Let Northerners pick fruit

[shaunbhoy]

You cannot eliminate relative unwillingness.

Of course you can. Introduce relative hunger. Works every time.

And you cannot have fewer unproductive people as they are needed to drive down wages.

Nonsense. See my answer above. An empty belly trumps ideological posturing everytime.

Why are there more unproductive people now than three years ago? Has there been an idleness pandemic?

Gordon took over from Tony.

HTH

[Old Greg]

Of course you can. Introduce relative hunger. Works every time.



Nonsense. See my answer above. An empty belly trumps ideological posturing everytime.



Gordon took over from Tony.

HTH

Then you risk Lord Hailsham's dilemma.

And do you think Gordon took over from Tony in Ireland etc. etc.?

[shaunbhoy]

Then you risk Lord Hailsham's dilemma.

We've faced it before, we'll manage again. It will give the Army something to do when we pull out of Afghanistan anyway.

And do you think Gordon took over from Tony in Ireland etc. etc.?

No. But his poisonous influence drifted across the Irish Sea like a bad smell.

Yeuuuuurrghh!

[Old Greg]

We've faced it before, we'll manage again. It will give the Army something to do when we pull out of Afghanistan anyway.

Which is back to my point about a police state. It was certainly the response in Latin America for much of the post-war period, but I don't fancy living in that kind of country.

[shaunbhoy]

Which is back to my point about a police state. It was certainly the response in Latin America for much of the post-war period, but I don't fancy living in that kind of country.

You are making the mistake of thinking the only two solutions lie at opposite ends of the scale. I would not fancy that much either, but nor am I happy with a state that panders too easily to a high proportion of the lame and lazy. The utopia we seek is somewhere in the midst of the two extremes. About high time we started heading back towards some kind of equilibrium.

[Old Greg]

You are making the mistake of thinking the only two solutions lie at opposite ends of the scale. I would not fancy that much either, but nor am I happy with a state that panders too easily to a high proportion of the lame and lazy. The utopia we seek is somewhere in the midst of the two extremes. About high time we started heading back towards some kind of equilibrium.

We are in the equilibrium between police state and revolution. Enjoy it.

[shaunbhoy]

We are in the equilibrium between police state and revolution. Enjoy it.

This equilibrium needs a bit of parameter squeezing then. Bit of a tilt towards Police State might do us the world of good.

[Old Greg]

This equilibrium needs a bit of parameter squeezing then. Bit of a tilt towards Police State might do us the world of good.

I'm sure it would do you the world of good.

[Platypus]

On a lighter note, this is hilarious

The Daily Mash - SOUTHERNERS RELUCTANT TO EAT FRUIT PICKED BY NORTHERNERS