I am beginning to panic about Brexit.
Apparently there is no one in the UK who knows how to pick a strawberry. Raspberries are even more of a mystery and the vice-chancellor of Southampton University, on his £400,000+ salary, is instituting a new department to carry out research. Gooseberries and other fruits are such a conundrum we have contacted Mr Trump for NASA's assistance.
I once had this mad idea. I saw a farmer with about a quadrazillion acres of land under plastic describing how he couldn't continue without Romanian labour .......... and you know what ....... I thought if he bought the rickety old bus in which a Romanian brought other Romanians and East Europeans from town every day he'd be able to pick up English people if the Romanians decided to go home. But you know what, despite his gazillions of acres and moleskin trousers, I don't think he could afford a rickety old bus and a rickety old driver .........
And you do realise that all our universities will have to close once all the European academics have been herded into camps and tortured? Lots of top academics say we won't be able to manage without these top European minds. But every year we admit about 500,000 qualified young people into university. And you know what the job of these top academics who are predicting doom actually is ............ it is to turn this huge pool of talent into the brightest and best in their specialist subject! So just maybe if they just did their job properly instead devoting only a sinecure-ish amount of their time to actual teaching, wouldn't we be training people in this country to be at least the equals of those we now import so that many of our academics can luxuriate behind desks and the barely-merited title of professor?
The trouble with Free Movement of Labour is that the rest of the EU understands the words. They go to other countries to work.
We largely interpret Free Movement as buying cheaper and more luxurious housing in a warmer country and taking our pension with us.
In general Europeans in Britain are good at learning the language and tend to arrive speaking some English.
We migrate to colonise coastal areas and nice bits of countryside in the countries we choose to invade. We assimilate via a phrase book in the pocket of the jacket we left back at the gite. We love the wine and the view out here. We feel as if we were on holiday.
Oh dear Matt -"banks need to plan 2-5 years in advance" .......... Like Northern Rock you mean? Like Nat West with whom I've banked for 45 years leaving my town and hundreds of others in May so that that they lose my account forever. Like causing the financial crash from which we haven't yet recovered thanks to Georgie Porgie and Spreadsheet Phil?
Everything you hear about uncertainty is garbage sent to scare you. Capitalism thrives on uncertainty. It is about gambling and risk. Those things don't exist in a world of certainty. If you gave the stock market certainty it would stagnate and traders would have to develop an algorithm to create it. Well that's my view from Marxist perspective .......... but I don't expect anyone to agree any more than I think they should tell me what I MUST understand. I do understand and I do reject that interpretation ...... in the nicest possible way of course.
I'm not really into erecting scaffolding around the excrescences of monopoly capitalism that's all. I've remained true to the views Mr McDonnell, who I like a lot, and Mr Corbyn say they have deserted.
Apparently there is no one in the UK who knows how to pick a strawberry. Raspberries are even more of a mystery and the vice-chancellor of Southampton University, on his £400,000+ salary, is instituting a new department to carry out research. Gooseberries and other fruits are such a conundrum we have contacted Mr Trump for NASA's assistance.
I once had this mad idea. I saw a farmer with about a quadrazillion acres of land under plastic describing how he couldn't continue without Romanian labour .......... and you know what ....... I thought if he bought the rickety old bus in which a Romanian brought other Romanians and East Europeans from town every day he'd be able to pick up English people if the Romanians decided to go home. But you know what, despite his gazillions of acres and moleskin trousers, I don't think he could afford a rickety old bus and a rickety old driver .........
And you do realise that all our universities will have to close once all the European academics have been herded into camps and tortured? Lots of top academics say we won't be able to manage without these top European minds. But every year we admit about 500,000 qualified young people into university. And you know what the job of these top academics who are predicting doom actually is ............ it is to turn this huge pool of talent into the brightest and best in their specialist subject! So just maybe if they just did their job properly instead devoting only a sinecure-ish amount of their time to actual teaching, wouldn't we be training people in this country to be at least the equals of those we now import so that many of our academics can luxuriate behind desks and the barely-merited title of professor?
(05-12-2017, 20:47)bluepooch Wrote: I must admit the lack of immigration control was probably the biggest factor in me voting leave .The most important thing for me when setting up these trade agreements is not to allow total free movement of labour .I am not saying ban people from coming to reside in this country from abroad but we can afford to be choosy who we take .It seems like it has snowballed out of hand in the last ten to 15 years and has led to massive social problems,London isn't recognisable from 15 years ago .I go to shopping centres and I hear people talking in a foreign language and it really bothers me to the point where I feel like saying something ,they should at least have the respect to talk English if they are choosing to live in England.I love Spain and would love to have a place there. If I did I would make damn sure I learned the language.
The trouble with Free Movement of Labour is that the rest of the EU understands the words. They go to other countries to work.
We largely interpret Free Movement as buying cheaper and more luxurious housing in a warmer country and taking our pension with us.
In general Europeans in Britain are good at learning the language and tend to arrive speaking some English.
We migrate to colonise coastal areas and nice bits of countryside in the countries we choose to invade. We assimilate via a phrase book in the pocket of the jacket we left back at the gite. We love the wine and the view out here. We feel as if we were on holiday.
Oh dear Matt -"banks need to plan 2-5 years in advance" .......... Like Northern Rock you mean? Like Nat West with whom I've banked for 45 years leaving my town and hundreds of others in May so that that they lose my account forever. Like causing the financial crash from which we haven't yet recovered thanks to Georgie Porgie and Spreadsheet Phil?
Everything you hear about uncertainty is garbage sent to scare you. Capitalism thrives on uncertainty. It is about gambling and risk. Those things don't exist in a world of certainty. If you gave the stock market certainty it would stagnate and traders would have to develop an algorithm to create it. Well that's my view from Marxist perspective .......... but I don't expect anyone to agree any more than I think they should tell me what I MUST understand. I do understand and I do reject that interpretation ...... in the nicest possible way of course.
I'm not really into erecting scaffolding around the excrescences of monopoly capitalism that's all. I've remained true to the views Mr McDonnell, who I like a lot, and Mr Corbyn say they have deserted.