... I was wondering about the workforce in all this. As you know from out here the workforce are offered the choice to leave or transfer, would the same happen there.
(I hope you don't mind that I've switched threads ... but I reckon that one really belongs here)
I guess you're really thinking of the
TCN under-class there, Mate. Fortunately for them, in the UK workers from overseas are not treated so badly. The UK may be bankrupt financially, but (unlike some other countries I could mention), it is not yet totally bankrupt morally speaking.
For instance, some people may not be aware that in most (all?) Middle Eastern countries, "guest" workers have their passports taken away when they arrive. I'm not saying this is good or bad (it never worried me personally), but I just mention it in the interests of balance.
During my time I also witnessed
many instances of what would be referred to here in the Nanny Kingdom as "religious intolerance" and, indeed,
racism. But there was no "compo culture" out in the Desert ... far from it, in fact.
However (as the recent news once again reminds us), here in the UK we have CEO's of failing public hospitals raking in in excess of £ 150 k per annum, and yet still refusing to go when "sacked"! It seems, then, that some people have no shame wherever they happen to be, and whichever culture they claim to be part of.
It truly is a "Mad World, My Masters"!