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Gov’t response to sectors like social care telling them they will struggle to fill vacancies: “You will have to rely on automation.”

Now, why didn’t I think of that?

*clears throat*

Alexa, give Mama her medicine, then take her to the loo, and set her down for her nap.

*waits*
Alexa?

ALEXA!
ALEXA, GIVE MAMA HER MEDICINE.

*Alexa plays Bon Jovi’s “Bad Medicine”*
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Alex Andreou
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A university, a TV station, a magazine - any platform - necessarily, selects whom it features. It isn’t a denial of far-right loons’ free speech. None of us have a “right” to a particular audience. Your free speech does not confer on anyone else an obligation to listen. #r4today
Classic example of this misconception. Ok, then. Let’s explore this: I demand to address all of Durham university, next Monday. Is it a denial of my free speech that they’re under no obligation to acquiesce?

You no more have a “right” to address a university than I have a right to demand the Telegraph prints an article of mine, every time they print one by Johnson, rebutting him. FFS it’s not a tricky concept. Your right to speak does not equal an obligation on others to amplify you.
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What REALLY BUGS ME, is the implicit assumption that migrants lead flat, linear, forever-waiters or forever-delivery-drivers lives.

When I came to the UK, I worked reception to improve my English, waited tables to put myself through uni, then went on to better-paid jobs. THREAD
By denying entry to today’s waiters, delivery drivers, and baristas, you deny entry to tomorrow’s doctors, IT engineers, and entrepreneurs, by effectively becoming hostile to YOUNG MIGRANTS.

Most points systems give maximum points for youth, because they recognise potential. 2/4
Vast majority of skilled professionals, practice where they earned the qualification. Few convert it. Few people with a career want to restart at a lower level. Few people with families decide to uproot their kids. Few people with a business move it to another legal regime. 3/4
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They’ve had three years of the UK gov’t agreeing things, then going back on them. All the while, briefing against the EU and engaging in this sort of public toddler tantrum, for its domestic audience.

Naturally, this has caused a total breakdown of trust.

That’s what’s changed.
It’s like asking your estranged spouse “what‘s changed” from the amicable divorce she offered initially, after spending years refusing to sign the divorce papers, showing up drunk at her home, repeatedly trying to kidnap the cat and chaining yourself to the gate at her workplace.
You’ve proven yourself, conclusively, a douchebag. That’s what.
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