If The Establishment Breaks The Social Contract ...

Thursday 27 December 2012

Odd job UK: booming black market economy is propping up jobs figures

"The “jobs enigma” of 2012, that saw unemployment fall despite the gloomy economic outlook, is likely to continue next year, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)."

Friday December 28,2012 

WARNING OVER 'SCRAMBLE' FOR WORK
 
"The unemployed will find it harder to get a job in 2013 as the "scramble" for work gets fiercer, a new report has predicted."

Saturday, 29 December 2012

Mystery unemployment figures

"There's a bit of a mystery surrounding the fall in the unemployment figures.  The economy is flat-lining; so why is the number of jobless predicted to continue to fall.  Several papers have addressed this."

Nigel

On The Move

24 December 2012

Young claimants shut out of private rented sector

"Leslie Morphy, chief executive of Crisis, said: ‘This snapshot of a typical rental search for a single person builds a picture of desperate shortage, particularly for those restricted to lower housing benefit levels, and shows that landlords are reluctant to take on benefits claimants.’"

No room available: study of the availability of shared accommodation (Crisis)

"Ben Sanders and Lígia Teixeira."

Saturday 22 December 2012

UK needs more houses not higher benefits, thinktank says

"Raising housing benefit is an expensive fix that fails to tackle the problem of high house prices and rents, says Institute of Economic Affairs."

Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 09:37 GMT  

Expensive transport costs hit job seekers

"Transport costs are becoming a big hindrance to young people trying to get a job, according to new research from the Work Foundation. The research concluded that 20% of young people are finding transport costs a big hindrance to find employment or continue with education or training. This is especially true for those living in rural areas, the report said."

Tuesday 25 December 2012 

Landlords fear introduction of Universal Credit

"Of the 500 landlords surveyed in the National Landlords Association’s latest Quarterly Landlords Panel, 96 per cent are concerned over problems with the introduction of Universal Credit.

This is clearly linked to the two leading priorities cited for 2013, arrears avoidance (64%) and minimising voids (56%).

Universal Credit will replace the current benefit system in April 2013. Under the new system, most benefits, including Local Housing Allowance (LHA), will be rolled into one monthly payment. In addition, direct payments of LHA to the landlord will cease."

Nigel

Why Am I Here?

On Anger ...

"... anger is the common substitute for logic among those who have no evidence for what they desperately want to believe."

Isacc Asimov, The Tyrannosaurus Prescription

Faith & Reason: The wisdom of the streets will fail us on child sex abuse

"Treating paedophiles as we did witches in medieval times is not just bad theology - it is also the strategy least likely to produce change

"There was something in the eyes of the people interviewed in the street where a 73-year-old man was battered to death in Redcar at the weekend. The man was a paedophile who had been jailed for a year for indecent assault in 2001. Police investigators were shocked at the "wall of silence" which met their request for help. But those looks said more even than the silence, looks of indignant satisfaction, half-smiles of gleeful vindication."

 Paul Vallely, The Independent, 6 December 2003

'That's one less on the streets'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/dec/02/ukcrime.childprotection

Man charged with murder of paedophile

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-204178/Man-charged-murder-paedophile.html

Life for killer of peadophile [sic]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/archive/2004/07/28/The+North+East+Archive/6983136.Life_for_killer_of_peadophile/

- so, how far have we come, in nearly ten years? (more to the point, what has the establishment done to reduce or stop it?):

Greens protesters to bring town to a halt every week

http://www.scotsman.com/news/greens-protesters-to-bring-town-to-a-halt-every-week-1-2438326

Get Robert Greens out Midlothian

https://www.facebook.com/groups/409489742423495

Robert Greens – Brutal rapist in Midlothian

http://chris-ukorg.org/robert-greens-brutal-rapist-in-midlothian

BNP chief’s terror in clash with protesters

http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/4460654/BNP-chiefs-terror-in-clash-with-protesters.html

MBS?

That is why.

Nigel.