Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 9549025)

Here's a question for the wise ones: How would you bring the rioting under control?

Originally Posted by London Mike (Post 9549089)

Umm, the fact that you seem to be suggesting that there is no such thing as the glass ceiling. Or if there is, why don't women stop moaning about it and go and launch their own business and act in a similar manner.

Just come back to me on this. Are you suggesting either/both of these things?

Originally Posted by Alphawolf (Post 9546297)

i'm pretty sure it hasn't changed in the time since you came here, always makes me laugh when Brits complain of how bad Canada is, go back if you don't like it, why hang around here and complain about it

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 9549147)

As Alan2005 once said, too many believe they are entitled to earn loads of money for making widgets.

Originally Posted by Greenhill (Post 9549080)

Hand out free flat screen TVs and iPhones to poor, delinquent, under 18's...

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 9549215)

The widgets I know are those things that a brewery put in beer cans to produce a draught beer effect.

I thought they worked a treat, so a fortune would be well deserved.:thumbsup:

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 9549025)

Here's a question for the wise ones: How would you bring the rioting under control?

Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 9549013)

OI!!! Watch it, sunshine.

Signed, A High-Calibre Knob.
;)

Originally Posted by London Mike (Post 9549076)

Cuts were inevitable but Cameron has, in my view, used the economic circumstances (a bubble that started under Thatcher) to justify a whole program of ideological cuts. I can guarantee you that the people who have benefited most from Cameron in the past 12 months are the top 5% income earners in the UK. Those at the bottom, including the families of those with kids on the streets causing mayhem I imagine, are now definitely worse off. If you want I can list you the policies and cuts that he's taken that have totally alienated this population from society. Why should they now care when they see bankers once again filling their vaults and corporate tax cuts going to the rich?

Is that the way to reduce societal divisions and tension? Don't you think it's telling that these parents don't care where their children are? These are the parents who grew up under Thatcher, and many live on the poorest council estates in England. They were hit hardest then and they're being hit hard again now; now they see even more problems for their kids. I'm sure there are many responsible parents on council estates in London but there will be a minority who don't care about - or perhaps even support the idea that - their child will attack the state. One story from Hackney was interesting: someone actually put his kid on top of a burnt out car and took a picture of it. That's one for the trophy cabinet, I expect.

In Victorian times when disease was rife everywhere, even the government then knew that the way to stop the palaces burning was to build sewers and parks in the east end. And it worked. Get what I'm saying?

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 9549147)

Have you ever started a business and run it successfully or are you an expert without proven track record to support your expertise?

Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 9550409)

An analyst on the news yesterday said that under Gordon Brown 1 in 4 youth were 'neets' (not in education, employment, or training), and that since the election their numbers have swelled to 1 in 3. An extra %25 of potentialy disenfranchised people is a lot in such a short time if that's correct.

Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 9550409)

An analyst on the news yesterday said that under Gordon Brown 1 in 4 youth were 'neets' (not in education, employment, or training), and that since the election their numbers have swelled to 1 in 3. An extra %25 of potentialy disenfranchised people is a lot in such a short time if that's correct.