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| 'Brexit could be a jobs tragedy': your best comments on the Guardian today | 'Brexit could be a jobs tragedy': your best comments on the Guardian today |
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| Articles on the job market after Brexit, TV shows of the year and coping with dementia have provoked some of the most interesting conversation on Tuesday | Articles on the job market after Brexit, TV shows of the year and coping with dementia have provoked some of the most interesting conversation on Tuesday |
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| Tue 19 Dec 2017 12.30 GMT | Tue 19 Dec 2017 12.30 GMT |
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| We’re highlighting discussions on the latest Brexit developments as the cabinet convenes for the last time before Christmas, the best TV of the year and a moving insight into the final stages of dementia. | We’re highlighting discussions on the latest Brexit developments as the cabinet convenes for the last time before Christmas, the best TV of the year and a moving insight into the final stages of dementia. |
| To join in you can click on the links in the comments below to expand and add your thoughts. We’ll continue to highlight more comments worth reading as the day goes on. | To join in you can click on the links in the comments below to expand and add your thoughts. We’ll continue to highlight more comments worth reading as the day goes on. |
| Hammond rejects claim he’s losing cabinet battle to keep UK aligned to EU | Hammond rejects claim he’s losing cabinet battle to keep UK aligned to EU |
| A lively politics live blog has provoked many comments on the permutations of Brexit in relation to today’s developments. Many of you were discussing jobs. | A lively politics live blog has provoked many comments on the permutations of Brexit in relation to today’s developments. Many of you were discussing jobs. |
| ‘A job being moved abroad has the same effect if not greater than a job being lost’ | ‘A job being moved abroad has the same effect if not greater than a job being lost’ |
| Brexit could be a jobs tragedy for the UK. I’ve worked in call centres, about the only major employment of people in the UK, for 13 years. They are the perfect replacement for lack of manufacturing. | Brexit could be a jobs tragedy for the UK. I’ve worked in call centres, about the only major employment of people in the UK, for 13 years. They are the perfect replacement for lack of manufacturing. |
| It gives you an interesting insight into our disconnected country. No longer are service jobs directly linked to a local large scale employment sector. A person in London could be indirectly supporting a job in Glasgow, who is supporting someone in Birmingham, who is supporting a job in Newcastle, who is in the indirect spaghetti Russian roulette Jenga economy we have supporting someone in Wales. | It gives you an interesting insight into our disconnected country. No longer are service jobs directly linked to a local large scale employment sector. A person in London could be indirectly supporting a job in Glasgow, who is supporting someone in Birmingham, who is supporting a job in Newcastle, who is in the indirect spaghetti Russian roulette Jenga economy we have supporting someone in Wales. |
| In such an economy a job being moved abroad has the same effect if not greater than a job being lost. Also in such an economy if as more than likely we hit a bad run the domino effect will still happen. A one job loss or move in one part of the country is going to ricochet to job losses in different places in the UK.Kevin Diamond | In such an economy a job being moved abroad has the same effect if not greater than a job being lost. Also in such an economy if as more than likely we hit a bad run the domino effect will still happen. A one job loss or move in one part of the country is going to ricochet to job losses in different places in the UK.Kevin Diamond |
| The 50 best TV shows of 2017: No 1 The Handmaid’s Tale | The 50 best TV shows of 2017: No 1 The Handmaid’s Tale |
| A lively discussion followed the anointing of this adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel as the Guardian’s TV show of the year. Here’s some of your reaction: | A lively discussion followed the anointing of this adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel as the Guardian’s TV show of the year. Here’s some of your reaction: |
| ‘So true to the book and yet they still managed to update it seamlessly’ | ‘So true to the book and yet they still managed to update it seamlessly’ |
| It felt unmissable. I loved how it was so true to the book and yet they still managed to update it seamlessly. Some of my favourite scenes were when all the handmaid’s were gathered together - the birth, the stonings - and the ‘fuck yeah’ moment when they all walked down the street together having made a small victory. Loved it.hollygoflightly | It felt unmissable. I loved how it was so true to the book and yet they still managed to update it seamlessly. Some of my favourite scenes were when all the handmaid’s were gathered together - the birth, the stonings - and the ‘fuck yeah’ moment when they all walked down the street together having made a small victory. Loved it.hollygoflightly |
| ‘My issue was the lack of any hope ... this is almost torture television’ | ‘My issue was the lack of any hope ... this is almost torture television’ |
| I watched the whole series of The Handmaid’s Tale and I found it utterly depressing. I know I am in a minority here and clearly the show was brilliantly acted and well directed but my issue was the lack of any hope. I kept watching because I was thinking at some stage there has to be a fightback, a ray of light in an bewilderingly hopeless world. And there were some chinks in the armour but there were so few and far between and they kept getting extinguished too. This is almost torture television. I’m not sure I will be watching the next series. Again I accept I am in a minority here but that is just my view.KilgoreTrout1 | I watched the whole series of The Handmaid’s Tale and I found it utterly depressing. I know I am in a minority here and clearly the show was brilliantly acted and well directed but my issue was the lack of any hope. I kept watching because I was thinking at some stage there has to be a fightback, a ray of light in an bewilderingly hopeless world. And there were some chinks in the armour but there were so few and far between and they kept getting extinguished too. This is almost torture television. I’m not sure I will be watching the next series. Again I accept I am in a minority here but that is just my view.KilgoreTrout1 |
| The final stages of dementia: ‘Does he dream about the love that’s still there?’ | The final stages of dementia: ‘Does he dream about the love that’s still there?’ |
| This piece on dementia has brought many readers to share some of their and their families’ own moving experiences. | This piece on dementia has brought many readers to share some of their and their families’ own moving experiences. |
| ‘All the more reason to make every day a good day’ | ‘All the more reason to make every day a good day’ |
| The period before acute dementia kicks in is a critical one. We can clearly see what is coming, but all the more reason to make every day a good day, for my 94 year old mother. Joking, remembering old times, old photos, playing simple games like dominoes and bingo, the odd trip out, brings so much pleasure. When that time comes, and she is no longer able to do those things, we know that we made the best of the twilight years.KLexpat | The period before acute dementia kicks in is a critical one. We can clearly see what is coming, but all the more reason to make every day a good day, for my 94 year old mother. Joking, remembering old times, old photos, playing simple games like dominoes and bingo, the odd trip out, brings so much pleasure. When that time comes, and she is no longer able to do those things, we know that we made the best of the twilight years.KLexpat |
| Comments have been edited for length. This article will be updated throughout the day with some of the most interesting ways readers have been participating across the site. | Comments have been edited for length. This article will be updated throughout the day with some of the most interesting ways readers have been participating across the site. |
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