The new NHS Party has been aiming them in his direction already.

If you mean you get a discount off your council tax because you are a single person, don't worry you will be next in line to have that "benefit" removed.

The same argument will apply to you. It will be if you don't want to pay the full council tax for a property of the band you live in, go and buy one in a lower band.

... or go and educate yourself or train to get one of the millions of better-paid jobs that are out there.

Went to a SWP meeting last night. Apparently the revolution is imminent. Is that the same one that was imminent last time I went, 35 years ago, or a new one?

They're too busy smearing assorted members who say they were raped by party leaders to be organising anything else.

Do they have SWP meetings in leafy Hertfordshire?

Well I never.............

Your not talking to Kirkstaller here I know things don't work out but I wouldn't class every single parent family as a broken home, would you class someone with a deceased parent from a broken home? Probably not but then again a family with both parents there could be classed as a broken home depending on how the family life is

The strange thing is that David Cameron has been speaking TODAY about that very thing, the opportunity to give every school leaver not gong into FE an apprenticeship of some description.

Of course he isn't mentioning how to fund any of this and I suspectr that he isn't going to offer any sort of help at all because he's also spoken of how private businesses have to help out, but it just goes to show that nothing is new in politics and the fact that he was visiting a training college today and had to think of something to say probably had nothing to do with it at all.


Of course - 'twas always done this way when I was a trainee back in the good old 1970s...

Whilst my comment was tongue in cheek - they do. I recall Titan going to one when he was a school at the behest of a friend and one of his teachers was there! He thought the whole bunch of them were deluded imbeciles (which they are). Mind you that meeting was in the seedy Metropolis of St Albans.

Camoron was visiting MBUK's training facility at Milton Keynes today. Those young apprentices he was seen with were employed by their dealerships and the training will have been funded by those same dealerships too.

It was also announced today that any over 24 year old who is accepted on an apprentice course will fund his own training through loans similar to those offered to students.

As with YTS and all the other smokescreen programmes before, the only "investment" government will be making is what they'd have paid in unemployment benefit anyway

Although to be fair, when thee and me were nobbut young fresh out of school trainees, our company's paid for our training too, possibly the colleges were more subsidised and thus the fees cheaper, but the company paid.

For five years in the case of the trade I was in, from the age of sixteen to twenty one by which time you were expected to be doing the same job as a fully qualified forty year old or you were out on your ear.

And there was nothing wrong at all with that system, it wasn't in the slightest bit broken and yet someone decided they knew better and decided to tamper with it.

Children never 'just happen'. They are the result of a choice. People choose to have sex and when they choose to do that they know that there is the risk of pregnancy even when using contraception (and absolutely nobody of any age these days has an excuse not to use contraception - it is freely available even to those under 16 and discussed throughout school and just about everywhere else).

It really isn't. Some people do choose to be poorThat Mary didn't choose to have a child out of marriage, did she? '"

That there is such a dilemma indicates how wrong the system has gone. Our benefits system as originally constructed was for the short term help of the unfortunate and elderly. The original author did not want his system to be a long term commitment because he was very aware of how dependent people would become upon it (read it for yourself). That has indeed happened. How to pull it all back? It's a dilemma because there is the risk of harm to children but that doesn't mean that the issue shouldn't be faced and that something shouldn't be done.