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Previously on "It seems the chance of losing the election has focussed their mind"

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

    How do you stop the youth mucking them up, stealing them or destroying them?
    watch this space but Robocop delivery services are due.

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post

    You'd still be a twat.

    Just a guess.
    and you'd still be a puffed up blowhard.

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    Well as he is dead its unlikely, but you managed being dead from the neck up for years and are still annoying it is possible!
    oooeeer! Bunter's cwoss!

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    Well its pretty likely they will go with Drone/Robots. Its cheap compared to employing people.
    How do you stop the youth mucking them up, stealing them or destroying them?

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by sadkingbilly View Post

    if Pol Pot lived in sluff
    Well as he is dead its unlikely, but you managed being dead from the neck up for years and are still annoying it is possible!

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

    Drone or robot deliveries?

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    Well its pretty likely they will go with Drone/Robots. Its cheap compared to employing people.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    Totally agree, with BT sacking loads of staff and replacing them with AI then automation & AI has started we need to plan for the future as a country.

    Retrain & restrict lower skilled population growth. No more idiots on scooters delivering burgers!
    Drone or robot deliveries?

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by sadkingbilly View Post

    if Pol Pot lived in sluff
    You'd still be a twat.

    Just a guess.

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    Totally agree, with BT sacking loads of staff and replacing them with AI then automation & AI has started we need to plan for the future as a country.

    Retrain & restrict lower skilled population growth. No more idiots on scooters delivering burgers!
    if Pol Pot lived in sluff

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by cojak View Post

    But that requires investment. Not something the UK is very good at.
    Totally agree, with BT sacking loads of staff and replacing them with AI then automation & AI has started we need to plan for the future as a country.

    Retrain & restrict lower skilled population growth. No more idiots on scooters delivering burgers!

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  • cojak
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    have to agree with Ziggy abuse of illegals or disadvantaged will happen especially if they are plentiful. The first thing the left say when there is a shortage because conditions are crap is lets up immigration.

    Mechanise much of the farm work not fill caravans with cheap foreign labour paying rent to the farmer.
    But that requires investment. Not something the UK is very good at.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post

    So maybe the labour abuse will decrease and the horrible pay will increase.

    The downtrodden will always be abused, I don't see any signs of a socialist nirvahna on the horizon.
    have to agree with Ziggy abuse of illegals or disadvantaged will happen especially if they are plentiful. The first thing the left say when there is a shortage because conditions are crap is lets up immigration.

    Mechanise much of the farm work not fill caravans with cheap foreign labour paying rent to the farmer.

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by cojak View Post
    It’s a mirror image of Florida, DeSantis has put in draconian immigration laws and now the immigrants have buggered off, leaving Floridians without orange-pickers, gardeners, pool-cleaners and nannies. The horror!

    (Of course no American wants to do these jobs because of labour abuse and horrible pay.)
    So maybe the labour abuse will decrease and the horrible pay will increase.

    The downtrodden will always be abused, I don't see any signs of a socialist nirvahna on the horizon.

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  • cojak
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    It’s a mirror image of Florida, DeSantis has put in draconian immigration laws and now the immigrants have buggered off, leaving Floridians without orange-pickers, gardeners, pool-cleaners and nannies. The horror!

    (Of course no American wants to do these jobs because of labour abuse and horrible pay.)

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    Net migration was 500,000 last year and looks like it could be a million this year.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...on-Home-Office

    Looks like Rishi will be promising to push it down substantially to just below 800,000.
    we need people to work illegally and pay for future pensions - oh wait...

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