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A company supplying stewards for the river pageant on Sunday has issued a statement saying it ‘sincerely apologises’ for failing to cover-up the fact that some of their unpaid staff had been expected to camp under London Bridge the night before the event.
The firm, Close Protection UK, also said it unreservedly regrets that it was found out it was treating its unpaid volunteers – who did the job as part of a government work experience scheme – no better than unwanted dogs.
Managing Director of CPUK, Molly Prince, told BBC Radio 4’s The World At One:
Not being able to continue to hoodwink everyone into thinking we are more than just a bunch of cowboys is something that we felt was poor planning, and we are really upset about it. We pride ourselves on pretending we take care of the people who work with us very seriously and it’s just not acceptable that it has been revealed that in actual fact we just couldn’t give a toss about them.
A spokesperson for Downing Street however brushed off the controversy by saying it was a “one off” and an “isolated incident” that the press discovered what was going on and the Prime Minister was “confident” that in future such “unfortunate situations” could be avoided by successfully sweeping the truth under the carpet with a massive campaign of benefit scrounger stories in the tabloid press.
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Tory Modernisers Vow To Drag Party Into 19th Century
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An anonymous DWP spoke reassured its readers that any claimants caught sleeping under a bridge in London would have their benefit stopped immediately because they had wilfully made themselves uncontactable by hiding in an area notorious for its lack of phone signal.
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Quite right.
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They are now to be used to block any further water-seepage into the central line. Lord Coe estimates that only dozens of claimants will be need to lose their lives in order for tfl to run a decent service throughout the games. Gawd bless ‘im
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Don’t go giving them any more ideas now…..
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best not to because some bright[sic] ****[label tba] will realise that s/he has easy access to at least two million disposables for the stress testing of just about everything 😦
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They are using the unemployed as commodities for profit!! Next thing is, using the unemployed for testing new medicine ect,
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Labour (I mean the work done by people not the political party) has always been a commodity to Tories.
I’ve always argued (since the 80s anyway) that Tories secretly like high unemployment. This is because they regard labour as a commodity. High unemployment obviously means the ‘commodity’ of labour is cheaper, thereby creating massive savings for large, privately owned companies.
On the other hand, if you regard labour as a group of human beings trying to provide for their families, this policy is nothing short of evil.
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cheaper than chimpanzees, beagles and all the rest?
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Yes it is Evil [was at a meeting yesterday: disparate group of people but unanimous in condemnation of the wholesale destruction of society that is happening already out their in the real world – the meeting was all about how to deal with the consequences and the impacts. Even the most right-wing of the attendees were cross about the increasing costs that are already impacting their slashed budgets. :(]
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http://politicalscrapbook.net/2012/06/molly-prince-convicted-perverting-course-of-justice-jubilee-stewards/ one for you to satarise Tom ? though John Prescott said on Twitter that it was beyond parody
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