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12th Jan 2019Catrina700 commented on:
Does the future look brighter?Hoodwinked in the same as we were in 1973/74 when we joined what was then known as the common market. The true facts kept from us. Within six months we had butter and beef mountains as well as wine lakes. Basically refrigerated warehouses storing items to create a shortage forcing prices up to support inefficient french farmers I also go along with no deal.ViewDate:
15th Apr 2018Catrina700 commented on:
University versus Work ExperienceI entirely agree about the three A level requirement. When I was at school it was only the top 10% of a grammar school that achieved that, everyone else got themselves a job. Today university seems to be an extension of school, a way to delay entering the real world and obtaining a job. I can't see this being allowed to continue, when students living away from home can end up with £40,000 to £50,000 worth of debt and little employment prospect from it. Hardly value for money. I know they don't have to start paying it back until they earn £25,000 a year but it's still accumulates interest. If they were ever in a position to apply for a mortgage this debt would go against them. From the governments point of view it helps to keep the unemployment figures down. They can also make a big thing about everyone having the opportunity to go to university. If most people spent that sort of money on a new BMW for example and ended up with a 10 year old MINI something would be done about it.ViewDate:
9th Apr 2018Catrina700 commented on:
University versus Work ExperienceA lot of the so-called students today act as though they still belong in the primary school playground. Not being bright enough or mature enough to obtain full time employment prior to university, all that's changed on leaving is their age. Having spent the last three years partying, drinking and laying in bed, when they enter the real world the world of work, they seem to be under the impression employers should be lining up to offer them a top grade job.ViewDate:
16th Mar 2018Catrina700 commented on:
Do you believe it's right to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars?I like the idea of electric cars, less to go wrong than petrol or diesel vehicles, since half the parts are missing. The money from the loss of taxation on fuel they will recover one way or another, you can guarantee that The problem of people not hearing them coming could be overcome by downloading our own tunes, rather like a mobile phone. The tunes being played as we drive along, that would drive us all mad.ViewDate:
14th Mar 2018Catrina700 commented on:
Is it time for Trump to go?The only president to do what he said he would do and actually gets things done. When he's sorted out America he needs to come her and sort this country out. Dithering daisy may won't do it.ViewDate:
14th Mar 2018Catrina700 commented on:
Do you use an open fire or wood burning stove?As a child we lived in the country, with no electricity or gas. We cooked on a stove with coal or wood. We also had open fires in each of the downstairs rooms, which were lit during the winter months. My father lived until he was 96 and my mother until she was 84 it did them no harm.ViewDate:
14th Mar 2018Catrina700 commented on:
University versus Work ExperienceOften students graduate and find it difficult to obtain worthwhile employment because they weren't bright enough to be at university in the first place. These days universities are run like businesses and happy to take their fees from anyone foolish enough to pay them. Living in a city with three universities where 48% of the houses are occupied by students it's not difficult to notice that not all students are there to be educated. Staying out until 3 AM and laying in bed until midday, puts education down the list of priorities. Students are offered courses according to their abilities and entry qualifications. The less bright get offered lower grade courses. This gives them more time for partying and laying in bed as less time is required for studying. They end up with a worthless qualification that few employers are interested in. The intelligent get offered a more intensive course where they attend more lectures and are expected to study in their spare time, and then some find it hard to keep up. Obviously they have less time for the social life but leave with a good degree that leads to worthwhile employment. The first group would be better off finding themselves a job, but at a young age and away from home, partying and laying in bed would seem the better option.ViewDate:
13th Mar 2018Catrina700 commented on:
Should the government take a firmer stance on obesity?I don't feel it's the governments job to dictate how people should run their lives, each individual should be responsible enough to do that for themselves. When I look back to my parents lifestyle and compare it with people of today, it's not difficult to see why people are overweight. Far more money to spend on food they shouldn't be eating, and far more time to be driving around in cars instead of walking. Many that do walk don't walk far enough or fast enough to burn off any calories, slow sluggish and lethargic. You see it everywhere. People seem to ignore the fact they are putting on weight before doing something about it. By then it's made more difficult.ViewDate:
12th Mar 2018Catrina700 commented on:
Do you think university tuition fees should be scrapped?I noticed an article on the daily mail website yesterday 11 march 18, regarding a student who sues Anglia Ruskin university Cambridge for £60,000. This being the amount it cost for what she described as a mickey mouse degree. If she was anything like the students living next door to me, she would of been quite happy to lay in bed half the day while doing this mickey mouse degree These days universities are keen to take tuition fees from anyone foolish enough to pay them. The days of only intelligent people going to university are long gone. Many have become expensive social clubs for the workshy and those not bright enough to be at university in the first place. Living in a city with three universities and 48% of the houses occupied by students, it's not difficult for myself and other residents to notice not all are there to be educated. Many are there for the social life and the fact it's easier than working for a living. All the time students are queuing up to pay the tuition fees for the privilege of spending half the week in bed, universities will happily take their money. Just reducing tuition fees will only make the situation worse. What is needed, are less universities, more stringent entry qualifications, and more intensive full time courses that lead to a degree that employers actually want. Those that are there for the easy ride and the social life would be unlikely to qualify. When I was at school it was only the top 10% of a grammar school that got anywhere near a university, the rest got off their back sides and got a job. If you wanted an additional education you went to night school after you'd done a days work, and that never did us any harm.ViewDate:
12th Mar 2018Catrina700 commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?For those of us who remember the first referendum 1973 or 74 to join what was then known as the common market. Within six months of the vote, prices in the shops increased due to storage of everyday items. Beef, butter mountains, and wine lakes as they were known in those days. This was done deliberately by Europe to subsidise inefficient french farmers. I remember people buying margarine because they could no longer afford to buy butter, I'd never heard of margarine prior to that time. If we ever get out of the EU and for me the sooner the better. Hopefully these everyday items will reduce in price as we will no longer be forced to pay EU prices. Buying from other suppliers around the world as well as our own UK farmers, introducing competition. Currently our own farmers are being paid not to grow crops just to sit on land, which is ridiculous.ViewDate:
22nd Jun 2016Catrina700 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?No, It's your shabby outfit that will rig the vote.ViewDate:
1st Jun 2016Catrina700 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?Ask yourself one simple question, who do you want running the country you live in. Your own elected government or someone from across the channel. For me the answer is easy, there is no contest and I find it hard to understand why anyone would want it any other way. Because It's highly unlikely that any one from across the pond, controlling us, making the laws and decisions would be doing so in the best interest of the British people.ViewDate:
17th May 2016Catrina700 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?If we were given the opportunity to join the European Union today, knowing what we know now and seeing what's going on across Europe. Low growth,high debts and 40% unemployment in some cases. A massive migration problem with fences going up all over the place. Anti-Europe parties springing up everywhere, countries wanting their own vote to get out and corrupt lame duck countries waiting to join. Where the European leaders stumble from one crisis to the next without the ability to solve any of them. Where we are expected to give up control of our own country to people we don't even elect. They would have to pay us £350 million each week to join not the other way round. We would be running in the opposite direction. No wonder dodgy Dave and his chums dream up daily scare stories to try to prevent us from voting out.ViewDate:
4th May 2016Catrina700 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?The only good thing about staying in this European club is the fortune we will save on MPs salaries and expenses. There will be little point in voting for a UK government in the future, since there will be nothing for them to govern. All we will need is a few low paid messengers to transfer orders from Brussels to the rest of us. With the money we've saved we could pay even more into the European money box, to prop up more corrupt lame duck countries that are queueing up to join. A large part of this money could be used to support our own industries, our public services, over crowded schools, hospitals and transport systems. After all, it's not as though we couldn't find a home for it. Surely, our needs come before we support the lame ducks of Europe.ViewDate:
26th Apr 2016Catrina700 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?The European Union is so good that other countries are queueing up to get out, should we vote to leave. The domino effect is what Merkel & Co fear most.ViewDate:
12th Apr 2016Catrina700 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?If the European Union is such a wonderful project, why are people in other countries across Europe putting pressure on their governments for a referendum? An anti Europe feeling is spreading like a rash right across Europe, parties that support these feelings don't exist unless people vote for them. Some people seem to have little faith in our country and adopt the view we could never trade on our own, when we have done so for hundreds of years long before we got involved in this European Union nonsense. There are many countries around the world who trade successfully on their own and have nothing to do with Europe. Governments across Europe increasingly have little control or say over how their country operates, the laws and decisions are made elsewhere often against their own interests. 70% of our laws are made in Brussels by people we don't even elect. The bosses of many of the small to medium size businesses often complain of how legislation holds them back and prevents growth, this applies right across Europe and accounts for some of the high unemployment we see today. Listen to John Longworth who was recently kicked out of the British Chambers of Commerce who is campaigning for Brexit he should know. Europe needs us rather more than we need them, they also realise if we leave then other countries will follow. As the second biggest economy in Europe and the fifth largest in the world we should show them the way. I only hope if we do come out we have a more anti Europe leader than the two we have at the moment who cuddle up to Mercal. Dodgy Dave & boy George.ViewDate:
7th Apr 2016Catrina700 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?To judge how good Europe is you only have to look at the other countries inside it. Namely, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, France. They were all capable of standing on their own two feet at one time and perhaps with the exception of Greece reasonably prosperous. Now they are bogged down with debt have very little growth and massive unemployment, some as much as 40%. Had we listened to the so-called experts who told us the world would cave in if we didn't join the Euro, we would be in the same position. As the second largest economy in Europe we should take the opportunity to get out while we still can, stand on our own two feet again and start to trade with the more prosperous countries around the world. Britain didn't become great by being tied to Europe. It's good to see the people of Holland vote No to Ukraine joining the EU, another corrupt ex-Russian country holding it's hand out for all it can get, while the rest of us are expected to pay for it.