I cannot divulge how I know this information, but know for a FACT that one Supermarkets night staff, have as one of their jobs is to look on all their shelves, and if any item is due it’s last sell by date the next day, it’s unwrapped, re wrapped and a new date label applied.
Lincoln. 7

Think a bit of clarification is need here.

Supermarkets which have their own Butchers, cheese counters and such, where they slice,cut and package products with their own labeling have the equipment to change labels and dates.

Branded products such as Heinz,HP, kelloggs, etc. would not be able to have the dates changed. (Think how many rolls of labels each store would have to keep.)

Is this supermarket actually changing the sell by date or reducing the price so that it can be sold the next day before the actual expiry date?

There has been cases of swopping packaging and dates in several supermarkets, most of this is down to the dept managers, who try to keep their waste levels down.

Then you are not obliged to fill it in, as you are not in the country.
It’s like a stocktake in any business, a snapshot of what you have at that moment in time.

so technicaly if i go on holiday on that day i don’t have to fill it in cos i wasn’t living here !!:D

Dead right tornado64. but if you were on holiday in the uk, you would have to be included on the form at the address you were staying at. be it at a hotel, guest house, caravan site or tent in a farmers field. :rolleyes:

and how pray tell me did you come to that conclusion ??

illegal immigrants by their very nature claim nothing off the state

they work and pay rent in run down areas
and keep on the move ( iv’e known a few personaly ) they usualy move when the authorities are onto them ( usualy reasonably quickly )

the last thing they want is to appear on any government list

asylum seekers are a difrent kettle of fish altogether

i was once told the government paid them no money but gave them vouchers

but logic tells you money is being paid out somewhere as obviously a voucher has no monetary value and cannot be exhanged for items either can it !!

it is far from as easy as you seem to think to make a mass claim for bennefits

It was not a conclusion but just a thought on how census results could be used.

I applaud your belief in the system. But I don’t share it. The logic of your argument is that we cannot afford to reduce spending money if people are put out of work – even if we cannot afford to pay them.:confused:

I have no belief in the system.
As I do not have the ability or the will to create a better system, I accept it.
and make the best of a bad job.

Somebody else who couldn’t be bothered to read it before filling it in. I understood it was to be filled in on the 27th of this month so as to give the Government a representative snapshot of the Country on that particular day.

Regards,

kev35

Kev35 source http://help.census.gov.uk/england/help/help-and-information/Gettingstarted/Completethequestionnaireonline/Topics/WhencanIcompleteonline_S0022A.html

When you can complete your online questionnaire
As soon as you receive your paper questionnaire, you will be able to complete the online questionnaire. Please remember that your completed questionnaire should accurately describe your household and visitors on census night, Sunday 27 March.

The paper questionnaire has your personal internet access code printed on the front page. You will need it to open your online questionnaire.

Please make sure your answers reflect all those living or staying in your household (including any overnight visitors) on census day, Sunday 27 March.

Make sure you finish your online questionnaire and click the “Submit” button. The online questionnaire website will close on Friday 6 May. If you have not submitted your questionnaire by the closing date, your partially completed questionnaire will be submitted automatically. Census staff may contact you to collect missing information. Or you can complete and return a paper questionnaire.

I’m not expecting any visitors on that day, and if any turn up, There will be no room at the inn.:)

There’s a hole in my bucket.

I fail to see any problems with the census, done mine and submitted it.
(It’s my fourth one I have done, and possible my last, if it is not scrapped, I will possible be dead and gone before the next one in ten years’ time.)

Personal information is protected by law.
Census information is kept confidential for 100 yrs.
I do not worry about the government knowing about my personal information, nor even think that the government employs someone to search me out personally to check that I am behaving.

55+ languages Available so it should be, then there is no excuse for not filling it in.
It’s not as if every household is sent a census in every language.

I should imagine that most countries that have a cosmopolitan population do make their census Available in different languages.

Perhaps a census should be done every year, and the results sent to the benefits office, so that if Joe Bloggs and his wife living in The street anytown,uk. Receive benefit cheques for more than the amount of people stated on the form, and then more illegal immigrants may be found.

The taxpayer’s money spent reminds me of the song. “There’s a hole in my bucket dear Liza”

Scrap the census to save the money, and put people out of jobs.

So what do we do with the money saved?

Build new hospitals, schools, roads and shops, etc.

With whom shall we build them with?

Use the people who lost their jobs when we scrapped the census.

Where shall we put them?

In all the cities, towns and villages where we need them?

How will we know which cities, towns and villages need them?

We will have to find out the future population of each place.

And how will we do that?

Take a census.

Yes, I think we know what it means, thanks. How did we manage in years gone by with far simpler censuses or censi, perhaps. It has to do with government’s deep-seated need to have a record of as much about each of us as possible. They don’t actually need most of the information they seek.
The more information they have, the easier it is to plan for the future.
ie: new houses,roads,shops,schools, churches, etc.

Which information don’t they need?

The fact that many people are deeply religious does not mean that they need or wish to share that information with central government.__________________
As stated in my previous post,
This question is voluntary; you do not have to answer it.