Yeah, not right.
What’s the collective noun for migrants?
I thought it was supposed to be ‘a horde’. If not that, then maybe a ‘stampede’?
A flock?
Especially well chosen words, bearing in mind we’re remembering the Holocaust today.
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Indeed. Bath has an area called Twerton (low skills, low paid) and not far away there is Keynesham. Low skilled jobs in Bath tend to be filled by:
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Middle class teenage children living at home who get a job for a bit of extra spending money while they’re at 6th form
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Students. So many students…
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The Twerton/Keynesham massive.
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Immigrants (although they tend to work in better paid, higher skilled jobs)
Originally posted by @KRG
Seems to be raining shit at the minute for these cunts.
Under some pretty severe scrutiny for the paltry £130m back tax deal with Google, where as France may be about to negotiate a deal worth 3x as much.
Google is said to be negotiating a tax settlement with France worth three times more than it paid the British Exchequer even though it employs thousands more staff in the UK.
The UK arm generates about three times as much revenue as Google France and employs four times as many people.
The Times reported that French officials are chasing the internet giant for €500m (£381m) over a similar tax avoidance structure to the one it used in the UK which has caused controversy.
As the internet giant expands its operation in the UK, it and HMRC are in the firing line from campaigners after Google settled its tax bill with the British government for £130m over 10 years, compared with the company’s $5.6bn (£3.9bn) annual UK revenues.
Downing Street distanced itself from Chancellor George Osborne’s claim that the £130m agreement was a “victory” for the taxpayer as sources at the National Audit Office told the Daily Mailthat it would be investigating the deal.
It is a shit amount to get, but why wasn’t this dealt with in 2005, making them pay the full amount of tax every year rather than having to negotiate an amount because our tax collector’s were so shit.
Is it a ‘bunch’ of Jews then? Or a ‘bunch’ of prisoners?
It’s the fact that he’s using an association with migrants as a pejorative at all.
The specific collective noun is irrelevant. Congratulations Britain. Think that might be the closest we’ve got to our first openly racist Prime Minister since Churchill.
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Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint
It is a shit amount to get, but why wasn’t this dealt with in 2005, making them pay the full amount of tax every year rather than having to negotiate an amount because our tax collector’s were so shit.
I think this may be the wrong thread for raising the zero amount of tax collected from 2005
Oh I know, using that language is inexcusable, dehumanising these people is not on.
However, I am failing to see the link to the Holocaust, and why people are making a big deal about that.
Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint
Oh I know, using that language is inexcusable, dehumanising these people is not on.
However, I am failing to see the link to the Holocaust, and why people are making a big deal about that.
The Holocaust is perhaps the most infamous consequence of repeated and sustained dehumanisation.
This is why the remarks are particularly ill-considered today.
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Link to some of the video. You know he has gone too far when his usual braying cheerleaders don’t join in.
That’s what happens when you ad lib the script and chuck your own word in.
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My mistake…
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The Welsh don’t like the Tories’ trade union bill. A battle in the Supreme Court may await.
The Welsh Assembly has just voted to block David Cameron’s trade union bill in Wales, with Assembly members saying it would undermine public services, the economy and the “constructive social partnership” between workers and employers in Wales. But instead of heeding the Welsh Assembly’s decision, David Cameron is ignoring it. Now a constitutional crisis looks set to erupt as the two governments do battle in the Supreme Court.
The showdown between the Welsh and UK governments over the trade union bill has been a long time brewing. While Cameron is determined to push through what some call “the biggest crackdown on trade union rights for 30 years,” Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones has promised his government will do everything in its power to stop the bill, which would severely limit the right to strike.
On Tuesday, the showdown came to a head when Welsh Labour, Plaid Cymru and Welsh Lib Dem Assembly members united to vote down the UK government’s plans by 43 to 13.
The Lords doing a sterling job before they are enlarged to include loads more Tories
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/01/27/disability-cuts-house-of-lords_n_9090946.html
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Oh I love ‘a beautiful circlejerk of landlords’! That’s what you find in the other place - a circlejerk of right whingers!
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