[Tubby Isaacs]

And nostalgia for "proper jobs" in lots of cases. But I wonder how far that goes. I can be reasonably sure that his audience doesn't like "diversity officers", but are they really hostile to services? If they have two grandkids, one works locally in light engineering and the other works in (say) Manchester in an insurance company, do they think the second one doesn't have a proper job?

[Watchman]

He's writing for a largely retired audience who associate service with subservient.

AKA "I pay your wages"....addressed to any local authority employee

[Andy McDandy]

And nostalgia for "proper jobs" in lots of cases. But I wonder how far that goes. I can be reasonably sure that his audience doesn't like "diversity officers", but are they really hostile to services? If they have two grandkids, one works locally in light engineering and the other works in (say) Manchester in an insurance company, do they think the second one doesn't have a proper job?

That's not service; that's an Office Job where he wears a suit and tie.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Fair point. What are the bad service jobs? Answering their queries on the telephone?

[Tubby Isaacs]

How's that guy who bucked the polls and won the Uxbridge By-Election doing? "I'll get you a fish and chip shop in Uxbridge High Street" is his unlikely pitch. This is up there with Ardal O'Hanlon's Dad (a politician) being asked if he could Hawaii-5-0 back on TV.

Who is he directing this campaigning to?! Does he deliver it to some guy who runs a chippy in Hayes, and tell him off for not running one in Uxbridge?

[Youngian]

Who is he petitioning, chippy owners to expand or are lefty wokes at the councils trying to ban fish and chips because they’re British or something?

[Tubby Isaacs]

I don't think he knows himself. Probably a mixture of wanting some voter emails, and thinking this makes him look like a proper British local.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I think I've found who he's petitioning. A chain of fish and chip shops, who already have one elsewhere in Uxbridge. "Open another in the high street, you swines".

https://churchillsfishandchips.co.uk/ux ... and-chips/

[kreuzberger]

Just had a look at their menu and their seemingly reasonable prices. They can open a branch in this parish, any time.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[Youngian]

It’s a cooling box where the milk’s stored.

[Watchman]

Some heavy duty reading on the bookshelf

[Youngian]

Its the cupboard cleared out for Julius Nicholson.*

I’m ok with politicians and journalists WFH broadcasting in front of a blank wall. Instead of a backdrop of book cases and difficult art to show us how clever they.


* PM’s hapless enforcer in The Thick of It

[Bones McCoy]

"All fleg and no books" could become a new style statement.

[Abernathy]

Happy Easter from Cold War Steve.

[kreuzberger]

All that rage and several cases of full-strength Gammonade, pure poetry.

[davidjay]

Just had a look at their menu and their seemingly reasonable prices. They can open a branch in this parish, any time.

I don't go to the chippy much now but when the bollocks did twelve quid for fish and chips become reasonable?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Good God.

[Abernathy]

I know we’ve all seen this before but still.

[Youngian]

Good God.

On a per capita basis? If not it’s probably the Irish, a lot more of them than Somalians.