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Dissatisfaction with democracy 'at record high'

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    #21
    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    You know there are books you can read which help you through the change process.
    I'm not bothered about whether or how it affects me. I'm not a fisherman, a factory worker. I'm not something in the City. I'm not an NHS manager, or a Commissioner of Police. Although these are just some of the people who will be hit by 'change' (a.k.a. even more severe shortage of money) they voted for Boris so they can burn in Hell.

    I'm just reminding you that the sheer ridiculousness of the referendum (even Boris couldn't believe the populace were that stupid) means letting ordinary folk like you near the levers of power is something nobody will go near again for generations.

    If you did one thing, Original, it was to massively reinforce British Democracy. It wasn't what you intended, or wanted, but thanks anyway.
    "Don't part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live" Mark Twain

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      #22
      Originally posted by original PM View Post
      How long does it take to get a PhD?

      So if for example you start Uni at 18 - do a 4 year BSc, then a 2? year MSc and then another 4 years at PhD level - does this mean you are coming out at 28 without ever worked a day in your life - but with an expectation that you will walk into any job at a high level and expect people to listen to you?

      Not supposing to find most people with PhD's end up in academia.

      Not all mind you but most....

      You don't need a bachelors degree to get a masters.

      As for people never having worked a day in their lives, take a look at the beloved Tory party and how many are career politicians, who have never done a job in the real world - i.e. either worked outside of politics, or had a job that they got on merit, not because of who they were related to.
      …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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        #23
        Originally posted by original PM View Post
        if for example you start Uni at 18 - do a 4 year BSc, then a 2? year MSc and then another 4 years at PhD level - does this mean you are coming out at 28 without ever worked a day in your life - but with an expectation that you will walk into any job at a high level and expect people to listen to you?
        The students I've encountered at client site in abroadland are usually in their twenties. One of my sprogs has just started a teaching degree at age 25 (but worked for a bit after leaving school).
        Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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          #24
          Degree = bottom rung of academic career ladder
          BTec = " " " technical career

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            #25
            Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
            That made me smile. Nearly every German graduate I've met in the office are around 27-29 year old mark. Their 1st year in the work place. Then they moan endlessly at my high rate and in the same breath look at me with astonishment as I explain the vlookup function to them , they whip out the notepad and write it down. No wonder Germany has a falling birth rate.
            Still using VLOOKUP? All the cool kids use INDEX - MATCH.

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              #26
              Originally posted by WTFH View Post
              You don't need a bachelors degree to get a masters.

              As for people never having worked a day in their lives, take a look at the beloved Tory party and how many are career politicians, who have never done a job in the real world - i.e. either worked outside of politics, or had a job that they got on merit, not because of who they were related to.
              Are they somehow different to Corbyn? Ah, yes, he's still stuck being a student politician. My bad.
              The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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                #27
                Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
                Are they somehow different to Corbyn? Ah, yes, he's still stuck being a student politician. My bad.

                No, not that much different, just there's a lot more of them
                …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                  No, not that much different, just there's a lot more of them
                  Not really, there's just more stealing oxygen in parliament at the moment. Labour have a load licking their wounds and denying there was anything wrong with their Party or its manifesto.
                  The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
                    Not really, there's just more stealing oxygen in parliament at the moment. Labour have a load licking their wounds and denying there was anything wrong with their Party or its manifesto.
                    And some blamed the voters!

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
                      I maintain the referendum was a protest vote against the very establishment we all have issues with.

                      The whole thing stinks.
                      Quite so....but soon it will stink in London and not in Brussels. Won't be so far to commute for those of a "lighted torch and pitchfork" persuasion.
                      And that can only be for the best.

                      “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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