cheers – i meant going up from garbat, like in steve fallon’s route. so, is it all dead easy, given gordymac went up on a crosser?

I’ll be staying in evanton so i could do the big loop…

If its the same loop, the descent is kinda tricky…

nice one colin. i’ve done a few rides up near there – along the tollie path and a loop from kinlochewe up round by lochan fada

there’s some reet tricky trails along with stunning views out that way

out of interest, which housing association?

it’s a pointless headline grabber for the mail/express brigade. it will be expensive and complicated to run. it will achieve little actual public good. oh, and there’s no jobs for all these hundreds of thousands of feckless individuals to get in the end anyway.

oh, and by the way, notice how no one ever puts a number on the amount of people who are allegedly getting benefits without ever trying to get a job? that’s because no one has ever tried to find out how many there are. it’s easier to just blame them all for not trying

oh, and also, it’s funny how the rich need carrots to get them to work, while the poor need sticks…

it’s clever of the tories to allow the debate on benefit cuts to be focused on this narrow sideline of the maximum cap on local housing allowance at the minute. it’s only ever going to affect people in london.

the vast majority of the benefit cuts will affect people throughout the uk and will hit the working poor as much as the indolent workshy scroungers everyone demonises. i mean cuts to tax credits, the lower cpi figure to calculate benefit increases, plus others

but to get back to the original point, people who work in crappy jobs in central london surely need to live somewhere close. these are people who get help from housing benefit to pay rent and who will have their housing benefit cut as well. how are they meant to get by? their wages won’t go up, this is likely to force them to move and to give up their jobs

who’s gonna wash the toilets? work in the shops? clean the offices? work as security guards?

just do as i did with edinburgh council when i wasn’t happy with the work they arranged on my building –
refuse to pay, get taken to court.
point out to sheriff that i wasn’t happy
get case sisted for council to investigate (after the fourth hearing)
then hear nothing more about it

that was over a year ago…

i’ve not read everything on here, because it would annoy me too much, but i haven’t seen many mention that one of the main targets for cuts are tax credits. these are predominantly paid to low paid workers, to supplement their income (and as a subsidy to employers to enable them to pay less than lving wages)

these are not dole scroungers, they are people working but who cannot get by on their wage alone. these people are also facing cuts in housing benefit (many will get partial help towards their rent) and will struggle.

kinda puts a lie to the tory line that it’s cracking down on layabouts.

i guess it’s easier to just label the welfare cuts as hitting a target that everyone hates, rather than addressing the truth

yeah, there’s no need to buy the bike. just let your work continue to own it and watch it depreciate while paying nothing in the meantime

pick your lines, needs more skillz, lazy full suss. blah blah blah

what are you studying? I hope the course is easy cus you’ve nae chance with any tricky questions in the exams

buy one al, then you can be like me

yay!

i ride lots. i just don't invite you, cus you smell

it's a means tested state benefit, dressed up as something else

aimed at people with kids, full time workers over 25, disabled workers,

any particular questions you want answered? it's quite a big topic…

got lyriks on mine, it works fine. don't listen to al, he's a bawbag

hms waste of f-in money

endomondo does it

there shouldn't be any problem with signing on for a short period, then signing off to go abroad, and then signing on again.

my advice would be to not tell them this is your plan when you first make the claim – it's not a question they ask as part of the application, so there's no need to volunteer it

When you reapply, you will be asked what you've been up to, but your claim will only be sanctioned if you'd left a job voluntarily or been sacked. Going away on a preplanned break is perfectly acceptable.

you might also be able to get help with rent and council tax. this will depend on your total household income and savings, it's not as simple as a cut off point for income as suggested above. There is a cut off for savings which is £16,000

(my job is giving benefits advice, in case your wondering whether to trust this…)

*swoons at 3rd pic*

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where's the goat track?

Sik skillz

i mite come along. depends on timing n that…

that's a total bummer 🙁

you could try dodging the walkers on ben lomond?

there's f all real help available

what's the router/wifi dongle?

seek proper advice. the years that count for her NI contributions should be the two full tax years before the 'benefit year' she tries to claim benefit

so if she is claiming this year, they will be looking for contributions in tax years 07/08 and 08/09 to see if she qualifies

(it's more complicated than this, but that's a start…)

why do you feel the need to clean them?

dumping asbestos is a serious matter, it could (eventually) kill people. i think tj is wrong (no way!) and you do have a case for unfair dismissal, this is on the grounds that you've made a protected disclosure

this give more info, but i'd seek legal advice anyway

http://www.roydens.co.uk/content40.htm

it's a disclosure on at least three of the necessary grounds. keep notes of what happened and when and as above, consider informing the environment agency or sepa depending on where you are

have you noticed the kids not doing up their laces or leaving their jeans round their arses yet?

do you want us to do the design work for you as well?

giant seek 0 is another one – it has an eccentric bb

i had a quick look at mine it might take mudguards but not totally convinced.

congratulations! your wife is now officially a cheating work shy scrounger who claimed sickness benefit and has been found to have nothing worng with her

as i'm sure you've found out by now, these medical exams are performed on behlaf of the state by a private company- atos origin. the theory is that they are accountable and that they are fair, adequate independent assessments but the reality is far from that. you can complain if you want, but no one is gonna care. it may have been a nurse rather than a doctor who did the examination. anyway, it's someone who can't get a normal job in the health service which should make you wonder at least a wee bit

the way forward is to appeal the decision to end her esa, if she hasn't done so already. you may need some medical evidence from gp/consultant to back the case.

i suggest going to a cab or other advice agency (councils often run them as well) and getting advice on the appeal

i think my email shows up in my profile if you'd like any quick info from me – i give benefit advice for a living…

you could also try asking a cab or other advice agency their thoughts on whether you should be allowed to do the internship. sadly jobcentre staff aren't always that well trained or knowledgeable

sneek into your work later tonight and burn the place down. that’ll learn them

do you mean the micks? maybe the wogs? coons? chinkies?

beer and chips. can’t go wrong

i wonder if anyone has bothered to read all this? i certainly wouldn’t

sum spacemen?