It seems that the old way of running a country seems to have worked better than the current way....

NHS considers hospital Hotels

A comment on the article speaks volumes.....

"Nothing whatsoever new about this idea, when I trained as a nurse we had convalescent homes and nursing homes for exactly this reason. They were relaxed places with a good atmosphere, then closed by government decree to save money. What a surprise this has come round again!"

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Sirius b you a trucker ? Over here mate no more than 6hrs at wheel in 1 stint and max of 12hrs in 24 hr . The working week is 38hrs man 48 to much 60-70 way to much . How about less hrs more jobs and a little less money so employer can hire more people .ops your gona say COMMIE !!!!
We call it job shareing

4.5 hours continuous driving before you must take a 45 minute tacho break.

Also, some jobs require a 2 man crew. can you see one man delivering a 120 kilo piece of furniture or a 20 kilo glass cabinet?

edit: 41 - 60 hours time & a half, over 60 double time.

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wow you guys are getting riped off then we had penalty rates here for oww maybe 40yrs
That's why it is cheeper to just hire another person here than to pay to much ot

a trucker here depending on what he hauls can earn up to 120,000 a year no overtime
Dangerous goods was in 2000 $37 per hour ore drivers in the mines get 120,000 your in the rong place guys emmegrate to oz get rich then go back if ya don't like it here

Thanks for the invite Glen....Australia is a country that's going places.

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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

wow you guys are getting riped off then we had penalty rates here for oww maybe 40yrs
That's why it is cheeper to just hire another person here than to pay to much ot

a trucker here depending on what he hauls can earn up to 120,000 a year no overtime
Dangerous goods was in 2000 $37 per hour ore drivers in the mines get 120,000 your in the rong place guys emmegrate to oz get rich then go back if ya don't like it here

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Do you have penalty rates over there ? overtime rates time and harf for first 3 hrs then double time after that , if more than 16hrs triple time but that is not done anymore to dangerous safty wise

36 to 38 Hr week is about the norm' for most employees. After that then any
hours worked above this would be classed as overtime. But not necessarily paid
at a higher rate though just flat rate in most cases.

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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

Do you have penalty rates over there ? overtime rates time and harf for first 3 hrs then double time after that , if more than 16hrs triple time but that is not done anymore to dangerous safty wise

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Sirius b you a trucker ? Over here mate no more than 6hrs at wheel in 1 stint and max of 12hrs in 24 hr . The working week is 38hrs man 48 to much 60-70 way to much . How about less hrs more jobs and a little less money so employer can hire more people .ops your gona say COMMIE !!!!
We call it job shareing

In the UK for instance, it's cheaper for an employer to employ one man doing
a 38 hour week than it would be to employ two men each working 19 hours a week.

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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

Sirius b you a trucker ? Over here mate no more than 6hrs at wheel in 1 stint and max of 12hrs in 24 hr . The working week is 38hrs man 48 to much 60-70 way to much . How about less hrs more jobs and a little less money so employer can hire more people .ops your gona say COMMIE !!!!
We call it job shareing

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Oh boy, this is surely going to set the "cat amongst the pigeons".....

British workers "worst idlers"

Personally, even though most of us probably know some work shy couch potatoes, what these MP's should be doing is spending time on is providing better infrastructure & more jobs.

The main problem is the EU's Working Time Directive. Before that came into force I was normally working 60/70 hours a week on average (2 man crew so no health & safety issues regarding driving), now we're down to a maximum of 48 (some weeks can do more but total must not exceed 48 p/w over each 17 week period).

To maintain the same wage, employers would have to pay me just over £20 per hour & there is no way I can see that happening.

Fortunately by holding a FLT license & opting out of the WTD (Wonder how long that will be available before that is stopped?) I can add to current hours.

Idle? Think those muppets ought to come out with me for a week..... I'll lay odds they'll be glad to getting back to being a "lazy" MP!

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I say now France? Nice people shame about the country. I see no reason to change my views in the forseeable future.

What can you expect from people who eat....

Escargots & cuisses de grenouilles.

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Glenn, I have been very very careful, as I do not want to be modded.

No abusive comments involving race, religion, nationality, gender, class or sexuality.

To put it in a nutshell, I don't like France as a country, nor it's history, or the way that it is being run today. It is to me a place you travel through to get to somewhere else. It probably comes mainly from my age group I will openly admit. I happen to know some French people socially and they are very nice as well, I just haven't got a lot of time for the country that they live in. So I haven't insulted the French people, just cast a few aspersions upon the way that their country appears to govern and lead them.

How can you have a country led by people that think they have to have at least 3 mistresses before they can get any respect? How can you have a country led by people where their fishermen regularly hold the government to ransom? How can you have a country that meddles in International affairs, and in the process makes things twice as worse?

I have said before about certain places, nice country, shame about the people. I say now France? Nice people shame about the country. I see no reason to change my views in the forseeable future.

+1.

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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

The animosity is a bit traditional, and the French know that, but I do have to say this. What the French Resistance did in WWII was above and beyond the call of duty. Those that did that, and lost their lives, are as much revered in the UK as the Gurkhas.

Chris I understand remember I was born in London even if we did come to ozzie land when I was 9 I still remember the banter between pom's and frogs

lollollol

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Glenn, I have been very very careful, as I do not want to be modded.

No abusive comments involving race, religion, nationality, gender, class or sexuality.

To put it in a nutshell, I don't like France as a country, nor it's history, or the way that it is being run today. It is to me a place you travel through to get to somewhere else. It probably comes mainly from my age group I will openly admit. I happen to know some French people socially and they are very nice as well, I just haven't got a lot of time for the country that they live in. So I haven't insulted the French people, just cast a few aspersions upon the way that their country appears to govern and lead them.

How can you have a country led by people that think they have to have at least 3 mistresses before they can get any respect? How can you have a country led by people where their fishermen regularly hold the government to ransom? How can you have a country that meddles in International affairs, and in the process makes things twice as worse?

I have said before about certain places, nice country, shame about the people. I say now France? Nice people shame about the country. I see no reason to change my views in the forseeable future.

I think and hope he knows Chris I was only steering him I thought it was funny thou

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Chris the French have nukes mate mite not be a good idea to upset them I should lecture you on your lecture to me about things we can and can't post lol hehehe

We actually only upset the French politicians but not their general populous.
So when us Brits have a downer on the French we only mean their politicians.

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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

Chris the French have nukes mate mite not be a good idea to upset them I should lecture you on your lecture to me about things we can and can't post lol hehehe

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I've been saying that all along. You're at it again, stop agreeing with me, it is most disconcerting. My local pharmacy is running out of calm me down pills.

In plain English, the IMF thinks it’s time for Osborne to ease off on the cuts and go for growth – clearly believing that the two cannot go together.

Osborne will return to Britain this week politically humiliated by the IMF and the credit rating agencies, but unbowed in his efforts to put our economy back on track after the intemperate spending of New Labour.

You can't spend what you haven't got, or borrow what you can't afford to pay back, so we aren't. No need to panic just yet.

Not quite. What they are saying is return to the EEC not the EU. Even a blind man can see that!

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In plain English, the IMF thinks it’s time for Osborne to ease off on the cuts and go for growth – clearly believing that the two cannot go together.

Osborne will return to Britain this week politically humiliated by the IMF and the credit rating agencies, but unbowed in his efforts to put our economy back on track after the intemperate spending of New Labour.

You can't spend what you haven't got, or borrow what you can't afford to pay back, so we aren't. No need to panic just yet.