Re: The Labour party leadership thread : Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:23 pm  

Exiled down south wrote:

I've spent most of the last ten years working principally in engineering (Mining, Oil/gas, Construction, Industrial) and again the market drives price.

I worked on a huge industrial progamme in North Africa where workers were offered higher level HSE training. One of the company bosses said train equally across companies or you will create an imbalance in the market and as such introduce movement and then local inflation

So that's 4 more markets. Rather than me keep going on, maybe you could provide examples. I'm unsure what is representative.

No, please do keep going on.

Re: The Labour party leadership thread : Sat Sep 19, 2015 9:12 am  

At work yesterday we had a senior Tory MP visit. In his speech to a number of workers he said the country(Tories!) are pushing for and enticing more highly skilled / highly paid employers to set up here and to leave the low paid work for the Asia / Middle east regions.

Great to hear. Let's get out of the pits and improve peoples quality of life at both work and home. Jezzer wont bring that aspiration to the country.

Re: The Labour party leadership thread : Sat Sep 19, 2015 10:42 am  

wire-quin wrote:

At work yesterday we had a senior Tory MP visit. In his speech to a number of workers he said the country(Tories!) are pushing for and enticing more highly skilled / highly paid employers to set up here and to leave the low paid work for the Asia / Middle east regions.

Great to hear. Let's get out of the pits and improve peoples quality of life at both work and home. Jezzer wont bring that aspiration to the country.

What do you anticipate this type of attitude will do for the low paid, limited ability people I this country? Are this government really going to put the hard yards in to really improve the education system(the country's KPI) or just leave it for the few?
Why are this government not helping to assist highly skilled/ highly paid employers to actually be created in this country or does just "banking" count and nothing else?
Reading the post it can be read that this government requires others to do the job it isn't prepared to help with. Surely they are a bit wiser than that. If not then we are really in a worse mess than the current situation.

Re: The Labour party leadership thread : Sat Sep 19, 2015 11:15 am  

Maybe he was playing to the audience. I suspect he wouldn't have said something similar in a care home or bus depot.

Re: The Labour party leadership thread : Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:06 pm  

Courtesy of @BestoftheMail

Press conference
Cameron: Anyone have any questions
*everyone raises hands*
Cameron: That aren't about the pig?
*everyone lowers hands*

Re: The Labour party leadership thread : Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:36 pm  

Who is the pig? Is this an in joke?

Re: The Labour party leadership thread : Mon Sep 21, 2015 3:37 pm  

Exiled down south wrote:

Who is the pig? Is this an in joke?

Certainly was an "in" joke about 30 years ago!

Re: The Labour party leadership thread : Mon Sep 21, 2015 3:38 pm  

Exiled down south wrote: Who is the pig? Is this an in joke? http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/ ... e-Minister

Exiled down south wrote: Who is the pig? Is this an in joke? http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/ ... e-Minister

Re: The Labour party leadership thread : Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:03 pm  

Not the best of weeks!

Re: The Labour party leadership thread : Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:15 pm  

Mugwump wrote:

No, please do keep going on.

Unions have helped a lot in Redcar - completely impotent just like McCluskey when Ratcliffe called his bluff