Where are buses free for kids?
London and some surrounding areas. If they're in full-time education.
Thing is the government's overcompensated for the northern unemployment while a crowded high-tax paying area like London gets no schemes whatsoever.
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London and some surrounding areas. If they're in full-time education.
Thing is the government's overcompensated for the northern unemployment while a crowded high-tax paying area like London gets no schemes whatsoever.
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I thought routemasters were taken away because they were very old, very dirty and didn't hold that many passengers. New ones have been designed and they are returning to the capital's streets.
Makes no odds; do you think people who smoke (including me occasionally) don't know exactly what cigarettes are doing to them? Well we do, always have done and we still choose to do it, slogans and pictures make no difference at all.
Would prefer to spend the cash on kit for soldiers and hospitals for the injured. Almost every town has a memorial already, I don't think we need a programme of building more.
Cycle lanes on paths are a terrible idea. Actually, most cycle lanes are a terrible idea, but having them on paths is even worse because it means you have to share them with pedestrians and you have to stop every 15 yards and give way to someones drive, not to mention proper junctions.
This I agree with wholeheartedly. Rather than raise student fees across the board I think that national planning should look at what skills we do and don't require and price courses accordingly; e.g. medicine is free and political science costs £200,000 a year.
Agree with this, but I prefer the German model where kids can chose to do academic subjects or vocational skills, such as car mechanics, plumbing, etc.
Yep sorry, I live in London so thats all that was in my mind.
If money is the issue, then I'm afraid that is no solution. Boris claimed that the cost of hiring conductors would be ~£8million per year, but it later transpired that it would cost upwards of £100million, just for the conductors salaries.
Don't agree with number 13. They may look the part but cycle lanes on serve to make motorists think that cyclists should stay within the confines of the lines. Cyclists can use all the lane when necessary and they have been shown to decrease the space drivers give cyclists.
I agree with the ones about education. At the moment Labour want everyone to be equal. If you think about it, if we ended up with everyone equal we'd have a country full of doctors and lawyers etc. however they'd all be knee deep in s*** as there would be no one to clean up the rubbish.
I give the same amount of respect to anyone who does a job as long as the job is useful and not some Government made up rubbish. Doesn't matter if the person is a street cleaner, a dustbin man or a lawyer or accountant.
Labour need to realise that people don't want to go to uni / do A-levels, they only stay on to do A-levels so they can get their £30 a week. This lowers the average scores and we look bad, so the Government then makes the exams easier and we are left with an undereducated workforce with nothing to distinguish the best students from the good.
We need apprenticeship schemes where people gain useful skills which have the same credit as A-levels. Jobs where you can learn "on the job" shouldn't require a degree they should also have some kind of apprenticeship scheme.
I agree with the ones about education. At the moment Labour want everyone to be equal. If you think about it, if we ended up with everyone equal we'd have a country full of doctors and lawyers etc. however they'd all be knee deep in s*** as there would be no one to clean up the rubbish.
I give the same amount of respect to anyone who does a job as long as the job is useful and not some Government made up rubbish. Doesn't matter if the person is a street cleaner, a dustbin man or a lawyer or accountant.
Labour need to realise that people don't want to go to uni / do A-levels, they only stay on to do A-levels so they can get their £30 a week. This lowers the average scores and we look bad, so the Government then makes the exams easier and we are left with an undereducated workforce with nothing to distinguish the best students from the good.
We need apprenticeship schemes where people gain useful skills which have the same credit as A-levels. Jobs where you can learn "on the job" shouldn't require a degree they should also have some kind of apprenticeship scheme.
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I don't think they're designed specifically for people who already smoke and are addicted (whether they admit it or not!). I think they're much more beneficial in preventing and putting off young people from taking up the habit, for all the well established reasons why it's a bad idea.
I think that the pictures are a good way for the government to slowly discourage smoking, and give enough time for them to slowly get used to the loss of income from that sector, hence why it hasn't been eliminated by crazy prices or similar yet.
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As I said, always have known. I don't know a single person who after taking up smoking suddenly realised that they were bad for you. Everyone knows smoking is bad, they simply choose to ignore it, just as they choose to ignore the slogans and pictures.
i certainly do agree with a new immigrant doing a serious crime and getting deported(god knows ive had enough trouble with one).. we shouldnt have to pay for his upkeep but the bit about unemployment benefit pretty much sucks(im not on unemployment benefit incase you're wondering).
what about the single mothers for example who's partner has just left them ? or the people who are disabled or the areas of the country where it's just really really hard to get a job ?
we can't just let our own people starve yet seem so generous to everyone else in the world.
what about the single mothers for example who's partner has just left them ? or the people who are disabled or the areas of the country where it's just really really hard to get a job ?
we can't just let our own people starve yet seem so generous to everyone else in the world.
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What's current JSA? £70-£100 a week?
Try getting made redundant in Germany or Scandinavia. Mate of mine, aged 23, got made redundant as an engineer for HP in Germany and started benefits on around 80% of his previous salary dropping by a fixed amount each year.
He spent the next two years smoking weed and playing on his play station with precisely no intention of getting a job.
1. No free bus travel for kids
you are mean! i mean i have to travel like 1hr with bus(2 buses 4x a day) to get to the college.. do you think i would be able to afford even the little sum you are talking about 40p ? x4! = 1.60p x5 a week... nearly 10quid where the hell am i meant to get these money? parents no go, EMA = with bus at least once a week late! win win aye?? :/
you are mean! i mean i have to travel like 1hr with bus(2 buses 4x a day) to get to the college.. do you think i would be able to afford even the little sum you are talking about 40p ? x4! = 1.60p x5 a week... nearly 10quid where the hell am i meant to get these money? parents no go, EMA = with bus at least once a week late! win win aye?? :/
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Oh boy do they, but I wanted to make the point that our benefit system isn't really overly generous, it's just that some people learn how to screw the system.
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i think i phrased it badly
i meant generous as in ....if someone enters the uk illegaly we dont just kick them straight back out or even if they are not illegal we give them permits to stay but not to work ...it just seems silly to me if our own public wasn't allowed any unemployment benefit but we gave it to others.
Dunno what JSA is now but 4-5 years back I was on it for awhile before I managed to move to a place with better job availability - and it was £44 a week JSA and £75 a week housing benefits... and my share of the rent was £380 a month - so I was slowly eeking it out of the JSA - wouldn't have been able to afford it in the long term - then no idea what would happen.
I was fortunate in that I had the opportunity to move to another part of the country - coz I couldn't have afforded to move - and I had a job within a month then - back where I had been living I could have easily gone on for 3-4 years before managing to get a job - and that was with trying.
I was fortunate in that I had the opportunity to move to another part of the country - coz I couldn't have afforded to move - and I had a job within a month then - back where I had been living I could have easily gone on for 3-4 years before managing to get a job - and that was with trying.
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