Every time I have a 2 hour motorbike delivery from the Co-op the driver is a foreigner and from the name usually not European. These guys are generally pleasant, polite and efficient. So I can't fault the service.
But why aren't any British people doing this job?
My Amazon delivery guy yesterday was foreign - very friendly and charming with fluent English - but again why not British?
My excellent dentist is Rumanian.
The other day the bus driver - also excellent friendly and helpful was Polish.
Why aren't these jobs 100% British?
It is rare these days that I encounter a British person doing a service job.
Presumably due to mass wage suppression after years of importing cheap labour. I doubt it is possible to have any decent standard of living doing a motorbike delivery job, given how costly everything is now. If you have a family/kids it's not doable. If you're here for a while in shared accommodation and sending money back to home then it is feasible.
In an article about Albania I read this morning it had people in that country ecstatic that a relative had sent them £100; it's not a small amount of money but clearly goes much further in the land of Enver Hoxha.
- All the people who arrive via these little boats are fleeing France
- They have left their own country and trekked through maybe Italy, Greece, France
- A large proportion of Brits would like to live in Italy or France so why are these people fleeing?
- Albanians often just buy Greek passports at the Greek border
- Albania has a shortage of workers thanks to TikTok videos showing how great life is here
- Albania has no war, famine, dictatorship, ergo, no refugees fleeing tyranny
- Surely the EU has an obligation to at least process migrants/refugees arriving on its borders
- Any fighting-age man is generally an economic migrant if alone - who leaves their wife behind?
- It's not wicked to ask questions about why they are being put in hotels or why they are not simply being returned to France
- Worrying about illegal (or legal) migrants doesn't make a person a racist, bigot or right-wing nutter
- What are the natives losing if over £6M per day is being spent just on hotel accommodation? Money that could be spent on care homes or education maybe.
Indeed we shall. We are rapidly approaching the point where decades of dumb decisions crash against the harsh rocks of reality. Get your popcorn ready!
Every time I have a 2 hour motorbike delivery from the Co-op the driver is a foreigner and from the name usually not European. These guys are generally pleasant, polite and efficient. So I can't fault the service.
But why aren't any British people doing this job?
My Amazon delivery guy yesterday was foreign - very friendly and charming with fluent English - but again why not British?
My excellent dentist is Rumanian.
The other day the bus driver - also excellent friendly and helpful was Polish.
Why aren't these jobs 100% British?
It is rare these days that I encounter a British person doing a service job.
Why is this?
Presumably due to mass wage suppression after years of importing cheap labour. I doubt it is possible to have any decent standard of living doing a motorbike delivery job, given how costly everything is now. If you have a family/kids it's not doable. If you're here for a while in shared accommodation and sending money back to home then it is feasible.
In an article about Albania I read this morning it had people in that country ecstatic that a relative had sent them £100; it's not a small amount of money but clearly goes much further in the land of Enver Hoxha.
The things that are never said include
- All the people who arrive via these little boats are fleeing France
- They have left their own country and trekked through maybe Italy, Greece, France
- A large proportion of Brits would like to live in Italy or France so why are these people fleeing?
- Albanians often just buy Greek passports at the Greek border
- Albania has a shortage of workers thanks to TikTok videos showing how great life is here
- Albania has no war, famine, dictatorship, ergo, no refugees fleeing tyranny
- Surely the EU has an obligation to at least process migrants/refugees arriving on its borders
- Any fighting-age man is generally an economic migrant if alone - who leaves their wife behind?
- It's not wicked to ask questions about why they are being put in hotels or why they are not simply being returned to France
- Worrying about illegal (or legal) migrants doesn't make a person a racist, bigot or right-wing nutter
- What are the natives losing if over £6M per day is being spent just on hotel accommodation? Money that could be spent on care homes or education maybe.
Maybe we should colonise Albania in revenge? Not sure we have the manpower (sorry, personpower) to pull it off now.
I hear it has some wonderful scenery. Maybe turn it into the new Tuscany or Dordogne?
Indeed we shall. We are rapidly approaching the point where decades of dumb decisions crash against the harsh rocks of reality. Get your popcorn ready!