The world the right would like us to live in

crabcakes_windermere · **Joined:** Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:56 pm **Posts:** 2079

The last line from this article sums it up:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9588772. ... thy_card_/

That manager is just an epic, epic bastard. Though of course it still isn't perfect - I expect the couple got their healthcare free on the NHS.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:48 pm

crabcakes_windermere wrote:

The last line from this article sums it up:

It certainly does. And he's a thick bastard and a poor businessman to boot. Typical cunt with no aforethought whatsoever - quick buck and fuck the rest.

Quote:

“It’s very sad but they are not seeing the business point of view.”

Now that this shit is in the news he's going to lose more than the £1,200 he should have refunded in the first place - especially if the ShiteRag gets hold of it - which it will.
CRAP - the Mail doing it's job... surely not! :shock:

Arnold · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:18 pm

It's not that far from me, and I usually buy a couple of bottles of English wine when passing. Not any more, I won't.

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3819

And then there's the debate about grammar in the comments.

National Anglia · **Posted:** Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:09 am

It's true though, they're not seeing the business point of view. That point of view being 'fuck you and your dead kids, losers'.

Fozzy · **Posted:** Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:09 am

I'm sure I recall seeing a report on this in the Mail where the owner of the wedding venue sought to justify himself by saying that he also had lost two children and sympathised, but that these two were being hostile and aggressive. However, it's disappeared, so I suspect the lawyers got involved.

new puritan · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:24 pm

Just been reading this article and thought it was appropriate for this thread.

Child labour re-emerges in Naples

Quote:

7 a.m. in San Lorenzo in the heart of Naples: the kid is struggling to carry a heavy crate of canned goods through a humid labyrinth of city streets. Dressed in his faded overalls, hoodie and and busted trainers, little Gennaro has already begun his day at work.

No one is surprised to see him slaving away at such an early hour. In September 2011, Gennaro found work in a grocery shop. On the job six days a week and 10 hours a day, he stocks shelves, unloads orders and delivers shopping to customers in the neighbourhood.

Gennaro dreamed of becoming a computer programmer, now he is a shop assistant – the most common profession for Neopolitan child workers. He is paid in cash, earning less than a euro an hour. In a good week he can expect to take home 50 euros. Gennaro has just turned fourteen.

Gennaro’s mother, Paola Rescigno, never thought there would come a day when she would deprive her son of school. For 20 years, she and her husband lived in a 35-square-metre flat that gave onto an interior courtyard in the San Lorenzo neighbourhood, the most densely populated area in the city centre.

Then the father died, carried off by a sudden and virulent cancer, and Paola Rescigno was forced to live from hand to mouth. She organised a micro-company offering cleaning services, which nets her and some of the other unemployed women in her neighbourhood 45 euro cents an hour, or 35 euros a week – significantly less than the wage brought home by her son.

Looks like the race to the bottom is gathering pace.

Big Rob · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:29 pm

A world that revolves around them?

new puritan · **Posted:** Tue May 22, 2012 5:20 pm

Servitude trial: 'Worker paid £80 in 15 years'

Quote:

A court has heard how a man was paid £80 for the 15 years he worked for a traveller family in Bedfordshire.

Luton Crown Court heard the man was living on benefits in Brighton in 1996 when he was approached at a day centre by Tommy Connors and two of his sons.

The man said he was promised £50 a day but never received the promised daily rate and likened his living conditions to that of a "concentration camp".

Duncan Smith and Grayling's ultimate wet dream.

Lord Brett · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 10:56 am

The following isn't an original thought (I may even have read it here), but worth repeating in this thread:

Libertarian right wingers who would like no taxes and the smallest possible government which never interferes with the affairs of individuals might like to know that there is a country where this state of affairs has been in effect for some years.

Somalia. Fancy moving there?

Big Rob · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 2:24 am

Lord Brett wrote:

Libertarian right wingers who would like no taxes and the smallest possible government which never interferes with the affairs of individuals might like to know that there is a country where this state of affairs has been in effect for some years.

Somalia. Fancy moving there?

I am a libertarian right winger and I simply do not want to live in a country like Somalia.

I simply want the least government necessary. As that is the best government.

A one world government without borders would be a start.

Timbo · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 3:38 pm

Well, I think libertarianism is inevitable in the long-run. One of the largest functions of government is to control distribution of resources. As technology pushes us further into the post-scarcity age, we will need to significantly re-think both our economic and governmental models.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 3:57 pm

That's proper Marxist, that is.

37201xoIM · **Joined:** Thu May 12, 2011 5:41 pm **Posts:** 106

Timbo wrote:

... As technology pushes us further into the post-scarcity age ...

Now that you're going to have to explain very, very carefully and slowly! Is it a typo?

Surely most thinkers would concur that we're moving into an age of increasing scarcity of all the resources considered most vital, including not just oil but water and many foodstuffs (consider pressure on crop yields, stocks of fish, the implications of increased meat consumption by 'emerging economies'...).

Remember, Malthus was always historically right until the industrial revolution.

cycloon · **Joined:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3244

Malthus's lifeboat would be considerably larger if we let it be.

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