I loathe David Cameron

[kingazanzi]

I really do. I could bitch about him the whole day and never tire.
I actually hate him.

gorgeous they'd have exploited ANYTHING to (re)gain power....get my drift?

"Exactly, the day they came to power i actually wept for my babys future, all i could think about was education and health, and how they would undo all of Labours hard work."

Labours hard work was built on unsustainable borrowing on capital markets, it could not carry on.

4everhopeful I'm guessing you cried 'cos you were very tired, having a baby and all.

I'm not a teacher so fortunately don't have the CforE headache so much but I must admit it is chaotic. In my school some subjects have been doing intermediates for years whilst others are still nowhere near moving away from standard grades. I thought about going into teaching but my options would be either English or primary, neither of which are looking very stable at the moment.

I'm sorry your job isn't stable either. My DP's niece got top grades/reports whatever on her post-grad in primary teaching and only just managed to scrape a post due to somebody going on maternity leave after her probationer year. Don't know what the solution is at the moment to be honest.

cant stand the pompous twit

I disagree GORGEOUSX, I think that not having had to have worried about money or getting by your whole life and always knowing that there would be more than enough to get by gives you head room to cope with adversity. So not money per se, more what money brings with it.

georgeorwell Are you serious?

oh yes

To those going on about some sort of democratic deficit here...the Tories won more votes and more seats than any other, hence their right to form the government and implement their manifesto (subject to cavears - Coalition Agreement etc).

No party has won a majority of votes since the 1950s, so to pursue that line of argument is to suggest that all Govts since then have been unrepresentative etc...but I suspect the objections are just being raised because it is a rightish-wing Govt.

On the equality issue and the gap between rich and poor...this is of no consequence to me whatsover. To fixate on your wealth over my poverty is the politics of envy.

How does my winning the lottery tonight make you poorer, other than in the relative sense? And how does that materially affect your life in any way...other than to make you resentful and envious?

Some people are far, far wealthier than I could ever hope to be - do I hate them? Resent their success? No, I admire it and aspire to achieve similar - that is the difference...I wish to use my talents for the benefit of my family...instead of trying to hold others back in order to make me feel better about myself and my perceived (self-inflicted) insecurities.

there doesn't seem to be one at all. there's talk of giving probationers permanent jobs in some councils (not full-time as far as i've been told - perhaps 1 day, but permanent is permanent....) BUT what about the teachers who've been trained and given all the CPD we're given, but who've been out of proper work for 3+ years... this mass retirement has never happened :(

teaching is an absolutely fantastic job, i love it BUT... in the current climate, with how jobs are and the amount you have to work (much more expectations placed on teachers in the last few years in terms of active learning, variety of activities for different subject areas etc) it's not worth it. maybe wait a year or so til things settle down a bit?

no one seems to know what's going to happen when this year's S1s are in S4 in terms of exams. it's so badly organised. CfE is such a good idea but it's not been put forward properly and so can't be used in the form it's currently in without a lot of extra work.

sorry for the massive rant! bad day.

caveats - oops.

Beertricks I'm merely answering posters' comments addressed to me - I'm not intentionally going on about the disability thing, but it's a faast-moving thread and I'm still answering those comments.

nelly IME its having a tough life that gives one strength to cope with adversity, not money.

BTP/GX - I'll leave you guys to it, I think.

Good night.

and thats why pascoe I hate the Torie way ..yes I resent the rich bankers and some of the tax dodging rich ..I don't resent the scroungers that Cameron and his cronies want me to resent I ain't so stupid as to believe his spin

Omg the pompous condescending tory nature seeps through like sewage doesnt it? Not weeping as tired from having a new baby, i was still pregnant actually. Wept at the thought of this country that i care about was about to get f'd severely by the public schoolboy tories in true buggery style, that my unborn child would suffer the consequence. They havent even been in a year yet and educations been hit hard. Why should i be suprised at that comment by someone so up themselves they call themselves gorgeous?

No offence intended GORGEOUSX but that is shite. Yes some people have a tough life and come out able to cope with adversity, but many, if not most, sink into poverty, joblessness and hopelesseness because if you don't have a support mechanism in place you either sink or swim.
Those with "tough lives" struggle from day 1. How easy is it to concentrate at school when you've been awake all night with family partying, or not had breakfast, or had dad/step-dad slap your mum around. I think the old adage that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is wrong. There are many, many testaments to that in my acquaintance and society at large.

Beertricks I can assure you, I can't type fast enough to 'wind you up', nor can I be bothered to debate with someone who insists that I am.

I really don't like that Pascoe chap. Is he David Cameron?