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"British Jobs for British Workers"
BillieTheBot
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As most of you know I'm a Spaniard so I shall declare an interest in this from the off. But I have to say I find the expression rather dislikable and ugly. And now it is being quoted, and making front page news.
Admittedly the refinery workers using the sentence as a slogan have genuine reason to be angry- shipping in foreigners to do a specific job does not seem right- but as it turns out, Gordon Brown used this slogan in 2007 as a soundbite.
In this particular case the expression might carry some weight; but I hope it is not repeated elsewhere. For starters it is wrong and misplaced- if foreigners stopped working tomorrow, many of their positions would simply not be filled, and for seconds it is a bit too BNP-ish for my liking.
I guess history shows that in times of hardship people turn on 'obvious' targets such as foreigners. Time to pack up my suitcases? :eek2:
Admittedly the refinery workers using the sentence as a slogan have genuine reason to be angry- shipping in foreigners to do a specific job does not seem right- but as it turns out, Gordon Brown used this slogan in 2007 as a soundbite.
In this particular case the expression might carry some weight; but I hope it is not repeated elsewhere. For starters it is wrong and misplaced- if foreigners stopped working tomorrow, many of their positions would simply not be filled, and for seconds it is a bit too BNP-ish for my liking.
I guess history shows that in times of hardship people turn on 'obvious' targets such as foreigners. Time to pack up my suitcases? :eek2:
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I am particularly enjoying the way that everything our psychologically flawed Prime Minister has said in the past is coming back to bite him on the arse. He claims that he'd spent the past 10 years arguing for stronger regulation. Wrong - there are countless instances of him stating the opposite. There's even one time when he said "we will take the fight for deregulation to Europe."! He said that he'd abolished "boom and bust". Now that everyone's cornering him, he still refuses to admit that he was wrong. He pretends he'd never said anything of the kind - nice try Macavity, but you don't fool us. No wonder there are rumours about his mental health doing the rounds on the blogs.
Now it's this "British jobs for British workers" thing again. It was a sham when Gordon first said it and he knew it - he knows full well that, thanks to the EU, anyone in the nation states can come work here and there's fuck all he can do to stop them. According to The Times, BNP supporters have been trying to join the protests around the country. A spokesman for the racist political party said "Yesterday [Thursday] was a great day for British nationalism.". The workers at the protests were having none of it. That was a well-played card by the BNP, weren't it? Thanks to these morons, the Government's line that this action is based on xenophobia was given some credence. The truth is it's more of a protest about how Labour is driving the economy into the ground. Fucking morons.
Thanks to it, a perfectly legitimate protest is being hijacked by those with ulterior motives.
Still, it's nice to see that the Labour Party is about to be mired in another leadership crisis, the second in a year. Last year, Brown was nearly forced out by it - here's hoping they go that little bit further this time.
UPDATE: The strikes are all over the front pages of Saturday's newspapers. I wonder how many mobile phones he'll be throwing at the wall tomorrow morning. The writing's on the wall...
I'm all for love-your-neighbour and all that hippy guff, but when people are losing jobs left right and centre because of the current economic climate (whose blame does NOT rest solely on the banks), you have to look out for you and yours. And in the Government's case, that means British citizens, not EU citizens. They were voted in by the British electorate to serve the British electorate and safeguard their best interests.
I know I sound a little like the Daily Mail but occasionally, even they're right about something.
the point really is that we should only let people in to fill the jobs that cant be fillied, if theres a british job and a british person to fill it then they should get it. simple as.
That'll go down well with employers
If there's a gap to be filled then fair play, I'll welcome and foreign workers, but I'm not happy with them being picked in place of British born workers simply becaue they;ll work for half the cost and live in some poxy caravan.
It's been exactly the same during the downturn. Ask him for any kind of response to the current problems, and he just drones on about "giving hard-working families the real help that they need now". (all these are actual Brown quotes) If he gets criticised, he immediately claims that they're on the side of the Tories, who would "do nothing" about the "problems which began in America". This line would be a little more credible if he hadn't been stealing Tory policies over the economy, and if he hadn't been Chancellor for the past 10 years.
Brown just doesn't get it. Why do you think he's so terrified of calling a general election? Because he knows he will go down in history as one of the worst Prime Ministers in history. He's a dead duck in denial.
Who else, exactly, are you pointing the finger of blame at ?
The government and the public must also shoulder some of the blame but that's for another thread.
For my part I think Seamus Milne has it right
They sound like the words of a banker.
Good article. I don't think we should mistake using Gordon Brown's words against him in a protest for agreeing with the political bile of the likes of the BNP.
The banks were breathtakingly stupid. Confidence in these institutions cannot return until every single member of the bank's boards is removed from their job. My own bank is 70% owned by the Government, for fuck's sake. But the middle-classes have a lot to answer for. They could have easily decided "no, I'm not going to take part in this madness of keeping up with the Joneses. I'm happy living in my house". But they didn't. They bought into it - and that makes them just as culpable as the bankers.
*Bloody hell, I'm sounding more and more like a Left-wing libertarian every day...
I will not be so rude as to call that absolute drivel but if you are talking about the roots you need to go back almost a century to 1914. (What you are witnessing now is the winter of discontent after falsely perceived glorious summer. The leaves have been shed).
That was the year the bankers got a (legal) licence to steal. That seems to be the nature of politics. Politicians acting as the bankers' foot soldiers. (That malfeasance continues unabated;check out the Banking Bill currently going through the commons for evidence).
Which leads me to ask, why are you doing business with any bank ? Doesn't that make you culpable ?
As for politicians, they are a group of people whom should be viewed with extreme caution at all times and generally should not be trusted as far as they can be thrown. Show me a politician who is his own man and I will show you a liar. That's a nice attempt at entrapment, but you don't fool me. I haven't taken out any huge loan from the bank. I've been offered credit cards by them more than once, but I've always said no. I have no mortgage either, thank god. I simply have a bank account where I keep the money that I've earnt, along with a fair bit of savings. I'm certainly not culpable in this.
* For those who don't know what quantitive easing is, it's a technical term for printing more money.
Yes they are. And the words of one who is sick to death of everyone blaming 'greedy bankers' when 99% of us have nothing to do with the trading of all the crap that contributed to this in the first place.
I guess it's much easier for Joe Dumbarse to blame some faceless mass of people earning much more money than him than to turn the blame on himself for taking out loans he couldn't afford to buy that new car and plasma TV, maxing out half a dozen credit cards and living far beyond his means simply because he could and the credit was available. Plus there's the small matter of McBroon encouraging (well, forcing) the banks to lend well outside of their own risk appetites in order to artificially stimulate the economy to show what such a wonderful job he was doing while he was Chancellor.
I guess what goes around comes around and now it's come back to bite him in the arse. Shame he's had to take so many people down with him.
Your post suggests that you have seen through the obsfucation. Why then have you chosen those charlatans to be the guardians of your wealth ?
Despite the somewhat cryptic style of the author(s),you might find a couple of suggestions in the initial article here:
http://www.morganstanley.com/views/gef/index.html#anchor7417