Philip

you ask where the jobs come from but cuts had to be made, the govt plan for jobs comes from reducing the corporation tax for all businesses over the next 4 years. This will enable the economy to pick up which in turn will bring jobs. Also its very well known public sector pensions are a joke, final salary is extremely expensive and under Labour in some areas people had "wellbeing" officers. Not to mention the public sector sick days are MUCH higher than the private sector. Its hard to hear but this is the truth and needs sorting out. Also the welfare system is being abused by some and we need to be able to weed these people out. If the single mum is unable to get a job then she will continue to receive benefits - the important thing is at least she is looking! I would expect single Mum's to have a hard time but why should they have time off when their kid is at school? We live in such a PC society that everyone expects to have a good life. This is not the case and if life goes wrong for you then you will need to understand that you will find things difficult. Many stories of single Mum's running their own businesses and being successful. It happens and this should see more of it. Onto the public sector - I agree a union should be involved if you are underpaid compared to the sector - completely agree, no argument. But BA is the perfect example of what is wrong with all of this. Private company still on old public sector benefits and remuneration - unable to compete in its sector. It wants to cut benefits, pay and pension to be more in line with RIVALS and they still strike costing millions of pounds. Private sector take a pay cut or pay freeze so the company can continue to be operational - I hear now in the public sector people readying to strike when a pay FREEZE is instigated. Its absolute tosh and nonsense.

I believe disabled people need to prove they are disabled yes, seems logical to me. For other benefit reductions single Mums were able to stay at home until their kid was 10 years old, this is now down to when they go to school - at which time they look for a job. I agree with this also as when their kid is at school they are able to work and earn a living, contribute to the economy. So then the argument is with these cuts how do you drive job creation? They reduce the headline CT from 28% to 24% and to 20% for small business. This makes logical sense as you cannot have out of control public sector finances so everyone lives a happy life but the country goes every increasingly into a debt black hole. I heard under Labour some scary figures like a 30-40% INCREASE in public sector (or benefits cant recall which) costs over the last 10 years which by any means is huge. Also read the below: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/politics/C...-pay.6372291.jp Public sector earn 30% more than private sector, have much better FINAL salary pension plans and yet want to strike if they receive a pay freeze from sentiment im seeing from the unions. Huge droves of people in the private sector have been sacked, taken pay cuts, benefit cuts etc and I fully believe the public sector needs to pull back on this 30% pay gap. For people in the higher tax band the rate you start paying 40% has been reduced by £2500 I believe (its in the small print) + the marginal 50% or so over 150k. Everyone who is unbiased will tell you categorically the public sector needs to be cut, salaries need to come down to be on par with the private sector, pensions need to be brought into line (scrap final salary), sick days need to be also managed better and finally all the added "extras" that Labour introduced including Wellbeing officers need to be scrapped. I dont agree you need to sack people to manage budgets you need to reduce the budget on the people you currently have.

thanks removed them now, never really worked. Will replace them shortly!

well one new development we had since the coalition won was the debt downgrade of Greece and potential downgrade of other countries. This is huge news and often overlooked; we could not wait another 6 months or so to cut debt and provide a clear path of deficit reduction or Fitch and other rating agencies would cut out credit rating!! This would mean we pay much more on our ever increasing debt and see foreign investment leave the country. So we had to act now, if people at least agree with this then the rest is easier to understand. The increase in the lower tax band offsets any VAT increases for low earners and the welfare system needed to be reformed. We had people with 8 kids living in a house claiming crazy amounts / year in housing benefit. A cap on this is an excellent idea. Other benefits, I dont see the problem in forcing people into work. If you cant work then now you have to PROVE it, a la disability allowances. We also need to stop people from other European nations using our welfare system for their own advantages, not sure if this was in the budget but it should be! On the flip side they had to drive the economy hence the cuts in corporation tax (headline + small business). Can people be explicit about what they don't like and then we can have a discussion...

for me im fine with increases in VAT etc but this really (as the topic describes) is not the problem. For months now the private sector have taken pay freezes, reduced work, lost jobs - crazy hours just to ensure you are in a job when they start cleaning out but the public sector have been relatively unscathed. We need to sort out the crazy public sector pay and benefits, "final salary" pensions when life expectancy is increasing all the time. Look at BA for an example, a privatised company with public sector benefits not able to survive in the real world. And thats an important point - we escalate the importance of doctors, nurses, teachers etc but in the private sector they get nothing like the benefits they have in the public sector. If they have a good pension its because THEY paid for it. Right now the govt doesn't put aside money for these vast public sector pensions so in fact its the private sector indirectly through taxes who fund it!!! Absolute nonsense and we need to sort this out.

excellent :D

can you advise if this is fixed?

thanks for this Ricky, missed this topic! Ive updated the banner image sections.

did some tidying up work on this. You can now see the last reviews on the left bar and can now successfully alternate between the Reviews and Comments tabs on the main page. Plan to integrate this with the front page next as well as add the ability to add YouTube videos.

not much competition to choose the Portugal song then...

really liked the Iceland song, same as last year definitely will be high up again!

not sure what this means: are you saying when you enter the wrong account details a 403 error is generated which will also not allow you to request your account password?

congrats and welcome to the team :D

agreed, great way to get users to the site and also keep them informed if they stay out of touch!

group was first! I had made a fan page for a while but never really got round to promoting + using it. Only randomly was reading an article on the benefits of pages and decided to put more effort and focus into it!

facebook page is much better for search engines and we can automatically send topics/ news etc to the facebook page by RSS when we have the relevant feeds setup!

Chrome is perfect for me apart from when I use invisionfree (same software as the backup site). If you use a different browser for the backup for now!

its fine, if you are having a problem with the site please let me know :D. If its just iTunes there isnt much I can do.

hi, im not sure what you mean. There are no setting for BuzzJack on iTunes, any settings will be on your own PC. Maybe im missing something here...

im confused as to what the problem is here? You have a problem with the front page iTunes top 10 or your own RSS feed implementation? It doesnt work for you? Works for me..

ive now registered our page as BuzzJackMusic: http://www.facebook.com/BuzzJackMusic Thanks and keep joining up and spreading the word :D

I can setup and submit a feed of data to Facebook (maybe front page news for now) and build this out slowly. I want it to be useful for everyone and keep people connected with the site and the sites content.

Hello BuzzJack :D. Facebook is now moving from Groups to Pages to allow community sites to build out an extension of their fan base and help visitors find BuzzJack more easily. We will be setting up auto content feeds from BuzzJack to Facebook in the near future. For now we need to get to 25 fans to add some benefits such as our own unique name and more presence on the site! The more fans we have the more we can use this as an alternate hub to stay connected with everyone. Please support us, get your friends and contacts to support us and join up! http://www.facebook.com/BuzzJackMusic Thanks, Phil

im not going to read pages 4 and 5 as im still playing catch up (im on episode 9) :D. I really enjoyed the first episode although did feel that things are mapped out and its so obvious in nearly all occasions whats going to happen. For example how Lexi was going to be killed off, obvious from the second Damon asked the woman to organise the party... Having said that its a very attractive cast and the story line just hangs together enough. I feel there needs to be more overlapping characters, they could have used Lexi much more and integrated her for even perhaps 2 more episodes. Havent seen Twilight but what else can the cast play with? There is only so far you can take a vampire plot where anyone who turns is unable to go out in the day!

I had to change the URL, having server issues and a specialist is looking at things now to attempt to sort this issue out permanently.