jukel123

Not where I live.

Flooding the county with cheap labour was a right wing strategy favoured by the movers and shakers of the economy over several decades. Having a hire and fire economy...people fighting for jobs and housing, was and is a healthy economy if you are a major employer. Other countries placed far more emphasis on improved technology and pursued the well paid skilled worker route. People prior to 1960 were living hand to mouth. In both major wars, the armed services had problems recruiting personnel from the working class who did not suffer from poor nutrition and/ or poor physical d

Well if you believe in their right wing philosophy and have, let's say, a bit of a thing about immigration, why not vote Reform? Would you be happy if one of your kids were evicted for no reason, could only get a zero hours contract and there was no provision of a minimum wage in the let's say 20 hours of work they were offered? You are clapping your hands at a scenario which will drive this country yet further into a third world 'beck and call' economy. Why do the like of France and Germany have far stronger employment law, free nursery provision , free university tuition , f

No the right believe in free enterprise with no government interference. They believe the the private sector should be able to operate with little or no bureaucracy. It's a fair ideology. But when it comes to care of the elderly and something so basic as the provision of clean water then the profit motive fails. It's a far right position. The far right believe all basic services should be provided by the private sector. Which is why, in this country, Thatcher sold off virtually all of our national assets to the private sector. Just as a government controlling every facet of your li

Reform are beginning to let slip some actual policies. Richard Tice said yesterday they would bring back no fault evictions. He also vowed to bring back the legality of zero hours contracts for employees. So no security of housing and no security of employment for people. f**k's sake. They will bring back the poor house and kids up chimneys next. Good news though. They will repeal the fox hunting law. Bad news , no mention of terrier or lurcher work being deemed lawful and legitimate practices. G and Ts all round chaps.

Imo, the best pound for pound boxer of all time.

Small comfort I know, but when something like this hits one of your family it knocks everybody for six. Family members are traumatised. But in a year's time it will be history. You will all have learned to cope with the situation, both medically and psychologically. It's just a case of hanging in there until you are all in a better place. Atb.

The most far right policy this country has ever pursued was to privatise water. England and Wales are the only fully privatised water systems in the world. The seas and rivers are treated like rubbish dumps. Pull up a net and you will often find condoms, sanitary towels, wet wipes and waste plastic etc. And that's what you can see. There's also a toxic witches' brew of radioactive and chemical pollution. The seas, like trees and soil are the lifeblood of the planet. The planet can't function without them. These eco vandals in suits should be in jail. It's a crime against gene

Agree with what you say. But I'd like to point out that it is unlikely a blind person would be reading your post and even more unlikely a black person will be reading a THL post. So need to apologise on either count.lol Dearie me. The BBC spent a good proportion of its coverage of the awards worrying about the black fellas' mental health. It's so patronising and disingenuous. Who gives a damn about some self congratulatory award ceremony, the word nigger and a lad with Toureetes who may or may not have used the nigger word unintentially. And I've just wasted 3 minutes of my rapidly

I can't watch it mate. It triggers me so much . Makes me so mad and sad. The older I get the more shocked I am at human greed and evil. I'm going for a lie down.lol

Me neither. I came from 9 of a family but we were always fed and warm one way or another. I remember the electricity being cut off occasionally but it was more of an adventure and we had primus stoves. I had hand me downs until I was 14 but I honestly never thought anything of it. I remember some kids had it really rough. My Mrs had it really rough. The poverty you saw haunts you to this day. One lad I remember, Alfie, used to be always late on a Monday morning. He came from a large family with no father and he had to go to the pawn shop every Monday morning. The teachers used t

f****n ell. You beat me in the hard luck stories. I thought I had it bad hopping up that f***ing cobbled Stree with one clog to get the morning Hovis. I hated school uniform and wouldn't wear it. I was sent to a grammar school and they didn't like refuseniks. Especially those with Elvis hairstyles and winkle pickers. They also didn't play football but played rugby instead. So we parted ways within a year. The only thing I regret was my mother's disappointment, but shit happens and you have to play the cards you're dealt.

I refused free school meals. Too embarrassed. So I went to a bakers where my aunty worked. I would hand over a penny and she would give me a pie and a cake and give two pennies back in change. Her boss never cottoned on.lol Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch?

I couldn't spell it mate.lol

So Someone said he had the look of a man who for the first time in his life had had to come to terms with reality. I've no time for any of the royals, but Andrew had a reputation for deliberately disrespecting staff as well as his sexual stuff. Delight at somebody's pain is a cheap feeling but I'm enjoying it .