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Does Tony have full sky subscription, fast broadband and a nice mobile phone?
Does Tony have full sky subscription, fast broadband and a nice mobile phone?
Does Tony have full sky subscription, fast broadband and a nice mobile phone?
Bottom line is that people, in general, do not give a **** about others (despite public showings claiming that they do). They care about themselves and then the blinkers go on.
For the purposes of my point it's the bottom category - the reason being that he would vote in the same way as them.Which of your three categories does Tony fit into?
The welfare system in terms of percentages is nothing.
It just so happens to be an easy target for the Conservative ideology, the tax avoidance of companies should be number 1 target... except they just happen to pay the conservatives backroom boys X amount for not looking.
We have the money, we need to spend it on something, Healthcare and welfare seem really good ideas to me. Trident, Nuclear Power projects, More stuff for London is not good ideas.
Tony is completely fictional but entirely plausible.
I agree with this, it's only relatively recently that this has happened. Throughout history there have been rich powerful people, and the plebs on the bottom. If you were one of the plebs, at best you might become a merchant or something, and be a bit wealthier. But you'd still be a pleb. We hear a lot about rents being horrendous, and they are, but not so many years ago most people were working 12-14 hours just for a roof over their head and some food.The period of reduced inequality, high growth and more egalitarian wealth distribution that followed the Great Depression and two World Wars, appears to have been very much an outlier in the grand scheme of human civilisation.
The Baby Boomer generation enjoyed an unparalleled period of growth and productivity, and they convinced us that it was the 'new normal'. We just have to face up to the fact that this isn't the case.
Tony is not only fictional but extremely unlikely and unrepresentative of vast swathes of the country.....
This appears to be some appeal to the supposed 'deserving poor'.
Tony is of course rather a straw man type of a! character... His wife doesn't need a 'primary carer' in all likelyhood if Tony can work in excess of full time hours and look after two school age children as well. His job alone with travel time would mean he was out of the home for around 10 hours a day at work or travelling to and from work.
Still the current goverment has manged to get a few things right. Dropping taxes for those in work is a small silver lining to an otherwise dim proverbial cloud
+1The university fees certainly are hindering social mobility, there is no student loan available for a 2nd degree so all the people that want to change careers can no longer afford to with the increase.
The university fees certainly are hindering social mobility, there is no student loan available for a 2nd degree so all the people that want to change careers can no longer afford to with the increase.
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Fee's etc
Ask yourself why the government are keen to bring back grammar school.
There is going to be a huge skills shortage after we leave europe. Especially in the tech sector and we dont have people here unfortunately due to failing of the school system.
They have only started to introduce programming in key stage 1&2 in schools.
Ask yourself why the government are keen to bring back grammar school.
Social mobility is about people who are born into benefits Britain having the same change as those in the middle class to actually make something for themselves.
You think the state funding peoples 2nd degree's is better?
Having a degree let alone a second is not a guarantee of getting a new/better job. For that matter nor is it training baring a few specific roles (doctors etc). It is much more about proof you can apply yourself to a certain level. You do not need a degree in the subject (or even at all) to do a whole boat load of top respected careers such as accountants and lawyers.
There is a huge amount of graduate schemes that do not require you to have a degree in a relevant subject, just the grade.
Yes I know that but the point is just because the person got bored with their current career the state shouldn't have to pick up the tab for their 2nd degree. There are plenty of ways to change career without getting a £30k qualification that takes 3 years with no guarantee of actually getting a decent job.
That isn't being socially mobile.