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 Stirlingsays  05 Dec 23 7.07pm |
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One of neoliberalism's many and expanding victims. [Tweet Link]
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 05 Dec 23 9.09pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Why would we? No one is suggesting it. All we ever get from your kind is some old guff about the NHS collapsing. Maybe in Cornwall It's still idyllic for now, but I doubt that all those little stabby scumbags hanging around outside KFC or the whole town's worth of unemployed Muslims have ever or will ever work for a public service. Do you have even the remotest idea of just how dependent the NHS is on overseas staff? In my wife’s clinic today all 5 of the consultants were recruited from overseas. The rest of your comment is beyond despicable.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 05 Dec 23 9.21pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
Tolerance and kindness which hasn't reached Cornwall. Not so welcoming there. Completely untrue. People are made very welcome here. Including both those who relocate here and those who visit, provided they don’t abuse the hospitality. What is objected to is those who buy second homes and only occupy them for a week or two a year, especially those in the coastal towns where youngsters cannot now afford anything and the places are ghost towns in the winter. It’s not unique to Cornwall and it’s a real problem which must be sorted. When we have a housing crisis leaving homes empty as an investment cannot be in our collective best interests.
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Teddy Eagle  05 Dec 23 10.36pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
Completely untrue. People are made very welcome here. Including both those who relocate here and those who visit, provided they don’t abuse the hospitality. What is objected to is those who buy second homes and only occupy them for a week or two a year, especially those in the coastal towns where youngsters cannot now afford anything and the places are ghost towns in the winter. It’s not unique to Cornwall and it’s a real problem which must be sorted. When we have a housing crisis leaving homes empty as an investment cannot be in our collective best interests. It's alright for Cornish people to protest but not anyone else. Got it. That's because they're all lovely with no trace of the racism which I've seen first hand.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 05 Dec 23 11.07pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
It's alright for Cornish people to protest but not anyone else. Got it. That's because they're all lovely with no trace of the racism which I've seen first hand. It’s alright for anyone to protest something that is manifestly unreasonable and serves no one but the selfish. If people bought and then rent out, as I do, then they are at least providing a service but keeping them deliberately empty is not. It’s a waste of very precious resources. Racism exists everywhere because stupid people can be found everywhere. You were either just unlucky to encounter it or were behaving in a way that wound someone up. The folk here can be pretty cutting with those who behave discourteously, but underneath most have hearts of gold.
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| Teddy Eagle 05 Dec 23 11.19pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
It’s alright for anyone to protest something that is manifestly unreasonable and serves no one but the selfish. If people bought and then rent out, as I do, then they are at least providing a service but keeping them deliberately empty is not. It’s a waste of very precious resources. Racism exists everywhere because stupid people can be found everywhere. You were either just unlucky to encounter it or were behaving in a way that wound someone up. The folk here can be pretty cutting with those who behave discourteously, but underneath most have hearts of gold. If pretty cutting includes telling my friend to go back to where he came from twice while we were waiting to get into a car park and ignoring him when waiting at the bar in three pubs then yes, they are pretty cutting. Extreme right wing behaviour in my book but apparently evidence of hearts of gold.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 05 Dec 23 11.56pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
If pretty cutting includes telling my friend to go back to where he came from twice while we were waiting to get into a car park and ignoring him when waiting at the bar in three pubs then yes, they are pretty cutting. Extreme right wing behaviour in my book but apparently evidence of hearts of gold. You were unlucky. Such people exist everywhere. Even in my local pub. Here they tend though to be incomers rather than the genuine Cornish. It also depends on how you behave. I would have to have witnessed the entire set of incidents to understand what contributed to the outcome. It has never happened to me and I have lived here for over 10 years. Edited by Wisbech Eagle (05 Dec 2023 11.59pm)
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| Teddy Eagle 06 Dec 23 3.06am |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
You were unlucky. Such people exist everywhere. Even in my local pub. Here they tend though to be incomers rather than the genuine Cornish. It also depends on how you behave. I would have to have witnessed the entire set of incidents to understand what contributed to the outcome. It has never happened to me and I have lived here for over 10 years. Edited by Wisbech Eagle (05 Dec 2023 11.59pm) If sitting in a car in a line of others waiting to turn into a car park is just cause for racist abuse then we, or I should say he because it wasn't aimed at me, deserved to get insulted. Similarly if standing at a bar waiting to get served is a provocative act in Cornwall the barmen were right to ignore him.
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 Hrolf The Ganger 06 Dec 23 8.11am |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
Do you have even the remotest idea of just how dependent the NHS is on overseas staff? In my wife’s clinic today all 5 of the consultants were recruited from overseas. The rest of your comment is beyond despicable. I am well aware, and there is no time like the present to redress that. It's quite disturbing how you can close your eyes to the realities of Britain in 2023. What is despicable is how people like you justify what has happened to this country.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 06 Dec 23 8.27am |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
If sitting in a car in a line of others waiting to turn into a car park is just cause for racist abuse then we, or I should say he because it wasn't aimed at me, deserved to get insulted. Similarly if standing at a bar waiting to get served is a provocative act in Cornwall the barmen were right to ignore him. The last line is certainly true. As I said there are unfortunately racists everywhere. If your friend walked into our local pub he would quite possibly get that treatment from one of the regulars, who is himself frozen out by many of us. What happened to your friend could happen anywhere. Why the bar staff ignored him is another matter. It has happened to me sometimes when in a new place which is full of regulars but isn’t usual here.
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HKOwen  Hong Kong 06 Dec 23 8.27am |
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Originally posted by HKOwen
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 06 Dec 23 8.43am |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
I am well aware, and there is no time like the present to redress that. It's quite disturbing how you can close your eyes to the realities of Britain in 2023. What is despicable is how people like you justify what has happened to this country. What you want to happen would not “redress” anything! It would make things much worse. That is you closing your eyes to the realities in Britain in 2023! I am not either trying to justify anything at all. I am describing what is, not what might have been and being practical and honest about what can be done and not spouting the impractical solutions of an angry man. I heard a piece on Radio 4 this morning from those in the care industry about the likely impact on them of the new restrictions on overseas carers bringing family with them. Most of those interviewed have brought their spouses over, after a few months here to get sorted out, and they too are working as carers. The result has been that care homes are now better staffed which in turn has unblocked hospital beds. The industry representatives are very concerned this will now stop and put consequential pressure on the NHS. This then is a political comfort blanket thrown to people like you which may in time mean you will not get a hospital bed when you need one.
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