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.

Yeah right, course he was awarded it for academic excellence... lol

as for Poor? He’s the millionaire son of Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet, who co-founded the firm of fabric and wallpapers designers Osborne & Little.

Concentration should have been on raising standards of “Secondary schools” up to those of “Grammar schools”

quite right fred, but of course it wasn't by ANY of those in power
instead, we have seen a steady dumbing down in all sorts of ways, accompanied by a widespread parental denial of responsibility - not so much among the asian and some of the other immigrant communities it must be said

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54914 hilary :-)

Hmmm? That MeetInvest site above has some pretty good investment tools.

Goldfinger: You might just like to take a look at some of them.

The point the toffs are missing here is that opportunities are opened up for the likes of Osbourne Camoron etc, no matter what exams or colleges they have attended.

Neither of them have ever filled in an application form or had to compose a CV (osbourne admits this) and its just DADDY who gets them a position with a fellow purple nosed boozer from the Bullingdon Club or the like.

Its very much like arranged marriages.

On the other hand the working classes have to go through inferior schools and work harder to get there places at Oxford or Cambridge colleges and then have £50 grand to pay off before even applying for a mortgage and have to tottle off down the Job Centre and all the hardship and stress that involves.

They dont walk into jobs/positions they have to fight against hundreds of others who are queing up for the same job.

Why on earth anybody votes for posh snob boys who have been given all these privileges is beyond me. They certainly have nothing in common with 95% of the population.

You could say that about the labour party gf, full of toffs.

GF,

Once again agreed!

Very Small % of what the Tories have Im afraid Max.

Exec........meetinvest where????????????

I'd say it about all parties! Most politicians aren't cut out for anything more than debating... Osborne should have been a journalist, no doubt he'd have shone far brighter if The Times had of accepted him... Just seams that all these politicians fall into politics once they fail at what they really wanted to do, its as though publicly running the country has become the career safety net of the privileged.

The biggest problem in the UK is that there is too much of a (legalised mafia) of a sort in politics, journalism and with royalty and with a few other privileged sections of the community ; they are all much too content to carry on running the country as it is with nobody stepping out of line and rocking the boat a little : the way we are governed suits everybody within this circle.

Being ageist again..

Perhaps, MPs should be over 30 years old and ministers over 40 and PMs over 50.

Doesn't exclude bright younger researchers, advisers of younger age.

Wouldn't have considered writing the above 5 years ago, but the one thing "age" often seems to provide is a better perspective is of time and consequences.

What has been missing of recent governments is long term planning and acceptance of the need of preparation and time involved the intended goals, also think major policy changes should, when possible, be tested out by "trials" before being implemented across the board.

That Tory Hancock on TV now is a top wanker.

Some posters on here today who seem to have big chips on their shoulders, or is it a case of - "I'm not happy with my lot in life" ?!

GF.

I have similar thoughts about Hancock. He appears to be a true representative of the the present ruling tory bunch and I hope the wheel him more and more!

Preferably on a


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Good one on toffs, all flavours.


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Very good Max !

DB, not at all, the markets are slow and I'm bored with the polls and all the GE stuff so thought I'd generally stir it up against all politicians as I like to do...

Osborne was chosen for no other reason than Fed had posted a deficit comment prior to my post. "The Tories are to blame, nope, it's Labours fault".... "Only under a XYZ government will we achieve growth!!" It's all rubbish.... Shouldn't any sucessful economy contract as it evolves?

Good article Max.

Shortie, there was an interesting interview with someone from the Institute of Fiscal Studies on the Daily Politics programme today who basically said the current government had the correct policies in place to tackle the deficit, but that you could ask three of the best economists in the country what the right answer was - and you would get three different answers!

DB in order to get the right answer keep in mind that you must ask the right question... Is the deficit really a bad thing? Or just like most new businesses or even graduates for that matter they enter into the world with debt..! Would someone changing career or a business changing direction not be expected to incur debt as a result? You could argue therefore that a deficit is a product of evolution. Its not necessarily a bad thing depending on the overall bigger picture, that's what modern day politics lack and why politicians fail to inspire people to go and vote for them.