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LOL.
Dwark is most likely a typo… wheras the difference between loose and lose is more of an indication of poor schooling and too many roids 😛
Still…. Wolf is a pedantic dick so flame away at him! 😈
Woah – Wolf is salivating at your pecs no doubt 🙂
Good luck with that. Maybe you should put up the famous ‘playing wii in a bra’ pic on the site to elicit more interest 😉
How do you find square space? I thought it looked awesome when Magicker first told me about it. Bit expensive for me though. The layout looks pretty good – but you need a better banner at the top I reckon – and there is a bit of overlap /confusion between some of the sections on the site i reckon.
Not quite what i had in mind Wolf = but there is merit in your solution too. I would certainly argue for a fully independent NHS in the way that you describe education.
Well the answer to that is yes…. otherwise no one would go to them would they?? 🙂
If there is money around to teach the difficult kids – they will get taught as well. It’s true however that there would be winners and losers in a market based system… but thats the point… there are winners and losers now… but we like to pretend that everyhting is rosy and pretend it isn’t happening.
Just heard on the news tonight that between fraud and mistakes by HMG we lost 2.7 BILLION pounds last year in incorrect benefits payments.
2.7 BILLION!!!!!! Thats my fucking money!!!!!!!!!! 👿 👿 👿
Its not making money from health care that would worry me – its the fact that with private business the emphasis is always on doing MORE. More tests, more drugs, more treatments. This is actually very bad medicine (I have seen it at work first hand in Auistralia and to a lesser extent NZ.
The risks don’t apply in other areas of life – education included. Thats why i would single health out.
Market forces in schools could do a number of things…. reduce waste… drive performance of teachers… increase the incentives of parents and children to do better and play a greater role (as they will be paying money for a service), create incentives to look after buildings, encourage innovation in types of schools and teaching techniques.
You could still have universal education – just have a voucher system that can only be spent on school places and let the money flow to quality – with top up payments for the better schools.
I hear you Andy but the fundamental thing is… can you trust the government to do things well?
Every time they spend money on some new crazy subsidy for some piece of crap that I don’t believe in or that would be better delivered by local communities it is MY money they are doing it with.
If you cut back central government to just dealing with law and order, the military, a basic social safety net and possibly health care (this may sound self serving – but there are good reasons for making health care a special case) then we would probably be better off.
I am perfectly serious about taking education out of the public sector by the way. It isn’t valued at present, has no reward for innovation or excelence in its staff and has failed miserably in its primary task over the last few decades.
@XDC-snell wrote:
@xdc the doc wrote:
See if YOU get a job in the brave new world you work shy soap dodger.
Are you talking to me ?
I have no idea.
Are you a work shy soap dodger? 😛
Anyway.
The meeting could be summed up very quickly…
1) We are going to get IRC back up.
2) All XDC must play games on the PC for 6 hours a week, split in 1 or 2 hour blocks… Alzir will be running the sign in service.
3) Paddy came out as a gay atheist after many years of turning to the main bastion of homosexuality in the Western world – the RC church.N.B Only 2 of the above statements are true! 😈
Ha… one of the proposals was for a cut in wages for all public sector workers over 65k a year… which TBH I wouldn’t have a problem with. Since GP pay has been cut for 3 years running then it would be just more of the same anyway!
r.e. building for schools… what a flipin haemorrhage of cash. All the builders colluded to put the prices of contracts up and the people making decisions didn’t have a clue.
Privatise education I say. 😈 See if YOU get a job in the brave new world you work shy soap dodger.
