Everybody out.....

[dune]

Thank god that's not the case.

 

I have no choice to live pay packet to pay packet dune, I've been in full time work for 13 months and I don't live with my parents. My rent/council tax is madness, utility bills are extortion and shopping (even before the 20%) for food still requires me to add up with a calculator as I go round.

 

I am barely left with £350 a month to have a 'life'' and pay for petrol.

 

Well in that case i'm aghast that you are so forgiving of the Socialists squandering of public money. If they had acted more prudently during the good times you would be far better off now, not least because Sterling would have remained strong and therefore fuel costs would have been lower.

[rocknrollman no2]

It's better just to humour them because no amount of education will change their minds.

 

But Dune you cant even get a proper education under the Condems,because theyve stopped most of the funding for colleges and universities and all the schools are falling down.

[dune]

But Dune you cant even get a proper education under the Condems,because theyve stopped most of the funding for colleges and universities and all the schools are falling down.

 

Rubbish. All you need to teach is a room with a blackboard and some desks. And in anycase they keep making the exams easier so it's hardly difficult to pass exams anymore anyway.

[CB Saint]

I have been to Norway..alcohol is extremely expensive..as are other "luxury" items

maybe they make their tax up that way..?

 

Everything is expensive, from paperclips to champagne. Its not tax, it the high labour costs that drive up the prices as the manufacturers / retailers have to pass them on.

[Jonnyboy]

If there was a listing of individually initiated financial disasters, the depredations of Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff might rank at the top, but opinions may differ on how much of an insurance catastrophe he has created.

 

Mr. Madoff—who was arrested in December 2008 and finally sent to prison for 150 years this June—is credited with ripping off clients of his Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC to the tune of between $10 billion and $20 billion.

 

“How could they have done a proper audit of the assets of a hedge fund if assets weren’t really there? We now know that Madoff didn’t even trade for the last 13 years, so there was a real lack of due diligence on the part of the hedge funds and their auditors,” she said.

 

oh lay off him - he worked so hard ffs. we should be squeezing single mums and getting the homeless and youth into work houses

[CB Saint]

Rubbish. All you need to teach is a room with a blackboard and some desks. And in anycase they keep making the exams easier so it's hardly difficult to pass exams anymore anyway.

 

Good Grief. Dune, you can be a proper p lonker on occasions. You ever wonder why people don't take you seriously.

[rocknrollman no2]

Rubbish. All you need to teach is a room with a blackboard and some desks. And in anycase they keep making the exams easier so it's hardly difficult to pass exams anymore anyway.

 

My son at uni would definately disagree with you concerning how easy the exams are,lol.

Personally i want the best for our kids,thus giving them the best chance to compete in the ever changing world and surely that means teaching them with highly qualified teachers, in a modern classroom with the best equipment (including computers),available.

Or are only rich kids deserving of this?

[dune]

Good Grief. Dune, you can be a proper p lonker on occasions. You ever wonder why people don't take you seriously.

 

Bov'd. I know i'm right and those who disagree are only kidding themselves.

 

Are exams easier? Boy, 8, takes science GCSE with no preparation... and almost gets a C grade

 

Primary schoolboy Zach Zetie scored 33 marks out of 60 after tackling questions such as 'why is wireless technology useful?' and giving the correct answer 'no wiring is needed'.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162475/Are-exams-easier-Boy-8-takes-science-GCSE-preparation--gets-C-grade.html#ixzz0zcfkwMCY

[solentstars]

So what you are saying is that Mervyn King's line of thinking is in line with mine?

 

It must be nice for you guys to be in such distinguished company.

 

So are all of you lefties going to continue to just blame the bankers?

Mervyn King's a leftie now,i despair he has blamed the financial sector and praised 13 years of growth,jobs and inflation ,read his speech online and open your mind , the slump started in america and went world wide hence governments around the world pumping in money to save the banking system and fight of a worldwide depression like the 1930s but then everybodys a leftie to you .i,m sure it was bush who was president at the time and not brown. me i like being on the centre ground of politics.

i expect you voted for the same party all your life.

[Jonnyboy]

Divide and rule lol.

 

The public sector have long needed dragging kicking and screaming into the real world and now is the time to kill off the communist Unions once and for all by completing the privatisations programme started under Mrs T. Now the Socialists are in opposition the opportunity to crush their failed public sector ideals must be seized.

 

Please stop you have spittle running down your chin.

 

Actually you might have inspired me to join a union

[solentstars]

oh lay off him - he worked so hard ffs. we should be squeezing single mums and getting the homeless and youth into work houses

 

nice one lets let the mad few tory boys defend Bernard Madoff being hard done by and it was labours fault hehe:lol:

[Jonnyboy]

Bov'd. I know i'm right and those who disagree are only kidding themselves.

 

Are exams easier? Boy, 8, takes science GCSE with no preparation... and almost gets a C grade

 

Primary schoolboy Zach Zetie scored 33 marks out of 60 after tackling questions such as 'why is wireless technology useful?' and giving the correct answer 'no wiring is needed'.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162475/Are-exams-easier-Boy-8-takes-science-GCSE-preparation--gets-C-grade.html#ixzz0zcfkwMCY

 

Well done on your D grade Dune

[dune]

Please stop you have spittle running down your chin.

 

Actually you might have inspired me to join a union

 

Go for it. It'll only cost you money and line the pockets of the communist trade union leaders. It's amazing how they have no issue drawing their massive salaries.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

Bov'd. I know i'm right and those who disagree are only kidding themselves.

 

Are exams easier? Boy, 8, takes science GCSE with no preparation... and almost gets a C grade

 

Primary schoolboy Zach Zetie scored 33 marks out of 60 after tackling questions such as 'why is wireless technology useful?' and giving the correct answer 'no wiring is needed'.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162475/Are-exams-easier-Boy-8-takes-science-GCSE-preparation--gets-C-grade.html#ixzz0zcfkwMCY

 

I bet what that article didn't tell you is that his 'correct answer' would probably have got him 1 mark out of a probable 6 or something...

[dune]

Trade union leaders branded "hypocritical" after rich list reveals £100,000 salaries for firebrands

 

Leaders of many of Britain's trades unions have been branded "hypocritical" by the TaxPayers' Alliance after it published a "Trade Union Rich List" that revealed many firebrand union leaders were paid more than £100,000 in 2008-09.

 

The TPA said the list included union leaders who had recently led or threatened strikes in response to public spending cuts proposed by the coalition government, as well as leaders of unions that receive taxpayers money through the Union Modernisation Fund and the Union Learning Fund.

 

In total 38 Trade Union General Secretaries and Chief Executives were paid over £100,000 in 2008-09, including Bob Crow at the RMT and the heads of Unite, the Fire Brigades Union, Unison and the NUT.

 

Matthew Elliott, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said, "It is hypocritical for firebrand trade union leaders to be calling for strikes and higher taxes while they themselves live a life of well-paid luxury. It is small wonder that they aren't worried about the tax burden or the national debt when they are so well-off, but it is ordinary, over-stretched taxpayers who will suffer if they get their way. Their bluster should be ignored, and the Government should stop pouring taxpayers' money into union coffers, as they clearly have more than enough cash already."

[dune]

I bet what that article didn't tell you is that his 'correct answer' would probably have got him 1 mark out of a probable 6 or something...

 

And what about the huge increase in multiple choice questions. From the examples i've seen the quiz questions on Dickinsons Real Deal gives them a run for their money in the difficulty stakes.

[Jonnyboy]

Trade union leaders branded "hypocritical" after rich list reveals £100,000 salaries for firebrands

 

Leaders of many of Britain's trades unions have been branded "hypocritical" by the TaxPayers' Alliance after it published a "Trade Union Rich List" that revealed many firebrand union leaders were paid more than £100,000 in 2008-09.

 

The TPA said the list included union leaders who had recently led or threatened strikes in response to public spending cuts proposed by the coalition government, as well as leaders of unions that receive taxpayers money through the Union Modernisation Fund and the Union Learning Fund.

 

In total 38 Trade Union General Secretaries and Chief Executives were paid over £100,000 in 2008-09, including Bob Crow at the RMT and the heads of Unite, the Fire Brigades Union, Unison and the NUT.

 

Matthew Elliott, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said, "It is hypocritical for firebrand trade union leaders to be calling for strikes and higher taxes while they themselves live a life of well-paid luxury. It is small wonder that they aren't worried about the tax burden or the national debt when they are so well-off, but it is ordinary, over-stretched taxpayers who will suffer if they get their way. Their bluster should be ignored, and the Government should stop pouring taxpayers' money into union coffers, as they clearly have more than enough cash already."

 

higher tax i say

 

anyway if i joined a union and striked id be sacked

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

And what about the huge increase in multiple choice questions. From the examples i've seen the quiz questions on Dickinsons Real Deal gives them a run for their money in the difficulty stakes.

 

I couldn't tell you I'm afraid, no multiple choice questions in history.

[dune]

I couldn't tell you I'm afraid, no multiple choice questions in history.

 

That's good.

[Johnny Bognor]

Mervyn King's a leftie now,i despair he has blamed the financial sector and praised 13 years of growth,jobs and inflation ,read his speech online and open your mind , the slump started in america and went world wide hence governments around the world pumping in money to save the banking system and fight of a worldwide depression like the 1930s but then everybodys a leftie to you .i,m sure it was bush who was president at the time and not brown. me i like being on the centre ground of politics.

i expect you voted for the same party all your life.

 

On the political compass, I am in the cross hairs of the quartiles, making me the most politically balanced on the forum. This gives me the freedom to knock the irresponsible and morally corrupt bankers, but also blame the useless failure of a Labour government. Those who only knock the bankers, but absolve the government of blame are the unbalanced politically motivated.

 

Unfortunately the manifesto I would vote for was not put forward by a political party.

Edited 15 September, 2010 by Johnny Bognor

[bridge too far]

I couldn't tell you I'm afraid, no multiple choice questions in history.

 

What about this one:

 

Was Margaret Thatcher

 

a) a milk snatcher

b) a right wing extremist

b) a wonderful lady with a natural voice

 

[Johnny Bognor]

What about this one:

 

Was Margaret Thatcher

 

a) a milk snatcher

b) a right wing extremist

b) a wonderful lady with a natural voice

 

 

To be fair, I blame the people asking the questions and those that teach the "a, b, c's"

[dune]

To be fair, I blame the people asking the questions and those that teach the "a, b, c's"

 

:lol::lol:

[solentstars]

On the political compass, I am in the cross hairs of the quartiles, making me the most politically balanced on the forum. This gives me the freedom to knock the irresponsible and morally corrupt bankers, but also blame the useless failure of a Labour government. Those who only knock the bankers, but absolve the government of blame are the unbalanced politically motivated.

 

Unfortunately the manifesto I would vote for was not put forward by a political party.

 

i expect none of the partys represent most people in this country ,but not being a labour voter i did really well out of the labour governments time in charge like alot of people but like the torys government before them they ran out of steam and stayed in power to long. i blame governments around the world of not putting in measures to control the bankers like maddoffs of the world gambling with other peoples money and not basing it on sound finance.

[bridge too far]

To be fair, I blame the people asking the questions and those that teach the "a, b, c's"

 

Got me Johnny boyo!

 

Blame the sticky keyboard (biscuit crumbs are a bugger)

[Jonnyboy]

Got me Johnny boyo!

 

Blame the sticky keyboard (biscuit crumbs are a bugger)

 

Sticky keyboard...

 

I think Im developing an internet crush on you BTF

[Jonnyboy]

Should we be more like America...

 

[Johnny Bognor]

Got me Johnny boyo!

 

Blame the sticky keyboard (biscuit crumbs are a bugger)

 

 

To be fair, when I saw the unelected president of the grammar police make such a boo-boo, I couldn't resist. Some might call it an open goal and I couldn't fail to score from 3 yards out. I normally have to work quite hard to get one over on you and so couldn't believe the opportunity.

 

Easy! Easy! Easy!

[Jonnyboy]

http://www.moneyweek.com/news-and-charts/economics/basel-iii-banking-rules-03704.aspx

 

respected magazine blames the banks

[Whitey Grandad]

My son at uni would definately disagree with you concerning how easy the exams are,lol.

Personally i want the best for our kids,thus giving them the best chance to compete in the ever changing world and surely that means teaching them with highly qualified teachers, in a modern classroom with the best equipment (including computers),available.

Or are only rich kids deserving of this?

Computers have absolutely no place in the classroom. There is too much dependence on technology. It replaces the ability to think and analyse based upon fundamental knowledge and first principles.

[rocknrollman no2]

Computers have absolutely no place in the classroom. There is too much dependence on technology. It replaces the ability to think and analyse based upon fundamental knowledge and first principles.

I agree with you Whitey,but the same could have been said when calculaters first came out.But like calculaters,computers are part of everyday life and kids need to know how to use them.Sure lets teach them the times table,but also lets teach them how to survive in the modern world.

[Whitey Grandad]

I agree with you Whitey,but the same could have been said when calculaters first came out.But like calculaters,computers are part of everyday life and kids need to know how to use them.Sure lets teach them the times table,but also lets teach them how to survive in the modern world.

 

We agree! I have always said the same about calculators too.