Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

According to the Good University Guide 2014 Durham University is now rated in top spot for History. Now the bad news. Durham is offering a module in Harry Potter studies for combined honours students.

Trade union leaders.

I think as a group they are driven by "altruistic drives" certainly more so than a group of "Etonian Old Boy elitists".

Do I think the unions leaders have got, or get everything right? No!

Do they get caught up in their own "glory", "simplicity" and less than pragmatic approaches? Yes, sometimes.

Knowingly, sometimes.

Have they done more good than harm? Probably.


Have the masses been badly led or misled.

Yes, often by tory governments.

Especially, when they voted for them!

Can they improve? Yes.

Can the "governing class" and the various governments do better? Of course!

8-)

fred - just marginally at a tangent ..... it amazes me though it should not that so few youngsters do anything to help themselves become more employable - e.g. doing holiday work in the field in which they would like to be employed, or indeed anything at all that will make them more desirable than the next applicant

as an easy example .....
i know a young girl who would really like to get into a decent fashion college, but instead of finding a holiday job in one of the local fashion shops, she works in the local farm shop with her friends ...... why would the fashion college then choose her in an interview situation? ..... racing certainty that a rejection slip will wing its way instead

Hays Cynic as done a runner under presure and proved wrong.

You yourself nobody trusts what you say anymore so just skip most of your posts.

Perhaphs its the influence Camoron and Osbourne have had on you telling porkies.

Its certainly working.

The Harry potter story is from 2010. It is just an optional module, part of a BA degree in Education Studies.

shortie - what on earth are "combined honours" and/or how on earth do durham - normally a very tough uni to get accepted into - think these harry potter studies will benefit their students and make them more employable?

Fred
You seem to think that only the Labour party can do things for altruistic reasons. That is clearly wrong. Thatcher was always concerned to do thing for people. She sent to a state school and came from modest means. Cameron, IDS, Osborne, Ken Clarke and many others are doing thing for the benefit of the UK public. Their methods are different. Nobody enters politics just to benefit rich people.

The Harry Potter story

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wear-11011279

Hays,

You have read too many H Potter stories and believe them.

Its just magic.

Re-read my postings.

I think the motivations from joining a labour, lib/dem or con party are different for many of the groups who join them and influence by parental and school environments.

I think the likely member of the tory party has had a more blinkered and directed upbringing than those of the other parties.

That doesn't mean the tory party is depleted of altruists, but many of its membership are insular and less than empathetic to the situations of others.

Of course in the past and still, the Tory party have had leaders and members who have considered the total society with its bewildering complications and tried and have acting accordingly, but the present hierarchy seems devoid of such necessary understanding and actions, but applying antiquated ideology.

They are more involved in presentation.

fred - so would you not describe your "friend" GF as frighteningly blinkered and prejudiced?

More like, needs a white stick.

Po Face, I dont give a damm what you and porkies teller Hays says or thinks.

The fact is you got your ass wupped this afternoon and RAN AWAY like a coward as Tanker as suggested you did with your parents many moons ago.

I would have thought youd have hardened up a little since those days, obviously not.

But if you wish along with Hays to lie through your teeth please go ahead.

Who is Harry Potter?

Cynic.

No.

Think you are a little like GF yourself.

Immoderate, but his taunts are interesting.

But have sympathy for the majority of his positioning and when he is being serious is informative.

But I recognise some of his frustrations.


Recognising a problem is only the first step to resolving it.

Hays,

Is a different matter.

GF - don't you think you should self moderate your post 30238?

Would that be hate of or by the left wing?

Populus’s twice weekly poll earlier today had topline figures of CON 36%, LAB 39%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 7%. Unlike the YouGov polls since Ed Miliband’s conference speech Populus has not shown any sort of boost for the Labour party

skinny your post above........

skinny - 30 Sep 2013 21:06 - 30241 of 30243

GF - don't you think you should self moderate your post 30238? .....ends


Certainly not.

See this insulting post by cynic not only on my children but also my parents.......

cynic - 30 Sep 2013 16:15 - 30213 of 30243

what a total waste of space you are, and assuredly not worth wasting breath upon .... i hope that any children you may have at least have learnt to think for themselves and do not just spew and thus perpetuate their father's nonsense and blind and unfounded prejudices, which i fear you may have learnt from your own................. ends.

An eye for an eye skinny, if Cynic wants to get personal which he has done all afternoon today, I can fight fire with fire.

If he continues these personal insults he should have the balls to take them back, no matter how unfortunate it is for the thread and board.

Yawn, yawn. Why are the raving lefties so boring?