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Basically an updated version of the YTS (Youth Training Schemes) that the Tories invented in the 1980s to reduce the official unemployment figures.

And who know that its cruel and punitive policies will only be applied to sections of society they don't like or approve of.

I have no great hopes or expectations of a Starmer government, but I am quietly confident that whatever it does (or does not do), it will not be 1% as awful, corrupt, deliberately-divisive, and vindictive as the self-serving, asset-stripping, fuckwittery and endless insults to our intelligence...

How rare!

Yes, something practical and community-based, possibly. What I've never understood, though, is argument that "the army teaches discipline and respect." I suspect that any army-barracks town at closing-time on a Saturday night, full of macho pissed-up, off-duty squaddies would soon disprove...

I suspect it will be a politically popular option for many older, authoritarian, working-class, voters, who despise liberalism and young people, and think that almost any social problem can/will be solved by either sending more people to prison, putting all youngsters in the army, or stopping...

Reflecting 40 years of government-driven selfishness, "there is no such thing as society", look-after-number-one-and-sod-everyone-else, rampant individualism, perhaps? Young people who do care about others, or their community - or the future of the Planet, are sneered at for being Woke. To...

Ah, Peter Hook - best bass guitarist ever, along with Jean-Jacques Burnel (The Stranglers), and Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath).

True story - I had something similar in the 1980s, at a Sussex University disco. Mature student (female, early 30s) approaches me at the bar and said "You look like a nice guy, do you want to come back to my place [a cottage in Falmer village!] and f*** me?" That evening was the start of a...

Today's lesson is what it is :lol:

:wrong::wrong::wrong::wrong::wrong::wrong::wrong::wrong::wrong::wrong::shootself:shootself:shootself:shootself:shootself:shootself:shootself:shootself:shootself:shootself:shootself

It will be what it will be, when it will become it is what it is, and later, it was what it was ???

I hope not, we're going on a Baltic cruise next week!

It was scientists and the NHS who saved us from Covid, not the "let the bodies pile high" (Boris Johnson) Tories.

That's the fault of the Deep State and the Woke!