Food Banks

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27 bishops slam David Cameron's welfare reforms as creating a national crisis in unprecedented attack

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Dave (Clarence Sweetness), top, second left, and blond Boris (Christian Buffoon-Brassington), seated, far right.

Who are Boris (Johnson) and Dave (Cameron) ? Which egg plant did they sprout from? Are they friends? Neither could give a straight answer to a loaded gun, so we must turn instead to 'When Boris Met Dave - The Bullingdon Days', a docudrama about their lives at Oxford, and coming to you soon on the Comedy Channel.

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Hot off the press!!

A new book by Iain Duncan Smith :

"Everything I Know About Poverty" Over 90 blank pages of IDS's wisdom on the subject of poverty. Individual empty chapters have amusing headings, such as "Making £53 per week work" and "Food banks explained". The pages are neatly lined for use as a notebook. This book proves that there is absolutely nothing in the mind of Iain Duncan Smith, that can be disputed, where poverty is concerned. Nothing at all.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Everything-I-Know-about-Poverty-9781494970772-Paperback-BRAND-NEW-/1910516...

[papko]

I picke dup a pair of Hitchhikers on Sunday , they were a Polish couple , heading to Montrose , to  work on the Daffodil picking .

 They seemed civil enough , so i went 50 miles out my way and drove them straight to the farm , there are 200 pickers there , all living in caravans , (provide free , electicity from a generator is £1 a day ) 

 The say that the work is price work  and for 10000 daffs picked they get £65 , which is about what thye get every day , the farmer pays them direct , no gang master , and they said some of the best pickers managed 20k dafss a day , £130 , 

Its 7 days a week , for 6 weeks - 2 months .

 They said the money they could save would be a few k each an dit would get them a good start to the year .

The 200 pickers were a mix of folk who travel the country looking for work , Poles , Portugues , LAtvians , Irish , and a few pickers for Cornwall .

 Not a single Scot , can hardly blame the local unemployed , as the work is not permanent .

And

anyone under 40 will no doubt get a sore back , for a few days untill you got used to it .

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[spawnjohnuk]

aaand become a traveller ,that way you can free up accomidation for the 20 k a yr daffodil pickers to lounge around in 🙂 

However I really like the idea of generate your own electric ,we should all do that.

[chips-and-brown-gravy]

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@papko wrote:

 The 200 pickers were a mix of folk who travel the country looking for work , Poles , Portugues , LAtvians , Irish , and a few pickers for Cornwall .

 Not a single Scot , can hardly blame the local unemployed , as the work is not permanent .

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YYet a Cornishman/woman will travel 600 odd miles to do a temporary job - shame on the locals.

[spawnjohnuk]

? shame on the locals ?? how do you know all the locals without jobs arnt strawberry picking in kent in season ? hence the need for peeps up there to take wanders on ..

This is exactly why this country is going nowhere quickly..opinions on others whom have never been met  or who's life 'them know nowt about'  .......heads full of rubbish expectations of others.

[chips-and-brown-gravy]

But they won't pick daffs in March close to their home?

If there are jobs locally why would people travel hundreds of miles, because there aren't the unemployed locals to do the work or they don't want to do it.  You can bet the Cornish are back here in a few weeks, working in the hotels and seasonal jobs.

I would refer you straight back to your own words, they seem very appropriate. 

"This is exactly why this country is going nowhere quickly..opinions on others whom have never been met  or who's life 'them know nowt about'  .......heads full of rubbish expectations of others."

[spawnjohnuk]

Now back to your words 🙂

Shame on them ?  are you doing an in-depth study of locals in the area ,or are we opinionating on people we know nothing about ?

People of Cornwall unite eh lol