A peaceful Sunday morning and,arrived Sernities kids for the day.
With it raining like there was a Green Goddess trained on the house - so going for a walk to escape was not an option.
Oh bliss, time tohide in the shed go and chop some more wood.
This afternoon off we all went mob handed to the cinema, to watch Yogi Bear. Not the best film I have ever seen and by a long way too. That said all the students seemed to like it, maybe I am on my own.
I think we are just not used to lots of children running round any more, gosh this house was alive, well so I gathered from where I was hiding upstairs anyway.
Still all is calm now and they are all home.
Yet more stuff hitting the fan in politics. A big American outfit is being paid bonus for everyone it assesses as not deserving of invalidity benefit. Their assesments are to exclude the views of GP's who might have known
there people for years it's a one day snapshot view... I think people have let politics get out of kilter behind their back. There are people out there now arguing that benefits are wrong. That everyone should pay for insurance (to the private sector of course) and if you get old or ill that covers your financial needs. The prospect of being destitute will keep the working classes in their place and working.
How many of us could and would buy into this model.
Of course their philosophical take on this is a blend of Darwin and Durkheim survival of the fittest and organic society. They argue that society is a meritocracy and the best will rise and those at the bottom are there because they are pathologically inadequate. It might be interesting to look at the arch proponents of this and see how many of them rose from the bottom and how many rose from the top. .
Apparently, if you have money to give to the conservative party you can buy your child an internship at a merchant bank Just as if you have lots of money you can buy them a place at Eton and they will be able to afford Oxbridge. Merotocracy and genes at work.
Of course, we could look at something which is no rhetoric, children at 4 will show differences in intelligence tests which are quite broad regardless of the class of their parents. By ten that will have gone, the children of wealthier parents will be streaking away from their poorer peers. Merticrocracy is good but some people start with more merit than others. .....
R
With it raining like there was a Green Goddess trained on the house - so going for a walk to escape was not an option.
Oh bliss, time to
This afternoon off we all went mob handed to the cinema, to watch Yogi Bear. Not the best film I have ever seen and by a long way too. That said all the students seemed to like it, maybe I am on my own.
I think we are just not used to lots of children running round any more, gosh this house was alive, well so I gathered from where I was hiding upstairs anyway.
Still all is calm now and they are all home.
Yet more stuff hitting the fan in politics. A big American outfit is being paid bonus for everyone it assesses as not deserving of invalidity benefit. Their assesments are to exclude the views of GP's who might have known
there people for years it's a one day snapshot view... I think people have let politics get out of kilter behind their back. There are people out there now arguing that benefits are wrong. That everyone should pay for insurance (to the private sector of course) and if you get old or ill that covers your financial needs. The prospect of being destitute will keep the working classes in their place and working.
How many of us could and would buy into this model.
Of course their philosophical take on this is a blend of Darwin and Durkheim survival of the fittest and organic society. They argue that society is a meritocracy and the best will rise and those at the bottom are there because they are pathologically inadequate. It might be interesting to look at the arch proponents of this and see how many of them rose from the bottom and how many rose from the top. .
Apparently, if you have money to give to the conservative party you can buy your child an internship at a merchant bank Just as if you have lots of money you can buy them a place at Eton and they will be able to afford Oxbridge. Merotocracy and genes at work.
Of course, we could look at something which is no rhetoric, children at 4 will show differences in intelligence tests which are quite broad regardless of the class of their parents. By ten that will have gone, the children of wealthier parents will be streaking away from their poorer peers. Merticrocracy is good but some people start with more merit than others. .....
R
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Ever since they started phasing in ESA they have not taken the claimant's doctors' reports into consideration
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