Precious few of those thuckers are students... plenty of them are middle aged anarchists and other such parasitic bacteria, perhaps with a fair few NEETS, whose birthright is being robbed from them by the students with their precious middle-class rite of passage.
What, you mean "like wot Labour did"?!
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both of you backpatters are talking specious bollocks.
Seems like it must have been the weight of all that funding that lowered results relative to practically every other developed country in the world...
You can't "buy" a good education system, that's been utterly demonstrated by the last 13 years of unprecedented increases in money being thrown into the system, with only lower and lower real attainment coming out of it, as the hard stuff is weeded out of courses to keep the nominal marks looking communistically glorious.
As it goes, nothing is clucking free... not the education, the health, or the left-wing fucking Schutzstaffel (sorry, "Police")... I just don't get why people still pretend that it is?
Most people do not need a degree for a job, a sense of fulfilment, achievement, or personal development... they just need the right tool for the job... but every cont in this debate who thinks that everyone simply must have a degree is - in the old adage - treating every problem like a nail, and issuing hammers (i.e. degrees), as if any other path in life is inferior.
Health? free? universal? I don't think so... the idea of saying to someone, do what you like, ignore all the advice and help given, turn up steaming on a sat'dy night to abuse the staff and contribute to that extra £3bn or so that sat'dy night on the toon costs the NHS, and then demand that the rest of the population who do heed the health advice and don't take the pesh out of the exhausted medical staff to put their hands in their pockets to pay for, you, and maybe have to forgo a holiday they'd been working and saving for for weeks... honestly, thuck off! make people pay a clucking excess on their National Insurance so that they only get the help for when it really matters, such as if they need a brain transplant (yeah, go on, cancer too), but make the thuckers pay for liver rental if they try a George Best on.
Police? Google for NWA... have you seen the police budget? the jit that comes out of your compulsory council tax levy that only ever goes up every year? Go and ask for it, and then start bleating on about Trident.
There are getting on for about million NEETS in the country, what the thuck is a BA in Media Studies and Dramatic Lesbian Dialectic from Fulchester Polytechnic going to do for them (or society) exactly?
They, like most people, need a thucking job, not some left wing fart bubble of class-war relativist academic compensation. Loads of those unskilled jobs that would have tided them over have been fed to the five million in the (almost literally) black economy, and there are nowhere near enough tax breaks for companies to take them on and train them.
It's like the whole country got turned into a caricature of a left-wing polytechnic.
I would never scrap Trident... not because of dreams of empire or any view on it's effectiveness as a deterrent... but just to prevent the left wing thuckers from pissing all that money away into a giant sweaty brown hole... which is exactly what they did with all the last few cash boons they got... pissed away on pet projects and into "community groups" (basically legalised vote bribery).
If we're going to get rid of Trident, perhaps it would be apt to use it to cut some of our outgoings by taking out Brussels, the central belt of Scotland, and most of the urban shitholes blighted by decades of socialism, and start afresh, like wot the Aborigines do, innit?
and [at] Flyfree...
more bollocks... it's not the "bankers greed", it's Labour's greed... they took all your money in higher taxes... they peshed it all away in dishing out to foreigners in one way or another... and the thucked over the world economy by failing to administer the regulatory system they set up - and they did it deliberately, because they are economic illiterates who just wanted to keep the graphs pointing one way forever, like true socialists.
wealth creation is not a zero sum game, where there are resources - be they tangible like ore and widgets, or intangible like ideas and designs for widgets - there is more wealth to be had... don't start trying to compare economics with engineering - it don't thuckin' work... Newton's laws don't apply to money, you Orwellian titbeak.
I bet you're a clucking cockney.![]()