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Re: Round and round and round and round

ProfessorF wrote:


	paulzolo wrote: It would also help teachers if they didn’t feel the need to keep subsiding schools out of their own income. I’ve seen teachers buy supplies - pens, books, materials for classrooom activities out of their own pocket and not reclaiming them. I’m sure some go further than others, but when my other half does something like this, I remind her to reclaim the expenses. Schools need better funding and budget management. They certainly should not need to be subsidised by the staff.

I wish that rather than strike, they just worked to book.

I think a one day strike is sufficient to prove to the public and the government that they are serious. I do support them in blocking a race to the bottom in terms of pensions. If you have got a lousy private pension go on strike to have it improved rather than have everyones brought down to your level. Also poor pensions are just another way of stealing from the next generation. The government go on about not leaving the next generation a huge deficit yet they are perfectly happy to do that with pension liabilities. Also when you get to pension age will the government actually maintain the pension or will you have to continue to work till you die because you do not have an adequate pension to retire with?

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Sun Jul 03, 2011 4:04 pm

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Re: Round and round and round and round

Here’s more online bloggery on the subject:

Krishnan Gury-Murthy:


	Quote: So here’s the truth about the “Ed Miliband Loop” : there’s nothing new about it, politicians have been doing it for years and it is partly our fault in the media for letting them get away with it for so long.

http://blogs.channel4.com/gurublog/chan ... rview/1472
I think it’s obvious what’s going on there, but good that the media is starting to talk about how idiotic they have let the situation become. I like his solutions:


	Quote: So perhaps it is time for a new deal between television and politics. Perhaps an interview should just be an interview without any rules. Or perhaps when politicians only agree to be clipped or pooled we should make it clear, when they repeat themselves they should be challenged on camera and when they refuse to debate with other guests we should say so. When they repeatedly refuse to appear we should perhaps publish a log of requests and refusals over time. Transparency might also mean there are times when we should tell viewers that politicians offered themselves for interview and we declined. It might all mean publishing more interviews in full unedited form online.

Which I welcome, and hope they start to do.

And then, Charlie Brooker:


	Quote: It sounds like an interview with a satnav stuck on a roundabout. Or a novelty talking keyring with its most boring button held down. Or a character in a computer game with only one dialogue option. Or an Ed Miliband-shaped phone with an Ed Miliband-themed ringtone. Or George Osborne.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... d-miliband

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