Will Messrs Reeves and Raynor Still Be Around This Time Next Year?

Yes I'm from Cuba.
I am, in fact, a cube.

Oreo at the minute am beginning to think Cuba is the better option….

😂maybe we can all charter a boat there.

MissAdventure

Yes I'm from Cuba.
I am, in fact, a cube.

Rubik?🤭

Rubik?🤭

No, I'm simpler to work out.

Greenpeace isn’t happy about the bus fares rise according to the BBC. Although it seems that the last government only funded £2 tickets until the end of the year but why wouldn’t they? They knew that there was no hope of being re elected.

I shall insist on paying more,next time, then, if Greenpeace are upset

I thought they'd be glad to get cars off the road.

ronib

Oreo at the minute am beginning to think Cuba is the better option….

Cuba has no electricity ATM.

MissA are you having a bad day?
Greenpeace will want cheap public transport to stop more cars on the road.

Yes, I am, thank you for asking.

MaizieD

ronib

Oreo at the minute am beginning to think Cuba is the better option….

Cuba has no electricity ATM.

I don’t believe any of us were being serious 😁

MissAdventure

MaizieD yes Cuba does have an energy crisis so I hope this government takes note. We’re heading in the same direction.

No, Miss Adventure.
A lot of single parents do it themselves, provide a hot breakfast for their children before 8 am and they go to school, and before a 40 minute drive in heavy traffic to get to work.
There is a flourishing breakfast club at the pre-school here, but it can only take limited numbers, is expensive and it won't be able to cope with free breakfasts for all, as 'promised' by by the education secretary. Schools won't be able to cope on school premises; tried years ago and could not process the numbers in the time before two halls needed for classes. Bad enough with dinners, three shifts necessary.
More nanny state.

That would depend entirely on what time they start work, I'd presume.
Very few jobs are neat, 9 to 5 packages these days.

The government is investing a large amount into the scheme.

Whenever I see a media photo of Keir, Angela and Rachel grinning idiotically at each other I just have to think "I bet two of you will have got your P45's by next year ......"

I misread P45s as PJs

Really time to make an appointment with the optician.
And the hairdresser as I'm competing with Claudia Winkleman.

eazybee

No, Miss Adventure.
A lot of single parents do it themselves, provide a hot breakfast for their children before 8 am and they go to school, and before a 40 minute drive in heavy traffic to get to work.
There is a flourishing breakfast club at the pre-school here, but it can only take limited numbers, is expensive and it won't be able to cope with free breakfasts for all, as 'promised' by by the education secretary. Schools won't be able to cope on school premises; tried years ago and could not process the numbers in the time before two halls needed for classes. Bad enough with dinners, three shifts necessary.
More nanny state.

Wow! I wonder how the schools my children attended managed to work such miracles. They all provided breakfast clubs, although we parents had to pay. Nevertheless, they managed to provide for all the children whose parents wanted them to use the clubs.

kittylester

^Don't you even care about policies and whether politicians achieve them?^

Of course but I am also allowed an opinion on the people aiming to deliver them.

What was your opinion of Gavin Williamson?

growstuff as a guess - your children attended breakfast clubs before the government expanded numbers?

Oreo

MaizieD

ronib

Oreo at the minute am beginning to think Cuba is the better option….

Cuba has no electricity ATM.

I don’t believe any of us were being serious 😁

Why not?

The best time to visit Cuba falls between November and April (during the country's dry season) with comfortable to warm temperatures and plenty of sunshine hours.

Sunshine, warmth, a sun lounger, good book and a piña colada.
Sounds awful in comparison to grey, chilly Britain.

jasper16

growstuff

kittylester

Surely, it isn't difficult to understand the correlation between how Bridget Phillipson appears to me and whether I trust her to do a good job.

Who is to dictate how I perceive people?

She looks smug to me and I don't like, or trust, smug people.

It has nothing to do with whether she went to the local state school or an expensive independent.

Don't you even care about policies and whether politicians achieve them?

Hmm ... now let me think which MPs (in my opinion) are more smug.

I think in more enlightened cultures it is possible for a parent to give a child a nourishing breakfast each day.

That's not the point. Plenty of research has shown that breakfast clubs provide children with an opportunity to socialise before school starts and ensures that everybody makes a timely start to the serious business of learning.

growstuff what about play time and lunch time for socialising with other children? How about family time as a part of childhood too?

ronib

growstuff as a guess - your children attended breakfast clubs before the government expanded numbers?

I was on the committee of the breakfast club, so I had details of its usage. About half of the school's population made use of the club at some stage. The primary school had just over 200 pupils, so that was about 100 pupils.

The secondary schools my children attended didn't have breakfast clubs, but the canteen was open before school, as was the school shop for buying school equipment.

Breakfast clubs are a relatively recent innovation so probably many of us became aware of them when our grandchildren were at primary school. They certainly weren't around when my own children were at school.

Several large firms became involved eg Kelloggs, Greggs and some supermarkets.