wakou:
Night-and-day:
Sorry if he has offended you sweetheart, but should you not be sat blocking traffic on the M25? By flip flops he means the people from what used to be from the poorer European countries who were willing to work for peanuts thus keeping the wages lower for the past decade and our weak government are about to cave in and do what the corporates are wantingYou mean those people who are more literate, better qualified and harder-working than you? And you are now envious of them?
After all they could actually pass a stringent test to drive a truck, learn to read and write, not only in their own language, but in two, three or four others.
People of our generation from “those countries” learned Russian, German and English. As well as their own “mother-tongue”, whether that was Polish, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian. (all of which are very difficult to learn, except Romanian which is quite easy… If you know Latin or Italian, or even Esperanto.)
How many languages do YOU speak, “sweetheart”?
In which countries have you learned the precise details of tax and employment law?
Did you take advantage of IR35 when it was available?
Or are you just another miserable and jealous old racist?
To really experience racism, one has to go abroad as an Englishman.
When you boast about ‘taking advantage of IR35’, don’t you really mean ‘taking advantage of the taxman’? Sneaking into the night with your ill gotten gains is not something to shout about. There is nothing clever about turning up for work and demanding your wages get paid gross. It is hard faced though, as very little gets back to the taxman.
Also, it is easy to pick up another language when you border the country itself. We are an island nation with the most widely spoken language in the world, so taking time to study Russian is an indulgence few have need or time for.