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Re: Internet Explorer 8
« Reply #225 on: Thursday 18 June 09 16:52 UTC (UK) »
I remember bus drivers having similarly complicated payment calculations - phased out in the 1970s or 1980s I think  Smiley We had special routines in the payroll system just for them.

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Re: Internet Explorer 8
« Reply #226 on: Thursday 18 June 09 16:52 UTC (UK) »
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Re: Internet Explorer 8
« Reply #227 on: Thursday 18 June 09 17:11 UTC (UK) »
When on contract mileage a driver could work Monday- Wednesday, Off Thursday-WEdnesday, Work Thursday- Wednesday Off Thursday - Saturday etc. etc. earnings over £30K mid 1990s.
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« Reply #228 on: Thursday 18 June 09 21:22 UTC (UK) »
The best job I ever did was when I worked in a union closed shop.  It was a licence to print money.  These days you'd have to go into banking to make so much for doing so little  Smiley
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Re: Internet Explorer 8
« Reply #229 on: Thursday 18 June 09 21:44 UTC (UK) »
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The best job I ever did was when I worked in a union closed shop.  It was a licence to print money.  These days you'd have to go into banking to make so much for doing so little  Smiley

Or become an MP  Grin Grin Grin

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Re: Internet Explorer 8
« Reply #230 on: Friday 19 June 09 15:30 UTC (UK) »
Hardly Graham, a failed banker, Goodwin has REDUCED his pension to £375K, almost double the Prime Minister's salary, and 6 times that of a back bench MP>.Remember for all their failings the MPs have to sort out the failures and dodgy dealings of the bankers.
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« Reply #231 on: Friday 19 June 09 17:08 UTC (UK) »
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Remember for all their failings the MPs have to sort out the failures and dodgy dealings of the bankers.

   Then why haven't they!!!!


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« Reply #232 on: Friday 19 June 09 17:16 UTC (UK) »
Good point, But it's a work in progress. So few people understand the crisis, and so many bankers etc. have their own agendas, and don't really care if the system crashes so long as their own nests are feathered.There are also limits to what can be done in a democracy, particularly one where the government suffers constant harrassment from a hostile press!
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« Reply #233 on: Friday 19 June 09 17:40 UTC (UK) »
I was thinking more of the expenses Roger  Smiley

It would be nice to see MPs go through the same sort of Job Evaluation process that local government has had to undergo in recent years. Could well end up in their salaries being cut.

As for bankers salaries - and footballers etc for that matter - the only way to curb excesses in the private sector is through legislation.

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don't really care if the system crashes so long as their own nests are feathered
Didn't realise Microsoft had opened a bank  Grin Grin

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« Reply #234 on: Friday 19 June 09 18:13 UTC (UK) »
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so long as their own nests are feathered.

  Sorry I thought that you were still talking about M.P's.

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particularly one where the government suffers constant harrassment from a hostile press!


  I think that a hostile press is the least of their worries.

  Besides, if it wasn't for the press we would never know what this Government

  is up to and I would imagine there are still vast amounts that are covered up.

   I don't think that this topic is a suitable one to discuss these things.

     Tomkin  AKA Tomkin last word on the subject Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
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Re: Internet Explorer 8
« Reply #235 on: Saturday 20 June 09 18:58 UTC (UK) »
If we are ever stupid enough to elect Cameron as PM you will find that all of a sudden the right wing press will start fawning all over him as though his government will be able to save the nation. They have neither the wit nor inclination, I would be very suprised if they don't have all their loot off shore.However, these postings have come a long way away from IE8!
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« Reply #236 on: Saturday 20 June 09 19:09 UTC (UK) »
Graham , Still off topic but you raise some important points. I would like to see an additional qualification introduced for a candidacy to any elected office, that would be a requirement for a wouldbe candidate of all or no party to have passed an examination administered by the civil service with the purpose of ensuring that all candidates had the intellectual equipment to deal with the complex issues of national and local government, and that they could distinguish right from wrong. I was involved in local government many years ago as a county and subsequently borough councillor. My experience of the lack of integrity and intellect of many councillors of all parties led me to the conclusion above. I would also like to see the following: The number of councillors reduced by 2/3s and their remumeration doubled; the post becoming full time with a legal right to return to their previous employment, when ceasing to hold elected office. I firmly believe that what is needed at all levels of governance is an effective elected opposition, and the practise of alternating holding of committee chairs and vice chairs when political control changes should be outlawed. Those who practised this in the former West Riding of Yorkshire were known as the "shake hand gang", and the practise led directly to the corruption and planning scandals of the 1970s.
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Re: Internet Explorer 8
« Reply #237 on: Sunday 21 June 09 09:18 UTC (UK) »
Yes, it is becoming a bit OT isn't it  Smiley I'll send you a PM instead.

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« Reply #238 on: Sunday 21 June 09 10:08 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: Redroger on Saturday 20 June 09 18:58 UTC (UK)
If we are ever stupid enough to elect Cameron as PM you will find that all of a sudden the right wing press will start fawning all over him as though his government will be able to save the nation. They have neither the wit nor inclination, I would be very suprised if they don't have all their loot off shore.However, these postings have come a long way away from IE8!

It will only be a matter of time before the manipulating Murdochs switch their allegiance, and tell all the Sun readers to vote Tory.  Let's hope they never decide to back the BNP  Shocked

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Best Wishes, Nick.

Research interests:
Field - Luton & Islington
Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey
Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk
Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire
Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London)
Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone
Wood - Hertfordshire

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