http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 22:42:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-25177 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:02:36 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 25177@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Perhaps all of the people who have lost their jobs in this slash and burn campaign of the ConDems could get together in groups voluntarily to work out how we might spend the released money, and make up websites, proposal forms, carry out monitoring and the like? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-25151 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:24:30 +0000 arrghgarry 25151@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hmmm, 'Arbeit Macht Frei' - I didn't realise that was one from IDS... </p> <p>Of course it was ,his Japanese Granny was part of that famous three some </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23849 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:19:33 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 23849@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes, Mr Esler. Pétain's watchword was <em>"Travaille, Famille, Patrie!"</em>, a slogan which, though intrinsically unpersuasive as a Raison d'Etat, has inexplicably re-emerged. We're in in the middle of a future which draws heavily on the recent past. Pétain was executed for High Treason, at the end.</p> <p>Fingers crossed. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23822 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:03:12 +0000 riesler 23822@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hmmm, 'Arbeit Macht Frei' - I didn't realise that was one from IDS... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23810 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:17:12 +0000 thisisall1word 23810@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Big Society push should have good results I think. My two scamps Phennella and Jack currently go (or wil be going to soon) to a fairly average state school out in the sticks. There's a mixture of decent middle class kids but sadly also some working class ones.<br /> We've got together with 30 other familes from the more educationally advanced and well to do of the area with plans to start a exciting new Academy which could better provide for the nicer children.</p> <p>I don't like to think of it as a two-tier system. I prefer to think of it as a natural seperation of something like milk, some children being cream, others being skimmed, or semi skimmed. You wouldn't want to mix cream with skimmed milk would you! And there's nothing wrong with drinking gold top, red top or green top - each is useful in the home, just as each child will have some use in society.</p> <p>Making job seekers litter pick at Academies, as enforced volunteers, would be an excellent idea. I think it could really help them find their sense of self worth. Ian Duncan Smith said that <em>"work actually helps free people"</em>, very true. We could quite easilly bus them down and back from the North to the home counties each day.</p> <p>So can we stop all this Tory bashing please? Should be pointed out that these types of ideas where introduced by Chairman Blair, only Labore's idea was to have academies to help improve failing schools rather than to reward the best. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23701 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:36:44 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 23701@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>As the cottage industry in former public services gets sliced and diced and handed out to get another layer of half-timers moonlighting on local authorities' headcount, the opportunities for the sale of data, services and harassment are going to be phenomenal. More rich people living in council flats, collecting gold-plated pensions in the Maldives, and so forth. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23671 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:09:52 +0000 StoopyDeGunt 23671@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>re; Surveillance cameras</p> <p>Did you know there's actually a facebook-style club for surveillance camera owners?</p> <p>Like you, Sauce, I don't feel I belong in any party. (which has the best subsidised bar?)</p> <p>I have tried volunteering though. Liked the aspect of working with kids. But didn't enjoy being patronised by a power tripping council jobsworth. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23666 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:53:44 +0000 sauce 23666@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>None of the buggers are perfect, Stoopy. I'm not a member of any party not likely to be. But I've a sneaking suspicion that any new "volunteers" will all be people laid off because of the recession and sent out "for experience" (or else no dole). Also, wouldn't be surprised if the first signs of unrest are a cue to back-track on decomissioning surveilance cameras and so on. Keeping a weather eye on the Tea Party over in the States - really bonkers but becoming accepted. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23661 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:30:01 +0000 StoopyDeGunt 23661@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oh, Hunter, don't get me wrong.</p> <p>I'm not some kind of right wing nutter!</p> <p>Blimey, you won't catch me questioning anything Gordon Brown or Peter Mandelson or Alistair Campbell say. I don't want people thinking I'm racist or a global warming denier.</p> <p>I'm all for freedom and democracy. And if some flipping tory wants to question that, he should be locked up, under the anti terrorism laws. Or have his wrists slit.</p> <p>That David Kelly bloke was asking for it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23654 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:59:17 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 23654@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well, you won't need to worry about surgeons' fees when you next need brain surgery: remember, we're all pals and I'm here. Bless. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23650 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:45:30 +0000 StoopyDeGunt 23650@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ah yes, Tuesday is when Richard Littlejohn's column comes out. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23612 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:21:18 +0000 riesler 23612@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Pick me up a Daily Mail while you're out! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23610 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:19:03 +0000 StoopyDeGunt 23610@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Too late, Sauce, I already volunteered!</p> <p>Although strictly speaking, I'm not a tory.</p> <p>I do hate what Gordon Brown's done to the economy, and I'm ashamed of Tony Blair's mass genocide.</p> <p>Which, to many of my left wing friends, makes me one of the running dogs of fascism.</p> <p>Oh fuck, I'm middle class too.</p> <p>I'll get my coat.... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23530 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:04:10 +0000 wallster 23530@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And, as an electronics engineer of 25 years experience, I'll be the ideal person to perform your mother's hip replacement. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23529 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:53:49 +0000 curry muncher 23529@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>and I will be holding a coffee morning on Friday to fund my mother's hip replacement </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8768#post-23528 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:57:26 +0000 sauce 23528@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>who'll be leaping up to set a good example to the lazy, feckless, unwashed masses.<br /> (Do I sound a wee bit cynical?) </p>