The Next General Election
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Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson for PM - what an excellent idea! Despite his well rehearsed bumbling demeanour, anyone who has been a Kings scholar at Eaton and then gets a 1st in Classics at Oxford, as well as being elected President of the Oxford Union, is clearly no fool. Life would certainly be more amusing under the reign of Boris, than under the smarmy Tony B.Liar and I would look forward to Boris suddenly deciding to declare war against France, without him realising we now only just have the capability to defeat Andorra.
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Pr00ne however, is obviously educated enough to figure that 50% of the trained workforce posessing devalued degrees, expecting raucious salaries and suffering crippling debt as a result is the way forward for our education system. Hence leaving workers such as plumbers with one of the highest salaries in the uk.
University should be elitist, as the remaining DECENT degree courses are, and rightly so.( I am not talking about who attends, purely the numbers here) Some crackpot 50% figure, purely a measure to boast against other European nations in statistical terms, will bring this nation to its knees and cripple our engineering industry.
University should be elitist, as the remaining DECENT degree courses are, and rightly so.( I am not talking about who attends, purely the numbers here) Some crackpot 50% figure, purely a measure to boast against other European nations in statistical terms, will bring this nation to its knees and cripple our engineering industry.
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Absolutely right, why do Plumbers earn so much? It's supply and demand and there's a shortage of em. Doing Degrees in basket weaving and so on will mean that those who don't go to University and get a skill will be the ones who end up earning well due to shortages. We'll always need plumbers, bricklayers, carpenters, car mechanics etc etc but if no one trains for these skills because they're all at Uni getting their Ology and amounting debt then who are the fools?
Put simply it's supply and demand you need to go into a skills shortage job without a huge debt to pay off or get a decent Degree in something useful and rare!
Still think politics would have been my best bet well paid and no qualifications required at all. You just have to be able to lie well. Oh yeah thats where I fell down!
Put simply it's supply and demand you need to go into a skills shortage job without a huge debt to pay off or get a decent Degree in something useful and rare!
Still think politics would have been my best bet well paid and no qualifications required at all. You just have to be able to lie well. Oh yeah thats where I fell down!
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Alexander Boris Depfeffel Johnson for PM?
http://www.geocities.com/borisjohnsonfanclub/
A BA in an obscure subject and an ability to make himself look like an idiot hurray-Henry, just what the country needs!
I know the Tories are scraping the bottom of the barrel but surely not?
How about that nice Thatcher woman?
(Calm yourself BEags – only joking)
Nice to know my degree is worthless like all 'modern' ones - only took seven years - still, must have been too easy to be worth recognising.
Are you sure we still need 'classically educated' leaders?
''My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive''
A BA in an obscure subject and an ability to make himself look like an idiot hurray-Henry, just what the country needs!
I know the Tories are scraping the bottom of the barrel but surely not?
How about that nice Thatcher woman?
(Calm yourself BEags – only joking)Nice to know my degree is worthless like all 'modern' ones - only took seven years - still, must have been too easy to be worth recognising.
Are you sure we still need 'classically educated' leaders?
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How on earth is classics an obscure subject? It's the oldest one there is!
Agree with jindabyne that ppruners would make a better job of running the country. Especially with Gorilla as Information Minister ;-)
Agree with jindabyne that ppruners would make a better job of running the country. Especially with Gorilla as Information Minister ;-)
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Jindabyne, I was just about to post that Beags should "come out" and stand for parliament when you pre-empted me. It is a fact that the services now produce the only people capable of managing large resources so as to make things happen PDQ. Eg foot'n mouth. Boris would be the right figurehead, but there is no evidence that he could manage anything bigger than the Spectator. Beags could be Chancellor and kick the bean counters in their slats. I am far too old to do anything other than sit on the sidelines and cheer them on.
We went up to the "big smoke" yesterday. The only places we saw that were clean and where people tried to speak decent English were the Club, where we stayed, and Kiwi House where my old school was having its annual reunion. I must say that some of the recent old girls, now at Uni in UK set even my jaded hormones racing!
We went up to the "big smoke" yesterday. The only places we saw that were clean and where people tried to speak decent English were the Club, where we stayed, and Kiwi House where my old school was having its annual reunion. I must say that some of the recent old girls, now at Uni in UK set even my jaded hormones racing!
