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Answer: "5 more years of Gordon Brown"
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The_White_Horse wrote: »
The whole stinking labour corrupt rich boy brigade know as much about going down t'pit as Cameron does.
The Conservative chief whip is in fact an ex-miner.0 -
The NHS is important; but we could scale it back and survive. Education is important but cutting back won't create a generation of imbeciles.
No, my question is this. What new growth areas have Labour come up with in the last 13 years. Areas where UK excels, and areas where SIGNIFICANT numbers of our future generation can work in.
Erm, nothing. I suspect they know this, and they don't have a !!!!!!! clue how to solve the problem. Hence the use of state employment on a massive scale as a sticking plaster.
Sadly, I am not sure the Tories have any better ideas. This doesn't say much about the lot of 'em.0 -
The NHS is important; but we could scale it back and survive. Education is important but cutting back won't create a generation of imbeciles.
No, my question is this. What new growth areas have Labour come up with in the last 13 years. Areas where UK excels, and areas where SIGNIFICANT numbers of our future generation can work in.
Erm, nothing. I suspect they know this, and they don't have a !!!!!!! clue how to solve the problem. Hence the use of state employment on a massive scale as a sticking plaster.
Sadly, I am not sure the Tories have any better ideas. This doesn't say much about the lot of 'em.
At Conservative Party Conference last year, James Dyson and Lord Baker, in outlining a plan "to get Britain working", talked of the paucity of innovation coming out of the UK (by comparison with Germany, China, even the Phillipines). They then compared the UK education system with Germany, where they maintain what we once had, and where now technical schools "outrank" the academic schools; hence the kudos in engineering and such like. In advocating a return to that tripartite educational system,they had the courage to admit that we had "got it wrong".
Okay, so it's not a detailed blueprint, but I reckon it's a pretty good idea - and at the right level, rather than being micro-management.0
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