A thank you to Brexiteers.

[Yossarian]

Hard to see the "Let's Ban Old People From Voting Party" gaining much traction at the ballot box, tbh.

 

[two sheds]

Nah, the old shouldn’t get to vote to decide the future, they’re done, give the vote to children instead.

Disgusting - the old have all the wisdom and knowle......

ah yeh see your point

 

[Yossarian]

Tories would probably respond with a bill allowing people to change their wills to include their vote in the next three elections after they're dead.

"Why should we allow death to rob us of the wisdom of these elders, when they could help guide us into the future?"

 

[Pickman's model]

Nah, the old shouldn’t get to vote to decide the future, they’re done, give the vote to children instead.

So children see how shallow British democracy is

 

[krtek a houby]

What would have happened if children had been in charge of Brexit?

 

[Yossarian]

What would have happened if children had been in charge of Brexit?

 

[Pickman's model]

What would have happened if children had been in charge of Brexit?

 

[gosub]

So children see how shallow British democracy is

Clearly not shallow enough for his liking

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Not sure why bimble’s idea is so poorly received, would stop Sasaferrato from sticking his cross next to the Tory cunts…

 

[fishfinger]

Not sure why bimble’s idea is so poorly received, would stop Sasaferrato from sticking his cross next to the Tory cunts…

I wouldn't want to be deprived of my chance to draw a spunking cock on the ballot!

 

[ruffneck23]

ah the whole film... i think , it may not have aged well, we shall see...

 

[Raheem]

What would have happened if children had been in charge of Brexit?

Turn on the news.

 

[TopCat]

Maggots and mayhem: behind the scenes of Britain’s big bin crisis

Thanks to the HGV driver shortage, many refuse collectors are quitting to earn up to £30,000 more driving lorries. But what does this mean for our streets, as the rubbish and recycling piles ever higher?

www.theguardian.com

I’m really glad to see wages going up. The guardian is less so.

 

[Badgers]

Maggots and mayhem: behind the scenes of Britain’s big bin crisis

Thanks to the HGV driver shortage, many refuse collectors are quitting to earn up to £30,000 more driving lorries. But what does this mean for our streets, as the rubbish and recycling piles ever higher?

www.theguardian.com

I’m really glad to see wages going up. The guardian is less so.

Should be all sorted in a couple of months then?

 

[bimble]

Maggots and mayhem: behind the scenes of Britain’s big bin crisis

Thanks to the HGV driver shortage, many refuse collectors are quitting to earn up to £30,000 more driving lorries. But what does this mean for our streets, as the rubbish and recycling piles ever higher?

www.theguardian.com

I’m really glad to see wages going up. The guardian is less so.

That’s what you got from that article? Impressive. If councils could pay the same rates as Waitrose can, in order to keep their drivers, that would be great but even if they could there’d still be not enough qualified people in the country right now to do all the lorry driving jobs would there.

 

[Badgers]

That’s what you got from that article? Impressive. If councils could pay the same rates as Waitrose can, in order to keep their drivers, that would be great but even if they could there’d still be not enough qualified people in the country right now to do all the lorry driving jobs would there.

With the #ToryScum cuts to councils there is no chance

 

[bimble]

With the #ToryScum cuts to councils there is no chance

It did say how some councils who handle the bins themselves have absolutely no chance but others who have contracts with massive outsourcing companies to do the bins they just have no power to force the companies like serco to offer the kind of money to drivers that waitrose can. Still bottom line is more driving jobs than there are people to do them.

 

[gosub]

Hard to see the "Let's Ban Old People From Voting Party" gaining much traction at the ballot box, tbh.

Been doing palative care for my folks for while now (down to one as of a fortnight ago). I assure you this already isn't a country you would want to grow old in

 

[TopCat]

That’s what you got from that article? Impressive. If councils could pay the same rates as Waitrose can, in order to keep their drivers, that would be great but even if they could there’d still be not enough qualified people in the country right now to do all the lorry driving jobs would there.

The councils used to provide a lifelong job on the dust complete with a good pension. The councils on the whole abandoned that model, outsourcing to the like of Veolia and switching to fortnightly bin collections meaning the job is so much worse.
The rats are coming home to roost.

 

[The39thStep]

The councils used to provide a lifelong job on the dust complete with a good pension. The councils on the whole abandoned that model, outsourcing to the like of Veolia and switching to fortnightly bin collections meaning the job is so much worse.
The rats are coming home to roost.

Or as the Guardian once put it "Once a dirty word in the Labour ranks, outsourcing has become more acceptable, as long as it doesn't drive down wages of already low paid workers or reduce the quality of services, writes Patrick Butler"

A history of outsourcing | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk

www.theguardian.com

 

[bimble]

It’s like brexit in some peoples heads is some cloaked avenger busily swooping about revealing all the sins of capitalism and then (underpants) having been revealed it’ll get better.

 

[Badgers]

Pesky EU rules holding back our sovereigntee

 

[Badgers]

Any Brexit voters/supporters care to defend this?

 

[ska invita]

Any Brexit voters/supporters care to defend this?

Whats the brexit connection? Pretty sure this has been happening for years

 

[bimble]

Whats the brexit connection? Pretty sure this has been happening for years

This is the connection

Polluters told to dump risky sewage into rivers as Brexit disrupts water treatment

Supply chain disruption leading to fears of water treatment chemical shortage

www.independent.co.uk

Sewage discharge rules eased over fears of chemical shortage

Wastewater plants in England offered waiver because of impact of lorry driver crisis

www.theguardian.com

 

[gosub]

This is the connection

Polluters told to dump risky sewage into rivers as Brexit disrupts water treatment

Supply chain disruption leading to fears of water treatment chemical shortage

www.independent.co.uk

Well, at least it isn't 'creative' thinking from the Home Secretary on what to do about the channel inflatables

 

[mojo pixy]

They've (we've) been putting sewage in the sea for ever in some places. The 'new' story is it can go in rivers too. But farmers have been polluting rivers for ever, too, so I for one am not as pissed off as I think that article wants me to be. Not freshly pissed off anyway. This is more of the same err shit.

 

[Badgers]

Whats the brexit connection? Pretty sure this has been happening for years

Really?????

 

[gosub]

They've (we've) been putting sewage in the sea for ever in some places. The 'new' story is it can go in rivers too. But farmers have been polluting rivers for ever, too, so I for one am not as pissed off as I think that article wants me to be. Not freshly pissed off anyway. This is more of the same err shit.

Yeah but we were the dirty man of EUrope b4 we joined, and there was significant improvement in water quality which was largely down to EUropean regulation...but same regulation lead to things like destroying fish if they end beached by receding river flooding, and speaking of flooding treating river silt as trade waste lead to less dredging which lead to more flooding.

 

[gosub]

Really?????

Usually used to be down to heavy rain overwhelming systems iirc