Migrants take jobs from Britons

Today’s the day the Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith calls for tighter controls on immigration and for British employers to favour British workers.

It is going to strike a chord with a fair slice of the electorate, I'll warrant.

Less sure if some employers will be so keen.

My old pal the Earl of Thetford was saying just the other day about how he would love to employ more British workers on his East Anglian farm but found it very difficult.

The reasons for this were varied, but in a nutshell his point was that (with some notable exceptions) the British have gone soft.

In between a couple of glasses of claret, the Earl noted that British workers he’d tried out were unable to turn up on time, moaned a lot, bunked off for breaks as soon as possible, were fat and unfit and didn’t return on day two.

The Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians and whatnot worked like horses and wanted to be part of the operation.

Of course IDS will know this already.

Christopher Shale ‘murdered at Glastonbury by secret police’

I see it hasn’t taken long for conspiracy theories to start circulating about the death of David Cameron’s aide Christopher Shale.

Mr Shale (56) was found dead in a toilet at the Glastonbury Festival.

However, the theories suggest, he had not only penned a damning report about the Conservative Party, he also had ‘secret information’ about Mr Cameron that he was about to make public.

That’s it. Some information that was so ‘secret’ that it could have brought down the government: possibly involving the Prime Minister and a goat in suspenders or similar.

So a special MI5 hit squad was charged with bumping him off in a Glastonbury toilet.

Which they duly did.

What Wen Jiabao said to David Cameron

Of course I wasn’t there, but I have a feeling it went something like this.

‘Quit moaning about the dissidents or no business from us, you spent old hasbeen of a nation.

‘And we haven’t forgotten the opium wars, either.’

Recommendation for DSO for Adam Boulton of Sky News who asked when the Chinese might be improving their human rights record.

By all accounts Cameron looked deeply uncomfortable and Jiabao looked decidly displeased.

Reminded me of the moment in Catch 22 when General Dreedle demands that Major Danby is taken out and shot for moaning.

Image of Cameron-Cathcart spluttering: ‘I’m afraid we don’t do that here, sir.’

And Jiabao muttering: ‘Not now, you don’t.’

The working class is in decline

Interesting to see the independent mulling over the old ‘the working class feels bitter and isolated’ routine.

It’s not just a rehash of predictable old quotes, though. The story does hit one or two topics on the chin.

In particular it highlights what a shocking job the last Labour government did and how they were fixated on forcibly changing the demographic of the country. As long as they, personally, could escape the ramifications; such as schools of children who couldn’t speak English.

It also shows what happens when you expand the middle class. Almost by definition, the working class shrinks. But is that necessarily a bad thing? In theory, no, but if instead you create a benefit-dependent underclass then clearly the answer is yes.

Then again, I do wonder who hasn’t been milking the system; especially when I see the salaries still being paid to senior figures in local government. At least four members of Ealing Council getting more than a cabinet minister, I notice.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/threatened-isolated-under-siege-the-uks-working-class-today-2302850.html#disqus_thread

John Galliano 'loves Hitler', apparently

John Galliano - now there’s a man in a spot of bother.

Poor chap. A few glasses of champagne into his evening and he gets into an argument with someone with a 'dirty Jewish face' and someone else who he believes to be a ‘dirty Asian’.

Not only that, the dirty faced one had ‘revolting eyebrows and low-end thighs’.

Low-end thighs - like something you'd get at the Morrison’s chicken counter.

Oh dear, oh dear. Then saying ‘I love Hitler’ may have been a mistake as well.

Although allegedly adding: ‘The Luftwaffe always had the best-cut uniforms’ seems like fair comment.

Not to mention those SS caps, luvvie; so chic, so debonair, so step on your face with a jackboot and grind it into the mud until you’re very uncomfortable.

What's new in the world?

Long time, no chunterings.

I've been away. No, not like that, though it's not such a bad idea.

What's changed? Well, not that much. New government, of course. Arab Spring has sprung. Greece is slipping down the khazi. Bankers getting richer while everyone else sees their standard of living gradually sliding away.

But all is not lost. Pleased to see Princess Beatrice has gone from being a fat, toothy, inbred troll to just a toothy inbred troll.

Well done, Ma'am.