ot Kerr: I think its time you manned up the barricades ...

[rolymiller]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47372265

Didn't realise you chaps were so badly off...

Yours in solidarity comrade...

[Pattylallacks2]

Spelling mistake They meant baristas

[frogmiller]

My bloody heart bleeds!

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Why would it effect Kerr?

Is he the guy that puts the pickle on the Big Mac?

[great_fire]

This the apprenticeship phrase before they go on to make the big bucks defending the big crooks.

[KerrAvon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47372265

Didn't realise you chaps were so badly off...

Yours in solidarity comrade...

Indeed. That's why I chuckle to myself when you endlessly accuse me of not liking Corbyn because he would harm my personal finances. The truth is that I might well be better off under a tax and spend addicted Labour government. Until their financial incontinence destroyed the economy for everyone that is.

[KerrAvon]

My bloody heart bleeds!

That's because you are not personally affected by it. The Criminal Bar is dying out. The only people who stay in it are those for whom it is a vocation.

[KerrAvon]

This the apprenticeship phrase before they go on to make the big bucks defending the big crooks.

Balls.

[great_fire]

Balls.

Surely they're just getting experience and then they'll go into one of the bigger criminal law firms or into corporate, property, tax, or environmental law and make their money.

[KerrAvon]

Surely they're just getting experience and then they'll go into one of the bigger criminal law firms or into corporate, property, tax, or environmental law and make their money.

We are talking about the criminal bar - barristers don't generally work for firms - they are self employed (just like being on a ZHC, Roly - if you don't get work, you don't get paid). If you move into corporate, property, tax, or environmental law, you are no longer at the criminal bar.