We all know that whichever party is in power after the election, life is going to get a lot harder with tax rises of one sort or another and cuts in services. There are a lot of people out there who have lost their jobs, and have little hope of finding employment for some time. They are claiming benefits to which they are entitled through the National Insurance contributions they have paid in the past.
I have talked to a lot of people who have always worked, and lost their jobs. They feel many emotions, anger at losing their jobs through no fault of their own, frustration at the lack of available jobs, despair that they cannot support their families to the standard they have been accustomed to, worry that there is a possibility that they may lose their home, and probably most of all they feel they have lost their dignity and self respect.
Now I am not going to talk politics, BUT, during the sixties and seventies they were a couple of schemes that appeared to remedy the above situation, and help industry expand. The government of the day, faced with mounting payments for the unemployed, and lack of growth in industry, brought out a scheme where they would pay companies to employ those workers who were on the dole. This gave companies both large and small a real incentive to expand and create more jobs. The scheme was very simple; the government used the money they would have to pay for the basic unemployment benefits, and gave it to the company for up to a year to help pay the wages of any one they employed, who had been out of work for a certain length of time.
This gave an incentive to companies to expand, most of all it gave the unemployed person a real job, and gave them their self respect back again. The cost so far to the British taxpayer, the same as keeping that person unemployed, except that now the government would make money from the previously unemployed on their National insurance contributions, and their income tax.
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Vic Farron RFT Express
Tuesday 20 April 2010
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RFT understand that the take-over of Readers Digest has been completed, and a statement will be issued this week. It is expected that Readers Digest will no longer be available in print, but will be published on line.
We have the election coming up in a few weeks; I have always stayed clear of writing about politics, religion and race, so you will be spared that.
Nationwide Building Society has caused a great stir this week, as from 05/06/10 they are banning their customers with cash cards from drawing less that £100 from the counter. You can read the full story by Paul Lewis of the BBC You might wonder whose money it is, the Building Society or the customers !!!
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Twitter has announced the ‘Pay per Tweet’ for industry and people who want to pay to advertise their Tweets.
Businesses in the UK are showing more confidence in the economy, and starting to increase turnover.
The ash plume from the Icelandic volcano closed UK air space yesterday. A few planes landed and departed from Scottish and Northern Island airports today. This situation could continue for a few days yet.
Vic Farron RFT Express
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Google announced on Friday that it would take speed into account when ranking websites. That means that websites will have to remove a lot of the pictures, or make them smaller and of a poorer quality. RFT Express will have to remove the Google translation bar, as this is slow to load and holds the site up from loading until the server has contacted Google. The same goes for the scrolling text.
One alternative is to pay out a fortune for a very fast server, based in the US [ Google take into account where your server is based] RFT Express has a lot of foreign visitors, so we are still going to leave the old translator on the blog, this loads quicker but it is old technology.
The advantage to it is that once you have translated the blog, if you use the links on the site it will automatically translate every page you go to, and it will translate automatically the next site you go to [provided you use the links on the site.] I went on to facebook, and RFT Express Parcels, and Yorkshire Courier, and they all translated ok. I also followed the link on UK Pensions, and this translated the Direct Gov site, and each link I followed on there.
RFT understand that the take-over of Readers Digest has been completed, and a statement will be issued this week. It is expected that Readers Digest will no longer be available in print, but will be published on line.
We have the election coming up in a few weeks; I have always stayed clear of writing about politics, religion and race, so you will be spared that.
Nationwide Building Society has caused a great stir this week, as from 05/06/10 they are banning their customers with cash cards from drawing less that £100 from the counter. You can read the full story by Paul Lewis of the BBC You might wonder whose money it is, the Building Society or the customers !!!
The Halifax tried this some time ago, the way people reacted was not what the Halifax wanted. Customers wanting less than £100 with their cash cards, on being told they couldn’t have their money, simply drew out the £100, then when the clerk asked politely if there was anything else they could do for them, the customers simply said yes, I would like to put the extra money I have had to draw out back in to my cash card account.
Twitter has announced the ‘Pay per Tweet’ for industry and people who want to pay to advertise their Tweets.
Businesses in the UK are showing more confidence in the economy, and starting to increase turnover.
The ash plume from the Icelandic volcano closed UK air space yesterday. A few planes landed and departed from Scottish and Northern Island airports today. This situation could continue for a few days yet.
Vic Farron RFT Express
Wednesday 7 April 2010
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