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He was going to apply to be the new lead presenter on Top Gear until he realised it was a TV programme about cars. #sniff

I would say that is how 95% work. My employer has workers on 8 hours per week contracts who were taken on mid 2014 who wait for a phone call on their listed 6 days off to tell them a shift is available the following day. I only work part time and additional hours (paid at single rate) used to...

Very convenient to ignore the latest figures from the ONS which mention 1.8M ZHC in August 2014 and 697k ZHC in February 2015. Plus the fact these figures could be under reported if the respondents to the survey don't use English as their first language.

A couple can have an individual FTB ISA each so if they both save £12k their total will be £24k with a £6k top up from the Government making it £30k. Outside London the maximum price of a property they can purchase under the scheme will be restricted to £250k.

If you read the small print about these first time buyer ISA to get the maximum top up which Osborn mentioned this afternoon you have to save for 4½ years if opening with a £1000 deposit followed by saving £200 a month or 5 years from scratch.

In my local paper today they are reporting the unemployment figures in N E Lincs have dropped by 27% in the last 12 months. A readers comment sums it up succinctly - "Zero hour contracts, workfare and illegal sanctions. Anything to clear the books to make the figures look good. If you believe...

As we speak there will be multinationals exploring all the loopholes :lol:

Another way they're reducing the unemployment figures is sanctioning single JSA claimants who then become homeless and end up sleeping rough on the streets.

But there are two sets of figures from the ONS , the latest widely banded about 697k which represents 2.3% of the workforce and the one which rarely gets mentioned from August 2014 when during the summer 1.8M workers were on zero hours contracts.

Anyone who moved up north more than 20 years ago now needs to win the Euromillions to be able to return to Sussex :(

Full time is now 30 hours a week or more according to the ONS , I wonder what the percentage of those 80% of new full time jobs are paid at minimum wage or within 20p an hour more ? It is disgraceful to say the minimum wage will rise to £8 an hour by the end of the decade when that rate is...

Glad he mentioned VAT , it was the Conservatives who increased the top rate from 12½% to 15% in 1979 but at the same time raised the lower rate from 8% to 15%. In 2010 they denied prior to the GE there would be no increase in VAT , once in power with the LibDems they raised it from 17½% to 20%...