Let Northerners pick fruit

[CheeseSlice]

The Conservative party today slapped down a senior Tory who said jobless Northerners should take fruit-picking work in the South.

Offensive?... Thats not offensive.

Harry and Paul do it better

[Doggy Styles]

Norman Tebbit put it better 25 years ago when he said "Get on your bike". That worked with me.

[Old Greg]

They could try sharing a bedroom with the rest of their eastern european fruit-picking contemporaries. Then they might realise how bleeding lucky they are to be living in a country which for years has demanded nothing in return for wads of free cash than that they watch Jeremy Kyle all day, and vote Labour at every election!!!

The state/ government does not give benefits out of kindness or to keep the poor on side electorally, but to stop them from revolting. As Quentin Hogg (Lord Hailsham) said, 'If we don't give them social reform, they will give us social revolution.'

So they are not lucky - it is just the price of retaining privilege.

[SupremeSpod]

The state/ government does not give benefits out of kindness or to keep the poor on side electorally, but to stop them from revolting. As Quentin Hogg (Lord Hailsham) said, 'If we don't give them social reform, they will give us social revolution.'

So they are not lucky - it is just the price of retaining privilege.

Bloody hell! That was a sensible post.

[gingerjedi]

Bloody hell! That was a sensible post.

Yes, I wonder if it holds true?

I guess we'll find out soon enough.

[shaunbhoy]

So they are not lucky - it is just the price of retaining privilege.

Not lucky eh?
Let's see them swap places with their counterparts in China or Russia and see just how "unlucky" that makes them feel.

[Old Greg]

Not lucky eh?
Let's see them swap places with their counterparts in China or Russia and see just how "unlucky" that makes them feel.

Everyone is lucky compared to someone. You are lucky compared to various people who've been dispossessed or worse in a revolution.

[shaunbhoy]

Everyone is lucky compared to someone. You are lucky compared to various people who've been dispossessed or worse in a revolution.

Of course I am. The difference being that I appreciate that fact, and when required, in order to maintain that luck, I will retrain, relocate, and work hard. What I will NOT do is sit on my @rse waiting for "luck" to land in my lap. Now perhaps if a few of our unemployed adopted similar policies, they would not be "unlucky" enough to require "lucky" people like me to hand over benefits to them out of my hard-earned (but doubtless highly fortuitous) wage packets.
It might also deprive the handwringers of another cause to champion, now that really WOULD be unlucky!!

[Old Greg]

Of course I am. The difference being that I appreciate that fact, and when required, in order to maintain that luck, I will retrain, relocate, and work hard. What I will NOT do is sit on my @rse waiting for "luck" to land in my lap. Now perhaps if a few of our unemployed adopted similar policies, they would not be "unlucky" enough to require "lucky" people like me to hand over benefits to them out of my hard-earned (but doubtless highly fortuitous) wage packets.
It might also deprive the handwringers of another cause to champion, now that really WOULD be unlucky!!

No, no, no. They don't require you to hand over benefits. You hand over benefits for your own benefit, because otherwise they will rise up and dispossess / execute you. Your alternative is to create a police state, but by setting up that conflict you might lose.

You can either bribe them or threaten them. Stop blaming other people for your own actions in creating this situation.

[DodgyAgent]

Just goes to show they don't understand the problem at all, (assuming there are jobs to be had) how are people going to afford the £90 train fare or the £100 per night accommodation costs when they're on NMW?

They can do what the Poles and other eastern europeans do - get a bus or walk.