Westminster Politics

Mart1974 said:
Labour invested heavily in education. Every school in my area got a massive overhaul, new buildings, facilities, equipment. Schools that had seen nothing whilst I was there (80s and early 90s).

Your argument is that Labour didn't do enough vs 12 years of Tory rule that has defended and fecked over the state school system? Really?
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No, not really? What Labour failed to do, when they had the opportunity, was change the system that allowed for 12 years of follow on Tory rule to allow leakage/fecklessness to again invade an education system that should be the way out for the majority of our kids. They needed to seriously update the baseline of the Education Act, that ensured appropriate investment at defined levels, they needed to have switched the levels of funding post 16, so that most of the money invested goes to where most of the students are, which is in Further Education, not Higher education. For many years the percentage of post 16 students studying at FE level, was around 67% of the total, but FE only received around 33% of post 16 funding from central government.

From the early 70's attempts were made to provide a 14 to 19 tertiary system, which would link vocational and academic objectives and be available to all. However Labour (when it had chance) shied away from enforcing this, because it cut across to many cherished education boundaries pre and post 16. Instead it tried to load HE with students who were enticed on to low-level achieving degrees, some even referred to as 'mickey mouse' degrees. This led to students having to repay for years hence, student loans/fees for the privileged of studying on courses of no real intrinsic value nor of value/ currency to their future careers.

Bricks and mortar, pens and pencils, a few IT extras, yes Labour did all that, but they didn't change what the Education for all, free at the point of delivery, should be about that is providing well educated people with a thirst for learning how to learn; who gain their independence in future life through their ability to continue to know and want to learn all through their lives.

That is my argument.
 
mitChley said:
I hope Mone crashes and burns, yes she's literally taken money out of my pocket and taken it offshore, but also she was a fecking self-righteous knob on LinkedIn, and cause a lot of blokes wanted to shag her she was always popping up on my feed.
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I had the misfortune of hearing her give a speech at a young entrepreneurs event over a decade ago. She literally skipped on to the stage and gave a "dumb" performance filled with flirty lines and giggles to a bunch of teens and early-20s students. It was fecking bizarre. She mentioned her boobs more than she referenced how she grew her business, which considering how successful she's been you'd think she'd prefer to showcase that especially in a room that had a lot of young women in it. But, no, look at me tits hehehehe.

This was the same event that Alastair Campbell managed to turn a hateful crowd into putty in his hands after about thirty seconds of talking.
 
Mart1974 said:
Labour invested heavily in education. Every school in my area got a massive overhaul, new buildings, facilities, equipment. Schools that had seen nothing whilst I was there (80s and early 90s).

Your argument is that Labour didn't do enough vs 12 years of Tory rule that has defended and fecked over the state school system? Really?
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And it's all coming to a tipping point. We've got teachers on wide scale strikes up here, which if I'm honest I don't agree with because from experience their unions are back stabbing, melodramatic cnuts but I also don't blame them for thinking "enough".
 


Can always rely on stilts to forget something as basic as the fact that public sector workers taxes too!
 


How are people in similar situations going to survive the next 2-3 months. Honestly atm I don't see any improvement after winter. Food prices are highs as well as everything else. And that cnut chancellor is lecturing the public to make sacrifices.
 
DavidDeSchmikes said:


How are people in similar situations going to survive the next 2-3 months. Honestly atm I don't see any improvement after winter. Food prices are highs as well as everything else. And that cnut chancellor is lecturing the public to make sacrifices.
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Difficult decisions. Putin's War. The last Labour government. Immigrants.
 
The country / politicians had a choice, the energy companies vast profits could've been used to properly control fuel prices. But they chose not to. Now millions will suffer. And the boat people will be blamed. Feck all tories and those who vote for them.
 
DavidDeSchmikes said:


How are people in similar situations going to survive the next 2-3 months. Honestly atm I don't see any improvement after winter. Food prices are highs as well as everything else. And that cnut chancellor is lecturing the public to make sacrifices.
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Stuff like this is so depressing. Saw something similar of a guy (on LinkedIn) who said he's gone through his savings and used all his credit cards but he'll be homeless from the end of the month as he can't afford the bills and rent. Disabled guy who was recently let go from his job and will start sleeping in his car.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
And it's all coming to a tipping point. We've got teachers on wide scale strikes up here, which if I'm honest I don't agree with because from experience their unions are back stabbing, melodramatic cnuts but I also don't blame them for thinking "enough".
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I know what you mean about the unions, but what other choice is there?
 
DavidDeSchmikes said:


How are people in similar situations going to survive the next 2-3 months. Honestly atm I don't see any improvement after winter. Food prices are highs as well as everything else. And that cnut chancellor is lecturing the public to make sacrifices.
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Yeah, it's fecked. We have savings so are lucky (despite that being for a house) so if it gets bad we have something to rely on but without that we would be struggling. Went into a charity shop yesterday to pick up some gifts/clothes for christmas presents and even they've shot right up. Used to barely see anything over a fiver but the majority of items were ~£8+ now.
 
Mart1974 said:
I know what you mean about the unions, but what other choice is there?
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Like I said my problem isn't the lack of options left for the unions and their decision to strike, since it's all that's left, it's their previous shenanigans that have left a sour taste in my mouth alongside folk I know in professional service unions. Can't do anything about that personally though and I'm wearing a Santa hat this morning so it's time to let go of the hate.
 
Pexbo said:
Haven’t got a clue, just thought the claim was noteworthy.
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Yeah I think he's just a twitter rando talking shite. The new boss of Unite commissioned two separate reports into the dealings of her predecessor, which have now been completed and Unite themselves have chosen to send them to the police given what they've found. At best I think we'll be looking at large scale incompetence and bad governance, could easily be that they've uncovered actual fraud.
 
largelyworried said:
Yeah I think he's just a twitter rando talking shite. The new boss of Unite commissioned two separate reports into the dealings of her predecessor, which have now been completed and Unite themselves have chosen to send them to the police given what they've found. At best I think we'll be looking at large scale incompetence and bad governance, could easily be that they've uncovered actual fraud.
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That’s sort of what the tweet I posted is saying though? The Union isn’t at criminal blame here, they’re effectively the victim.
 
Pexbo said:
That’s sort of what the tweet I posted is saying though? The Union isn’t at criminal blame here, they’re effectively the victim.
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We'll wait and see what the reports say I suppose, but I don't think that's what the Sky report is suggesting.
 
The government has announced what it describes as one of the biggest overhauls of financial regulation for more than three decades.

It says the package of more than 30 reforms will "cut red tape" and "turbocharge growth".
Rules that forced banks to legally separate retail banking from riskier investment operations will be reviewed.
Those were introduced after the 2008 financial crisis when some banks faced collapse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63905505
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Cool, so that'll be another massive crisis sorted for the near future then.

My favourite bit was this;

Leading hedge fund manager Sir Paul Marshall of Marshall Wace recently described the London financial markets as a "Jurassic Park" of old-fashioned companies and investors, and it has struggled to attract the world's fastest growing companies to list on UK exchanges, often losing out to New York, Shanghai or even Amsterdam.
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Because the future banking system where lessons aren't learned and the resulting chaos kills people through negligence isn't remotely worthy of the name "Jurassic Park"...
 
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