rapidly starve, judging by your post.”

“Iv seen artical but cant be botherd to wast my time reading it - and this is why - im selfemployed so need to contact tax man every now and then useualy to try and put right info they seem to have drempt up in there sleep - i tend to ring them and i get a answer after about 50 mins - thats after youv been answerd by a computer then the big wait begins - then i get to talk to a real person who as not a clue at all so then you ask to talk to a manager who can put things right but she needs to see proof and you cant show that over the phone can you so she sends you to a centre. Yes thats the very ones there closeing - i hope every one of the stupid divs get the huking sack and hope they enjoy being on the dole and ill be realy happy if there benifits get cut and they get evicted becorse they have a un used room- i dont sound bitter do i”

“Why are people suggesting Job centre staff are civil servants, they're not, the civil servant rank starts at Job Centre Manager level upwards, those below this level are ordinary employees.”

“black dragon my last words to you under labour new hospitals new schools school repair under tory gov nat debt up uninployment up more billionares that the only thing going up . you and wafty buy shares in jcb”

“wafty i can see you and me are never going to see eye to eye so i will not write any more comments to you after this but read your last comment ie millede and you asked for a viable alternative to the mess this gov has got us into national debt up uninployment up lets here your words of wisdom i have given mine right or wrong we will need a jcb now not a shovel.”

“by gerryegan
"yes exclent budget national debt set to rise to 85% not down un inployment up 7000 not down lost triple a status which he said he would keep . he must be so proud"


It is an excellent budget for wealth creators, without whom you would be out of work and without benefits.
Considering the disastrous state Britain was left in by 13 years of labour incompetence, and, their deliberate sabotage of the economy this government has work miracles.”

“gerry, I'm afraid you're wrong, I'm not a tory voter - I don't attach myself to any political party and tend to vote for those that I think have less likelihood of messing things up than the others. And you're also wrong regarding me requesting people not to bring politics into it - it's a political story, so that would be difficult - what I actually said was that I'd like to see the opposition suggesting solutions rather than petty point scoring - I'd actually be delighted if Labour could come up with some decent policies, but they're not keen/able to do that (in much the way that Baylis refused to have any policies that he could be measured by prior to the local elections). Hardly inspiring leadership from Millipede (and his two nodding dogs on the front-bench in Balls and Harmon)
I'd support any party that could dig us out of the hole we're in, but I'm afraid that Labour (nationally and locally) have proved to be both untrustworthy (with their lies over europe and iraq to name but two) and incompetent (we've spent all the money, ho, ho!) which is why you'll see comments from me that criticise them.
There's an old saying that when you're in a hole, you should stop digging - Osborne for his many faults, seems to understand that - Millipede and Balls-up just want a bigger shovel....”

“yes exclent budget national debt set to rise to 85% not down un inployment up 7000 not down lost triple a status which he said he would keep . he must be so proud”

“gerryegan - the answer to all your questions has been given today by the excellent budget.”