Coming To An Area Near You, Worried?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530503/Exposed-What-DIDNT-tell-new-wave-migrants-heading-booming-Britain.html

[starone]

Personally, I like being English as opposed to British and as for jobs, I have three grandchildren, two of them have degrees and the third is an apprentice electrician. The two with degrees are finding it impossible to get jobs the competition is so fierce. And as for our apprentice electrician, we almost gave a party to celebrate when he got the job. Where I used to live, in Bristol the number of young people trying to get work was depressing. One of my nephews, who we thought was settled for life in a local government job, was recently made redundant when two local governments decided to amalgamate. So where are all these lovely jobs which the young people I have mentioned would gratefully do? I do not understand what is going on and sometimes (not always) I am glad I am too old for the working market, or whatever you might call it. At least I don't have to suffer the humiliation of rejection all the time.

[RATTER15]

Emmie, you really are being silly, yes I now live in wales, I moved here 6 months ago, the period of time that I was referring to was when I lived in England. Now have finished picking these ridiculous points out of my posts.

[RATTER15]

Emmie," you say my experiences of care in community, care in care homes and so forth is poor, workers who didn't care, not a jot, who indeed were careless and lazy" that just goes to show that you have little experience in this field. Yes we here it all the time about poorly run homes and abuse etc, fortunately not all care staff or care homes are like this, just the one that people shout about and rightly so.

[RATTER15]

Now get off my case and go and be unpleasant and vindictive to someone else!!

[Baldric]

Ratter, No not a pedant, not stirring up trouble, I am English, also British of course, but predominantly English, so I was querying why you had singled out the English as opposed to any other area of the UK, and not just used the term British, and I note I was not alone in that way of thinking.
Boxy spelt it out in her post.
I never had any intention to offend you, however I note that the ability to be offended seems to go hand in hand with a lack of understanding and poor usage of the English Language.
Enough said (by me anyway).
I wish you and yours a Happy New Year.

[237SJ]

Baldric - probably because Ratter was referring to his experience whilst working in North Devon and there are very frew Irish, Scots or Welsh there (I know as I come from there too) so his alternative to foreign workers would be the English as they are the predominent workforce in the area and believe it or not, North Devon is in England.

[boxtops]

Balders, I think that's rather swingeing - Ratter's error is not uncommon amongst many "English" and he's admitted his mistake.

[237SJ]

It`s not an error or mistake. He has the right to say what he wants without language police jumping down his throat.

[Baldric]

Boxy @ 10:58,
Yes he did, I meant to acknowledge that in my post, realise now that I didn't, so thanks for that.

[Baldric]

237SJ, Please bear in mind that by the same token, we all have a right to Free Speech.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Something should be done about the Conservative / LibDem open door immigration policy. ///

Don't you mean the EU?

/// We should vote them out. ///

Yes I am all for that when we finally get a referendum on it.

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// 237SJ, Please bear in mind that by the same token, we all have a right to Free Speech. ///

Yes but please remember in this instance it is not your 'speech' that has come under criticism only Ratter's it would seem..

[RATTER15]

Baldric, //I never had any intention to offend you, however I note that the ability to be offended seems to go hand in hand with a lack of understanding and poor usage of the English Language.//

It is very rare that I am offended on this site or in the real world. As for the //poor usage of the English Language.// well I'm afraid that comes with being severely Dyslexic. I apologise if you found it confusing.

[Baldric]

Had no knowledge of that ^^^ Ratter, my unreserved apologies to you.

[Hypognosis]

Since when has Dyslexia been about impairment of understanding the meaning of what's written?

(By the way, I am perpetually puzzled about how dyslexia sufferers are even able to operate a computer, let alone get themselves involved in a medium where everything revolves around the printed word).

[starone]

I think RATTER has a programme which helps him by transcribing certain words and incidentally I think he manages extremely well (I knew he was dyslexic).

[RATTER15]

Hypognosis, Dyslexia is a very wide ranging complaint that most people have no idea of, some of the symptoms are, short term memory problems, disorganisation, spelling, unable to put thoughts on paper, seeing words and number backwards, being able to read words but really struggle with sentences, and has little understanding of punctuation.

You will rarely see me writing long answers or questions, you will rarely see me answering or commenting on birdies or lazyguns posts, whilst being very well written it is usually far too complex for me to understand what they are talking about.

I find Dyslexia a fascinating condition and learned a great deal from reading on the Dyslexia web sites.

Interestingly, most adult Dyslexics see Dyslexia as a gift as I do, it certainly has its down sides but it also gives the sufferers a deep understanding of others problems. In my last place of employment working with people with challenging behaviours and forensic issues and learning disabilities, out of the 20+ staff, 7 of those staff were (coincidently) Dyslexic, none of these people had spoken about it or mentioned it prior to employment and they were without a doubt the best support workers there.

Starone, I just pass most things through a spell checker and a grammar checker, the problem with a grammar checker is I just don't understand what the grammar check is telling me to do, so I usually ignore it.

AOG, I apologise for going off subject.

[Hypognosis]

Thanks Ratter, I must admit that I sometimes have problems, stumbling midway through a sentence and re-starting because the sentence doesn't begin to make sense until further along, purely because of unusual phrasing. Or my concentration wanders as ideas are triggered off and I have to re-read a sentence many times before it makes sense.

I'm old enough to remember when dyslexia diagnosis was something only ever dished out to kids long after I'd finished shool and further education. There are some traces of cynicism left but let's not go there. Thank you for expanding my understanding somewhat.

[RATTER15]

Hypognosis //There are some traces of cynicism left but let's not go there.//

I don't really think that is so much the case these days, Dyslexia has now been accepted pretty much around the world and surprisingly it affects up to 10% of the population to some degree.

[Hypognosis]

No, I meant there was some cyniscism left in me but that's not your problem. Also, we're trying not to sidetrack this thread.