I loathe David Cameron

[kingazanzi]

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

GORGEOUSX

I would never seek to lessen the horrible experience he and his wife must have had losing Ivan. However, through their social class (money, schooling, upbringing) they had a chance to build the resilience to deal with difficult circumstances. As someone who works with very damaged young people every day I think resilience is key and it is something which Cameron is going to take away from many young people by his and his government's cuts in local council funding, youth services etc. As someone who (probably) needed no agency or special key worker just to get him through (or any of his classmates I'd venture) and then having gone on to a PR/political career I really don't think he's had any experience of that side of life or appreciates the importance of extra provision.

On a selfish point, I am bloody glad I live in Scotland. I know cuts will bite here too but I know we're not going to have a Tory government in Edinburgh and there's only so much the coalition can do to the services here.

am new to MN so wouldnt know whether TB and GB got same treatment but its all by the by as labour are no alternative to the tories and any leftness was expunged by kinnock back in the 80's. so its wrong to assume that if u loathe cameron youre automatically a labour supporter. theres no mainstream party that serves the interests of the working class/non rich

Started reading grinning in agreement, nasty little men, DC GO and their bitch clegg, i was a child of the 80s and a victim of Thatcher the milk snatcher, i celebrated so hard in 97, i felt sick last May when these rich Tory bastards got back in, i had my beautiful DD at the end of May and cant believe, like me, my poor darling girl will suffer the wrath of the cuts and the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, while our wonderful Nhs and education system take a pounding.. Reading the last few posts from simpering right wing defenders that clearly are not familiar with most of our realitys makes me wanna scream. My dad would be turning in his grave. UGH makes me sick..

hockey they want to keep the little people in their place ready to serve and make profits for their mates.

They have started the process with education of our DC's. They only want the children of the rich to be able to afford an education.

nellynaemates - also in scotland. i want to shout and scream about the cuts to education, they're already coming in and there's worse to follow. kids are going to bear the brunt of it all :(

hockeyforjockeys The gap between rich and poor WIDENED under the Labour government. Tony Blair only did things for his long-term future - i.e. schmoozing up to the Europeans and doing things to ensure HIS future after he left government. He never did anything for the good of the country - only for the good of his wallet and future position.

Absolutely candle. I can just see all these extra services that many of my pupils benefit from disappearing before my eyes. I feel like the culture is everyone for themselves and that leaves vulnerable children and teenagers in a frankly shit position. No-one bothers at home but at least we were offering a fair bit of extra support within and around school, I'm worried that much of that is going to disappear.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I get into a course that starts in September as I don't know if my job is going to last past July depending on my local council cuts.

I have never said that I was pro-Labour or Blair so I wasn't actually asking for a criteque of him. What I want to know is what the current government will do. Because at the moment I don't see any evidence that the future I predict for the children I teach will not come true.

for the education of the poorest children

bastard Tories

But Beertricks surely you would acknowledge that he does live in 'the real world'. At the end of the day, his case just proves that money is not paramount. The most important things in the real life are surely the health of one's children. Granted, his money helped them to care for his son, but he still had a child who was seriously trapped in a world of his own, and often in pain - money doesn't come into that, does it?

And money has nothing to do with bereavement, surely? I can't imagine a more 'real-life' pain than losing one's child.

Gorge, I would rather be living in the UK under Tony Blair than under this government, despite the faults, any day.

Also bet you arn't gorgeous. Imagine a sweaty ugly trucker!

Me too ...I know some kids will not go to college because of the cuts to ema and high university fee ..thats enough for me to hate the Tories

Didn't mean to insult 'truckers' btw some of them are nice people.

Again GORGEOUSX

Money does not stop you from having a child suffering from a life-limiting disability and the sadness that goes with that, but it can help to equip you with strategies for coping. I think that's rather important.

tories would do anything to get in power so gorgeous you'd best stop harping on about his disabled child.........if u 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..

adamshic LOL!

George I don't get your drift, no....... ?

nelly i'm a probationer just now so won't have a job past june really. which is rubbish as i absolutely love teaching and love being with the kids. the fact that they've brought in a new curriculum just now (PRE-BIRTH to 18 - only noticed the pre-birth bit today, last time i checked it was 3-18!) which is no ready to be implemented is even worse, we basically don't have a national, structured curriculum to work from, which means extreme variability in what different parts of the country are teaching.... and teachers are basically having to make it up on a school-by-school (and then cluster group-by-cluster group, then council...) basis (lots of overlaps and pointless work!) on in service days. argh.

nellynomates I agree having money helps to cope with a disabled child physically and yes that is hugely important, but I don't think it can help you, emotionally; living your life, knowing that your child will never walk, talk etc. Most of us will never experience that.