S'pose they could argue they'd rather work in a factory/shipyard/steel mill....except Mrs T (and over zealous, self serving unionites) managed to either sell em off or bugger em up so much they closed
Tory chiefs slammed his outburst as “unacceptable” and David Cameron faced calls to sack him.
A Conservative Party spokesman said: “This is an unacceptable use of language and does not represent the views of the Conservative Party.”
Yeah, right.
But from some one who leads the Conservatives on the Local Government Association (LGA), is leader of Buckinghamshire County Counciul, sits on the South East England Regional Assembly, and is on the Executive of the County Councils Network, so you can't really say he's not some one un-important within the Tory Party and doesn't know what he's saying.
PS - Any one know any fruit picking opportunities in the UK at the moment ?
I listened to that on Radio 2. I always thought northerners were good for a laugh, but the ones ringing in to complain, had a complete sense of humour failure.
Nothing wrong with travelling around the country for work, I used to do it. Can be a lot of fun :twisted:
"Fucking northern monkeys"
starve the women and children and the men will go anywhere for work (no matter how low the wages) and they will spend less and eat less. lazy phukers anyway. stop unemployment benefit and housing benefit, cancell all working tax credits, stop all 6th form further education benefits, cut invalidity benefits, in fact, fuck em all. and when we get to the bottom, in the final solution...... but pay the banksters record bonuses and keep their representative who will implement it on the gravy train. oh, and put up all taxes and charge a gallon for petrol. you never had it so good.
regards alf
Waits for the massed un-employed and soon to be un-employed of the South East to return to the hop picking in Kent and the 'prairies' of East Anglia...........
Soz, just woke up and turns out that was just a dream
Whenever there is a recession or a depression some folk call for the indolent work shy scavengers to get back to work, believing it to be some kind of economic cure all.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist documents such grunts back in the 19th century. Well worth a read by the way whatever your political leanings and available free on the kindle PC application I imagine.
Anyway, its an obvious quick fix to economic problems. The problem with such solutions is that they rarely work. In this instance we have plenty of history to prove that it hasn't and predict that it wont.
Perhaps what we do need to do is strategically redistribute work across the country rather than relying on individuals to redistribute themselves. And no I am not suggesting we plant cherry trees on welsh mountain sides.
Ahhh.
Well I cant really speak as a northerner.
I do recall moving to london for work as a young man because I could earn 3 times as much doing a similar job.
I recently moved to wales where the majority of jobs pay around minimum wage and work is scarce outside of the season.
Perhaps the quoted comments incite resentment regarding the inherent unequal distribution of wealth and job opportunities in various parts of the UK. A friend of mine said to minx only the other day----why didn't you move down to kent you can get £20 an hour as a monkey on a help desk. I don't know if that's true or not of course.
All on £20 an hour!
Well Kent and Wales are both beautiful parts of the country
Why dont they sack the rich bastards that caused this mess, make them pick fruit to pay off the dept they have given the rest of us.
Sorry forgot that they all vote TORY so they cant be expected to do honest work.
:P
