Stand On Your Own Two Feet

[Waldo]

 

[El Cid]

On 23/10/2021 at 12:14, Anna B said:

The point is, all things being equal, the person with money and connections will always win out in just aboout any situation. There's legislation to try and even up every group of people, black, minority groups, transgender, female/male, etc. But very little to even up rich/poor, connected/ unconnected, who have very little support.

 

Society only works because it is so diverse. Who would clean the street if everyone opened up a bank or set up a new airline?

The reallity is that Government can only try to make things fair, not make everyones parent a millionaire.

Our diverse society was working ok untill free movement was stopped, we dont have anyone that will do the awfull jobs, that involve working away from home or in the early hours.

[Anna B]

5 hours ago, Mr Bloke said:

Hmmm...

It doesn't matter how many opportunities you have...

... if you're too idle to get out of bed and make the most of them!

Strange comment

If l had a little kid who wouldn't get out of bed of a day l'd be seriously worried about his health. 

Sign of depression. If you've ever had it (and it's not just being fed up) you'd realise just how debilitating it can be. Poor housing, stress, debt - perfect recipe for depression.  

 

 

[Staunton]

To be clear, just seven percent of children in the UK have a privileged independent school education, and these go on to take over half of the places at Oxbridge (many other places at these, the UK's most prestigious centres of learning, are grabbed by wealthy foreign students - they are not welcoming of ordinary people who might wish to share in the educational and cultural advantages on offer, in spite of any claims to the contrary). To send a child to an independent school for one year will cost more than the average annual salary in the UK. Our children are excluded by our lack of wealth. Because we are not from that high-income privileged sector, we are not permitted to enjoy access to high-status education or the networking opportunities that come as part of the package. Our children can only hope for 'training and skills', not education and wealth.

Also, around seven percent of the population have ease of access private healthcare. The rest of us are dependent upon the NHS, that former public service now being vigorously eroded by the tories by privatisation and the associated employment techniques that mean a slow decline of skilled staff because cheaper labour is more profitable for the private contractors taking over our NHS. And these contractors are not interested in providing services, their only aim is profit.

Who are these contractors? All those tax- abusing multinationals and the in-crowd with tory connections that enjoy those 'warm' introductions. Anyone who doubts this need only cast their mind back to the PPE and test & trace scandals last year, shocking crony capitalist scams that cost the taxpayer £billions, that's public money that went to fraudulent and incompetent outsourcing companies, or who used their tory contacts to win bogus contracts, a scandal that cost thousands of lives in the UK during the pandemic.

The political project of the tories is to support this seven percent, maintain their privilege and work to further enrich the already enormously wealthy class, and to do so at the expense of everybody else. There are a few hangers on of course, who see themselves as members of this privileged minority and gather the crumbs from under the table, but around 90% of the population are exploited, forced to live a life of subservience to the few and watch our living standards erode and our childrens' schooling decline in this 'not what you know but who you know' culture of independent school, Oxford or Cambridge University and the old boy crony network that is revealed by the transcripts in my OP.

Unless you are from that privileged section of society, a vote for the tories is a vote against your own interests. Always.

There are those who will still seek to distract and confuse. Their bluster and blather is as easy to spot as Boris Johnson's. Ignore them.

These themes will never be covered in the mainstream media. Even when some elements are revealed by the BBC or the Guardian, it will be in their documentary programmes or special reports, never on the front page, never on the Six O'clock News. The dots sometimes emerge but they are never connected so that we ordinary people might get an idea of what is going on. My work here on Sheffield forum over the last ten years has been an attempt to reveal what is hidden.