In our town we have an Adult Resources centre where people with learning disabilities go to learn to have some Independence. They opened Noah's Cafe last year where they make cakes buns pies etc and sell them to offices and anyone who phones. Today, in our local paper it is reported that it will most probably close and why? Lack of funding!!! So Lesley ash gets £ 5,000,00 compensation and peter hain resigns over non disclosure of £ 100,000. and thats ok, but the disabled, forget it they have to go cap in hand to get anything.

I read today 2 MPs husband and wife who live not far from me,have been claiming rent on a flat in London they sold to a family trust ( the trust being themselves and 1 offspring)to the tune of £165,826.They insisted they had done nothing wrong !!!!!and the bizarre arrangement was cleared with authorities, but passing it over to a trust meant they could claim the full market rent on the flat believed to be around £2,500 a month-dispite the fact they are two of the three trustees.
Food for thought !

True William,but they aint dead yet !!

Phoenix, don't forget, they try their best - but perhaps it's question of "the right man not being on the right place" as we say. Look at the administration - at least in Germany - today someone is in charge of transporation and the next day he is in charge of education for instance. If this person doesn't have a really qualified staff, he is lost.

our young generation approaches "European standards", i.e. feeling responsible for one's decision or for the welfare of the staff or the firm slackens. My generation considered working in a firm as being responsible for the firm, as otherweise our own job and that of others would be endangered. But - perhaps due to globalisation - this changed and at present we have a lot of "scandals".

Phoenix, what you write may be right from your point of view - however, I remember in the 60/70s there was a great difference between the moral of German, French and British workers. Today its everywhere the same. On the contrary, sometimes I have the impression that French or British workers have even more discipline than German ones. Somehow we have become a "Wohlstandsgesellschaft" (welfare society?).

The number of people without work is not the same in all European countries. Even in the Länder of Germany it's varying - for instance in the Land, in which I live the rate of unemployed is rather low, whereas in the new Länder in the eastern part of Germany there are a lot of people without work, above all young people.

I read today
Voters are fed up with migrant chaos (so says Browns very own pollster)
Have the woke up at last !