Not the Hattie Jacques I remember.

She was the almoner who collared Tony Hancock and Sid James who thought there stay in hospital was free.

Had forgotten to buy their national insurance stamps.

This is the big problem in this country

The fact people get angry not about the fact the 6th richest country in world has millions in poverty and people resort to food banks but instead prefer to demonise those at the bottom who are victims of the inequality and wealth gap because they are easy targets or buy into tabloid stereotyping. Same with brexit and immigrants, get the mob to blame each other then you continue mugging them off. And that's where we are today. At least the French are not fooled by this, maybe one day Brits will realise the same

Paua oouaarancì Irà chiyeah Ishé galé ma ba oo ah

That is a typically unreasonable question from the hard Brexit lobby. If Remain had won then nothing would have changed. There would be continuing moans from the anti EU types but as we have had decades of experience of membership there was nothing revolutionary to learn. What the last 2 years have taught us is that not only was the Leave campaign build on a web of lies but that the full consequences of coming out were not even partly understood. That's why there is a clamour for a new vote. The first vote wasn't clear-cut at all, it was very close, so when the impact of the Russian interference is factored in it becomes questionable that Leave really won and is a strong case on it's own merits for scrapping the result and rerunning it. Even if that argument is not enough for you, then any new referendum would not be a straightforward repeat of the first, as an attempt to reverse a decision by people unhappy with it. It would be an entirely new question which would ask the people to express their view on how they feel NOW, when they know so much more about the real consequences. Politics is never set in stone and we should always be prepared to react to events. What is lacking is the leadership to achieve this. In my personal view no referendum is needed. We elect MPs to represent us and take decisions on our behalf. If it is their collective opinion that, in view of everything we now know, that it would be in the UK's interest to remain in the EU, then they should simply decide to do so. I would rather have the MPs decide than throw my future to the winds of chance, blown by FB, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Bannon and Russian trolls. That's what our democracy truly demands. Referendums, press barons and social media have no role in it.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

ffs

COYP

Even after 12 years of freedom of movement there are approximately 10,000 unfilled nursing positions in the NHS. So why haven't British workers seen the opportunity and trained to become nurses? Clearly it isn't because immigrants have taken all the jobs on the cheap.

There's also a 20% shortfall in staff in the hospitality industry. Chefs wake up after a night on the piss and don't show up to work, they can walk into another job right away. I only had a British person apply for a chef's job once. Without letting me know he failed to show up for an interview. He then called me up the next day to ask for another appointment.

Why isn't there a queue round the block of young British people wanting to work in the restaurant, hotel trade? There are plenty of vacancies.

Edited by steve1984 (20 Dec 2018 5.52pm)

I answered that in part earlier on. Part of the problem is that the Royal College of Nursing wanted to increase the status of nursing so kept pushing up the entrance qualifications so that many of those with an aptitude for nursing were ruled out