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How long before Labour changes its emblem from a rose to the hammer and sickle ?
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Quote johnfirewall at 04 Oct 2015 11.28am
Quote jamiemartin721 at 30 Sep 2015 9.18am
Quote johnfirewall at 29 Sep 2015 10.32pm
What on earth is this politics of kindness? Is it not the same as what Blair created? Coincidence that most his voters grew up in that era? I think its like the 'Big Society' and 'all in it togeather' the empty vapid nonsense that politicians come out with that sounds good but is in fact a load of old bollocks in which politicians elicit support on the basis of oratory, rather than truth and policy. Big State more like. I note that Corbyn also mentioned opportunities for the youth created by increasing university places, while a member of his cabinet slagged off apprenticeships. Similar to the Blairite obsession with sending everyone to Uni. I'm not sure it was necessarily just a Blairite obsession, it was almost impossible to get a foot in to a lot of career options if you didn't have a graduate entry. Apprenticeships in areas such as IT, Law, Business etc are very rare compared to graduate places. It actually is quicker to become a solicitor via the Apprenticeship equivalent, rather than go to college and university and then do the two year placement. Problem is, in the apprenticeship program legal firms incur the costs and risks. Where as with the graduate entry, they can cherry pick the highest grade students, and only incur minimal training costs (which they recoup by essentially having a paralegal on low income). So whilst I despise all things Blair, the drive towards university was largely driven more from a corporate desire to avoid actually having to incur the costs of training people. For the Blairites it was a way of reducing unemployment in the under 20s (get them to go to university, you don't have to pay benefits plus they kind of pay for it through student loans).
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Quote Hrolf The Ganger at 20 Oct 2015 12.53pm
How long before Labour changes its emblem from a rose to the hammer and sickle ? Just after the Tory party switch to a Swastika on a white circle, on a red background.
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Have the Sun reached a nadir with the Corbyn didn't bow enough at the Cenotaph (I paraphrase) headline? Waddaloadacrap.
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Quote nickgusset at 20 Nov 2015 11.36pm
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