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i know the DSS/job centre have many good ideas for getting the idle giro-ettes into work, not so sure there are any plans on how to KEEP em in work

i gave a known slacker (family member) a job driving, he had a sickie - on his first day....


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I've slept on this and whilst I'm inclined to believe it is a rumour I'm going to ask the guy from the btec. I'll let you know what is said but I don't believe if it is true I'll be told anyway so a bit of a pointless exercise but I'll ask anyway


Ok I asked and the first reply was "what do you mean" the second reply was "there is a lot of help available to get people into work especially if they are on DLA"

So at the end of the day I'm none the wiser :?

If I ever find out the truth I'll certainly post it. Oh yes and in answer to whether it would be racial discrimination who knows I would say so but has anybody ever heard of whites being racially discriminated against in the Uk :wink:
Where are you actually doing your training.



Odd how its people on DLA (Disability Living allowance) that get the most assistance in finding work, The DLA was set up for the Genuinely disabled but it seems its now been Hijacked by every Workshy shirker from within the UK and abroad. wheres the point in giving extra emphasis to helping those that dont want to work to try and find work? Incapacity Benefit is a similarily Missused Benefit which simply serves to take the long term unemployed off the official unemployed register.

We need to get back to helping only the Genuine Disabled and focus our efforts on those...not the ones we all know that run around in mobilty cars when their only disabilty is a Weak livered approach to real work.

this link gives an insight as to whats so wrong with the abuse of DLA.
its a spongers charter, it galls me as a parent of a child with genuine Disabilties that these workshy prats can get it all when the genuine who are often denied full entitlement simply because they havent the where with all to scam the system.


http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/content/category/11/17/43/


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MR T wrote:
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I've slept on this and whilst I'm inclined to believe it is a rumour I'm going to ask the guy from the btec. I'll let you know what is said but I don't believe if it is true I'll be told anyway so a bit of a pointless exercise but I'll ask anyway


Ok I asked and the first reply was "what do you mean" the second reply was "there is a lot of help available to get people into work especially if they are on DLA"

So at the end of the day I'm none the wiser :?

If I ever find out the truth I'll certainly post it. Oh yes and in answer to whether it would be racial discrimination who knows I would say so but has anybody ever heard of whites being racially discriminated against in the Uk :wink:
Where are you actually doing your training.


I done my training about 6 month ago in Liverpool I'm now doing the A1 assessors training. I will see the source of the rumour today but I'm not sure if it will be confirmed or denied anymore than it has

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Ok just an update. I spoke to the person who supposedly gave this advice and it has been flatly denined or more to the point the person said they don't ever remember saying such things. I was then advised to tell people "they need to research before they accuse".

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As my names definitely not on the BNPs missing register of Members I feel entitled to say without prejudice that if Peoples of Ethnic minorities want te be treated equally to the rest of the British people they would be better served trying to integrate into the British way of doing things rather than expect to forward their careers through being treated as somewhat special simply because they feel that they are a minority.

Regardless of colour or nationality these people should be rewarded by no more opportunities than the rest of us get. they have two arms, two legs and a head...so what exactly is it that is so different about them or what they can acheive or cannot acheive without the aid of some minority biased government body to give them a hand up??


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As my names definitely not on the BNPs missing register of Members I feel entitled to say without prejudice that if Peoples of Ethnic minorities want te be treated equally to the rest of the British people they would be better served trying to integrate into the British way of doing things rather than expect to forward their careers through being treated as somewhat special simply because they feel that they are a minority.

Regardless of colour or nationality these people should be rewarded by no more opportunities than the rest of us get. they have two arms, two legs and a head...so what exactly is it that is so different about them or what they can acheive or cannot acheive without the aid of some minority biased government body to give them a hand up??


Well said. I personally wouldn't care if you are sky blue pink and from mars so long as you learn to speak english and intergrate.

With regard to the link posted here and the miority being under represented by blacks, asians, women etc in some cases it is their own culture that prevents women working in this and many other trades :?

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'For far too long the Knowledge has posed some barriers for ethnic minority groups to gain access into the taxi trade.



Why?

Are TFL they suggesting they're thick?

Or simply can't be bothered doing the process that has governed the London Taxi trade for over a century?

And people wonder why the far right gains more support every day. :-|


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i seem to recall reading that the knowledge provided a means for the Jewish community to find work at a time when other industries were less welcoming....

my parents came here from Italy in the 1960's, they had to have a sponsor that vouched that they would either provide for them or else have work that they could go into, no form of social benefit for them it wa ssimply "you want to live here, then get your head down, work and make something of yourself".

In the 40 odd years they have been here they have never made claims on the social system, have employed countless people over the years and never insisted society bow down to them or give them an advantage over anyone else; they learnt the language and grafted.........i live by the same principles, i work to pay my way, i decided to do the knowledge and knew what that entailed, i got my head down, grafted and got my badge! Why does it have to be any different for someone of a different skin colour ? There seems to be plenty of those chaps touting around clubs most nights, either of Asian or African origin.........sorry to be blunt but perhaps there is an element of laziness about it ?

I don't dislike one nationality any more than any other, i hate all people equally.


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