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Jubilee.
« on: June 02, 2012, 08:26:24 AM »
Heres one for Pete to discuss.....

Congratulations to the Queen, for 60 years setting standards far higher than the crap the world throws at us, and giving us something we can all be very proud of.
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« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2012, 08:43:17 AM »
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« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2012, 08:56:31 AM »
I decided to work this weekend --- can't be doing with it all
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« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2012, 10:54:22 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2012, 12:45:12 PM »
Quote from: Old Cruser on June 02, 2012, 08:56:31 AM
--- can't be doing with it all

Me neither!
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« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2012, 09:32:28 AM »
I have very little interest.  Theres no doubt it brings in tourism which is a good thing.

Im happy to go along with it - mainly due to the fact I get 4 days off work.
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« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2012, 12:23:35 PM »
Well it peed it down yesterday didn't it! Pleased to be working and not stood for hours by the Thames  ;)
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« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2012, 08:38:10 PM »
My mother's been down London for the weekend.
Not spoke to her about the weather yet, but she text me earlier to tell me she's on the way home and has had an excellent weekend  :)
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« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2012, 09:29:58 PM »
My niece is at the garden party & concert
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« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2012, 06:47:37 PM »
I think it's been a fantastically well organized event, and has made me feel proud to be British.
Shame about Prince Philip, he will bounce back though. He's 91 on Sunday apparently.
I'm glad we have a Royal family. The Queen especially has devoted her life to these islands, and the Commonwealth.
Long may she reign.
A series of events which show the pessimists of this world that we do actually have a great country, and we know how to party.
Puff your chests out for once and be proud to be British!! :) :)
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« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2012, 07:08:23 PM »
It's a pity that unemployed people were shipped in to act as stewards, not paid and told to sleep under London Bridge to maximise profits for Close Protection UK (CPUK) the company paid tax-payers' money to organise it.

Hopefully, John Prescott will bring the b*stards to task for it:

"It is totally unacceptable that young unemployed people were bussed in to London from Bristol, Bath and Plymouth and forced to sleep out in the cold overnight before stewarding a major event with no payment.

"I am deeply concerned that a private security firm is not only providing policing on the cheap but failing to show a duty of care to its staff and threatening to withdraw an opportunity to work at the Olympics as a means to coerce them to work unpaid."

Cameron's Britain...  :(  >:(

http://bit.ly/K9QSV1
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« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2012, 07:55:25 PM »
Is it not the same firm, (CPUK), that's got the contract to 'Steward' the olympic games.

The 'workers' were paid pennies, they were doing an NVQ course as apprentices.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/04/jubilee-pageant-unemployed
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Re: Jubilee.
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2012, 08:03:04 PM »
Never said it was - whats your point?
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« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2012, 08:16:46 PM »
Quote from: Pete on June 05, 2012, 07:08:23 PM
It's a pity that unemployed people were shipped in to act as stewards, not paid and told to sleep under London Bridge to maximise profits for Close Protection UK (CPUK) the company paid tax-payers' money to organise it.

Hopefully, John Prescott will bring the b*stards to task for it:

"It is totally unacceptable that young unemployed people were bussed in to London from Bristol, Bath and Plymouth and forced to sleep out in the cold overnight before stewarding a major event with no payment.

"I am deeply concerned that a private security firm is not only providing policing on the cheap but failing to show a duty of care to its staff and threatening to withdraw an opportunity to work at the Olympics as a means to coerce them to work unpaid."

Cameron's Britain...  :(  >:(

http://bit.ly/K9QSV1
Were they forced into this or was it voluntary :(
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« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2012, 08:25:36 PM »
I haven't got a point  ::)
Just pointing members to a web related article I read this morning. by the Guardian.
But I didn't post about it

I didn't read your link before posting my reply. I have now. Also by the Guardian, but newer.

Funny how the Guardian can alter stories to suit.
If you'd read my link this morning, which I didn't post  :-[
You wouldn't have been swearing on FB this afternoon.

The people were treat like sh1t. THAT I DON'T AGREE WITH !!!

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Read the links me and Pete have posted. Mine was from this morning. Pete's from later on today.





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