Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org

In my time as a computer contractor, I worked for several outfits that had been recently sold off into the private sector, namely The National Grid, British Rail Business Systems and British Airways. In fact BRBS was sold to the SEMA group during my contract there.

Commonalities between them were absolutely massive overmanning and poor management to the point of rank incompetence (in my humble opinion)!

Having also worked in France, I was aware that the nationalized industries there have a reputation for efficiency and excellent management. I wonder the problem lies in the management in the nationalized industries in the UK being paid an absolute pittance compared to similar positions the private sector, for the privilege of a job for life and a 'good' pension (nothing like as good as the ordinary basic state pension where I live in Luxembourg, but hey!).

Anyone have an opinion of this?

@peterbrown @ChrisMayLA6

I worked for the National Grid (plc?) in Guildford shortly after they were sold off into the private sector. What an absolute shower of shit they were!

@harmonycorrupted

I don't really have an opinion on the rights and wrongs of paid-for-sex and I have never myself used such a service (I almost feel 'unmanly' by admitting that I have never paid for sex) but it is interesting that, so far as I understand the situation, Germany has gone for the fully legal route with fully legal brothels and a degree of protection for the (wo)men in them. Whereas Sweden, again if I understand the situation correctly, has made the user of such services liable for criminal prosecution but lifted the threat of prosecution from the service vendor.

As per usual, the situation in my homeland , the UK, is an total fückin screw up!

@ChrisMayLA6

Yes, I'm assuming the stumbling block is that the EU will not want to be seen to be making concessions without getting a massive benefit in return so...

Quite right too!

@JL_Lycette

Yeah - I myself have prostate cancer and have therefore done a fair bit of research on the subject. From what I can make out, it is probably the most treatable cancer and although he is unfortunate to have the most invasive type, that doesn't mean he is doomed to die of it imminently or indeed at all!

@Julius_VD @lyndamerry484

Yes - Starmer is quite the most fückin useless Labour PM of my lifetime and the most useless Labour leader of my lifetime aside from Corbyn and Foot!

I don't understand why Labour can't understand that at the next general election, they will lose if they don't start behaving like a Labour government rather than a tory one!

@lyndamerry484

I live in Luxembourg, I refuse to buy anything that is labelled as produce of the UK (the UK farming communities voted overwhelmingly for Brexit so fück them!), likewise with anything American and the same with anything from Israel. I may not have the vote in the USA or Israel but I can still vote with my wallet!

@JackTheCat

As they quite rightly should be!

Britain decided in its collective wisdom to leave and should therefore be denied access to all EU resources - tell the Brits to fück off!

Some years back now, I had a mini stroke during which I lost completely the ability to write my mother tongue or rather to type my mother tongue which is English. Whilst in the throes of this stroke, I would write a word like “difficult” with four or five ‘i’s and half a dozen ‘f’s then stare at it knowing that wasn’t right but being unable to work out what was wrong with the way I had spelled it!
The neurologist that I eventually saw said that I'd had a transitory ischemic attack in the area of my brain that deals with my mother tongue to stop I asked him whether, had I been typing in French, my second language, if I would have been similarly impacted. He said no apparently one's mother tongue functionality resides in one area of the brain and any other languages that one learns after the first one forms a new language area in another part of the brain altogether. This is one of the advantages of learning languages other than one's mother tongue; it opens up pathways and areas in the brain that would not otherwise be present. This is also allegedly why every language after the first foreign language one learns is easier to learn because the foreign language learning department of the brain and it's necessary links to the rest of your brain have already been installed, as it were

It is edifying to see that countries across the world like Canada and Australia acknowledge the threat from the worthless, incompetent 'trump' and deliver unexpected landslide victories to parties opposed to the orange turd's disgusting policies!