Bole Blasts Nimby Boomers with Brickbats

grizzly1911

ash28 wrote: »

Most of Vodafone's jobs (around 3000) are in their headquarters in Newbury though they did move about 200 jobs to London 2 or 3 years ago - I used to work just down the road from them.

I would imagine those already employed by Vodafone and living locally would travel into London by train - the new offices are in Paddington and you can get a train direct from Newbury - takes around 50 minutes. If they live in the Reading area the Paddington train takes 30 mins or so. They also run a fleet of buses one of which does headquarters to the station. Staff could travel into London for meetings etc with not a huge amount of hassle.

It was Vodafone's choice to relocate 200 jobs to London, they can't have done that without realising that it would impact any new employees.

I don't know why Vodafone don't rent some houses/flats themselves - I've worked for companies that do this - although not a permanent arrangement for the employee, it gives them the opportunity to look around the area and further afield while having somewhere to live for 6 months to a year.

I did wonder whether they were still in Newbury.

tesuhoha

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Yet again a thread on this board shows that the "Selfish Generation" had it all when they wanted. They enjoyed decades of an upwards economic curve, they enjoyed affordable housing, they enjoyed stable careers that didnt need a minimum of 5 years of further and higher education to enter.

Now they leave the country with a crippling legacy of debt, unfunded pension obligations, unlimited NHS bills, perilously insecure and limited housing options for the young, and graduates needing 10s of thousands of pounds of university debt to get a job filing if they are lucky.

This generation has been on the make, and on the take. And now the cookie jar has run out they have their hands all over Generation X and Ys biscuits.

For shame.

Regarding the title of this thread, perhaps you should cross out Nimby and insert Scapegoat.

If you don't like things the way they are you should get off your @rse and do something rather than blame people you know nothing about. But if you do become politically active, for goodness sake, try to find out what is really going on in the world.

tesuhoha

Do you want to know why there are limited housing options and no graduate jobs, no other jobs in fact. Its right here in the dear old Daily Mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2242841/A-million-migrants-East-Europe-live-Britain-Thats-1-5-population-EU-nations.html

John_Pierpoint

It is the only answer to:
Green House Emissions.
Infrastructure costs for a bankrupt government.
Journey to work times.
Crèche costs for working mothers.
Journey to airport times.
Availability of public transport.
Avoidance of the silly school run for fat kids unable to ride the bus or walk.
Exponential growth of the (immigrant) population.
You know it makes sense.

Some of the pressure could be taken off the Winnersh triangle by building a Boris replacement airport on an island reclaimed from the sea.

ruggedtoast

tesuhoha wrote: »

Do you want to know why there are limited housing options and no graduate jobs, no other jobs in fact. Its right here in the dear old Daily Mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2242841/A-million-migrants-East-Europe-live-Britain-Thats-1-5-population-EU-nations.html

Yes, the "dear old Daily Mail." Tabloid mouthpiece of the bigoted and the dumb. Famously supported Hitler in the 1940s.

Believe it or not racism isn't the answer to all the UKs problems, though if you read the Mail every day you might think that.

System

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Famously supported Hitler in the 1940s.

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I don't think so. We were at war then. A newspaper supporting the Germans in wartime would have been closed down pdq and its editor jailed.

I think you probably meant the 1930s. All newspapers tended to be pro-German then, apart from, famously, the Daily Telegraph.

A._Badger

Don't try to confuse Toastie with facts, please. It's unkind.

Least of all, let's not remind him of how many of his Guardianistas supported Mao and Stalin, both of whom could have showed Hitler a thing or two about mass murder.

the_flying_pig

on a smaller scale i absolutely remember reading a fair bit in 1980s DMs that seemed to disapprove of sanctions against apartheid-era south africa [e.g. sports teams not touring there]. though in fairness at least some of their writers seemed to hold a different view.

OffGridLiving

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Yet again a thread on this board shows that the "Selfish Generation" had it all when they wanted. They enjoyed decades of an upwards economic curve, they enjoyed affordable housing, they enjoyed stable careers that didnt need a minimum of 5 years of further and higher education to enter.

Now they leave the country with a crippling legacy of debt, unfunded pension obligations, unlimited NHS bills, perilously insecure and limited housing options for the young, and graduates needing 10s of thousands of pounds of university debt to get a job filing if they are lucky.

This generation has been on the make, and on the take. And now the cookie jar has run out they have their hands all over Generation X and Ys biscuits.

For shame.

I get the impression that you have a problem with 'Baby Boomers', rugged toast, am I correct?