Unemployed yoof to pick up litter in return for benefits...
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Yes, equivalent to the frozen ready meals. BS you can.
List me out ingredients and prices to beat a 1.5kg lasagne for £2.98;
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda...pasta_sauce/asda_smartprice_lasagne_15kg.html
It can't be done, unless you think the poor have enough money to bulk buy ingredients (pro tip: they don't)
He gets the idea. Make in bulk and freeze. (maybe not completely accessable to poor) Do it for all meat based products especially. Lasagne, shepeards pie, steak and kidney pies, spag bol, etc.
The local butcher sells home made chicken and leak and steak and kidney pies for £2. Loads of filling and bigger than your fist. £2!! He is also making money on this remember....
For the poorer people who can't buy in enough quantities drop the meat, you don't have to have meat at every meal... or just go to your local butcher and buy a home made pie for £2!!
edit. i didn't mean make the lasagne still but with no meat, before someone says that.
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I was ridiculing an over-simplified point, which unsurprisingly was missed by all.
He gets the idea. Make in bulk and freeze. (maybe not completely accessable to poor) Do it for all meat based products especially. Lasagne, shepeards pie, steak and kidney pies, spag bol, etc.
The local butcher sells home made chicken and leak and steak and kidney pies for £2. Loads of filling and bigger than your fist. £2!! He is also making money on this remember....
For the poorer people who can't buy in enough quantities drop the meat, you don't have to have meat at every meal... or just go to your local butcher and buy a home made pie for £2!!
edit. i didn't mean make the lasagne still but with no meat, before someone says that.
So you are saying you can beat it, if you buy something much smaller (fist sized compared to 1.5kg of food) or take out the meat?.
By what definition does this 'beat it', comparing a single meal to the potential three 490 calorie meals?.
By what definition does this 'beat it', comparing a single meal to the potential three 490 calorie meals?.
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No, you're not the only one.
I'd love to see Cameron letting someone from a "troubled" area look after his grandmother.
All stick and no carrot. The Tories, as leaders of the coalition, have stopped EMA and massively increased university fees. Is it any wonder that youth unemployment is through the roof? Where's the support for young people looking to gain the skills needed to find a job?
And I agree with many - anyone working deserves minimum wage.
And I agree with many - anyone working deserves minimum wage.
back when I was a yout I used to absolutely despise going to the job centre, it's a horrible place with horrible staff and full of mental people who should be in prison or likely were until recently.
it's not a pleasant experience in the least the whole thing just seems set up to be as demoralising as possible with the staff seemingly employed not for a job but for "anger therapy"
When was a lasagne considered unhealthy eating anyways? But you're right. Asda's prices like that are hard to beat. Unless you start cooking on a larger scale.
I think the 'unhealthy eating' remarks were more aimed towards those who get takeaways (Mcdonalds, kfc, BK, fish n chips, pizza, etc.)
There you go, a 1.5kg ready made lasagne or 3 cheeseburgers from Mcdonalds.
Idiotic rule and just a gloss over by these bankrupt political parties to show there doing something when there not. Most people aren't out of a job from choice, its because there aren't many out there and the competition is tough, I never found a job straight after finishing Uni, thats with a degree and a wide skill set, applying to over 200 jobs, and only getting 1 or 2 interviews.
If you want people off the dole, start creating jobs, rather than seeing ordinary working class people as some sort of waste of space layabouts that you can use to keep clean the streets on the cheap.
If you want people off the dole, start creating jobs, rather than seeing ordinary working class people as some sort of waste of space layabouts that you can use to keep clean the streets on the cheap.
Not accepting a job they deem themselves worthy of, you mean. There's a difference between not lowering one's standard, to there being no jobs. There will always be plenty of care work and the like about.
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maybe they could get them working on the hs2 or whatever bridge it was they were on about building in london for a real wage for real workers.
train them on the job like was done in the past!!! you don't need a degree.
whichever companies won the contracts based on being mates with the government can do one nationalise it
Things like care work requires some degree of qualification and experience. One of the major stumbling blocks for me was even though I had the qualifications, I had no experience so no one would employ me.
There simply is not enough jobs, for every 1 job you have at least 50 applicants, move away from the few major big cities like London and there is even less opportunities. I went through the same processes so I can say I'm talking from experience, back then I was so desperate for jobs that I was applying literally to any jobs, I would have been quite happy to do a care job, it was impossible to even get a simple retail or mail sorting job!
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I'm just wondering how many times this idea has been announced in the last 15 years.
My sister used to do care work in the 90's.
she never had any training or courses beforehand it must have been given on the job.
Why does almost every job need a qualification or degree these days when in the past they didn't ? makes no sense it's just a barrier to work
she never had any training or courses beforehand it must have been given on the job.
Why does almost every job need a qualification or degree these days when in the past they didn't ? makes no sense it's just a barrier to work
If only they did, that would be a great way to train a new generation with some meaningful skills and get them earning a living through a decent days work! Learning real skills on the job is far better than most bland theoretical degree qualifications!
The problem is with this country is the past government have done away with the manufacturing industry, otherwise there would be a lot more jobs, I can only see more people becoming unemployed because of modern technology too, the banks for example, they are starting to close branches as more and more people bank online now, so you just get more people becoming redundant and less jobs.