The working class glass ceiling

How can middle class politicians be trusted to represent the working class public fairly. I do not see how someone who has possibly been brought up in a privileged household, gone to a private school and has never had to actually live in a respectable working class area let alone a working class area that is rife with crime and deep seeded social problems. How can a politician of this make up be expected to understand what the common man actually wants and needs. In fairness there are a few politicians who actually understand what is needed, but how can their voice be heard amongst bulshy ignorant middle class power mongers. In my opinion the only way the working class could get any chance of a fair go in life would be if a true working class man or woman would make it to the to 10 downing street and to be honest I don’t think this is going to happen for quite some time

BIG FISH? or little fish?

With English top flight football clubs being owned by very rich very ambitious foreign owners is it more rewarding to support a local football team that is not as rich as premiership clubs and not as successful as premiership clubs.
This argument is like a typical pub conversation can either split opinions or unite them. With supporting a local club that has a poor financial status the benefits of you supporting that team is that you could actually help the clubs situation, okay you most likely wont be able to do this by yourself, unless of course you have a couple of million pounds to spare. With the lower reputation teams you’ll notice the difference in quality as the team better which could be very rewarding if you have been supporting them through a rough patch and they have com out of it looking stronger. On the other hand supporting an unsuccessful team over a long period could lead you to simply become fed up of watching a team constantly fail and this is where the top flight teams have a positive over the smaller teams, however the margin of success for the big teams is so small a good season your eyes could be a poor one in many others.
At the end of the day perhaps it is good to support your local team simply for the prospect of seeing them go onto the big time, knowing you’ve been there from day one.

Racism to end racism?

With recent reports claiming that the police force are going to be reviewing their selection policies after much criticism, the police force has been labelled institutionally racist for a second time. It is said that to reduce racism within the force, police forces were told to recruit black and ethnic minorities over white candidates even if the candidates had the same qualifications. I myself applied for a job in the South Gloucestershire constabulary (Gloucestershire has admitted to rejecting more than 100 white candidates for simply being white) in my opinion this is the completely wrong way to go about what they have set out to achieve, they have used racism to eradicate racism from the police force. Admittedly they are reviewing this policy but in my eyes that doesn’t excuse how rashly they have chosen their selection policies.
And I just hope future recruits will perhaps have a fairer assessment than I had myself.

Something 'bout my generation

In British society today, it seems a great deal of attention is being placed on the behaviour or rather misbehaviour of today's youth.

In an age where it's not uncommon to see a headline on TV or in a newspaper, about trouble with the younger generation, perhaps the older generation need to take a look at themselves and ask why has this generation turned out so bad, if in fact they are as bad as they believe.

If the parents and grandparents of today were to reminisce about the days when they were young, in the days of the teddy boys, the mods, the rockers, the punks and the skinheads, would they remember that they were the innovators of teens rebelling against their parents. I think they would rather not admit that they were perhaps much worse than today's generation, they would rather look upon their generation as the 'golden generation' and look down their noses at today's kids.


In my opinion, the only difference between today's younger generation and the generation of yesteryear is that teens today do not fight because they are part of a particular group simply based on the fashion trend they choose. Instead of criticising these youths perhaps they should be congratulated for being a little bit more accepting.



Perhaps its just the nature of people to look back at the past fondly and maybe when the kids of the 90's are all grown up and have kids of their own they'll be complaining about their offspring being rowdy thugs.

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