DAILY SIGNING ON

Some people are now asked to sign on daily and in some cases they miss out attending places that, unlike JCP (Job Centre Plus) actually has the means of allowing people to look for work.
These drop in centres, as they are known, have computers so people can browse agency sites where many jobs are advertised but don't get put in the universal jobs match site because they only offer a week here or there, sometimes only a days work.

You are paid by the agency at the end of each week/month, just a weeks work every other week can mean you get more then signing on many people do this rather than sign on there are times when you go weeks without any work, but there are times you are never out of work going from one temp job to another.

I knew someone who did this work but they used to tell the firm they were working for to call them direct if they wanted someone for a day or week, they now work full time for one of the employers but they still get calls to go in and work for other employers. This person cut out the agency by getting a day/weeks work at a place and giving them their mobile number, all employers took the number as they could get someone to do the job and cut the agency out of the picture.

The cost of petrol/Diesel

The cost of fuel petrol/diesel has been on my mind for some time with a barrel now costing about £50 maybe less. It is said that the price of a barrel would have to hit £25 for just 8p to come off the price of a litre.
I believe they will let it drop but not to get below £1 a litre, unless the supermarkets go on a price war, then it will be who can hold out the longest at the lowest price.
If you take £1.34 as the price of a litre, I'm using this because it is all worked out for you here, for both diesel and unleaded duty is 58p, but they make out the cost of the oil for diesel is more 51.1p compared to 45.2p for unleaded, it's the same oil yet they say it costs more to produce. VAT is 22.4p compared to 23.1p for diesel the production cost is the same at 1.5p but the retailers profit is 7.1p compared to 4.7p for diesel.

So unless there is some additive they put in diesel to increase the production cost, which would really come under refining then it costs no more to produce a barrel of diesel than it does a barrel of petrol, or should that be a tanker!
Then there is the price of electric and gas they say it is related to the price of oil well we should see a massive cut in the next few months as it's related to the price of oil but the corrupt cunts won't drop the price they will give it out as a bonus on profits. 
Whatever you think about the price of fuel the UK consumer is getting ripped off,
The 1908 Finance Act introduced a petrol duty in the UK, with the rate being set at 3d (£0.013) per UK gallon, bringing the price of a typical UK gallon to 1s 1½d (£5.92 as of 2015^[2]).^[3]
It was then abolished by the Finance Act 1919 after several years of steady petrol price rises and replaced by vehicle taxation, and the tax disc based on horsepower,^[3] after which the cost of petrol was about 4s^{[citation needed]} (£8.02 as of 2015^[2]) per UK gallon.
In 1928, following market reductions in the cost of a UK gallon of fuel to about 1s 2½d (£3.18 as of 2015^[2]), the Government introduced a tax of 4d (£0.017) per UK gallon^[3] bringing the cost of a UK gallon of petrol to 1s 6¾d^{[citation needed]} (£4.1 as of 2015^[2]).
In the 1993 Budget during the Major ministry Norman Lamont introduced a 10p rise and also a 'Fuel Price Escalator' whereby the cost of fuel would be increased annually by 3 per cent above inflation in future years; the Petroleum revenue tax was reduced in the same budget and later abolished. Kenneth Clarke, the new chancellor, increased the escalator to 5p in November of that year. These increases were introduced at a time of considerable change in government transport policy, and followed major UK road protests, including the M11 link road protest and the protest at Twyford Down.^[4] The escalator was increased in 6p per year in 1997 by the Gordon Brown, chancellor for the new Blair ministry.
The escalator was effectively cancelled by the Brown ministry follow severe disruption caused by the fuel tax protests in 2000. Since that time more cautious increases have been applied.^[3] A planned 3.02p/litre rise which was confirmed by the 2012 United Kingdom budget to come into effect on 1 August 2012^[5] was later deferred until 1 January 2013 as short notice

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No money gone in

Last Thursday I was supposed to get my ESA paid into my account, it normally happens just before midnight the night before, but always before 8AM on the day in question. I normally get payments over a 3 week period then miss a week and it starts again.
the last time it happened I just emailed them and it was paid by the end of the day, I had just moved into the ex's old place, she died, and I moved back in to stop them kicking my son out. They wanted the place for a person with disabilities so I made a deal with them one of 2 areas or I stay put I got this place close to were I wanted.
Now to the point of last Thursday (18/12/14) they put £10 in for my personal independence payment Xmas bonus but not the ESA payment at 14:07 I emailed the DWP the following email

I am due a payment of ESA today 18/12/14 as of 13:46 today no payment has been received. Please make this payment within 48 hours or face action where only financial compensation will be adequate to compensate me. Their will also be a county court claim which will incur costs and I will add these to the amount.  The amount at present is £355.60, but once I send any papers to the court there will be no stopping the action until the court charges are paid plus £150 and the Employment and support allowance.

I just decided to phone them and according to them they have taken £61.10 a week off me for changing from DLA to PIP they issued an IS10 last Thursday they have reduced the money to £112: XX a week.
I am going to fill in the IS10 and post it straight back, I blew my top when they said they had deducted the SDP because it was a new claim for PIP but they have had quite some time to work out if I am entitled to it as they awarded me PIP before the end of July so it has taken them nearly 5 months to decide to send an IS10 and stop part of the benefit that I believe I am fully entitled too.
I was told if I hadn't received it by new years eve to call them WTF they issued it on the 18/12/14 that's why I wasn't paid. I will copy it and email the DWP an advance copy for their records and add 1 for my own records. If they are saying another week, well two weeks nearly from date they say they issued it then I assume they haven't even put it in the post yet.

Although I live with my son I live a totally separate life from him he gets up takes the dogs out then either goes out  or spends the day in his bedroom on the PC or watching TV. While I surf the net or watch some TV.

EDIT
It's close to 5 weeks and I am £61.10 a week down if they don't get a move on, say 2 weeks then I will kick off, I know they got it back the same day I got the IS10 24/12/14 because I emailed them a copy in advance. I am not giving them 12 or 13 weeks because that will mean loss of Carers allowance so I intend to get one or the other and before the 3 months are up.

Question Time, the FARAGE & BRAND SHOW!

I am just watching question time and it seems to be a Nigel Farage V Russell Brand show.
There is one woman who is a complete gobshite, she should have been put down at birth. The person who told Brand to stand for parliament didn't know what he was on about as IMHO he would be sucked in to all the rotten money grabbing corruption that many MP's take for granted.

Dimbleby went to Farage then Brand or the other way round, whoever, of the two answered the other answered next so Dimbleby was as guilty as anyone else by asking one then the other. It was only after those two had a say did Dimbleby go to other panel members. Question time is a loaded program anyway but this just opened viewers eyes to how loaded it actually is. All question programs are loaded  the interviewee sees the questions they want to ask then say yes or no to each one, Question time is just the same you apply for a ticket and submit a question with your application, you then get a card if you get there to write down a further question I assume the panel are then shown them and have the final say as to whether they will answer the question, from that and the questions submitted with the application they then get an audience member to read out the question.

LIKE I SAID QUESTION TIME IS FIXED, IT'S A SCAM.

My new PC

Just over a month ago I bought a new PC windows 8.1, 12 GB RAM 2Gb graphics are the basic configurations of the PC.
After 4 days it just refused to start up so after 4 hours I phoned their support number and was told to turn the PC off by the power button then turn it back on still the same I told them, I had already tried it twice before calling them, they told me to call the other number to send it back for repair, I nearly told them it wasn't fit for purpose and I wanted NEW but decided it may be an update glitch and they will install a patch to stop it happening. They did this and replaced the graphics card as well, one of the nodules for the D-SUB connection was missing.
A week later it returned and the first thing I did was turn off automatic updates, all has gone well until I downloaded itunes to stream a pre-release of ROCK OR BUST the latest AC/DC new album. then the machine refused to shut down.
I tried a few things even a download to stop fast start-up but that failed but the actual solution was a very simple one just uninstall itunes  the machine is 64bit so I had installed the 64bit version of itunes.
First I uninstalled all the junk to do with itunes using revo uninstaller then as itunes didn't show I searched for it then uninstalled it then shut down the PC success the PC was now working as it should again.

Sometimes the simple solution is the best answer, in the time I have had this PC it has caused more problems than my last one, windows 7 home, did in nearly 6 years, this PC is no faster than the old one that was a 2.6 Athlon quad core with 1Gb graphics and 4 Gb RAM. I may send it back to the manufacturer for repair and have more RAM installed.

EDIT

I found out why my PC wouldn't shut down properly it's my  USB3 2 Terabyte external hard drive it stops the PC from shutting down since I disconnected it I haven't had the machine not shut down but the 500Gb USB2 works perfectly. I just started fast start up to see if the machine shuts down if it does then I effectively have 2 USB3 ports that are FUBAR.

GIDS again

George Iain Duncan Smith is spouting his crap again, claiming foreign children are filling schools but cannot speak English. The solution is simple if they don't understand English, don't let them attend school and remove all benefits for the child until they can speak and understand English, if they claim discrimination tell them to leave the UK it's that simple.
If they want to live in the UK they should speak English, it is up to the parents if they want to also teach them their native language as well, the UK must stop doing forms in different languages as well, English only, if they don't understand it then they don't claim, SIMPLES.

If only the parents speak English they should teach the children English before they try to come to the UK, personally I would like to see the Australian approach of get the job before you come if you lose it then get another within 2 months or leave, no benefits while they are out of work for 5 years and only 6 months benefits for the next 5 years. 

A family member took in some students who were here to improve their English and they tried to make out they didn't understand anything, that is until their stuff was packed and the office was called and told that if they didn't speak English they could be found somewhere else, they soon started to speak almost perfect English.

Sometimes you just have to be strict all this BS they use now about unfair conduct is just that BS if they won't speak English refuse to have them in the school and report them as not attending when they don't come back the next day.

NEW PC

Well my old PC stopped working, so I went out and bought a new one, only after 4 days the new one stopped working so it went back. They returned it to me on the 20/10/14 and they reminded me of some free software/app I could download in an email. I decided to look at them and a movie making program took my fancy. I put in the details and downloaded the app. I thought it had fucked up the PC as it said 100% done and kept spinning, eventually rebooting and letting me log in, on checking out the app it transpires it is only a maximum 30 day trial and they expect £60 to get a code to use it after 30 days, basically it's a con to entice you into buying that PC. That wasn't the only brand offering a free app some other brands did as well. £600 for a PC and they expect you to download an app then fork out £60 to use it after 30 days.

Currys/PCWorld are using underhand tactics to entice people to buy certain products by saying they will get something FREE, not a fucking free trial, that is just deceitful. If they had said receive a FREE TRIAL of selected software that would have been different.

I feel like putting the software onto a blank disc and stuffing it down the throat of the UK CEO of Currys/PCWorld, if you are ever enticed by a freebie like this I would always email and ask in future is it a FREE TRIAL of the software or the full working version, recording the conversation then if it shows up as a free trial you can then put in a claim against the store, if they say it is the full working version without any limitations, but turns out to be a FREE TRIAL of the full version.