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Archie said:
It's pretty gleeful here. As for libeling - really? Jimmy can defend himself. But when people have a blanket opposition to 'DEI' it's legitimate to point out what the implications of that could be.
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Putin could be so enraged when he hears of its repeal that he presses the button and smokes us all. I mean that’s a ‘possible’ implication. Just another unlikely one.
 
Bossie said:
Unskilled workers are needed in a booming US economy. The government must regulate to protect them from being exploited. Stopping migrant workers will undercut the lifestyles of US citizens, given the jobs they do and the huge positive financial contribution they make to the US economy.
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It will undercut the lifestyles of the affluent who get further away from the rest each year due to the earning power of the poor and everyone else being undercut by migration and offshoring.
Bossie said:
Migrant workers are a gift, not a burden.
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can you quantify this? America is not Europe and will not have the same problems, but in economic terms, the data is starting to come out. It’s not at all good for European economies, and state coffers, as well as the effect on labour.
Bossie said:
Workplace diversity needs to be looked at more broadly and not as described by the Daily Mail. Again, employers are not getting the employees they need. Diversity policies look at the wider employee pool and think about how they can make it more welcoming to that pool. For example, working mums cannot efficiently work after three if they need to pick up the brats from school, so you allow flexible working, shared jobs, minimise important activities after 3 etc. As you build a diverse workforce, a more diverse management team will emerge, and the behaviours of previously entitled groups will need to change.
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Sorry but this is not exactly earth shattering and a different topic entirely.
Bossie said:
These developments will open up opportunities for your daughters and grand-daughters and will see job opportunities open up to lower-income families. So it's all good, right?
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What are you talking about, really ?

This is like a screed from some US libertarian think tank. Of the hundreds of people made redundant thanks to globalism, I know personally, I’d guess about 40% were women. Most that I know of never found comparable replacement jobs as they just aren’t there. More and more people are working multiple jobs just to make ends meet with labour rates depressed by design by the tories, via migration, and with labour not looking like they intend to change things up. The outlook has never been worse post ww2 for daughters and grand daughters, and sons and grandsons.

maybe this is satire, in which case applause, you got me. I hope it is.
 
Dont agree with being snidey to work colleagues.

Just as those reporting on what folk said on twatter were grassed up because they use hurty words.

Never ending circle of grassing.
 
Never mind. In dear old Blighty we are on the way to suppressing free speech in pubs. Which is normal af right enough.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
Dont agree with being snidey to work colleagues.

Just as those reporting on what folk said on twatter were grassed up because they use hurty words.

Never ending circle of grassing.
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Not too bothered about grassing Jimmy, depending on the grass subject.
Could do with more grassing.
 
Doc Shrink said:
Not too bothered about grassing Jimmy, depending on the grass subject.
Could do with more grassing.
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Correct @Doc. I have always shaken my head at 'I'm not a grass' 'I don't like grasses', as some faux hardman talk, while knowing damn well there are circumstances so bad or potentionally so, not grassing up would be an utter dereliction of duty.


BIG G
 
GORDONSMITH7 said:
Correct @Doc. I have always shaken my head at 'I'm not a grass' 'I don't like grasses', as some faux hardman talk, while knowing damn well there are circumstances so bad or potentionally so, not grassing up would be an utter dereliction of duty.


BIG G
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I think you are bang on here. But that’s different than creating a snitching culture over compliance with diktats whether woke or anti woke.
 
The point I was making was workplace grasses. Someone working casual earning a wee bit cash and someonelse sticking them in.

Do any yous mind the father and son called Birrel (spl) they set fire to a hoose in Granton killing a woman and her grandbairns?

They walked into the Fernie boozer weeks later and told folk in the pub what they had done.

And were promptly arrested when the bizzies were phoned. (Stu and Billy will know the geezer who phoned the polis. He was from a local crime family).

So yes there are times when crimes most heinous need addressed.

Informing on someone for workplace issues is terrible. In MY opinion.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
The point I was making was workplace grasses. Someone working casual earning a wee bit cash and someonelse sticking them in.

Do any yous mind the father and son called Birrel (spl) they set fire to a hoose in Granton killing a woman and her grandbairns?

They walked into the Fernie boozer weeks later and told folk in the pub what they had done.

And were promptly arrested when the bizzies were phoned. (Stu and Billy will know the geezer who phoned the polis. He was from a local crime family).

So yes there are times when crimes most heinous need addressed.

Informing on someone for workplace issues is terrible. In MY opinion.
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What about a scaffolder having a few bevvys at 6 a.m. before going onto site? There is almost a duty to stop guys like these getting into the workplace when lives are at stake.
 
Which is why there are charge hands and site agents mate.

How would you know if someone has had a couple of pints?

Because if they told you then the chargehand will also know.

Yes there is a culture of silence in the building trade.

If you stick someone in the chances are you would be ostracised in whatever trade you were in and others wouldn't want to work with you.

But the chances are if someone is in the boozer at 6 bells they won't be showing up on site.
 
And can I also say and I've done it myself and been that person you usually find that your mates cover for you.

Put you on ground work and not anything to do with working at height.

A work squad only functions if everyone does their part. And it soon falls apart if someone keeps fuckin up.
 
Smurf said:
Never mind we have publicly funded Pride Bridges.... Seriously!!

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com

Leith's Pride Bridge to be centrepiece of new public open space

Leith’s Pride Bridge is set to become the centrepiece of a new public open space for the community after Edinburgh City Council backed plans to regenerate it.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com
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To be fair the bridge has been there for more than 100 years. It was closed to traffic yonks ago but was still a handy pedestrian route for locals to use.

A few years ago the pub across the way from it, the Dreadnought, was accused of being anti LBGTetc. The bridge was then 'adopted' by the pub customers, I think including those from the LGBTetc community, and given a rainbow makeover.

Not long after the bridge was closed completely due to safety concerns.

The area below the bridge has had a half hearted attempt made at making it a community space over the years. It's at the end of a well used walkway/cycle path.

This project looks like many other upgrades to disused public spaces around Leith.

The Pride bit is, I think, coincidental to the project as a whole but I can understand why an unpopular councillor might want to ingratiate himself with that community.
 
Jack said:
To be fair the bridge has been there for more than 100 years. It was closed to traffic yonks ago but was still a handy pedestrian route for locals to use.

A few years ago the pub across the way from it, the Dreadnought, was accused of being anti LBGTetc. The bridge was then 'adopted' by the pub customers, I think including those from the LGBTetc community, and given a rainbow makeover.

Not long after the bridge was closed completely due to safety concerns.

The area below the bridge has had a half hearted attempt made at making it a community space over the years. It's at the end of a well used walkway/cycle path.

This project looks like many other upgrades to disused public spaces around Leith.

The Pride bit is, I think, coincidental to the project as a whole but I can understand why an unpopular councillor might want to ingratiate himself with that community.
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It seems to be a drama-free development.
 
Bossie said:
Unskilled workers are needed in a booming US economy.
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To some extent this is true. However, what we see happening at the Southern border is utterly overwhelming. It is estimated that that between eight and ten million people have crossed into the USA in the last four years. Most of them are essentially "undocumented". That is a lot of people in a relatively short period of time.

Bossie said:
The government must regulate to protect them from being exploited.
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The government must also protect its citizens from those that would do us harm. (see Laken Riley as a tragic example).

Bossie said:
Stopping migrant workers will undercut the lifestyles of US citizens, given the jobs they do and the huge positive financial contribution they make to the US economy. Migrant workers are a gift, not a burden.
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If they are indeed workers but this amount of people (eight to ten million) is still a burden and causes problems with services. New York, a self proclaimed sanctuary city was overwhelmed and the cost was north of $5billion. Chicago had similar problems. And I would also question this "huge financial contribution" being made by this influx of people.
 
In 2021 the R&A got political and let it be known the Open Championship will not be held at Turnberry as long as Trump owns it. This was ridiculous and harmful to Scotland's wider economic interests. John Swinney or Keir Starmer should be politically cute enough to publicly demand thr R&A drop this political stance. And in doing so hopefully get the UK/Scotland in Trump's good books to avoid any tariffs on UK/Scottish exports....
 
Smurf said:
In 2021 the R&A got political and let it be known the Open Championship will not be held at Turnberry as long as Trump owns it. This was ridiculous and harmful to Scotland's wider economic interests. John Swinney or Keir Starmer should be politically cute enough to publicly demand thr R&A drop this political stance. And in doing so hopefully get the UK/Scotland in Trump's good books to avoid any tariffs on UK/Scottish exports....
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Tbf the American billionaires who pepper Scotland’s great courses each summer are probably beelin’ their guys lost

R&A may just be looking after the punters and their dollars
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
The point I was making was workplace grasses. Someone working casual earning a wee bit cash and someonelse sticking them in.

Do any yous mind the father and son called Birrel (spl) they set fire to a hoose in Granton killing a woman and her grandbairns?

They walked into the Fernie boozer weeks later and told folk in the pub what they had done.

And were promptly arrested when the bizzies were phoned. (Stu and Billy will know the geezer who phoned the polis. He was from a local crime family).

So yes there are times when crimes most heinous need addressed.

Informing on someone for workplace issues is terrible. In MY opinion.
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I can hazard a pretty good guess and agree there are cases when grassing is not only right but essential….
 
The R & A are taking a principled stance as is their right. Politicians poking their noses in would be silly. There are other things to be getting on with.
 
emerald green said:
The R & A are taking a principled stance as is their right. Politicians poking their noses in would be silly. There are other things to be getting on with.
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Would you feel the same if politicians you are more fond of but others are not, were excluded from places?
 
emerald green said:
Its ok for them to make a principled stance. They are private are they not. Does it offend you they dont agree with the fat orange rapist? Whats the problem?
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I think it's dangerous ground excluding people based on political or ideological partisanship.
 
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