Archive for the 'Community' Category

Feb 19 2008

Rats, Sinking Ship…

Published by sholto under Community, Work

The news that the huge wave of immigration from Poland is reversing as Poles take their savings back to Poland and start buying homes and building businesses has that unmistakable whiff of rats leaving a sinking ship. Totally unfair of course as they built our Miller Homes for the past five years and kept our hotels manned and have now decided to return to their own homeland. They always said they would!

What comes next? Bulgarians might fill the gap of course and we can keep enlarging EU. Soon we might welcome Kazakhs or Tajiks from Northern Afghanistan.  Or we might even need to do our own menial jobs as well.

The government has spotted a likely contingent of workers in the form of the phalanx of workers on disability who supposedly cannot work (which include a large proportion of Glasgow’s workers).  They will now be retrained and returned to work. If the hotel receptionist looks at you a little strangely next time… now you know why

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Oct 13 2007

Hold the front page: Don’t divorce yet

Published by sholto under Community, Taxation

In a shocking volte-face that left the good people of the central belt speechless, the Labour government has decided to start supporting married couples with the admission that “children notice” when their parents are married. As Chief Secretary to the Treasury says “I don’t seek to preach to anybody, but in an abstract way I think it’s better when children are in a home where their parents are married and I think children do notice if their parents are married or not.” errrrrrrr right!

However, there is a lot of members of the labour nomenklatura who have an ideologicaly aversion to marriage arguing that it diminishes single parents so dont expect Labour to support marriage immediately… there is another year or two until the next election, for god’s sake.

This wouldn’t be a tory policy would it.

Read more about it in the torygraph

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