howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Guest 774- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 498
They are a pain up the High Street. You shouldn't have to slalom your way around town just to avoid them...
"If it ain't broke, fix it til it is."
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,820
I,m surpised that anyone gives their personal details to these people on the street.
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
- Posts: 1,116
I do like Mr Elphicke and I'm really glad he acknowledges the fact that contractors do not necessarily have the same interests as the organisations that they represent/contract to.
No wonder that so many public sector services have fallen short of the high standards we expect as the result of outsourcing.
Well done Charlie.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
if jonathan swift were still around he would be plagiarising your biting satire darren.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
Outsourcing is happening so the taxpayers do not have to provide unrealistic pensions
Its Paying people to sit on there fat ass for 30 years ,that driving outsourcing
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
- Posts: 1,116
Just read it again and picked up on this beauty:
"That is why we need a statutory code of regulation because self-regulation simply doesn't work."
It's almost as if Milton Friedman never existed.
Well done Charlie...again!
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
The item on tonight's BBC1 Inside Out programme was quite interesting the going rate of £9 an hour is quite a nice little earner just for accosting people in the street. Well done Charlie for highlighting these legal beggers.
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DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
- Posts: 1,116
Missed that one Keith.
In my public sector role, I don't know anyone with a large posterior - always on our feet.
Nothing like these 'builder's bottoms'. No wonder these hard working Polish workers have done so well.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
I always stop and have a friendly chat with these people when they approach me.
They have never tried convincing me to make donations/subscriptions when I explain that currently I'm not in a financial position to do so.
Nor have I seen them following people down the street.
If Charlie gets his way, we'll all be walking down the High Street with a straight, expressionless face staring ahead...no talking to people, politically correct, PC and all that...
no thanks, Charlie
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
dt1,dont forget the other eastern europeans,they allso work hard.
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
- Posts: 1,116
...and another thing.
I bet on the fact that regions of Deal highstreet are roughly about 6 metres in width; in which case these 'Chuggers' would have to occupy a small space in the centre, possibly in single file. They could perhaps just recruit donators by playing/dancing the 'Conga' (possibly renaming it the 'Chunga'). I'd sign up!
Again I agree with Charlie. We should perhaps impose these spatial parameters to the economy and truly narrow the gap between the rich and poor...perhaps making some chuggers redundant?!
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
Im afraid they can be pain to some
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
I was 'chugged' last year by the son of a friend of mine in Biggin St, who approached me because we knew each other. I'm afraid I let my standards drop and gave him a frank opinion, sending him away with a flea in his ear and no signature.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
Often these people are representing the cause to save endangered species of animals, or for caring for people in their homes and similar. Can't see anything wrong in that!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
oh dear alexander
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
alex, we as humans are an endangerd spiecis to.