Richard Hawley wrote:
the way its looking it will make the 80's look like a picnic cos without investment in the future...........there won't be one.My girls boyfriend has just turned 18 been looking for a job for a year and nothing doing at all,he is as bright as a button and really keen to learn while he earns,pay his way and work hard,he has a great attitude but nothing is happening for him.I would not want to be a young lad now or worse.............a teacher trying to teach them they have a future.............the one hope is that in local elections folks get off their arses and vote them out
I think this is the thing that upsets me most about the whole thing. It's condemning bright and talented youngsters to a life on the scrapheap. This spending review will destroy the hopes of a generation and that's not an overstatement. We're already fast-tracking our kids for a life of debt and frustration – higher tuition fees, running up big debts, graduate taxes to be paid back from dwindling earnings in low paid jobs, little opportunity in the public sector. I fear for my kids – I want them to do what makes them happy but it seems life will be a lot about responsibility and worry too. And as for the election thing, I hope people vote the fuckers out too. But I think something needs to be done before that, something more immediate. I think it's our responsibility to future generations to make sure we don't let this shower of filth do the monumental damage that Thatcher did to some of our communities.
And Alan, you are so right! These people are just thieves. I'm not doing a Vodaphone shop today but I am spending my lunchbreak on a firefighters' picket line as they are striking in London and I feel I need to do something to show them that people don't believe the hype. x