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.

Another great idea being proposed for Scotland.





The Scottish pioneer whose plan for a basic income could transform Britain

Support is growing for an idea that used to be considered eccentric


Kevin McKenna

Sunday 8 January 2017 00.05 GMT



In the city where Adam Smith developed the free-market theories that inspired Thatcherism nearly 300 years later, a young Labour politician is pursuing an economic vision that takes a drastically different approach to “the wealth of nations”. Councillor Matt Kerr, an anti-poverty specialist on Glasgow city council, has been exploring how people become enslaved by poverty – and how they can escape it.

A meeting in Glasgow last month with Guy Standing, the radical economist who founded the Basic Income Earth Network, inspired Kerr to seek cross-party support to pilot a “universal basic income” in parts of Fife and Glasgow. He acknowledges that these are very early days and that there are many obstacles ahead, but the move makes him the most senior incumbent politician in Britain to contemplate a radical scheme that only a few years ago was considered beyond the political pale.



More: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/08/universal-basic-income-glasgow-welfare-revolution

What do expect from a FAR LEFT political mouthpiece, backing a Labour no mark,
advocating the proliferation of squandering taxpayers money...

There was a program on ch4 i believe, either last year or the year before
where they gave 4 or 5 people/families an amount of money(to replace their
weekly benefits) and to do as they wished, ie start own business and be more industrious..

Most went on a spending spree and others took weeks to decide, but were
still having to use the capital to live off and pay bills, one of them bought a
van but didn't/could'nt drive, with the intention of starting a secondhand-
carboot sale..

The end result wasn't too encouraging...

If anyones interested in a share that has great growth potential(who
hasn't), then you should take a serious look at Satallite Solutions Worlwide
group(SAT).

They provide broadband where its not available by the usual means/suppliers.

Could be a star performer in 2017?..

From: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/10/echr-swiss-muslim-girls-must-attend-mixed-sex-swimming-lessons

Swiss Muslim girls must attend mixed-sex swimming lessons
Tuesday 10 January 2017

Muslim extremists/fundamentalists are not going to like this one!

Switzerland has won a case at the European court of human rights over its insistence that Muslim parents send their children to mixed-sex school swimming lessons.

The parents in the case argued that their beliefs did not allow their children to take part in mixed-sex lessons.

However, the court rules, that Swiss authorities did not violate right to freedom of religion in rejecting parents’ request for exemption.

Hmmm? Extremely important case this, IMHO. As well as saying how important it is for safety reasons to teach your kids to swim, it sets an example about social integration being more important than religious teaching. Lots of Imams are surely going to be pretty pee'ed off about this.

Exec,

I would also suggest banning of single-sex schools in the UK. (10+% at the moment.)

But read this first :

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151715/http://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/00389-2007BKT-EN.pdf

Make the Imams go to mixed sex swimming lessons then. Just as long as they dont do their peeing in the pool.

Is that what you do!

Silly little boy!

if you go to a mixed sex school then i think all should participate across the board ..... this applies not only to moslems but also to the likes of jehovah's witnesses and plymouth brethren

It's Fred that will do something in the pool ,he can't help it these days.

Manuel.

In what?

all that school's activities, and that includes assembly which may well have aspects of religion that do not coincide with the beliefs of all pupils or that of their parents

When I was a little boy, Jews and Catholics were excused "Assembly" in the school which I attended.

"They could arrive late."

Being an atheist I was a little miffed at not being allowed to skip the "procedure" and thought of declaring myself a "pagan".

But, other than that I can't say it altered relationships.

Same in our school Fred. My best mate was catholic but decided to attend assembly as it was warmer in the hall than the little room they were excused to.

It was also an all boys schools and every year rumours did the rounds that plans were in the pipeline to merge with the girls school. These rumours are still doing the rounds today but on reflection can't think of a reason why we were any worse or better off being an all boys school.

we had all sorts and creeds and all had to go to chapel

Through circumstances that neither I nor my parents ever quite understood, I managed to fool the 11+ examiners and went to a Roman Catholic all boys grammar school. Irish Christian brothers, although most subjects were taught by lay teachers. We did have morning assembly but no going to chapel/church on a routine basis that I can remember. It is now a mixed sex school and had to change the school motto from "Viriliter Age" - act like a man. Fair enough I suppose. As long as it isn't "LGBT Age" .

I hope it was a Welsh Chapel, but reading your postings you weren't that lucky!

8-)

Ps. We had real girls at our school as well as other problems.

Was you a problem child little fred....Did you have a gender identity crisis?

No more than most.

Were your problems phobias which you haven't grown out of?

No phobias, i'm a factual person...Unlike yourself, who appear confused
on a regular basis...