I have promised to do whatever it takes to help Nigel Farage’s Ukip emerge the winner

[craig1]

Indeed, but it is everyone's inalienable right to blame Maggiefatcha for the mess that British managers and trade union leaders had made of British industry before she came to power, innit. It woz Maggiefatcha wot stuffed an oily rag in the gearbox of my dad's Rovah before it fell off the production line, it woz Maggiefatcha wot called a strike at Longbridge while the conveyors were still running and it woz Maggiefatcha wot left unpainted car bodies out in the rain for the whole weekend and then covered the rust with vinyl.

I blame Maggie... she stole my milk.

[Mich the Tester]

I blame Maggie... she stole my milk.

I think she copied that idea from Harold Wilson.

[KentPhilip]

It's not going backwards, is it, since the hand wash is more expensive and far better for your paintwork than a machine? Plus you have your interior cleaned.
It's just an additional service.

FFS, we do gather morons on this forum.

Well presumably when machine car washes were brought in people thought that was progress. So surely it follows that if we are going back to hand washing that is backward progression?
Yes, we're all morons here, and you're our head moron <bows head in honour>

20 years ago people were still saying about how machines and computers were taking away jobs from working men. You don't hear that much these days.

All these hand car washes have sprung up where there was nothing before, so clearly they're not taking anyone else's jobs. What's a sad indictment on society is that it's taken immigrants to see the oppurtunity; British workers could have been filling that gap in the market for decades.

They are taking the jobs of those who manufactured and serviced the machines.
I think it is not such a sad indictment to see the immigrants take the opportunity. Rather it is a sad indictment that we cannot make those machines as cheaply any more (because we don't have enough technically skilled workers), so that it becomes cheaper to use the immigrants to do it by hand.

[craig1]

I think she copied that idea from Harold Wilson.

Nope, was her. I remember her coming around to my primary school and taking it out of my hand followed by a backhander across the face for daring to take something from the state for free. I also remember tales from the local miners about how she'd sneak into the pits at night and steal all the coal so that the mines became uneconomical and had to be shut down. She then had a secret evening routine of whispering Emperor Mong style thoughts into Arthur Scargill's and Michael Foot's ears while they were asleep. People wonder why she only needed 4 hours of sleep a night... that's why, split between milk snatching, coal stealing and corrupting the thoughts of the great leaders of the left.

Eee, she were a right terror were that Thatcher woman.

[darmstadt]

Well the car washes I go to are reasonably good. You start off with 3 or 4 guys who work by hand getting the crap off and then it goes into a machine so thus you have the best of both worlds.

[Mich the Tester]

Rather it is a sad indictment that we cannot make those machines as cheaply any more (because we don't have enough technically skilled workers), so that it becomes cheaper to use the immigrants to do it by hand.

I think most of them are made in Deutschland, where workers aren't very cheap.

[Mich the Tester]

Nope, was her. I remember her coming around to my primary school and taking it out of my hand followed by a backhander across the face for daring to take something from the state for free. I also remember tales from the local miners about how she'd sneak into the pits at night and steal all the coal so that the mines became uneconomical and had to be shut down. She then had a secret evening routine of whispering Emperor Mong style thoughts into Arthur Scargill's and Michael Foot's ears while they were asleep. People wonder why she only needed 4 hours of sleep a night... that's why, split between milk snatching, coal stealing and corrupting the thoughts of the great leaders of the left.

Eee, she were a right terror were that Thatcher woman.

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[Ticktock]

Well the car washes I go to are reasonably good. You start off with 3 or 4 guys who work by hand getting the crap off and then it goes into a machine so thus you have the best of both worlds.

That's a shame. Surely if you're going to have your car washed by hand it should be by a bevvy of bikini clad young ladies, pressing against the glass as they lean over, getting all wet and soapy...

Excuse me while I go for a lie down. And then to find a car wash.

[northernladyuk]

That's a shame. Surely if you're going to have your car washed by hand it should be by a bevvy of bikini clad young ladies, pressing against the glass as they lean over, getting all wet and soapy...

Excuse me while I go for a lie down. And then to find a car wash.

At least the old man is demonstrating that the indigenous worker can give those immigrants a run for their money.

[sasguru]

They are taking the jobs of those who manufactured and serviced the machines.
I think it is not such a sad indictment to see the immigrants take the opportunity. Rather it is a sad indictment that we cannot make those machines as cheaply any more (because we don't have enough technically skilled workers), so that it becomes cheaper to use the immigrants to do it by hand.

So many assumptions, most of them wrong:

1) the machines were made in the UK
2) there are not enough technically skilled workers to make them and that's why immigrants do it by hand.

FFS

Look let's not make any bones about this - you're complete and utter plankton intellectually.