General Election - 4th July 2024

[metalblue]

Yeah thanks. I realised just after I posted.

Though my guess is the leopards won’t have changed their spots.

The tories won’t have. Labour have however and won’t be on 0% this time though. They’ll be as much at it as the tories if not worse.

Whatever anyone thinks of Corbyn’s politics he was honest. That got him in a lot of trouble politically in the end because he couldn’t think one thing and say another - Palestine being a good example.

 

[kaz7]

Sunak still answering every question with we live in uncertain times and only the tories can keep us safe , stupid **** , trying to scare people into voting for them , get out tossers

 

[Postman Pep]

Lol

 

[threespires]

One thing Sunak has done right this year is getting rid of the 5 percent co-investment for employers hiring anyone under the age of 21. However it should never have been there in the first place and feels like the apprenticeship programme is another thing the government has tried to privatise by getting big business to foot the bill.

As for universities they all need to look at how they extend their degree apprenticeship offerings which will provide the bridge for young people to get into a career whilst obtaining a degree at the same time. There’s an opportunity for them here if the government want to get rid of degrees that don’t deliver a pathway to a career.

Indeed. Ive got someone doing a degree apprenticeship at the moment and it's been interesting looking at both the offering and the model. Definitely scope for both improvement and extension. I guess the attitude to them varies across the different mission groups in the HE sector but they're a decent idea that are currently under utilised imo. That said I think in any policy push to focus on L4 - L6 apprenticeships and the push to get rid of the 'lower quality' L2 and L3 ones, there's a need to avoid chucking the baby out with the bath water at the entry level end of things.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Let's make the Brexit voting FOCs do national service, I'd vote for that. Ship the miserable old twats off to the Donbas on their mobility scooters.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Think he’s the guy on the right…

It’s incredible how unserious the Tory campaign has been so far.

 

[BobKowalski]

Think he’s the guy on the right…

It’s incredible how unserious the Tory campaign has been so far.

To be fair, if I was a Tory candidate I’d be tapping up my dealer right now…

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

To be fair, if I was a Tory candidate I’d be tapping up my dealer right now…

“It’s incredible that I get to meet someone who’s eroded society so much, so quickly” said the heroin dealer.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Think he’s the guy on the right…

It’s incredible how unserious the Tory campaign has been so far.

Funny - I was listening to Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall earlier and Sopel told an anecdote where in the 1992 (or maybe 1997) election he was working as a corespondent on John Major's battle bus and the bloke sat next to him started literally doing smack on the bus hahaha

I was pretty shocked he actually told that story on national radio, but at least he kept the identity of the other person private. Nearly spat my tea out.

Edit: Turned out it was Will Self!

 

[bluethrunthru]