“Ps, Fiona, are you seriously suggesting that you don't understand why local authorities employ people to increase the number of people who have an active and healthy lifestlye living within their areas? Really? Like, SERIOUSLY? Oh my god.........”

“Wow, good avoidance techniques there Fiona! Are you not going to attempt to answer a single thing I posted (effectively demolishing your argument)? Are you just going to pretend you are still right and oh so clever? Guess it helps you get through life.................”

“ahh J i witnessed your downfall on the LM website yesterday where you kept reposting where you had been incorrectly quoted and i now understand your frustration as the same has happened to me - only today ! Could you quote me where i said Kelvin MacKenzie was my hero ?? You see i think David Rathband is a hero and many others but I don't think (correct me if i'm wrong as i'm sure you will) that I said Kelvin was ? Regarding Hillsborough yes i know what happened because believe it or not I can read as well !! The one thing you didn't comment on was my Mr Pickles post and why a cheerleading development officer was needed ? Now whilst I would love to spend the rest of the weekend having a debate with you (to be honest i can't quite face an 140+ comment arguement) I am off camping - (feel free to come along you may learn to have a bit of fun )- soo looking forward to my comment being reposted with your comments i can hardly contain myself - J - think happy thoughts !!!”

“Just remember, when you're waiting for your tax refund, or your benefit to be paid on time, or your passport doesn't turn up before your holiday, or your tax credits stop and you don't know the reason why, or you suspect your neighbour is commiting benefit fraud and have no one to report it to,or your elderly parent can't get their pension credit processed that the people who would have done all this tasks apparently had to lose their jobs. Oh.... and you have to call India to ask what happened. But can't understand what's being said! Think again Nick! Hard working Civil Servants are the backbone of this country and many of them earn between £15,000 and £18,000”

“Nick - You sound like the grumpy old man in the pub; the one who bores everyone with his boasts of how he knows the answer to every problem in the world. You need to get out more.

David - If you want to attack the muppets of New Labour, don't do so by repeating like a parrot the latest Tory tabloid artcle you've read.

Thank goodness, there's a universe outside the insular and opinionated virtual world of the Leicester Mercury web comments.”

“Quote:
"Does Soulsby realise there has been "nervous" folk in the private sector for years who have suffered numerous job losses and cutbacks."

When you consider how little unemployment there has been under Labour, those in the private sector must get 'nervous' extremely easily.

Unemployment only ever shoots up under the Cons - they prefer it that way! And the private sector will suffer just as much as anyone else in the next few years with these heartless, ideological millionaire Cons.

Why should those who selflessly work for others suffer such hardship just because of the incredibly selfish and self important bankers who brought the World to its knees so they could receive even bigger, obscene, taxfree bonuses.”

“@Alexis - Army service pensions are all to be cut, as they are the same as civil service pensions. They are to rise in line with the lower CPI rather than RPI. Not exactly the heroes welcome home that our service men & women deserve. Thank you David Cameron”

“Fiona, one last thing, your hero Kelvin Mackenzie was personally responsible for the headline "The Truth" following the Hillsborough Disaster. Do you know what Mackenzie's "truth" was? If not I suggest you look it up.

Needless to say the "truth" was the exact opposite of that (The Press Council described the allegations unequivocally as "lies").

The Sun's sales on Merseyside have never recovered; people are still disgusted that the Sun lied about people who had been through one of the most horrific and traumatic human tragedies of modern times.”

“" J, look on the current jobs for Leicestershire county council....do we need a Smokefree Alliance Co-Ordinator (Tobacco Control) - you can find the rest yourself very easily!!!

Steve, Countesthorpe"

Well Steve, you think no, many other people think yes. Do you not see that the concept of a "non-job" is not a definable or measurable concept? One person's non-job is another's important job.

A key example is Council Equality Officers. Those people who benefit from such positions (e.g. those with disabilities, elderly people, etc, etc) are adamant that they see such positions as needing to be protected during the cuts, others see it as a non-job which should be first for the chop.

The following Private Eye spoof sums it up perfectly:

"BUDGET CUT SHOCK

The Coalition Government said the first phase of consultation into cuts has revealed that people want the services used by other people cut.

"We found that 100% of people wanted the services they used regularly to be retained," said a Treasury spokesman, "but the flipside of that was that 100% of people were very keen to see services they didn't use slashed to the bone.

"Its clear that as long as we only cut services used by other people, the public will be fully behind our austerity programme".

As I said, it would be funny if it wasn't so depressing.”

“" J, Leics - Read Kelvin Mackenzie's columns"

Frankly I would rather poke my eyes out with hot pokers - he is an odious right wing obnoxious bigot and anyone who actually bases their views on life on his columns needs their head testing. Its like quoting Hitler as proof that Jews are evil.

"he highlights these types of jobs on a regular basis and the ridiculous salaries they are paid !"

Well of course he does, it is his job to make people like you as indignant and huffy as possible in as few words as possible, preferably on the topic of immigrants, scroungers, and public sector workers

"I mean 12 council employees as part of their position visited a lap dancing club - not sure what their job roles were but i'm sure it would have been along the lines of "women wearing no clothes swinging round on a pole research co-ordinator)"

No Fiona, they were COUNCILLORS. Not staff, but elected Councillors. So nice try, but you've just shot yourself in the foot. The line "not sure what their job roles were but i'm sure........." backs up my initial point; you haven't got a clue about the reality of the situation but regardless you are "sure" of your position. It would be laughable if it wasn't so depressing.”