General Chat

I was looking at this and thinking.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Cuba

This struck me:
In 1995, the literacy rate was 96%,
Cuba is one of the poorest countries in the region and lacks basic resources yet still leads Latin America in primary education in terms of standardized testing
Cuba shows how important education is by keeping a student to teacher ratio of 12 to 1.

Which is just under what private schools in this country try to achieve, and a lot lower than the 30 to 1 in state schools in this country.

Makes you wonder what the porn star's views on education are....

MPs remain unpopular in every generation. And when we elect a Government, the new incumbents end up being hated/mistrusted just as much as the previous one, if not more so.

I wouldn't vote for a porn aficionado - I wouldn't vote for UKIP either but I'm glad they're in the mix cos I think they've stirred the whole thing up

In answer to the original question,there,e not much difference between a Porn star and an MP.they,re both in it for one thing only, that to get as much cash for themselves as possible,and bugger the electorate.**M**.

I agree, Public School education isn't necessarily a good education, but the 'old boys/girls/parents network' certainly has it's advantages.

I think they're all making wild promises. :-0

What really irks me is the wild, childlike and sometimes personal jibes being flung from certain quarters.
I wouldn't allow that sort of behaviour in a playground, let alone a political platform!!

Farage isn't well educated in the way parliament works. He's making wild promises, a lot of which he cannot carry through because it would be illegal. Public school education isn't necessarily an proper education.

Over the years it has become easier for a wider section of people to vote. It has also become easier for more people to stand for election.

Whilst many of our MP's have had an education that most of us couldn't afford, there is nothing in the rule book to say that this must be the case.

This is how we have ended up with a few candidates that some might consider to be unsavoury characters.


Now I wonder what John Langley has planned for the chief whip? :-S :-D

Might pep up the party political broadcast though! :-D :-D :-D

Guinevere, Farage was educated at Dulwich College, if you regard the 'best' education being that from a (usually same sex) Public School.

This is my main bugbear. ALL the party leaders - including Natalie Bennett (Green Party), and the vast majority of MP's went to some form of Public/Independent school.

None of them 'represent' me or my ilk, or the majority of the electorate!
Apparently, as a 'working class' person, brought up, as a child in a caravan (just call me trailer trash) I'm apparently badly educated, read the Sun, drink lager and, because I haven't enough money to squirrel away in an offshore account, I don't come into the 'Hardworking People' bracket :-|
Oh - and should be 'grateful' for anything patronisingly 'given' to me by various Governments, like the rise in personal allowance (but not a reduction in National insurance) as for the potential rise in VAT - I'm not meant to realise that that is an incredible tax hike.

Fortunately, UKIP support is way down from its November peak. At the current rate they will br lucky to get four seats.

I'm learning slowly but surely that sometimes my opinion is best kept to myself.

Still can't understand you, Dermot. Cameron etc are at least educated and have some idea of how politics works. Farage is a spiv and a chancer.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

:-D

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Messrs Cameron & his side-kicks are qualified practitioners of waffle.

No way :-(

If you don't like waffle then I fail to understand why you like Farage. He makes a lot of noise without actually saying anything much.

Strangely enough, I like Nigel Farage, not particularly for the UKIP policies, but for the clarity of his speech.

Other politicians are good at answering questions without actually answering them - if that makes sense & can even proceed further by answering other queries not yet raised.

Too much waffle annoys me greatly.

Would not vote for any UKiP candidate they are a bunch of racist, homophobic, misogynistic morons.