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E12Hammer 5:19 Tue Jul 21
Government Budget Balancing
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George Osbourne has today stated that unprotected government sectors will have to prepare to lose between 25%-40% of their annual budget, in order to reduce the deficit and bring Britain back into the black by 2020.
In principle I believe this to be a good thing, however the categorising of what a protected sector is, is baffling to me. Health (the NHS), Defence, and schools are all protected, and so they should be. However, Overseas Aid is also protected from these budgetary cuts.
Does anyone know why giving our tax money away to other countries is given priorities over things such as emergency services, care of the elderly, etc?
Are we so gripped with political correctness that we have to pay for it?
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alphaharps
3:17 Fri Aug 14
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Stewie i love your work by the way. Only recently got into Family Guy
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stewie griffin
3:14 Fri Aug 14
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Why do you bother?
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alphaharps
3:13 Fri Aug 14
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Corbyn is going to batter the Tories. There's no stopping him, unless they bump him off
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Mike Oxsaw
11:57 Fri Aug 14
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8 - YOUR government could probably save a small fortune by disbanding (sacking) the groups that come up with all these fucking childish, add-no-value, but "exciting-biting" names for all these initiatives and just getting on with it.
The whole world has no need to know all about how much nothingness-dressed-up-as-action the government is doing at any and every point in time: the only people who need this information are those at the point of delivery.
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Italian John
9:05 Thu Aug 13
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Mike Mike Mike, Cameron told us that HIS government had created 1,000 jobs a day, not ME not YOU, HIS government.
When unemployment rises it down to US and Labour.
A pathetic government lead by a pathetic PM.
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After8
8:56 Thu Aug 13
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https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/skills-funding-agency
Government ambitions to deliver 3 million apprenticeship starts by 2020 were boosted by a number of announcements this week.
RBS event
The creation of the Apprenticeship Delivery Board to advise on how best to expand the apprenticeship programme was announced alongside plans from hundreds of new employers to develop new apprenticeships in sectors including Film and TV, Real Estate and Veterinary Nursing. It was also announced that 26 new Trailblazer groups will design apprenticeships in 39 exciting and varied occupations.
Employers such as Pinewood Studios, which is involved in making the new Star Wars film, and designer shoemakers Loake, have formed 26 new Trailblazer groups to create apprenticeship standards in a variety of sectors. These 26 groups, which also consist of employers Rolls Royce, Dr. Martens and English National Opera, will design apprenticeships in 39 occupations, and existing Trailblazer groups will design an additional four.
Skills Minister Nick Boles said:
Pinewood Studios was home to the new Star Wars film. Now the force is strong with young apprentices who will get the opportunity to boost their skills in a wide range of roles including TV and film set design. These apprentices will have the expertise their industry needs.
Our Trailblazer programme allows employers across the country to have their say in training tomorrow’s workforce, helping us achieve 3 million apprenticeships by 2020.
These announcements come on the same day that another Trailblazer employer, RBS, announced it is recruiting 400 apprentices on the Financial Services Account Management Apprenticeship programme they helped design.
The government also confirmed the creation of a new Apprenticeship Advisory Board, which will report to Skills Minister Nick Boles MP, and will work directly with the National Apprenticeship Service to stimulate interest in, and take up of apprenticeships. It will be jointly chaired by David Meller and Richard Harrington MP, the Prime Minister’s Advisor on Apprenticeships.
Richard Harrington MP, Joint Chairman of the Apprenticeship Delivery Board said:
The creation of the Apprenticeship Delivery Board is further proof of the incredible commitment that this Government has to apprenticeships, which will give so many more people the opportunity to earn a wage, and gain a valuable qualification and skill that they will have for life. As Joint Chairmen of the Apprenticeship Delivery Board David Meller and I look forward to supporting the Government in making the three million target a reality during the course of this Parliament.
David Meller, Joint Chairman of the Apprenticeship Delivery Board said:
Through my work as Chair of the National Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network I have seen first-hand just what a difference apprenticeships can make to people’s lives, and how beneficial they can be for employers who gain loyal and skilled staff that add genuine value to their business. I am delighted to be joining Richard as Joint Chairman of the new Apprenticeship Delivery Board, and supporting the delivery of three million apprenticeships.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-force-is-strong-for-apprenticeships
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After8
8:56 Thu Aug 13
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https://www.gov.uk/topic/further-education-skills/apprenticeships
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,
8:41 Thu Aug 13
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So, run past us how these apprenticeships will work.
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After8
8:34 Thu Aug 13
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"There is no way that a school education can train a young person to walk straight into technical/skilled-based jobs. That has to come from the employers."
Which is why apprenticeships are crucial, I am glad you agree with this!
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Willtell
7:42 Thu Aug 13
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So if unemployment is going up how come the UK employs 12% more people from Europe over last year?
Foreigners don't seem to have problems getting work...
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RM10
6:53 Thu Aug 13
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A8 those replies tell you how out how out of touch politicians and you helpers are and you still argue.
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overbyyer
6:41 Thu Aug 13
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8 - you are contradicting yourself again.
You blame young people for not having the skills in the first place, then blame Labour for their apparent poor record on Apprenticeships.
There is no way that a school education can train a young person to walk straight into technical/skilled-based jobs. That has to come from the employers.
Your government needs to tell the Captains of Industry to show some backbone and stand up to their shareholders - some of the funds earmarked for dividends needs to be spent on training employees to match their own skills needs, instead of expecting the taxpayer to subsidise it.
Of course there is a compromise available - Government funded Skillcentres and YTS-type training for school leavers and the long-term unemployed.
It worked well in the 1980's, the Government paying a weekly allowance in return for a full-time week of work and then paying employers to take trainees on six-month work placements.
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After8
6:41 Thu Aug 13
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Your generation argument doesn't stack up, the Victorians had less educational training but found jobs. The serfs in the middle ages found jobs with less skills than the Victorians.
Each generation needs a new set of skills for that economy.
The problem is British young people have had an over generous benefits system and rubbish education to contend with.
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Mike Oxsaw
6:40 Thu Aug 13
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Back in 1973, BT (then the last throws of the GPO) deemed me fit enough to train up as an apprentice and evolve through the ranks such that I became an asset, repaying their investment. I was lucky enough to be in a department where I did so in spades well before the decade was out.
These days, almost everything IT related changes so fast that even the best apprenticeship scheme could never keep up. Plug'n'Play is here to stay, from the iPod right up to the multiplexers controlling traffic on the global network. Even your dead granny couldn't fuck things up in IT.
However, there are still a myriad of other professions where an apprenticeship is a big asset - plumbing, electrician, coopering, mining...but who really wants THEIR offspring to go down THAT path?
That's the big show-stopper - everybody is 100% certain their kid is destined to be a captain of industry, and the only path there is via something clean & clerical, like office management. Fuck getting your hands dirty with actually making something (useful).
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Ditcher
6:40 Thu Aug 13
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, 6:15 Thu Aug 13
The public sector had a vast array of apprenticeships for school leavers mostly within the utilities.
Privatisation killed most of those places off.
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,
6:33 Thu Aug 13
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Utter and complete nonsense. My generation left school unskilled and got jobs where the firms trained us. Guess what these jobs were called?
We were educated but not job trained before we started work back in the day.
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After8
6:26 Thu Aug 13
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No it's due to young people not having the skills in the first place.
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,
6:15 Thu Aug 13
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The skills shortage is directly due to companies not training people, like they used to do at their own cost. Instead they want government, that is you and me, to bear the cost.
Don't come the old acid of blaming Labour about this because it won't wash.
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After8
6:10 Thu Aug 13
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http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33881387
There's plenty of job vacancies, the problem is a skills shortage, even labour say so.
The skills shortage is due to Labour leaving people stuck in benefits and having piss poor schools while at the same time doing nothing on apprenticeships.
Clearly more investment in apprenticeships is needed plus our schools being proper places of learning.
Unemployment is still lower than last year and a damm sight lower than under labour but clearly more needs to be done.
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RM10
6:00 Thu Aug 13
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get used to it the Tories look after themselves like many of their supporters, the Tories have turned us into a service industry and they ain t very good at that! nothing else to sell get on with it scum, then vote us back in......
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Mike Oxsaw
5:03 Thu Aug 13
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John, John John. Seems like, in your obviously extensive education, you plain darn forgot to learn.
Governments (of ANY colour) don't create employment - business does that, and for business to do that it needs both a market and the ability to meet the demands of that market.
Governments simply administer the affairs of state. For your future reference, there IS a difference between "administration" and "running". Lazy media journalists have governments running countries, and even lazier consumers of that media accept that as fact without bothering to question.
Where are you suggesting that the government can influence either consumer demand or workforce availability, and how are you suggesting they do this?
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