The winter of discontent

half the electorate (by far the largest section ) will not even consider a state of crisis until murdoch and co say it is. The lack of lorry drivers and not stockpilers is studiously ignored by the headline writers of the msm, who are finding it difficult to blame the unions, EU, remainers , corbyn, the nurses and teachers in a package that will fit on the sun front page, but will be working on it, guaranteed. Meanwhile the unregulated capitalism model beginning to eat itself, the lack of an obvious "enemy at the gate" red herring so essential to the far right is problematic for a coallition that has just about run out of steam. And fuel. And workers. But not support. Yet.........
 
KnaresboroughBlue said:
I know. Shame though really. I think the remain campaign would have won with a bit more Labour backing. Not being in the UK, I'm a bit out of touch with the current situation. Is Labour under Starmer more pro-EU? Are they likely to include rejoining in their manifesto?
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Starmer is definitely more pro EU but putting another referendum in the manifesto would be too divisive. I suspect he’d try and renegotiate the deal to leave us with BRINO and leave it at that for the time being. The wheels will have to well and truly come off for him to get elected though so it’s all down to how big the shitshow will be over the next 2 or 3 years. Most of the media will ignore it unless it gets really bad and will instead focus on rubbish like getting embossed crowns on pint glasses and being able to sell carrots in pounds and ounces. The sunlit uplands and global Britain appear to have been cancelled already but we don’t know any detail of what will take their place.
 
west didsblue said:
Starmer is definitely more pro EU but putting another referendum in the manifesto would be too divisive. I suspect he’d try and renegotiate the deal to leave us with BRINO and leave it at that for the time being. The wheels will have to well and truly come off for him to get elected though so it’s all down to how big the shitshow will be over the next 2 or 3 years. Most of the media will ignore it unless it gets really bad and will instead focus on rubbish like getting embossed crowns on pint glasses and being able to sell carrots in pounds and ounces. The sunlit uplands and global Britain appear to have been cancelled already but we don’t know any detail of what will take their place.
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I suspect it's going to look a bit like Ellesmere Port.
 
i kne albert davy said:
Got to be honest don't ever remember the electricity or gas going off was serving my apprenticeship at the time and we worked right through it.
The country was heavily unionised back then, not a chance anything like this could happen now.
The only thing it archived was 11 years of Mrs Thatcher.
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Country has certainly changed but I’ve learned never to say never. The last years have shown that we were all far less prepared than we believed we were for events, and severe weather will have severe consequences. Just praying it doesn’t come to that.
 
Gabriel said:
Country has certainly changed but I’ve learned never to say never. The last years have shown that we were all far less prepared than we believed we were for events, and severe weather will have severe consequences. Just praying it doesn’t come to that.
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Indeed.
Giving up the vast majority of the strategic gas reserve to save a few quid is just one chicken coming home to roost. No doubt there’ll be plenty more that will become apparent over the next few months.
 
west didsblue said:
Indeed.
Giving up the vast majority of the strategic gas reserve to save a few quid is just one chicken coming home to roost. No doubt there’ll be plenty more that will become apparent over the next few months.
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bit like running down the stockpile of medical ppe (despite warnings ) decreed the minimum to handle a pandemic. J. Hunt, he of secret meetings with murdoch. Take a bow, your arse is covered as long as murdoch pulls the strings...
 
It suits them - it serves as a distraction for the masses whilst they instead install a dictatorship - you may have voted in your last election folks. Read this thread.

 
bellbuzzer said:
half the electorate (by far the largest section ) will not even consider a state of crisis until murdoch and co say it is. The lack of lorry drivers and not stockpilers is studiously ignored by the headline writers of the msm, who are finding it difficult to blame the unions, EU, remainers , corbyn, the nurses and teachers in a package that will fit on the sun front page, but will be working on it, guaranteed. Meanwhile the unregulated capitalism model beginning to eat itself, the lack of an obvious "enemy at the gate" red herring so essential to the far right is problematic for a coallition that has just about run out of steam. And fuel. And workers. But not support. Yet.........
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The media along with pricks like Bridgen are already suggesting 1.5m people are happy to sit at home - that 300k qualified HGV drivers don't want to go back to work. So thats their blame laid - their old favourite whipping boy the unemployed. Thing is if someone can afford not to work and don't want to (like me ) what right do they have to tell them to get to work? What right do they have to tell them what job they should be doing.
 
There you go - looks like he has relented - if the FT headline is correct then he has done so not for the good of the country but because he is sick of being blamed for it all.

 
I don't Bridgen actually understands that there levels of "big trucks" different axle weights, sizes, rigids, articulated for example and that there are different levels of license required as you go up the scale. Furthermore if part of the issue is petrol tanker drivers is he aware that if you are licensed to drive an articulated lorry there are yet further training and tests to go through to drive and operate a tanker?

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Saddleworth2 said:
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,
About a prophecy, which says that 'G'
Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here
Clarence comes.
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Yup ye boyo!
 
bluethrunthru said:
The media along with pricks like Bridgen are already suggesting 1.5m people are happy to sit at home - that 300k qualified HGV drivers don't want to go back to work. So thats their blame laid - their old favourite whipping boy the unemployed. Thing is if someone can afford not to work and don't want to (like me ) what right do they have to tell them to get to work? What right do they have to tell them what job they should be doing.
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Bridgen is a A grade pillock I'd put him in the same bracket Mark 'the default brexit position is no deal Francois. Absolute pair bellends. The sooner they stop putting him on to talk shit on Brexit the better.
 
I'm skeptical it will happen but the lack of HGV drivers concerns me probably even more than gas price issues.
The government is able to regulate prices to ensure the consumer isn't done over, but a labor shortage will be much harder to solve
 
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