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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Neil O'Brien: Salvagin... · 0 replies · +1 points

+10000000 being the number of “low skilled” immigrants we’ll need if Brexit Betty is going to spend her retirement watching A Place in the Sun and eating M&S jelly babies?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Neil O'Brien: Salvagin... · 0 replies · +1 points

Brexit and going global will make us rich, remember?

Get through the pandemic, get Brexit done, go global then spend, spend, spend!

Plans to turn Blackpool into a playground for the world’s super rich are probably well advanced therefore no need to hear whispers of cutting or freezing benefits.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - James Kanagasooriam's ... · 0 replies · +1 points

So one of the ideas from the past 50 years is that your children get qualifications and DON’T pick my fruit and veg.

You can argue that’s wrong, and propose a better model, but that would take you months, if not years, of academic work and chances are high the vast majority of British people would never bother to read it.

You’re stuck on this planet with the rest of us, Nick. An entire planet not following your lead.

In your own way you’re no different to a daydreamer like me - daydreaming landlords took less money from the young, for example. But the world is what it is - landlords gonna take what they can. Landlords gonna landlord.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Liam Fox: League table... · 1 reply · +1 points

Hi Liam,
I am reminded of a poster in a shop window near me: “No Deal = No Problem”.

Of course the poster is factually inaccurate and light on detail -to the point of having zero details - but as Team Leave might say: “Who even cares?’

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Johnson, the Sunday Ti... · 0 replies · +1 points

You can claim what you like, guys.

Any cretin in England is free to claim the Express only employs hard-left wing nutters who hate the EU, and The Sun scrapped page 3 to avoid upsetting the muslims.

The right wing British websites are full of blokes claiming daft things. A hell of a lot of British right wingers talk utter nonsense.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Johnson, the Sunday Ti... · 2 replies · +1 points

did The Guardian run a months long story about a mysterious Planet X coming to kill us all, inbetween hundreds of lies about the EU?

No, that was the Express.

Maybe Boris could get a job at The Guardian if it is a known employer of, and haven for, liars?

Then Brits would flock to The Guardian, perhaps, because they do find wealthy right wing liars “charming”, so the right insist.

But do you really think Brits abandon The Guardian for the right wing press due to a concern for only reading the truth?

That would be like a nation of cretins refusing to drink green tea because it contains “far too much sugar”, and opting instead for a pint of Rupert’s Super Soaraway 20p Great Britain Mega-Cola.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Gove - 'The ide... · 0 replies · +1 points

Nature of the beast. People knew what they were getting with Boris.

During good times, in any country, a certain kind of leader can get away with winging it.

Everyone loves Al Calpone when the booze is flowing and the girls are dancing.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Mo Metcalf-Fisher: The... · 7 replies · +1 points

People who won’t work on the fields:

1. Graduates wanting careers
2. Older Brexit voters
3. Younger Brexit voters with jobs
4. The rich
5. Middle class women
6. Middle class men
7. The children of the middle class
8. UKIP voters (with the exception of farmers)

What we are looking for is about 60,000 children of Brexit voters who don’t want white collar careers but prefer seasonal work, typically miles from their place of birth and low pay (in comparison to their peers).

Maybe the government could oversee the building of affordable housing for such people so a young woman with 4 GCSEs, for example, work in the fields knowing she’s getting a much cheaper house than her better paid peers, and early retirement.

Extra benefits for farm hands and labourers, essentially. Be it benefits in housing, pension, tax breaks, child support or whatever.

Basically, you need to make farm work a viable career choice, on the grounds most people ain’t going to do it.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Mo Metcalf-Fisher: The... · 6 replies · +1 points

Farmers have access to the same pool of British labour as every other potential employer has.

Maybe it’s time for farmers and government to think about how best to attract workers onto the fields, the same way coffee shops, strip clubs, Greggs and Ladbrokes have to think about how to get staff?

Pay and working conditions are the key - no lower middle class Brexit voter is going to leave her job at a solicitors, or a strip club, to move into a caravan and harvest veg. Not with her 3 A Levels and BTEC under her belt and a mortgage.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Buffoonery, suffused s... · 0 replies · +1 points

Frankie Boyle made me laugh out loud recently with the opening segment of his Scotland travelogue on iPlayer.

Let’s make him chancellor of the exchequer.

Look, I laugh out loud every single day of the year at rude jokes, one liners, puns, sketches, scathing put downs, childish banter, Viz top tips ... Boris can make me snort beer out of my nose if he tells me an amusing anecdote about Carrie’s ways in the bedroom, I don’t doubt it.

We need more from government than just rich people who can crack a joke at someone else’s expense though. We’re paying them to run an advanced economy, not impress us with the 7 amusing ways they know how to imply working class French soldiers on active duty are more cowardly than semi-retired Tories in Hampshire who had cushy careers in antiques dealing and interior design.

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