IDS

[Geometer]

IDS is a curiously vain man.

As an ex-Sandurst ex-Guards officer, he has all the understanding and sympathy for those less fortunate that himself that you would expect.

That explains a lot. But it's not just IDS; Cameron, Clegg, Gove, Milliband, Balls; they're becoming increasingly interchangeable, and the political parties are becoming increasingly indistinguishable. They seem to be coalescing into a single, amorphous, right-wing blob, and it's very worrying.

Collectively, they remind me of that old Harry Enfield character, Tim Nice-but-Dim; affable, earnest, and well-meaning, but from a privileged background so rarefied and remote from ordinary people that it totally precludes any real empathy for anybody less privileged than themselves. The only differences are that they're more intelligent, they're not as funny... and they're in charge

 

[cantaloup63]

I suspect that Marx will be vindicated soon enough. Neither Russia nor China were at the appropriate historical status since both were feudal at the time.

 

[Norcon]

Please explain how you think denying me that basic minimum I need to survive on is going to improve my chances of getting a job

"Must do" is a good master.
You could sell up and move abroad. Plenty of work in India and China.
OOh I forgot. Silly me. No gravy trains or easy money over there. (ie benefits)

 

[joe-90]

So says Norcon who earns £40K and employs Latvians on minimum wage.

 

[Norcon]

Lithunians!

 

[joe-90]

Why not give the job to your fellow Brit?

 

[cantaloup63]

Why not give the job to your fellow Brit?

Then the johnny foreigners would be getting the benefits and we can all become increasingly apoplectic about that.

 

[Norcon]

Why not give the job to your fellow Brit?

They turn their noses up at our work.

 

[joe-90]

And so we should. No work - go home.

 

[joe-90]

Why not give the job to your fellow Brit?

They turn their noses up at our work.

Offer better wages and conditions then. Take a fookin pay cut. YOU are the problem in this country.

 

[cantaloup63]

And so we should. No work - go home.

According to some, unemployed British workers should go east, after selling their houses presumably to the latvian lapdancers that Norcon employs.

 

[joe-90]

And so we should. No work - go home.

According to some, unemployed British workers should go east, after selling their houses presumably to the latvian lapdancers that Norcon employs.

He's a selfish person earning £40k and paying peanuts. A Brit with a family can't live on minimum wage.

 

[Norcon]

Why not give the job to your fellow Brit?

They turn their noses up at our work.

Offer better wages and conditions then. Take a fookin pay cut. YOU are the problem in this country.

You don't know what I'm earning. Suffice to say I earn every penny.
Our customers are our priority. Uk worker we go bust. Foreign worker we survive and our customers are the ultimate winners.

 

[joe-90]

Why not give the job to your fellow Brit?

They turn their noses up at our work.

Offer better wages and conditions then. Take a fookin pay cut. YOU are the problem in this country.

You don't know what I'm earning. Suffice to say I earn every penny.
Our customers are our priority. Uk worker we go bust. Foreign worker we survive and our customers are the ultimate winners.

You told us £40k a while back. You pay Lithuanians minimum wage so they pay hardly any tax. They take the job off a Brit so we pay the Brit £20K in benefits from money borrowed from overseas?
Can you see a problem there?

 

[cantaloup63]

It is a curious irony that these imported wage slaves from collapsed "communist" countries are contributing to the demise of the capitalist system and thus creating the very economic environment for the proletariat to rise and true Marxist states to emerge.