Sunday 23 February 2020

Several Thoughts


  1. Why don't estate agents put the price of houses on for sale signs? Is it perhaps something to do with roadside trading laws? It would be so much easier for prospective buyers to say straight away; "It's not worth what they're asking," and save a lot of time.
  2. All these cockerpoos, labradoodles, etc that you see - is it an attempt to make mongrels trendy, or to hide the fact that Sheba got out and was serviced by the neighbour's poodle? 
  3. If Priti Wossername is stopping unskilled workers coming to the UK and intends to train British workers to take on the vacant, unskilled jobs, what exactly is it about the training that keeps the job unskilled? Surely, if training is required it's not unskilled. Does she perhaps mean training in waking up in the morning.
  4. I keep seeing comments on social media, regarding French demands in the Brexit negotiations, which say; "Have they forgotten 1944?" I do believe, with the rise in racism since the referendum, that a lot of people have forgotten about the 2.5 million Muslims who fought for Britain in WWI and the 1.3m Africans in WWII.
  5. I can understand, just, why some people are demanding foreign judges should not be allowed to interfere in British laws, but why on earth are they demanding British judges shouldn't be able to make judgements based on British laws either? The judiciary's job is to interpret and apply the laws the legislature makes; it's not the role of the legislature to control the judiciary. That way lies  the totalitarian state.
  6. If Suella Braverman doesn't like the rule of law and wants to take on the judiciary, why is she Attorney General? She's there to advise the government on the legality of its actions. The courts, and judicial reviews (which she and the more right-wing Tories seem to have issues with), are there to protect us from an overbearing state.
  7. Finally, does Boris Johnson have a single redeeming attribute or virtue?


Answers on a postcard.


1 comment:

Roger said...

With regard to point 3:
I live in Lincolnshire and, frankly, is the summer workers are not allowed in to pick the crops then they will rot in the fields because no one who lives here wants to do it. I guess that in my day it would have been classed as semi-skilled labour as there is definitely a skill to picking and the workvrste has to be high to make it worthwhile to the farmer.