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trigger_andy

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  1. The same can be said for the positives of Brexit to come into full effect. It could take decades to fully untangle ourselves from the EU considering nearly half the U.K. is trying to hamstring Brexit just to say I told you so.
  2. Trouble in Paradise? Say it’s not so?
  3. And thanks to Brexit and the ending of free movement they are now getting a better standard of living.
  4. Wrong. Utterly wrong. You know you’re wrong, you just wanted to post a soundbite.
  5. That’s my point though. 🤷‍♂️ But there is British Crews who know how to build an Airtight House/Buikding though. Just because the Council screwed up does not mean we have to have an influx of cheat Eastern European labour does it? And there is procedures to get the relevant skill gap filled with over-seas personnel. Yes it takes time but clearly this building was not thrown up in a day. I had to go through the same procedure to come to Brazil. We had to prove that what I was coming down to do could not be carried out by a local. Lots of paperwork. Once I’ve trained them up I’ll not be required back. It’s the same as building to a Pasivhus standard. Train the British Crews on this standard and give British people the work. The Council screwing up this job is no poster for mass migration and lowering standards and pay for British people that’s for sure.
  6. What kind of Larva? Must have been some strong bugger of an insect that. 🤣
  7. You need to get out more.
  8. I mean seriously. What kind of school tenders and cheaps out on the quote from a bunch of cowboys and then somehow you find a way to blame that on Brexit? Never before has this meme been more relevant.
  9. The most thermally efficient school in he U.K. did not consider hiring the right professionals for the job? Sounds retarded. Let me guess, they voted Remain. 🤣 Even here in Brazil Angus is famous.
  10. He never uses toilet paper either! I think you’re onto something!
  11. I’m all for that . I’m a small cog in the process that keeps the energy flowing into the tanks and batteries of the good people (and a few knobbers, you know who you are ) that keep this forum alive. It’s a thankless task but deep down I know they offer a prayer of gratitude at bedtime.
  12. I voted to remain.
  13. Intrinsically more valuable I’ll assume. His ineptitude is cringeworthy. It’s like playing hide and seek with a toddler who insists you can’t see him because he’s holding his hands in front of his eyes.
  14. Jog on. You’re busted.
  15. You’ve had your answers. Now beat it.
  16. You forgot this post? 🤣🤡🥱🥱
  17. You did a few pages ago you prize plum. 🤣 Good grief you’re shite at this game. 🤣
  18. I really don’t. I live in Angus. My salary provides me a way to enable my wife to stay at home and ensure my mortgage is paid off in a timely manner and I’ve taken care of my pension. The remaining income is no different to the vast majority of families. I have to watch the pennies like everyone else. Lots of Trades need paid better because they have seen a genuine drop in standards directly linked to the influx of Eastern European Immigrants. You can’t deny that, right? So a shining light on the benefits of Brexit is these guys getting a wage that someone living in the U.K. deserves and needs. Less productive how? Less productive because they are getting bent over the work bench and asked to take it without lube? I’d be less productive too if my wages where decimated by an influx of cheap foreign labour. Your anecdotal story of a British Chippy crew being expected to intuitively understand the complexities of a Continental Kit House is just silly. Sounds like the school cheaped out and took the lowest quote without considering if they where qualified for the job. Come on BJ, deep down in your bones you feel you have the answer. 🤣 We finally agree on something though, the top 1% or more realistically the top 0.1% need a day of reckoning. Never gonna happen though, not when we’re at each other’s throats over the pennies .
  19. The NHS is certainly on its knees. It could be argued that’s not anything to do with lack of funding but how the NHS squanders the bloated budget it receives. As mentioned a huge drain on the NHS is the frivolities the very left Leaning management squander it on. I’ll go out on a limb here and assume the very same managers that hire 700k “diversity managers” did not vote for Brexit. Wise up man, seriously. Your continued attempt at impartiality is a joke. Or have you dropped the farcical pretence now? I don’t think anyone apart from your chums in your echo chamber have taken one word you’ve posted seriously.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. I wish you where funny. At least you’d have that going for you. 🙄
  24. 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.
  25. Nice echo chamber. 🥱

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