Johnson and a new deal

No lemon. I leave delusion to the Brexiters.

Why is it that left wingers, apart from Grandad, are so flipping rude all the time on a personal level, making normal conversation virtually impossible?!

Destroying the UK? Have you eaten a magic mushroom omelette?

Choosing the winning party means absolutely zilch when it's the party that's bent on destroying the UK.

I really meant, post something intelligent...

Nothing new and not a deal. But what would you expect from the Vote Leave No Deal Party?

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lemongrove

GG13 I like the sound of increasing apprenticeships.?

Don’t we all

Well......that’s a good start.?

MaizieD I don't need to prove anything to you. I have already proved that I chose the winning party. It's time you all faced the facts.

I can think of something, too. They made it mandatory that children should be taught to read using structured synthetic phonics.

Apart from that, though.....

lemongrove

GG13 I like the sound of increasing apprenticeships.?

Don’t we all

trashier, you are on the right track there. First thing that came into my head when I heard it being announced. Yet more opportunities for those who have, to have even more. And no doubt at the taxpayers' expense eventually.
Grandad43, Blair and Brown put money into the NHS and schools and transformed both services during their time in office. I was both a teacher and inspector in London during those times and saw, year by year in my inspections, vast improvements in schools with both buildings and resources. You may not like how they funded it but the children benefited greatly from it - e.g. IT rooms with a full complement of up to date computers etc.

GG13 I like the sound of increasing apprenticeships.?

That's not true lemongrove. I'm sure if I really thought hard, I could think of something good the Tories have done.

Got it! They increased Local Housing Allowance.

Economist on BBC.

Dr. Linda Yueh said that we will need to plough between 5-7% of GDP into the economy in order to save our country. That is the sort of level that Roosevelt spent.

Johnson has a hell of a way to go.

Janpt

growstuff and so do we [have brains]. Difference is we use them.

Prove it, janpt

I think you would need a heart of stone not to realise that many many families are going to need extra support as we emerge from lockdown .

Investing in infrastructure is a start. Apparently the Government is also investing in more apprenticeships which can only be a good thing surely?

They're intended to sound inane - to cover up the nastiness of the real agenda.

Davidhs

If unemployment really does reach anything like 30% usefull work must be found, there are plenty of schools, hospitals and other infrastructure that need putting right. Not to mention inner city’s that need regenerating, this is going to be a big change in society.

Everyone will have to accept whatever work they are offered and that it is in the national interest, this is a big change and there will be some who will resist.

Some honesty is needed....for some posters on GN whatever either the Conservative Party or Boris Johnson did or said, it would always be dissed roundly.
I agree Davidhs and anything that will help the job market sounds good to me.

Oooh Mamie Xpost

As a bit of light relief I'm sure some of you will enjoy Marina Hyde's take on the spaffer's speech this morning:

“We will double down on levelling up … We will invest … to fuel the animal spirits … We will not just bounce back, we will bounce forward.” Thus gibbered Boris Johnson this morning, sounding exactly like Franklin D Roosevelt shortly after the latter’s massive intracerebral haemorrhage...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/30/conservatives-cowboy-builders-boris-johnson

Who writes these inane speeches?

I wonder if it is Tory donors who will be getting all these new building contracts.

Marina Hyde is brilliant.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/30/conservatives-cowboy-builders-boris-johnson

Janpt

MaizieD At least we all got it not just those who made no effort.
Margaret Thatcher was an inspiration and did a far better job than the ghastly Marxist Corbyn and his Marxist cronies.

I know plenty of people of my age who made very little effort but are quite comfortable today. Some of them realise their good fortune and haven't been overcome by smugness.

new deal .. for whom? not for the likes of us working class or the disabled.....something to benefit the tory party...

MaizieD

I often think it's a bit weird when older people start resenting people getting state support, seeing that our generation lacked for nothing. Free schooling, free university or technical college (in fact, we even got paid to go), free medical care, free dentistry, child allowance for all our children...

Even the ghastly grocer's daughter from Grantham had the full advantage of this but then she decided to pull the rug out from under the feet of future generations...

Over a lifetime, approximately 70% of people in the UK receive more from the state than they contribute. That includes people who consider themselves comfortable. It's really not a scrounging minority, as some people would like others to think it is.

MaizieD At least we all got it not just those who made no effort.
Margaret Thatcher was an inspiration and did a far better job than the ghastly Marxist Corbyn and his Marxist cronies.