'British Jobs for British People'

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janiep said:
Its very dull, too late to explain its full tedium, maybe another time!
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Well I hope the next James Bond is a woman, might have to be trans with a name like that though :D
 
Hugh Gains said:
Rachel Johnson stated that Conservative Party rhetoric was inherently racist and akin to BNP sentiment for suggesting we put 'British People First'. She then put the the following analogy to Nick Ferrari, 'You want work done in your home and you have two quotes, one for £4k, the other £1.5k. The former is a British guy, the latter a Pole, who do you employ?'

She suggested that she'd employ the Pole 10/10, whereas other members of the panel rightly said you wouldn't make a judgement solely on price without first doing further research into past work or what have you.

Essentially the notion was why give a doctor from India a job in the NHS when theres junior doctors here who can't get work. AN example NHS based being used as political dynamite.
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4k v 1.5k will be massively exaggerated.
more like 2k v 1.5k. If you knew the brit and had done work previously you would go with him. People pay more at local shop or farmer than amazon or supermarket all the time. Id happily pay more for double maxim than john smiths for example. Its more about supporting local jobs and people rather than brits v foreign
 
Le Chuck said:
4k v 1.5k will be massively exaggerated.
more like 2k v 1.5k. If you knew the brit and had done work previously you would go with him. People pay more at local shop or farmer than amazon or supermarket all the time. Id happily pay more for double maxim than john smiths for example. Its more about supporting local jobs and people rather than brits v foreign
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Can you give an example of when you've put this into practice and paid more for something because it was British made/ done by a Briton rather than a foreigner?
 
I've found that the most successful route to getting work done well is to choose the worker based on quality first, price second. Ideally, I want an excellent job done at a fair price.

That is why the joiner I get in, charges £300 a day - his work is excellent, he is punctual and tidy. The previous joiners varied between 150 and 270 and were nowhere near the quality. He is British.

Conversely, the painter charges 110 a day and is by far the cheapest quote we had, but this is the guy who removes doors to paint them, removes the handles as well, and brassos them before he puts them back. He also turns up on time and does a full shift. He happens to be polish.
 
janiep said:
Can you give an example of when you've put this into practice and paid more for something because it was British made/ done by a Briton rather than a foreigner?
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Think you need to re read my post.
i said i supported local v non local rather than foreign v british.
and i did give an example of supporting local breweries.

When i go on holiday i prefer to support local economy by eating and drinking out than go all inc for example
 
Hugh Gains said:
Rachel Johnson stated that Conservative Party rhetoric was inherently racist and akin to BNP sentiment for suggesting we put 'British People First'. She then put the the following analogy to Nick Ferrari, 'You want work done in your home and you have two quotes, one for £4k, the other £1.5k. The former is a British guy, the latter a Pole, who do you employ?'

She suggested that she'd employ the Pole 10/10, whereas other members of the panel rightly said you wouldn't make a judgement solely on price without first doing further research into past work or what have you.

Essentially the notion was why give a doctor from India a job in the NHS when theres junior doctors here who can't get work. AN example NHS based being used as political dynamite.
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Which British junior doctors can't get work? There are none
 
janiep said:
In my case it's a specialist area of law where Britain leads the world (50% of the decent lawyers who do it are British), where we sell our services abroad, particularly to Europe :D
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Are you working in the "liable tourism" (I think that's what Private Eye calls it) trade, like?
 
Le Chuck said:
Think you need to re read my post.
i said i supported local v non local rather than foreign v british.
and i did give an example of supporting local breweries.

When i go on holiday i prefer to support local economy by eating and drinking out than go all inc for example
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OK thanks. Apart from beer, can you give any other examples of where you've paid more, in this country not on holiday, in order to support local?
 
janiep said:
OK thanks. Apart from beer, can you give any other examples of where you've paid more, in this country not on holiday, in order to support local?
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Doesnt have to cost more.
i buy fruit veg and meat from local markets and butchers rather than supermarkets. There used to be farmers markets in sunderland which werent cheap but would always buy something
 
Hugh Gains said:
Rachel Johnson stated that Conservative Party rhetoric was inherently racist and akin to BNP sentiment for suggesting we put 'British People First'. She then put the the following analogy to Nick Ferrari, 'You want work done in your home and you have two quotes, one for £4k, the other £1.5k. The former is a British guy, the latter a Pole, who do you employ?'

She suggested that she'd employ the Pole 10/10, whereas other members of the panel rightly said you wouldn't make a judgement solely on price without first doing further research into past work or what have you.

Essentially the notion was why give a doctor from India a job in the NHS when theres junior doctors here who can't get work. AN example NHS based being used as political dynamite.
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Junior doctors can quite easily get work. We're not training enough of them and many of them are quitting after a few years.
 
hypersonic said:
cheers.

how dare they demand social justice.
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Its not used as someone asking for social justice anymore though. Its predominately a term used by the right to give them firstly the ability of to draw a loop around everyone who is against the status quo - those who think university education should be open to all are thrown in with some girl they found on youtube who thinks dreadlocks are "cultural appropriation". Basically it allows the more scatterbrained of the right to ridicule the left based on a few examples of moronic young kids (and the occasional moronic adult) acting like moronic kids. That combined with the the anti-intellectualism of the "populism" movement in general allows the right to paint themselves as victims. Its all been done before just the PR and campaign management guys these days are far better than the propagandists of yesteryear.

Its seldom mentioned that the left in general dislike the morons way more than the right do because they are stopping actual progress while they protest about people calling the "she", scientists wearing shirts with bikini clad women on or some guy who sat with his legs apart on a bus one time.
 
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