The Irony of it

[evilmunkey]

NeMiSiS said:

Surely there is no need for training, isn't HGVing what people automatically do when they have failed at everything else?

I'm a driver, also well qualified, and also a freelance make up f.x. artist who has worked on some big jobs. never filed at anything really , I do the driving inbetween the freelance stuff and enjoy being on the road. Also the folk i have met who are also drivers seem on the most part to be extremely intelligent and good folk. What do you do for a living if i may ask ?

[Schmy]

daytona365 said:

In thirty years time we'll look back in amazement and ask, why did our politicians, our 'leaders' betray their people so badly, and so absolutely

The last person that predicted this was also wrong. The Tiber and the Thames both run clear to this day.

[bigandclever]

evilmunkey said:

never filed at anything really

Now that's irony

[AW111]

bigandclever said:

evilmunkey said:

never filed at anything really

Now that's irony

[Catatafish]

The irony is that everyone who's ever lived in the British Isles is descended from an immigrant.

[daytona365]

Entirely true. But not an extra 5-6,000,000 and counting mostly in the SE in less than 10 years.

[Meoricin]

NeMiSiS said:

evilmunkey said:

NeMiSiS said:

Surely there is no need for training, isn't HGVing what people automatically do when they have failed at everything else?

I'm a driver, also well qualified, and also a freelance make up f.x. artist who has worked on some big jobs. never filed at anything really , I do the driving inbetween the freelance stuff and enjoy being on the road. Also the folk i have met who are also drivers seem on the most part to be extremely intelligent and good folk. What do you do for a living if i may ask ?

I don't work as such, I am and artist, I paint.

I know what it is like to work though, I worked in the manufacturing industry for 22 years from a line assy worker through to R&D using AutoCAD and metalsoft to programme CNC machines to produce parts to build base stations and RFI shielded cabinets for the mobile phone industry.

I also worked in a supervisory role for Ford-Jaguar and LandRover, until I decided that shift work was not for me.

I paint because I like it, and luckily for me many people like my work, I paint when I want, from home, I don't do shifts nor do I clock on/off. I start when I want and finish when I want, I see a lot of my family and I am very happy.

Tomorrow I am not painting as it is my Sons sports day after that I am watching the Tennis, I may paint on Tuesday or maybe not....we shall see.

Edited by NeMiSiS on Sunday 5th July 22:36

I guess if I'd failed at factory work I'd paint to - must be really depressing.

[PoleDriver]

Meoricin said:

I guess if I'd failed at factory work I'd paint to - must be really depressing.

You'd paint to what?

[Aldos Army]

It could be stopped at Calais by fencing the approach road/motorway to the ferry terminal with prison style fencing long enough to the outskirts so there is no stationary traffic that is "unfenced". Put police/guards at the entrance to the fenced off area to stop people entering.

[PoleDriver]

Aldos Army said:

It could be stopped at Calais by fencing the approach road/motorway to the ferry terminal with prison style fencing long enough to the outskirts so there is no stationary traffic that is "unfenced". Put police/guards at the entrance to the fenced off area to stop people entering.

We'd have to police it! It's not in the French interest to keep them there!

[StuntmanMike]

Aldos Army said:

It could be stopped at Calais by fencing the approach road/motorway to the ferry terminal with prison style fencing long enough to the outskirts so there is no stationary traffic that is "unfenced". Put police/guards at the entrance to the fenced off area to stop people entering.

That is what is being done now, which short term makes it worse because the road out of the port is in a contraflow, all the do gooders that talk about asylum, have you spent anytime with these people attacking your truck, threatening to kill you and your family whilst the police look on in polite interest?