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Crunch Victims now mobile friendly.
Crunch Victims is now available on your mobile in a friendly, easy to read page. We have installed an awesome WordPress plugin called WordPress Mobile Edition v3.0.3 from the guys over at CrowdFavorite.com.
It works perfectly well on a Nokia 5800XM using Opera or the default browser (above) and on an iPhone (below). It is touch screen friendly, which is great for these two phones
The UK’s richest people blame ED for £155 billion loss.
UKCV: Various online sources are reporting that the UK’s richest people have lost over £155 billion pounds over the course of the year due to the Economic Downturn. The rich list that has been compiled every year for the past 21 years reported the biggest fall ever when it was compiled recently. It will be appear in the Sunday Times tomorrow. The accumulative wealth last year was £412 billion and this year it’s a measly £258 billion, meaning there are a lot of unhappy wealthy people. This makes for some happy reading for the rest of the UK especially if you don’t have a million or two stashed in the bank at the moment!
The biggest loser is London-based steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal who has seen his personal fortune drop by almost £17.5 billion to £10.8 billion or is that £23 billion according to “The Hindu“. He is still a rich man and is the UK’s richest person. The owner of Chelsea FC, Roman Abramovich lost £4.7 billion leaving him in second place with a fortune of £7 billion. Other big losers are Bernie Ecclestone, Sir Richard Branson, while super stars Sir Elton John and Robbie Williams have lost a around a quarter of their wealth over the past year.
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, (the 6th Duke of Westminster) is the richest Briton and continues to occupy third position overall with a fortune of £6.5 billion. The duke’s property assets have shrunk more slowly than others, losing £500m in value.
Here is the list of the Top 10 billionaires and their fortunes in this year’s Sunday Times Rich List. Last year’s rank, wealth and percentage change is included in brackets.
1. Lakshmi Mittal and family, steel – £10,800m (1, £27,700m, -61%)
2. Roman Abramovich, oil and industry – £7,000m (2, £11,700m, -40%)
3. The Duke of Westminster, property – £6,500m (3, £7,000m, -7%)
4. Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli, pharmaceuticals – £5,000m (6, £5,650m, -12%)
5. Hans Rausing and family, packaging – £4,000m (7, £5,400m, -26%)
6. Sir Philip and Lady Green, retailing – £3,830m (9, £4,330m, -12%)
7. Charlene and Michel de Carvalho, inheritance, brewing and banking – £2,960m (13, £3,630m, -18%)
8. Sammy and Eyal Ofer, shipping and property – £2,677 million (15, £3,336m, -20%)
9= John Fredriksen, shipping £2,500m (8, £4,650 million, -46%)
9= Joe Lewis, foreign exchange and investment £2,500m (19, £2,800m, -11%)
9= Kirsten and Jorn Rausing, inheritance and investment £2,500m (14, £3,500m, -29%)
9= David and Simon Reuben, property £2,500m (10, £4,300m, -42%)
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6 million jobs created in London.
Westminster Council today announced the creation of six million new jobs for the city of London. This comes after the council struck a deal with Ubin Ad Ltd. It was noted on a recent visit by the International Olympic Committee that the city of London and the area around Stratford failed to meet the health standards of the Olympic Committee. It was extremely dirty, rat invested, and smelly. Not ideal for attracting visitors and sport fans to London.
A spokesperson at Ubin Ad Ltd, said a deal had been struck with Westminster council whereby they would supply 2 million two-man mechanical sweepers and a further million automated sweepers that clean the pavements of chewing gum. They would also be supplying a million plastic broomsticks.
CEO Tim Broomsweep said,
We are happy to partner the Westminster Council and the city of London in these trying times. With so many jobs available there is no excuse for anyone to be without a job during the recession and credit crunch and that includes people on benefits. We encourage everyone who is at home or on benefits to sign up.
The new scheme code named “Cleansweep London 2012” will be supported heavily by the thousands of job centres around the city and priority will be given to employment agencies.
Westminster Council spokesperson Daphney Littering said,
We have asked all the local councils in London and Greater London to forward the names of all the unemployed people who are claiming benefits and they will be shortly sending out letters to these people recommending they come forward for an interview. Everyone in London and surrounding communities not working will be given priority. The salaries will be very competitive and if you have a drivers licence then you will be given higher priority.
Edit Note 2nd April 2009: I trust many of you picked up the April Fools Day clues thrown into the above post. If not then job done well you FOOL!
Project 405 Party.
In the spirit of helping people who have lost jobs, the 405 Club are running their first major event on March 25th (4-7pm @ The Galway Hooker Pub) called PROJECT 405 PARTY: Race to Place Challenge.
As the banner below suggests, it’s a casual gathering with recruiters, advisers, counselors and fellow unemployed New Yorkers. They have linked up with a NY HR LinkedIn group and the first recruiter to place an attending 405er gets a major press release in a RACE TO PLACE!
Click the banner to RSVP.
How to avoid words like recession, credit crunch or job cuts?
There is a great new website called Recession Blocker. If you are tired of reading websites that publish bad news, recession news, job losses, credit crunch, doom and gloom, then load up Recession Blocker and type in your favourite news website (e.g. http://www.crunchvictims.com) and hit GO.
It’s so darn clever. I used my website as an example and already feel so much happier. It simply blocks the following banned words.
Woolworths goes into administration.
Quoted from The Guardian
Debt-stricken retail group Woolworths is to go into administration, putting thousands of jobs at risk.
The company employs about 30000 people at its 815 stores and its Entertainment UK distribution business.Woolworths, a fixture on Britain’s high street for almost 100 years, has been teetering on the brink of collapse in recent days as it struggles with debts of £385m.
No wonder it went into administration. How can the management running the business allow it to go so far into debt?
These managers, directors and CEO should be held accountable. It’s all very well closing down the stores and sacking thousands of people, but surely someone or a group of people should go to jail. That is as good as stealing from a bank.
Job Losses: 30000 – 2500 = 27500
Related News Links:
- The Guardian
- Telegraph
- This is London (Evening Standard) – Iceland buys 51 Woolworths Stores and saves 2500 jobs.
