General News Thread

(29-04-2020 09:05 )HannahsPet Wrote:  So boris has had a little bastard hope he doenst expect to take a month paternity off at this time

He'll grant himself paternity don't you worry

I've moved your posts into the General News thread. However you look at it I can't see the virus as being responsible.

So congratulations to Boris and Carrie on the birth of their baby boy.

I hope that he don't have Boris's hair, or looks or brains.
But maybe he should have his dads brains as mum ended up will Boris

(29-04-2020 09:27 )Charlemagne Wrote:  I've moved your posts into the General News thread. However you look at it I can't see the virus as being responsible.

So congratulations to Boris and Carrie on the birth of their baby boy.

I hope that he don't have Boris's hair, or looks or brains.
But maybe he should have his dads brains as mum ended up will Boris

it is relevent if he comes of nearly a month off sickness to go off again for paterninty and next he will be taking time off for a honeymoon when he acutally marries her

i'm glad the baby appears to be healthy. that's about the best i can do.

(29-04-2020 09:31 )HannahsPet Wrote:  

(29-04-2020 09:27 )Charlemagne Wrote:  I've moved your posts into the General News thread. However you look at it I can't see the virus as being responsible.

So congratulations to Boris and Carrie on the birth of their baby boy.

I hope that he don't have Boris's hair, or looks or brains.
But maybe he should have his dads brains as mum ended up will Boris

it is relevent if he comes of nearly a month off sickness to go off again for paterninty and next he will be taking time off for a honeymoon when he acutally marries her

Time off later in the year as paternity leave

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I think he said he is going to take time off as paternity leave later in the year and I think that is when he will marry her at the same time.

(17-04-2020 12:42 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  

(16-04-2020 20:30 )Chrisst Wrote:  

(15-04-2020 18:34 )Charlemagne Wrote:  It does look odd that tomorrow we are flying in 180 Romanian workers to fruit pick when we are paying millions of UK workers to stay at home due to the corona virus.

Didn't we vote a few years ago because people felt like foreigners in their own country and foreigners were nicking all our jobs?
Didn't the current Government have something to do with it?

Some people can't seem to tell the difference between seasonal workers and immigrants. You can't make a full time job out of fruit picking unless you follow the seasons round Europe, which is what some of these guys will be doing.

Even now with many people looking for short term work, I can almost guarantee the half of them wouldn't show up for the second day once they discovered the reality of the job was a world away from a Sunday afternoon stroll round the local pick-your-own.

Just to return to the fruit picker story, here's the conclusion, showing once and for all why farmers rely so heavily on foreign labour for their harvest, even at a time when so many allegedly capable british workers are supposedly available and raring to go and do these jobs :

https://www.indy100.com/article/uk-fruit...in-9491516

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04...d-farmers/


Brief summary is :

50,000 applied
only 6000 did the video interview
112 took the job

112 out of 50,000! and as already stated, you can bet a fair few of those won't see it out when they realise how much graft is actually involved

Yes millions of people on furlough, yet very few of them want to take a job as fruit pickers.
It's my understanding that they can keep their furloughed pay and the fruit picking pay, minus the extra tax.

Any of you guys want a job....

Kim Jon-Un has been reportedly been seen in public for the first time in 3 weeks, according to South Koreas state news.

But there is no independant confirmation.

Is South Korea state news reliable?

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One bullet dodged I guess