Current Affairs 2023

[towny44]

Watching tonight's news outside the school gates, one chap when asked said the govt should put their hand in their pockets and pay teachers what they are worth!!!
Therein IMO lies a major problem with the UKs education system. Teachers should spend less time teaching pupils about their rights, and more time about their responsibilities, and where the govts money actually comes from. Then just maybe they would give a lot more consideration to who they vote for, and perhaps even OL might see that it is the people who need to change, not necessarily the system.

[Stephen]

Agree John.

Allot of the spoilt brats probably have no idea of the value of money. All they know is mummy and daddy pay for everything and think exercise is walking from the house to the car.

[david63]

one chap when asked said the govt should put their hand in their pockets and pay teachers what they are worth

I think that this is a lot of the problem - people don't seem to be able to grasp the fact that the government doesn't actually have any money and if they are to pay the teachers what they are worth (and that is subjective) then the government will be putting their hand in your pocket.

[Onelife]

Watching tonight's news outside the school gates, one chap when asked said the govt should put their hand in their pockets and pay teachers what they are worth!!!
Therein IMO lies a major problem with the UKs education system. Teachers should spend less time teaching pupils about their rights, and more time about their responsibilities, and where the govts money actually comes from. Then just maybe they would give a lot more consideration to who they vote for, and perhaps even OL might see that it is the people who need to change, not necessarily the system.

Hi John…if you think the system isn’t broken then try putting the “levelling up” minister alongside that of the Monarchy and you should be able to see where one system fails the other.

[Manoverboard]

Hi John…if you think the system isn’t broken then try putting the “levelling up” minister alongside that of the Monarchy and you should be able to see where one system fails the other.

Are you suggesting that the poor folk in, say, Shropshire should have equal wealth and circumstance to the occupant(s) of, say, Highgrove House ?

[CaroleF]

I'm sure David's right. Some people think that the Government have all this endless money and they can just dole it out as required. The Government only has what the tax payers give them. You want more money, higher wages, then pay more taxes.

[towny44]

Watching tonight's news outside the school gates, one chap when asked said the govt should put their hand in their pockets and pay teachers what they are worth!!!
Therein IMO lies a major problem with the UKs education system. Teachers should spend less time teaching pupils about their rights, and more time about their responsibilities, and where the govts money actually comes from. Then just maybe they would give a lot more consideration to who they vote for, and perhaps even OL might see that it is the people who need to change, not necessarily the system.

Hi John…if you think the system isn’t broken then try putting the “levelling up” minister alongside that of the Monarchy and you should be able to see where one system fails the other.

Hi Keith, I think if you study what Charles has done with all the land and properties that he manages, the major one of which is the Duchy of Cornwall, you will see that he has done far more for levelling up per capita than the govt have managed, mainly because he is not hamstrung by having a vociferous opposition to contend with, despite your valiant attempts.

[barney]

This argument is like dogs chasing cars
The monarchy are not a problem.
Successive incompetent governments are.
Will the next government do a better job?
Nobody knows.
My guess is that they will.

[Onelife]

Hi John…if you think the system isn’t broken then try putting the “levelling up” minister alongside that of the Monarchy and you should be able to see where one system fails the other.

Are you suggesting that the poor folk in, say, Shropshire should have equal wealth and circumstance to the occupant(s) of, say, Highgrove House ?

Hi Mob, I think that question would be better addressed to the occupants/s of Highgrove House…let me know what they say…although I’m sure you won’t be surprised with their answer.
Btw… the only levelling up they will be aware of is the distance between their silver tableware…. James!!!... fetch me the measure…. Oh! and while you’re at it, bring me a pen that works, I want to write to Mob.

[Mervyn and Trish]

This argument is like dogs chasing cars
The monarchy are not a problem.
Successive incompetent governments are.
Will the next government do a better job?
Nobody knows.
My guess is that they will.

I'm not no sure but you may be right. But if so it will be for a limited time. It seems a feature of all governments of this country that they do well for a while then run out of steam. It happened to Thatcher, it happened to Blair. Meanwhile the voting public have forgotten how bad the last lot were.

My concern at the moment is Labour are all big airy promises with no substance. I've seen Starmer's five pledges. Great in principle, yes we'd all like what he promises. But he offers not even a hint on how he'll achieve them.

Oddly I received a personally addressed letter from him setting them out as part of the local election campaign. I wonder what role he believes the pompous windbag Labour candidate in our ward for the town and district councils will play in making us the leading G7 economy?

[towny44]

This argument is like dogs chasing cars
The monarchy are not a problem.
Successive incompetent governments are.
Will the next government do a better job?
Nobody knows.
My guess is that they will.

I'm not no sure but you may be right. But if so it will be for a limited time. It seems a feature of all governments of this country that they do well for a while then run out of steam. It happened to Thatcher, it happened to Blair. Meanwhile the voting public have forgotten how bad the last lot were.

My concern at the moment is Labour are all big airy promises with no substance. I've seen Starmer's five pledges. Great in principle, yes we'd all like what he promises. But he offers not even a hint on how he'll achieve them.

Oddly I received a personally addressed letter from him setting them out as part of the local election campaign. I wonder what role he believes the pompous windbag Labour candidate in our ward for the town and district councils will play in making us the leading G7 economy?

Should we even be striving to be the leading economy, when all it does it deplete natural resources faster, and increase global warming?

[barney]

Agree Towny.
Everything is geared to constant growth.
With growth comes more and more resources.
More people need more things.
The problem is how economies are measured.
Anything short of consistent growth sparks panic and recession in the markets.
Nobody ever asks, how much profit is enough profit, because under the current capitalist system, there is never enough.
Profit, profit, profit !
No care for impact on society or environment.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Seems weird when supermarkets especially expect constant growth. I can only eat so much food.

Yes to me 0% growth seems like perfect stability.

[barney]

Seems weird when supermarkets especially expect constant growth. I can only eat so much food.

Yes to me 0% growth seems like perfect stability.

They need constant growth of the population to continue to grow.
By the time our grandchildren are adults, the population of the U.K. will be 100 million.

[Mervyn and Trish]

I think I'm glad I won't be here then. It'll be mighty crowded.

[Stephen]

Might check out the rental value of my double garage

[towny44]

On todays BBC news, one striker said that the patient care is still excellent whilst another said it has declined steadily throughout his entire 10yr career. It seems that union members dont really know why they are striking, but my guess is it's all about the pay.

[Ray B]

Can not think of many strikes if any are not about pay and conditions.

[Ray B]

Russia accuse Ukraine of trying to kill Putin. Obviously Ukraine denies the allegations.
If it was an attack on the Kremlin, BBC news reports that the next morning no damage could be seen, it's more than likely the attack came from Russians who may want to get Putin out in any way they can.
There must be lots of organizations trying to plot his demise.

[screwy]

Watching the bbc news at 6 last night (tues ) screwess and myself were quite disturbed to see that they showed an item relating to children’s deaths in Afghanistan especially under 5s. They went to show children in their last moments.! Was this really in the public interest.? It certainly wasn’t in ours.!

[Onelife]

Watching the bbc news at 6 last night (tues ) screwess and myself were quite disturbed to see that they showed an item relating to children’s deaths in Afghanistan especially under 5s. They went to show children in their last moments.! Was this really in the public interest.? It certainly wasn’t in ours.!

Like you I watched the report and thought as you did. I’m not sure what point they were trying to make showing those children taking their final breaths. Ok’ it’s very sad, but theses deaths are due to an internal struggle for power so I’m not quite sure what the BBC were trying to highlight... as they of all know how wars play out. I don’t think it was appropriate to screen such things at tea time or indeed any other time of the day whether that be in Afghanistan or any other place of conflict.

[paultheagle]

They gave a long and detailed description of what the report contained which I was grateful for because I don't want to see those things on my TV. So I turned the telly off for 10 mins.
Should they show such things? yes I think they should.

[Ray B]

Channel four is full of distress, ammed has to walk 10 miles to fetch water, mika 's sight is poor and urgently needs an operation, Martha has to crawl as she waits for artificial legs, and so it goes on. As harrowing these sights are, thousands are in simular circumstances, you just cannot save them all.

[Mervyn and Trish]

So then they come to the UK as refugees and complain about the hotels we put them in at the taxpayers expense. Not all of them obviously, but those are the ones the media report. Not the grateful ones.

[Ray B]

Well casting your vote was straight forward, goes to enter polling young man asks if I had the correct ID to which I replied yes thanks, on to the desk, quick check of ID and all done.
The group against ID are claiming it was a failure, sorry, but it looked like it was all going smoothly and I have no problem with showing ID to vote..
Incidentally, the chap on the door is there to help people who turn up not knowing or have no ID, he does not need to visually check ID according to the clerk at the slips desk. I didn't show mine saying they (the clerks) will check at the desk.
Only those out to make a scene will turn up with wrong documents.