many things
There are so many things that seem to be going wrong it is hard to focus. But let me pick one issue, what do Jeremy Clarkson, Tony Blair, George Osborne and Nick Clegg have in common, apart from being wrong most of the time. They all went to Public School. What do public schools teach people, arrogance, perhaps to put it more politely, over confidence.
It doesn.'t occur to them that they might be wrong, so they go ahead with their plans despite the fact that they are wrong and will probably lead to disaster. Remember they and their friends won't be effected, they have their inheritances to protect them. Almost certainly in nicely set up trusts which will pay no tax.
How can we break out of our love affair with the 10% who go to public schools. Why as a society can we not look behind the facade and see how empty most of these people really are. Perhaps it goes back to when rhetoric was an essential part of education. The point of rhetoric was not to be right but to win the argument, using any "rhetorical" tricks you can find. We still vote for those who present their case best not for those who have the best case.
Look at the the issues that the Tories want to claw back from the EU, they are all about workers rights. They present it as giving the UK more powers and bringing control back to the UK parliament. But that is just for show, it is is about giving employers more power. It was the EU, for example, that gave part-time employees the right to pensions, who gained, largely women who had worked part-time for some or all of their careers. Do the Tories want to give the UK power to scrap that right?
But they do not presnt the case as being about taking rights away from workers, which is what they plan, but about taking rights away from employees
It doesn.'t occur to them that they might be wrong, so they go ahead with their plans despite the fact that they are wrong and will probably lead to disaster. Remember they and their friends won't be effected, they have their inheritances to protect them. Almost certainly in nicely set up trusts which will pay no tax.
How can we break out of our love affair with the 10% who go to public schools. Why as a society can we not look behind the facade and see how empty most of these people really are. Perhaps it goes back to when rhetoric was an essential part of education. The point of rhetoric was not to be right but to win the argument, using any "rhetorical" tricks you can find. We still vote for those who present their case best not for those who have the best case.
Look at the the issues that the Tories want to claw back from the EU, they are all about workers rights. They present it as giving the UK more powers and bringing control back to the UK parliament. But that is just for show, it is is about giving employers more power. It was the EU, for example, that gave part-time employees the right to pensions, who gained, largely women who had worked part-time for some or all of their careers. Do the Tories want to give the UK power to scrap that right?
But they do not presnt the case as being about taking rights away from workers, which is what they plan, but about taking rights away from employees
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