Wednesday 19 February 2020

Are you happy so far?


Priti Patel (with the help of numerous government advisors) is just about to accelerate the collapse of farming, the NHS, fishing, the building program and whatever else you can think of which relies on low-paid immigrant workers doing the sort of jobs which our 1.4 million unemployed have no interest in or aptitude for, by ruling that only the highly qualified and  highly paid will be granted visas after this year is almost out.

We don't need Corbyn to get us in an even worse mess than we are already.

34 comments:

  1. Although in some ways I agree with you Tom, my goodness what a good speaker she is. I watched her on Breakfast this morning - she spoke clearly, she didn't dither, she answered the questions and tolerated no interruptions - wich they were all like that.

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    1. I'm sorry Weave, but I just don't care about her oration skills. It's the words and resulting legislation which is of paramount importance.

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  2. I guess the Brits will just have to get off their backsides and work.

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    1. You just refuse to believe what is staring in the face, don't you? You are as stuck in the clay as much as Colonel Blimp. You and him will do very well out of this situation, and as far as you both are concerned, fuck the rest of us.

      Do not get in contact with me again, I have had enough of you now.

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    2. The trouble with you these days is you've lost your sense of humour and you're just a grumpy old man. I said it tongue in cheek but you're too stupid to see it.

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    3. I couldn't possibly go into Priti Patel's declaration in a short comment. I haven't studied it. It would take me at least an entire post abd more which I may do on my own blog at some point.

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    4. All you need to know about Priti Patel's declaration is that all the concerns that people had about the repercussions of a Brexit immigration policy are being realised by a government which puts its own popularity before the good of the country.

      Do you really think that thousands of British care workers can be found before the end of the year? There is a huge shortage already. There is no money for the health service but there is plenty for private investment schemes like HS2.

      As far as your 'tongue in cheek' comment about lazy Brits goes, it wasn't tongue in cheek about a year ago, so why should it be now?

      You make me lose my sense of humour when you send me text messages accusing me of being a closet 'lefty' when you are out of the house and mildly bored.

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    5. I don't remember every saying "lazy Brits" in fact I don't recall ever using the term Brits but that's by the by and it was a below the belt accusation. I don't need to hear about Priti Patel on your tuppenny ha'ney blog and I will find out for myself. Your constant death knell comments about farming epitomise your total ignorance and make taking anything you say seriously impossible.

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    6. In fact your total ignorance of politics except for what the BBC tell you make taking anything you say seriously impossible. You may recall that two weeks before the election you admitted to me that you had no idea who John McDonnell was. I nearly had apoplexy.

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    7. I was talking about soft fruit farming.

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  3. So we bring in qualified people to do the jobs young people would like to be trained to do, and don't bring them in to do the jobs they don't need much training for, while saying that businesses should be training British people.

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    1. I don't understand what you are saying. All I understand is that there will be a dire shortage of nurses, builders, and many other highly skilled workers who are - currently not paid enough for British people to be bothered to train for. You cannot simply cut off the supply of traditionally unskilled labour such as the hop and fruit picking that Old fashioned itinerant workers used to carry out and expect well established farms and institutions to survive, especially in these times of economic austerity can you? As far as I can see it's a fucking no-brainer and Priti Patel has no brain.

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  4. All the time that the jobs are filled by foreign workers it means that there are no available jobs to which our unemployed can be sent, and therefore their willingness to work and entitlement to benefits can never be tested.

    Just how long would you allow people to sit at home saying they don't want to do these jobs, just because they have no interest in, or aptitude for, them.?
    Many people spend their working lives wishing that they could be doing something else. In rural areas particularly, there isn't much choice.

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    1. How long have you got to wait for the businesses to be in a situation whereby they can afford to train up young people to travel to the other side of the country in order to work in the fields, having been to university to get a degree in a completely different area?

      If you fall ill tomorrow and go to a hospital, would you be a little upset if there were no Filipino nurses or cleaners on your ward? No Indian doctors or West Indian assistants to wipe your arse?

      If there are young people sitting around doing nothing, don't blame them. Blame the system which prices them out.

      There will always be scroungers, but at least Europeans consider waiting in a restaurant to be a job worth having, not a fill-in during a university course for which they will never utilise the degree.

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    2. Unemployment is not confined to the young and qualified, and I find the idea that we should be relying on "West Indian assistants" to do menial jobs in hospitals whilst plenty of able-bodied, unskilled people sit at home claiming benefits, an out-dated, quite 'superior' attitude.

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    3. If you feel that way about it, wouldn't you allow a period of years for reforms, rather than crashing out of a system which has taken about 70 years to develop in months?

      Popularity is more important than the general good to this government.

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    4. I don't know how you arrive at a balance between paying people enough benefits to live on whilst not enough to turn down work. The problem is that for some claimants work doesn't pay and as you say, that's not the fault of them but the system.
      I do know that I'm concerned about my own dotage. When I'm dependant on others for my personal care and very vulnerable I would rather have someone whose English is poor but values the work looking after me than someone who resents being dragged out to work doing something they do not want to do because the system says they have to.

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    5. Have you heard the covert recordings of abuse in those care homes for the vulnerable? There were no foreign accents in them.

      The problem with the young (as opposed to persistent) unemployed is that they just cannot afford to live in a country which denies them a wage which will cover the stupidly high rents, transport and house prices as well as the general cost of living if you need to commute to a badly paid job, and you cannot blame small businesses for that. Central government have forced local councils to not only find savings by cuts, but make up the shortfall by increasing business rates in their towns. This is why high streets are dying - Amazon, Ocado and the rest do not have these overheads. We, as usual, have been sold out. Is this left wing thinking, or is it - in the words of people like Cro - COMMON SENSE?

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    6. I remember the court case a few years ago where two West Indian care workers in a care home were found guilty of stuffing talcum powder into the mouth of an elderly lady with dementia. Since then I have avoided listening to any more and hope I die before I have to be dependent on such people. The prospect is terrifying. There are bad apples in every barrel.

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    7. BTW, a local stately home, Hassop Hall in Derbyshire, was bought last year by someone who owns a chain of nursing homes. He is changing it back from a hotel and wedding venue into a family home.
      There's big money to be made from care homes it seems.

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  5. When it was put to her that her own parents would not have been let into this country had this policy been current at the time she refused to respond .
    The employment statistics are clear that there are not enough British people of working age to fill these jobs .
    It seems that some people take their lead from the Mail , the Express ,inaccurate anecdotal information & curtain twitchers .
    I do not include Rachel in this . I think she has a more reasoned stance even if I do not necessarily agree with her . Others not so much .
    I do not usually read " Cro " but there he is today saying people should be beaten up for digging up part of a college lawn . I did comment but realize that it was pointless .Anyone with that sense of entitlement and meretricious outlook deserves pity more than condemnation I suppose .

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    1. I've just kicked Ursula out of touch so I can respond to comments myself.

      I have decided that it is pointless to respond to Colonel Blimp too. Although I agree with him that the people digging up the lawn in Cambridge are arseholes, I do worry about him giving himself a heart attack when pontificating about it.

      Priti Patel has, it seems, been trying to get a top Civil Servant sacked, but I only heard this from someone who had heard it from the BBC, so it is probably fake news. Rachel's reasoned stance is somewhat tempered by her tendency to turn into a screaming right winger who is blinded by hatred of all things mundane.

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    2. That is very mean and totally untrue.

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    3. You are perpetually accusing me and people like me of being consumed by hate. Well now I am turning the tables and accusing you of something very similar, although I know you are not a hateful person. You do not understand why you make me angry, but you always insist that you are misunderstood by everyone except those who show you some compassion. Think about it.

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    4. You make it up as you go along. Lucky Weave, she got off lightly. Consumed by hate? There is only one person consumed by hate and that is you. Take a look at yourself today. Goodbye.

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  6. I guess Trump's done that already, and now he's taken the ax to free lunches for children of impoverished families. How about over there?

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    1. I haven't eaten a school lunch since I was on the run.

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  7. I never thought I'd ever be nostalgic about the '50s...

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  8. I will miss the friendly and efficient Eastern Europeans who are still working here. There will be many business closing down without them next year, and there will be a financial crash on top of the current one. If you still believe that Conservative governments always leave the country better off than they found it, you're in for a nasty shock.

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  9. No gain without pain but do read the small print. Young people under 26 are given a low pay exemption.

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    1. God, you talk bollocks. 'No pain without gain'? Whose pain? Not yours, obviously. You will go to any extremes to justify your poor choices on the ballot paper.

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    2. You are impossible to talk to. You wanted Corbyn and Co did you? Don't bother to answer, I don't want any further dialogue with you.

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    3. You've got some spam to get rid of.

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    4. I wanted Corbyn? How on earth did you come up with that? Are you totally detached from reality?

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