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The Big Strike
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Multinationals don't set up in France if they can avoid it, in part because the labour laws make it so expensive and difficult to employ staff there. If I had to pick a European nation to model the UK on, it wouldn't be that one.
They're a sharp bunch the French. If you didn't invest there they'd as good as boycott your goods without officially doing it. They drive cars their fellow-citizens build and eat food their fellow-citizens grow.
There's also a chance your goods would be held up in warehouses at the border while they sorted out every last detail of the paperwork necessary to get the stuff across the border and into the shops.I'd heard of Jimmy Reid but didn't know anything about him. Interesting bloke.
His speeches were works of art.
His feud with Kenneth Williams is a hoot, and worth reading up on.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
I'd heard of Jimmy Reid but didn't know anything about him. Interesting bloke.
Jimmy was a communist who never apologised for the millions and millions that died due to his megalomaniac heroes as the felt the 'result ' was worth the suffering (obviously of people other than himself) : 'end justifies the means'
Naturally he became a SNP supporter so would support the lies, mistruths and threats to achieve the aim of separation of the Scots from the English.
somewhat odd for a self proclaimed internationalist but happy to sacrifice the principle for the comforts of natural racist.
a bit like zagubov, loves Scotland but doesn't actually want to live there with his family:
well why would you want to live in a place where the government threatens to expel 150,000 people0 -
I love England and have dependents here who I support, so we're not all free to move around on a whim. Although I've no doubt you'll manage to squeeze some weird racist angle out of this, that, as Tromking pointed out, only you can see.a bit like zagubov, loves Scotland but doesn't actually want to live there with his family:There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
They're a sharp bunch the French. If you didn't invest there they'd as good as boycott your goods without officially doing it. They drive cars their fellow-citizens build and eat food their fellow-citizens grow.
They can't be that sharp, it means they all end up driving Peugeots and Renaults instead of proper reliable cars.0 -
They're a sharp bunch the French. If you didn't invest there they'd as good as boycott your goods without officially doing it. They drive cars their fellow-citizens build and eat food their fellow-citizens grow.....
And yet French umeployment is 10% and their economy is in danger of slipping back into recession. So clearly not that sharp....There's also a chance your goods would be held up in warehouses at the border while they sorted out every last detail of the paperwork necessary to get the stuff across the border and into the shops......
Unless of course your goods come from another EEA member, in which case you just drive across the border without a care in the world.0 -
....a bit like zagubov, loves Scotland but doesn't actually want to live there with his family:
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I don't think Jimmy Reid lives anywhere at the moment. I think he's dead. And even when he was alive, I think he spent almost all of his time in Scotland. So I don't really understand that remark.0 -
I don't think Jimmy Reid lives anywhere at the moment. I think he's dead. And even when he was alive, I think he spent almost all of his time in Scotland. So I don't really understand that remark.
Yes Jimmy dies in 2010 and lived in Scotland and admired the socialism of the SNP.
the remark, however, was referring to Zagubov and indeed could have been better phrased0 -
Is this yet another Scotland thread now or can we get back onto the original topic.
There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Gove's taken a long walk on a short pier! RESULT!:beer::T
I doubt this strike had much to do with it, but if they had any sense the strikers should claim it had!
Here's film of his reaction.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0
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