People are becoming fed up with hearing El Gordo [Sp.: 'the fat one'] blethering on about ‘British jobs for British workers’ and then being passed over for employment in favour of foreigners.
It says in The Telegraph that
No 10… stopped short of asking workers not to protest.
However, the 15-minute political-indoctrination slot which always follows the morning news on Radio 4 was today occupied by someone whose name I didn’t catch (not that I suppose it matters, nor that one of these droids can be distinguished from another without reference to serial numbers), who seems to have been a Socialist MEP. He was given, as is usual in these circumstances, an unchallenged platform for his views.
Spluttering with Righteous (© leg-iron) outrage, he condemned the British workers as “illegal strikers” (because their action was that of individuals rather than being coordinated by easily-controlled union leaders) and “BNP members” (because their cause has in it an element of the national identities of those involved).
Of course El Gordo won’t tell them not to protest. But if they don’t stop embarrassing him in front of his EU masters, I think his rude boys might just put a stop to it anyway.
How inconvenient it must be that the foreign workers in question are Italians. How much less so it would be if they were more recognisably, er, ethnic. Then it would be a simply matter of screaming ‘racists!’ and passing a new law against it all.
As things stand there is a distinct possibility that the root cause of the problem might be traced back in the public imagination to Britain’s membership of the EU.
Brazier, fingerless mittens and placard time…
