Making the news today....

[trigger_andy]

8 minutes ago, Kimosabi said:

The slave labour your talking about by any chance is that the same as you hear about on the news were farmer's and fruit growers and the like have nobody to do any of the work for them anymore because the foreigners have went home and the majority of the local population think that type of work is beneath them 

Yes, the very same. I live in an area of Scotland where soft fruit picking, tatties, daffies and daffy bulb picking was on the whole carried out by Scottish women and youngsters looking to make some extra cash. This is going back about 30 years ago. The wage was worth the time and hardship to harvest and provided a much needed boost to the family income.

 

Fast forward to when we had a mass influx of Eastern Europeans willing to live like sardines in dirty caravans for pennies on the pound on the farm and Scottish people where no longer welcome. We where suddenly told we/they where too slow and our services no longer needed. 
 

We have become far to used to impossibly cheap produce provided on the back of dirt cheap Eastern European labour. The price we pay in no way reflects the true cost of production where we to pay British people a wage worthy of the work involved. A small punnet of Strawberries in Scotland costs what? £1.50-£2.00? In Norwat it’s at least double that. 
 

So what’s the answer? Farmers have to dry their eyes and get used to the idea of going back to paying British people a wage worthy of the work. We need to get used to seeing Strawberries as a treat and not a staple. The only reason fruit rots on farms is because farmers refuse to adapt to the change they eagerly adopted.
 

An anecdotal side point is the Fruit Farms local to me do a roaring trade in pick your own. Everyone’s a winner. Below market prices, farmer gets paid more than Tescos offers. The “one for me, one for the punnet” rule holds true.
 

If you think your line on impartiality is holding true may I suggest you don’t play Poker? You’d suck at that too.  

[trigger_andy]

19 minutes ago, Kimosabi said:

What do you mean I'm a funny guy,  you think I'm a clown here to amuse you lol 

I wish you where funny. At least you’d have that going for you. 🙄

[Kimosabi]

Lol

[trigger_andy]

21 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Rupert Murdoch pays to fly Boris Johnson to his Montana ranch for ‘private meeting’

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Media mogul spends more than £11,500 on PM’s air travel, accommodation and hospitality, according to official records

At least the NHS is doing well out of it. 

 

Could you point out a period in recent history where the NHS has not had more money poured into it? 
 

If Im not mistaken has not the latest budget added an extra 6B to the NHS on top of the already astronomical amounts since Brexit? 
 

That’s another win for Brexit. The NHS has never been this well funded under the yoke of the EU. 

[Kimosabi]

That'll explain why it's totally ****************ed? You are clearly mental 

[GarethM]

Well 700k for diversity managers

[trigger_andy]

7 minutes ago, Kimosabi said:

That'll explain why it's totally ****************ed? You are clearly mental 

There’s that impartiality shining through again. 🙄

 

Cheap labour that brings the British wages down have left.

 

British wages in skilled fields up.

 

Companies within the U.K. starting apprenticeships again due to the lack of access to cheap foreign labour.

 

The NHS better funded than ever before.

 

As I said, leave off the Poker you’re kidding no one. 

Edited November 24, 2022 by trigger_andy

[trigger_andy]

Just now, GarethM said:

Well 700k for diversity managers

No denying it’s squandered. That’s not the point though. The Remoaners demand more for the NHS since Brexit (and rightly so) and they’ve got want they wanted. 
 

Now the NHS needs to sort out the Remainer types that hire 700k diversity managers. 

[GarethM]

That and the incessant were on our knees bs. Even if you wrote a blank cheque it still wouldn't be enough.

[Kimosabi]

What country do you live in?  The NHS is on its knees ffs people sitting outside the hospitals in ambulances for hours upon hours waiting to get seen in a+e that's even if the ambulance turns up in the first place, it's hard to take you seriously at all after saying that