Why do we constantly have to live with 'lessons will be learned' ??

Question

Are you all as sick as i am of having this constant round of change for change sake being forced upon us in this country ? Cannabis downgraded two years ago by Blair, now Brown is proposing to regrade it to what it was previously - because what we all said would happen has happened but these thick and ignorant MP's are willing to go on spending OUR money following other similar paths. Immigration - Blair was warned what would happen when he opened the floodgates - did he listen - NO! What have we learned from that ? Brown robbing the pension funds - he still obviously hasn't learned anything from that as he is reportedly organising another one ! But we who had good pensions no longer have our entitlement and why - because we are spending money hand over fist in Iraq and Afghanistan. Stop it now ! Our money should be spent on flood relief and getting our infrastructure back to what it was in the 1950's when we had good working practices - instead of a load of theoretic drivel!

Answer 1

I want to be sick when this is said. (it means we will make damn sure this does not get into the press next time ) it's as bad as the I've always said or thought ( it so obvious i'm kicking myself)
That allegation is montrous ( they usually end up in prison)
The truth will out (I just hope i'm out before it does)
I have acted in a legal and resonsible manner (yes I've sailed close to the wind and I'm responsible for the slip over the line ) There are a lot more I just cann ot think of them off hand

Answer 2

Lessons will always have to be learned. This is a fact of life, and is what is commonly called experience.

It is significant that you mention the 1950s. In those days, we had consensual politics - the Beveridge report of 1944 relating to Education, and the establishment of the Welfare State under a political system that I will dub as 'Attleean Socialism', led to a system where neither of the main political parties would deviate too much from a system in which "we had never had it so good".

Today, we have adversarial politics, in which the two main parties are seen as enemies of each other. They both compete for the middle ground - Labour has, by decree, abolished the existence of the working class and seeks to woo the leafy suburbs. The Tories have, by decree, abolished the existence of the middle class and seek their votes from a stunned and baffled electorate whose political nous has been strangled by umpteen years of Thatcher and ten years of Margaret Blair.

In the Labour Party, there is not one politician who is capable of commanding any popular vote, and the Tories have decided to squander the talents of England's only charismatic politician, to wit, Boris Johnson, in a silly image competition for the empty prize of being Mayor of London, a figurehead position undermined constantly by an army of politically correct pseudo Sociologists.

The lessons that need to be learned are as follows:-

1. Government must lead. It must set down ground-rules by which it expects society to operate. These ground-rules must emphasize that freedom is commensurate with responsibility, not with the latest post-modernist interpretation of Sociological theory.

2. The labourer is worthy of his hire. No person or family should be able to be better off on benefits than by working a thirty-five hour week. Those on low-paid occupations, who rely on tax credits to boost their income, should not find these credits reduced if they work overtime. The current rules stifle initiative from the low paid to increase their income by overtime working.

3. Social housing must be provided, at rents that will enable one person to be the breadwinner, whilst the other stays at home or works part time so that a parent is at home when school finishes.

4. The 35 hour week must be made mandatory. Overtime should be limited to 10 hours per week, paid at time and a half, and should not be taxed. All employees should be entitled to six weeks paid leave per week, and either the employer or the State should pay sick pay, at full rate, from day one of the employees absence.

5. Benefits should only be paid to those whose need is genuine, who have proven contributions, or proven contributions from their partners. All other cases should be regarded as exceptional.

6. The general principle is that no-one has anything other than basic rights until they earn them. This should apply equally to the Etonian and to the inhabitant of Benwell, Nechells, Bristol St Pauls or Tooting.

That's enough for a start. Vote for me!

Edit - six weeks paid holiday per year!

Answer 3

I am sounding like a broken record I'm afraid, but, we all have to get off our backsides and vote, lobby, make noise, make mp's listen and make a difference, if the french for example, don't agree with their government, they get off their jacksies and tell them, and it works!

Answer 4

Why do we seem to get the govt. we deserve? Because as a species People Are Stupid. Go out in public and watch them.

Answer 5

I have a better idea: cut more of the welfare state and give everyone tax cuts.

Answer 6

here here, here here, agreed, institutionalised brains institutionalised language, institutionalised ideas institutionalised lies, institutionalised blood suckers. or should i say self brainwashed.

Answer 7

you bet ye, we are always eager to learn something new.

Answer 8

I dont think I can add to that...hear hear!