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The "Down with this sort of thing" picket. There is a burger van and you can wear your donkey jacket and fingerless gloves

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KatieMiddleton · 24/01/2012 10:50

Fed up of the cuts? Fed up of the mislead bigotry? This is your sanctuary. Unwind. Vent. Pop over to the frothers thread if you feel like getting organised and doing some proactive stuff or just chill out with a cup of builders tea in a polystyrene cup.

Welcome.

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TeWihara · 24/01/2012 15:45

It's a party in politics, for all non-nobbers.

I want thai food, DD used to eat it when she was weaning and now she is suspicious of anything mixed together.

Maryz · 24/01/2012 15:43

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Hullygully · 24/01/2012 15:42

veg curry

salivates.

I went out for Thai recently and said yum yum hot please and the lovely woman brought my dinner and a nice saucer of chopped chillis.

Was going on and on and drinking chatting nicely and without thinking sprinkled lovely dinner with chillis. Head exploded.

RatherBeOnThePiste · 24/01/2012 15:40

we can have cheese for the cheese people and curry for the spicy ones.
And rum for Knotty
Tis all good

ShirleyForAllSeasons · 24/01/2012 15:40

I have got a lovely hot VEGETABLE curry festering maturing in my fridge as we speak.

It will strip the roof of our mouths! Hoorah!

MmeLindor. · 24/01/2012 15:40

What about a nice big pot of vin chaud.

I will get a bottle of that Piat d'Or down the offy, and bung in some cinnamon sticks and the orange pomander doodah that we made before Xmas. The one with the cloves on it and the ribbon, as made on Blue Peter.

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KatieMiddleton · 24/01/2012 15:39

It's a Cox and Cox brazier so I think that's ok. Middle class, working class, upper class, royalty are all welcome.

You can do a curry Hully. Plenty of room of the three ring burner.

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ValarMorghulis · 24/01/2012 15:38

is it terribly working class to have thought a brazier was a thing you put your norks into?

Hullygully · 24/01/2012 15:37

No No

Cheese is the food of the devil.

Can't we have some nice hot curry?

MmeLindor. · 24/01/2012 15:34

Would it be horribly middle class to bring cheese fondue to put on the brazier?

MmeLindor. · 24/01/2012 15:25
OpinionatedMum · 24/01/2012 15:23

Lone parents aren't included in the unemployment figures until their youngest reaches five. It used to be 16.

RatherBeOnThePiste · 24/01/2012 15:21

Well I put other because I thought it was funny, then it asked me what, so I changed it to rather not say.

YY to the hats Grin and general spaghetti fringing attached to the sweatshirt. Lovely.

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KatieMiddleton · 24/01/2012 15:17

There was an option to decline to say. I answered then thought "sod this for a box of soldier what's this got to do with the price of fish?" (I was having a mixed metaphor moment) and went back and changed it all to prefer not to say. I didn't tell them my religion either though I was tempted to put Catholic. That'd really fuck them up Grin

They should have hats too. Tentacle-y ones.

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RatherBeOnThePiste · 24/01/2012 15:09

Yes Katie, we did and have done the online consultation thing. But WTF was the past question about sexual orientation all about?! There was no option for 'fuck off' unfortunately. We strongly disagreed obviously, although the site itself would be perfect, I am going there tomorrow actually for a meeting, but what is needed is a non faith secondary school. Unless of course it can be the Church of the flying Spaghetti Monster, which could have a marvellous sweatshirt in my opinion Grin

TeWihara · 24/01/2012 14:56

I haven't worked in 3 years and I've never claimed JSA.

Hoping if I can get my drivers license this year that that will change, I originally wanted to go back to working with kids with SEN and a lot of those jobs have disappeared so may have to do something else instead. (thinking of starting my own business)

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KatieMiddleton · 24/01/2012 14:54

I think I saw the consultation for that one RBOTP. I understand the Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign have asked them some questions about how often one has to join collective worship of the spaghetti monster to meet the admissions criteria and until we get the answer to that I can't really decide Grin

Yup, we really do have a tramp living on my street. I live town centre

On serious note, have you seen the consultation for the vanity school is out now?

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JaneMare · 24/01/2012 14:50

and isn't it true that lone parents claiming IS not JSA aren't incl also, even though they might be seeking emloyment?

ShirleyForAllSeasons · 24/01/2012 14:47

Twll - Figures from here

Registered unemployed means that they have registered with the DWP. Usually collecting benefits, so yes this wouldn't include SAHP's or anyone who is searching for work while not claiming benefits (for whatever reason)

RatherBeOnThePiste · 24/01/2012 14:45

Katie - DH and I reckon that a secondary school set up in these people's name would be FAR better than the one we are inevitably going to get What say you?

And Robert Dyas?

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KatieMiddleton · 24/01/2012 14:44

No it doesn't include the TwllBack. It just includes those registered as unemployed via Job Centre Plus.

So no people trying to return to work, no graduates that haven't signed on, no people working all hours in temp jobs trying to find permanent work.

It is a big con.

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ValarMorghulis · 24/01/2012 14:43

TWllBACH - it is those claiming jobseekers allowance.
unemployed mothers who are on income support aren't included, nor are SAHP who are looking but not claiming

Or the teeangers looking for saturday jobs whilst still at school/ollege. The figures are much higher

TwllBach · 24/01/2012 14:40

Shirley can I ask, the 'registered unemployed' does that include, for example, SAHPs that might be interested in going/have to go back to work? Or is just those that are registered at the job centre? Because if it's just the job centre figures, it's possible that the unemployment figures are even higher than that isn't it?

BIWI · 24/01/2012 14:40

I was Shock to see that Oily Dave is now 5 points ahead in the polls this morning.

It makes me Angry and Sad that he is obviously now the palatable, cosy face of such callous behaviour.

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KatieMiddleton · 24/01/2012 14:37

There is a tramp that has moved onto my street. He sleeps in Robert Dyas' fire exit that backs onto the alley way that is my street.

That's shocking. I live in a naice area too. If only he'd had the sense to move to Wigan where for the same price as a shop doorway one can get a naice 2 bed flat. So I've heard.

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