Please do give Trigger some breathing space before he returns to bite your heads off,trigger is of good blood and does not wish real harm on anyone

A spade is a spade with Trigger - A Lawyer is a Lawyer

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Really is unbelievable that taxpayers are happy for their money to be wasted on private sector security providers like this.

There was obviously a government budget (probably millions of pounds) to provide stewards for the event. Why could the government not just hire the own stewards directly? Get a few dozen people on JSA to do the security, and bung them a few quid for the work. It can't be that hard. Hire people from London and then you don't have to ship in Bristolians and there's no need for anybody to sleep under a bridge and get changed in the rain.

Why does it have to go through a third party? What do they do exactly that the government couldn't? It's money for old rope for the 'providers' involved. They haven't created any jobs (the event would have needed stewards regardless of the company's involvement), they haven't added any wealth to the nation, they have just ripped off taxpayers AND jobseekers alike.

Worse, there's flipping hundreds of these firms out there desperate to get their hands on your taxpayer money. Look up Emma Harrison and her company A4E currently being investigated for fraud. She took taxpayer money and 'invented' jobs that didn't exist. Got a bonus for every unemployed person she found work for, except they ended up working cleaning her offices!

It's a scandal, but nobody really cares because they are blinded by their hatred of the unemployed.

If succesive Goverments werent busy sending our security forces abroad to fight useless, other countries wars whilst it openly lets Britian flood with imigrant workers taking our jobs to prop up its under-performing economy we wouldnt have to witness this sort of thing and it is beggers belief as to how the 2012 games are going to be handled in regards to security or is this goverment actively intent on creating rebelion within its youth to make it look like the good sherrif of no-gold town? makes you think doesnt it

Eeeyore lets assume that waiting for your correctly formatted post is worthwhile and not a super anti-climax as per usual posters efforts myself not excluded

triple-tripe, what are you on about. ??? said on the radio they were all willing volonteers. !!! cant see what the problem is. !!

sorry i dont understand. ??? were they VOLONTEERS or not. ???  or dont you know.

fred west is good with basements.

his kippers in sunflower oil are nice too

answer the question..." were they there on a voluntary basis or not " !!!!!!!


   if the answer is yes this is a complete non story.

max you should get some volunteers to help with the basement

Hello has an agenda to get me banned,i'm not falling for it.

Liar.

I agree glasgow

better be careful aswell as maxs legal team are primed and he seems to also be on the verge of a meltdown

I hope the last few days haven't turned Triple into a geezer like Michael Douglas in Falling Down.

were they all willing volunteers. ??? a simple yes or no will suffice.   

volunteers or not the company in charge still has a duty of care and health and safety issues to satisfy, and if they,ve failed on any of these they should be stripped of any future contracts,thats simples,

i heard they were volenteers with a view to getting a paid job at the olympics .i.e do this for fresh air and you might get a job at the olympics .

On Friday, I spoke to one of the 30 unpaid people at the heart of the controversy. This young woman had been made redundant early last year. Eventually, she was referred by her jobcentre adviser to Tomorrow's People, a charity administering the work programme, and persuaded to train for a qualification in security work. As part of her training, she had already worked for nothing, but only once: at a football match, "observing the crowd and making sure there were no issues", with six other people on the same scheme. When she and others were informed about the jubilee weekend, she said, they were at first told they would be paid around £400, "but at the last minute, they said, 'You're not getting anything – it's work experience'."

Sleeping under London bridge, she said, had been impossible: "It was too cold, it was raining, and there were way too many people." She thus started work at 9.30am, having had no sleep for upwards of 20 hours. She put on her work clothes "in public, in the cold". Breakfast – "piddly", she said – had not arrived until 9.15am. The first chance she had to use a toilet, she claimed, was at 2pm. She was supposed to stop work 12 hours after she started, "but me and some other people gave up, cos we were that cold and wet, at six o'clock." She was then told to take the tube to the end of the Central line, whereupon she called her mother and stepfather almost 150 miles away and asked them to come and get her. "I was that distraught. I had five layers on, and I was soaked through. I was having trouble breathing. After standing up for nine hours, I had a back spasm; I could barely walk. I'd just had enough."

"I'm signing on tomorrow," she said, "and I'm asking to be withdrawn from Tomorrow's People. I can't trust them. I don't want to be treated like dirt, working long hours for nothing.

"There's work experience, and there's slave labour. I wouldn't mind work experience for free if it was in good conditions and I was treated properly … not being asked to change in public and having no access to a toilet." (By way of a response, Tomorrow's People supplied the Guardian with a list of contact numbers for other work programme participants who had been taken to London on an unpaid basis; they proved to be either unavailable, or unwilling to talk).