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Well it shows how little notice I've paid to the news recently!

I missed the fact that Yells owners, Hibu have gone into administration!

BBC News - Yellow Pages firm Hibu in administration

No great surprise, and it's been expected for quite some time, but interesting after ThomsonLocal's owner recently went into administration, taking ThomsonLocal down with it, although swiftly rescued by Market Location.

I think it shows how some of these more traditional directories were slow to embrace the digital age and move with the times, but shall be interesting to see how/if Yell bounces back on the PR front.

There must be a business model that can be used to address the benefits issue, that at least gets majority acceptance.

Paying someone money who is fit, healthy and able bodied, no matter how minimum, to remain unemployed just doesn't work. It just fosters this culture of dependence we are now in.

Agree with Linda, why would someone go for a temp job if they know they will lose their benefits. There is no incentive.

It may not be PC to say these days, but personally knowing how a variety of people play and manipulate the system (I've had many a frank chat after been educated on what you can "get"), I'm cynical of some of the more liberal claims of masses of people starving. Maybe scrap the satellite subscription or the weekly Plasma TV payment to put some bread on the table. Sorry, kids meals and clothes come before the family dog(s).

There are and always will be the genuine, which is what the benefits are for. Including those that fall on unexpected hard times, and need a quick helping hand to get them back into employment. Which could be any of us.

But why not work for your benefits? Why not use a labour pool that is getting financed by government for economic advantage? I don't mean slave labour, but genuine minimum wages that people can live on, part financed by govt, and part financed by commerce/industry. This could be for some of the large infrastructure projects we keep hearing about, or breathing life back into our decimated manufacturing base.

Maybe then we would have competitive British car industries etc. Able bodied are back in the work force, learning skills, feeling valued and being a productive member of society. I was always taught growing up it's easier to find a job when you have a job.

Natural achievers will always surface and go onto better things, plodders will continue to plod. Nothing wrong with that, they can spend their paypacket down the pub moaning how rubbish their job is, and keep the barmaid employed.

Increased productivity from a realistically salaried workforce should finance the private sector contribution, locally produced goods lowers the retail price, making the products more affordable for all.

The govts welfare bill is substantially reduced, meaning tax breaks, generating a lower cost of living.

Those unable to work get benefits as they did before, maybe even a lot more to improve their quality of life.

What's not to like? Other than Unions losing their powerbase and liberals having noting to moan about? There has to be a sensible economic argument that is sustainable, affordable and benefits the majority, while protecting the minority?

Any holes in the MLF think tank economic policy, before I submit it?

Blimey, sounds like the New Year sales of old, which now seem to start Mid December!


Your telling me you wouldn't add anything on as I called you away from Barney Mansions on xmas day to fix my leaking Kazi! Now I know you're telling porkies

Looks like I got the Black Friday bit wrong, so that's for physical retailers, and cyber Monday is for online:

BBC News - Cyber Monday: 'Busiest online shopping day' expected

Maybe we could have a directory Tuesday and a plumbing Wednesday?

Great stuff, hadn't had any decent chuckles in a while Where have you been hiding hdm?

Do you mean like Iraq, you think it will be left in chaos afterwards? Suppose that is the risk

Not noticed any mention of it this year. I know there was a big fuss about it last year. Supposed to be the hallowed day of peak trading for online retailers.

Had a 1 day only offer from Apple in my inbox, but that's about it.

Anyone doing any Blackfriday specials, or is this mainly a USA thing?

I think ever since I had kids, I've turned into a complete soft ****! As soon as you hear about kiddies getting killed or in misery on the telly, it just makes me mad. Then all you hear is stuffy politicians waffling or useless UN representatives waving toothless mandates. Nothing seems to change, I guess we have to accept we live in a cruel world.

Ahh well, time for me to stop ranting!

Unfortunately who is going to do the insisting, and who will do the listening? Only a UN with force behind it could move in and protect the innocent, but then I suppose there is the risk of a multinational conflict with no clear aims dragging on.

Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't... and the torture and murder drags on...

Glad I'm not a politician (or syrian) and can just switch the TV off.

Just worked for me, but there is a notice on their site saying they are struggling, and has to be on of the best error messages I've seen in a while

Interesting post.

I used to be a big Dominoes fan (before my fitness crusade ) but always wondered how it worked. The cars were obviously privately owned, but with a big stick on Dominoes sign on the roof.

So if they were in an accident, it's pretty obvious who they were working for, and what the car was being used for. So as you say, a serious chance of being declared uninsured. Plus some of the cars seemed pretty ropey to say the least!

I wonder if it's down to simple costs, as most pizza places are a franchise model, and they can't afford their own delivery vehicles. But then proper logo'd delivery vehicles would give a better image, be better for the workforce etc.

But I guess it all comes down to costs and overheads.

Sounds like a legal nightmare though, and I doubt few people would be a diligent as yourself, pleading ignorance or chancing to fate!