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Post by oldie on Jan 24, 2024 15:42:27 GMT
Just to make my point. I listened to a very interesting interview with the Communications Workers Union, David Ward, today. Instead of the usual "it's all an attack on the workers" rhetoric he agreed that the Post Office cannot carry on as is and that he accepted changes to the service were required. He even said his union would consider 5 or even 3 day delivery cycles, as part of a broader consideration of the service offer. Sounds eminently sensible to me and his point that the Ofcom report was dead in the water because the Government have said they will not consider changes in delivery cycles at all was well made. His comments have been covered in The Standard today, link www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/union-to-put-forward-its-own-report-on-future-of-royal-mail-b1134492.htmlWhich just shows you can offer an opinion with a link to information with clogging the forum with copy and pasting whole articles and in isolation.
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Post by ltdgas on Jan 24, 2024 17:30:58 GMT
Just to make my point. I listened to a very interesting interview with the Communications Workers Union, David Ward, today. Instead of the usual "it's all an attack on the workers" rhetoric he agreed that the Post Office cannot carry on as is and that he accepted changes to the service were required. He even said his union would consider 5 or even 3 day delivery cycles, as part of a broader consideration of the service offer. Sounds eminently sensible to me and his point that the Ofcom report was dead in the water because the Government have said they will not consider changes in delivery cycles at all was well made. His comments have been covered in The Standard today, link www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/union-to-put-forward-its-own-report-on-future-of-royal-mail-b1134492.htmlWhich just shows you can offer an opinion with a link to information with clogging the forum with copy and pasting whole articles and in isolation. The Union are going to come up with how to grow the business ?? Why haven’t they done this already ? Seem strange they’ve only come up with this since the ofcom report ! If they’ve got all these wonderful ideas I’m suprised they haven’t started there own mail company
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Post by oldie on Jan 24, 2024 19:04:34 GMT
Just to make my point. I listened to a very interesting interview with the Communications Workers Union, David Ward, today. Instead of the usual "it's all an attack on the workers" rhetoric he agreed that the Post Office cannot carry on as is and that he accepted changes to the service were required. He even said his union would consider 5 or even 3 day delivery cycles, as part of a broader consideration of the service offer. Sounds eminently sensible to me and his point that the Ofcom report was dead in the water because the Government have said they will not consider changes in delivery cycles at all was well made. His comments have been covered in The Standard today, link www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/union-to-put-forward-its-own-report-on-future-of-royal-mail-b1134492.htmlWhich just shows you can offer an opinion with a link to information with clogging the forum with copy and pasting whole articles and in isolation. The Union are going to come up with how to grow the business ?? Why haven’t they done this already ? Seem strange they’ve only come up with this since the ofcom report ! If they’ve got all these wonderful ideas I’m suprised they haven’t started there own mail company Stunning. A classic example.
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Post by ltdgas on Jan 25, 2024 5:44:59 GMT
The Union are going to come up with how to grow the business ?? Why haven’t they done this already ? Seem strange they’ve only come up with this since the ofcom report ! If they’ve got all these wonderful ideas I’m suprised they haven’t started there own mail company Stunning. A classic example. As normal , when you’ve no answer you speak in riddles
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Post by oldie on Jan 25, 2024 7:17:55 GMT
Stunning. A classic example. As normal , when you’ve no answer you speak in riddles A riddle only to those of limited reasoning capacity and mental acuity.
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Post by ltdgas on Jan 25, 2024 11:31:13 GMT
As normal , when you’ve no answer you speak in riddles A riddle only to those of limited reasoning capacity and mental acuity. Away you go again eith your riddles
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Post by bluetornados on Mar 20, 2024 17:07:14 GMT
Junior doctors vote to continue strike action..By Nick Triggle, Health correspondent.i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/20/16/82694095-13219675-image-a-13_1710952922385.jpgJunior doctors in England have voted in favour of continuing strike action in their pay dispute. Some 98% of members of the British Medical Association who voted backed further walkouts on a turnout of 62%. There have been 10 walkouts so far by junior doctors since the first one in March last year. The British Medical Association (BMA) has asked for a 35% pay rise, but ministers have described the pay claim as unreasonable. Two-thirds of junior doctors are members of the BMA. The vote result means the union has a strike mandate for another six months. Junior doctors committee co-chairs Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi said: "It has now been a year since we began strike action. "That is a year of too many strikes. The government believed it could ignore, delay, and offer excuses long enough that we would simply give up. "We ask the health secretary to come forward as soon as possible with a new offer - and make sure not a single further strike day need be called," they said. Junior doctors received a pay rise averaging nearly 9% this financial year - and during talks at the end of last year, the option of an extra 3% on top of that was discussed. But those talks ended in early December without a deal being reached. The BMA is after a 35% pay increase to make up for what it says is 15 years of below-inflation pay rises. There have been no formal talks since those negotiations ended and the BMA is boycotting the pay review process for next year, refusing to provide evidence to the independent pay review body that makes recommendations on pay rises. Junior doctors in Wales and Northern Ireland are also involved in strike action. But consultants in England are voting on whether to accept a revised pay offer from ministers after putting their strike action on pause. More than 1.4 million operations and appointments in total have been cancelled because of strike action by health workers including doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals since December 2022. The disputes involving the majority of the other health workers have been resolved. i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/20/16/82693971-13219675-image-a-11_1710952772059.jpg
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Post by oldie on Mar 20, 2024 17:26:25 GMT
The Daily Mail 😂😂😂
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Post by bluetornados on Mar 20, 2024 17:47:10 GMT
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Post by oldie on Mar 20, 2024 17:49:38 GMT
I am grateful for this. It exposed you as being an absolute w****r. Well done and carry on.
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Post by bluetornados on Mar 20, 2024 20:20:12 GMT
I am grateful for this. It exposed you as being an absolute w****r. Well done and carry on. i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/31/13/32B321C900000578-3517174-image-a-67_1459426511773.jpgLanguage Timothy !!!...Les, Appalling behaviour on your behalf, you have let yourself down with aplomb. For a perceived doyen like yourself Les, a good long look at oneself is in order here, i for one pity you... A favourite film of mine is on shortly, a pack of chocolate covered biscuits and a mug of milk will go down very well... Have a good evening Les and do keep calm and carry on...
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Post by oldie on Mar 20, 2024 21:10:44 GMT
I am grateful for this. It exposed you as being an absolute w****r. Well done and carry on. i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/31/13/32B321C900000578-3517174-image-a-67_1459426511773.jpgLanguage Timothy !!!...Les, Appalling behaviour on your behalf, you have let yourself down with aplomb. For a perceived doyen like yourself Les, a good long look at oneself is in order here, i for one pity you... A favourite film of mine is on shortly, a pack of chocolate covered biscuits and a mug of milk will go down very well... Have a good evening Les and do keep calm and carry on... I heard you do appreciate Debbie does Dallas 3. Enjoy
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Post by oldie on Mar 20, 2024 21:13:40 GMT
Actually I may have made a mistake Was it in fact the repeat of the Dick Emery shows?
You know the script "Oh you are awful, but I do like you"
Is that you?
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 20, 2024 22:06:45 GMT
Just to make my point. I listened to a very interesting interview with the Communications Workers Union, David Ward, today. Instead of the usual "it's all an attack on the workers" rhetoric he agreed that the Post Office cannot carry on as is and that he accepted changes to the service were required. He even said his union would consider 5 or even 3 day delivery cycles, as part of a broader consideration of the service offer. Sounds eminently sensible to me and his point that the Ofcom report was dead in the water because the Government have said they will not consider changes in delivery cycles at all was well made. His comments have been covered in The Standard today, link www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/union-to-put-forward-its-own-report-on-future-of-royal-mail-b1134492.htmlWhich just shows you can offer an opinion with a link to information with clogging the forum with copy and pasting whole articles and in isolation. A good suggestion was made a coup!e of weeks ago......sell Royal Mail to Amazon for one pound. Have a good legal SLA/Charter. In no time at all we would have a good service that made a profit for someone. What we currently have is a service in decline with ever rising costs to the customer, and taxpayer. That cannot continue.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 20, 2024 22:09:19 GMT
I am grateful for this. It exposed you as being an absolute w****r. Well done and carry on. Oldie. Have you ever thought about writing a book? Let's call it "How to make friends and influence others". It could be a bestseller.
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Post by oldie on Mar 21, 2024 6:40:31 GMT
I am grateful for this. It exposed you as being an absolute w****r. Well done and carry on. Oldie. Have you ever thought about writing a book? Let's call it "How to make friends and influence others". It could be a bestseller. 😱
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Post by bluetornados on Apr 24, 2024 20:05:14 GMT
Mr Bates vs Post Office drama lost £1m, ITV boss says..by Ian Youngs, Entertainment & arts reporter. i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/02/01/79513411-12917185-Toby_Jones_left_plays_a_defiant_sub_postmaster_running_a_shop_in-a-32_1704159744347.jpgToby Jones plays a defiant sub-postmaster running a shop in Llandudno, North Wales. Julie Hesmondhalgh as Suzanne ITV made a loss of about £1m on its agenda-setting drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, despite it being the UK's most-watched TV show of the year so far, the broadcaster has revealed. The four-part drama, which aired in January, showed the human toll on hundreds of sub-postmasters who were wrongly prosecuted for false accounting and theft due to faulty software. It sparked an outcry and led to plans for new legislation to clear their names. The series has been watched by 13.5 million people to date. But Kevin Lygo, ITV's managing director of media and entertainment, said: "Mr Bates has made a loss of something like £1m and we can't continually do this." Broadcasters are facing big financial pressures, and often rely on overseas channels or streamers buying the rights to show a programme to help recoup its budget. Last month, ITV said 12 foreign broadcasters had bought the Mr Bates drama. But Mr Lygo said it wasn't sufficiently appealing to foreign viewers to break even. "Of course, some things are very profitable on the channel, and some things aren't," he told the Voice of the Listener & Viewer spring conference on Wednesday, according to PA Media. "But it's a challenge to be able to fund some of the things that aren't, obviously, of international appeal. "We're hoping this may be, because it caused such a furore here that maybe sales will pick up, but there's no evidence of it yet. "If you're in Lithuania, four hours on the British Post Office? Not really, thank you very much. So you can see the challenges here." Another challenge for mainstream broadcasters is "getting enough audiences to turn up on the night" to watch a show, he said. Five or six years ago, a programme like Mr Bates would have been expected to attract a live audience around six or seven million. The first episode of Mr Bates was watched by four million on the night, which is as "good as you get" now, he said.
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