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Probably the wrong thread but my impression is that the whole Brexit carry on has coarsened the fabric of British society.

Sorry to disillusion you BBJ but, Brexit has nothing to do with the coarsening of society in Britain.
British society took a severe downturn in the eighties, when 'Loads of money' became a popular Harry Enfield comedy character and the government of the day jumped on the bandwagon, by emptying the Mental Health facilities and leaving severely sick people out on the streets with no support.
Since then we have had this present and the prior government, in the form of David Cameron and other leading Conservative lights, blaming the unemployed, the disabled, immigrants and the homeless for the ills of society and encouraging the homeless, the disabled, immigrants and the unemployed to be attacked, not only verbally but physically.
This from a government that have increased the usage of food-banks by over 1000% and tripled homelessness by their anti-society law and welfare changes.
Homelessness doesn't mean living on the street, or in a homeless hostel, or council run B&B.
There are many homeless families, who spend their nights sleeping on friends floors, moving around every two or three nights.
There are a growing number of families sleeping in their cars and or vans.
Under this government no one under the age of 25 can get Housing Benefit, which on its own has gone a tremendously long way in increasing homelessness. Under this government mortgage lenders are refusing to lend to buy-to-renters, if they are willing to rent to people who are claiming Universal Credit or Income Support.

The unemployed are blamed for cheating.
The figures have stayed remarkably stable over the last four decades, 0.7% or £1.2 billion, is the cheating figure, while money paid out in error by the DWP runs at twice that amount at £2.4 billion or 1.4%.
The DWP doesn't only lose money by error, they bought a computer to run Universal Credit at a cost close to twice the combined cheating and error losses for a year and a half. It had to be scrapped because it didn't work. Don't worry, they bought another one.

The disabled are blamed and accused of cheating money from the system, while there are a few cheats the numbers is a very small percentage of that for unemployment benefit, which, in the scheme of things, is miniscule. Disabled people and their family's actually save the government money by caring for a disabled family member instead of having them rely on being put in homes or, using paid home helps.

Immigrants, when they are allowed into the country, out of the concentration camps they are initially kept in, are given subsistance money at a lower level than a single 18 year old gets on unemployment.
The vast majority of immigrants don't stay on that subsistance for long, they find work, usually low-paid menial work, or they start their own businesses.
These are people who, in the majority of cases, have fled their homes in fear of their lives.

This used to be a caring country but now, this government doesn't want to care for its citizens, it does however, want to make money out of its citizens by selling off our NHS to American medical and insurance companies.

Also in these times of austerity, this goverment can find the money, running into billions and billions, at £50k a go, to drop bombs on other country's, at the behest of the USA.
 
I read a report a while ago, then heard a verbal report saying almost the same thing not that long ago.
There are area's of this country where up to 50% of kids are leaving school, illiterate and innumerate.
That is scandulous in this day and age.
I was educated in the 1950's and very early 1960's and we had one kid who moved to our school, who would today be diagnosed as dyslexic. He was probably the most intelligent kid at school but, he suffered from numerous physical ailments, everything from having no bladder control, to extremely poor eyesight, to heart and lung problems.
When we realised he was having problems with recognising some letters, a few of us got together and tried to find out what it was he was seeing and to see if we could work out a way that he could see certain letters the way they really were.
We were beginning to have some success when he died suddenly in his sleep one night.
His parents came to thank us for working to try and make his school life easier and to let us know, that it made him so happy that people who were strangers, cared enough to try helping him, instead of making fun of him, as had happened at his previous schools.

The point I'm making isn't about the help we gave to a fellow student but, about the fact that it didn't take too long for a problem, a fellow student was having, to be recognised and the search for a solution to be started.
It makes me ask, what are teachers doing today that they either don't recognise when a student has a problem, or they just don't care enough to get that student some extra help.
Heck we knew our new classmate had health problems because, it was explained to us before he started and we were asked to take his problems into account and to cut him some slack.
We were not told about the dyslexia, hell no one had ever heard of the word in those days, we found that out for ourselves.
Today dyslexia is, I believe, over diagnosed and everyone and his cousins dog has heard of it.
 
I read a report a while ago, then heard a verbal report saying almost the same thing not that long ago.
There are area's of this country where up to 50% of kids are leaving school, illiterate and innumerate.
That is scandulous in this day and age.
I was educated in the 1950's and very early 1960's and we had one kid who moved to our school, who would today be diagnosed as dyslexic. He was probably the most intelligent kid at school but, he suffered from numerous physical ailments, everything from having no bladder control, to extremely poor eyesight, to heart and lung problems.
When we realised he was having problems with recognising some letters, a few of us got together and tried to find out what it was he was seeing and to see if we could work out a way that he could see certain letters the way they really were.
We were beginning to have some success when he died suddenly in his sleep one night.
His parents came to thank us for working to try and make his school life easier and to let us know, that it made him so happy that people who were strangers, cared enough to try helping him, instead of making fun of him, as had happened at his previous schools.

The point I'm making isn't about the help we gave to a fellow student but, about the fact that it didn't take too long for a problem, a fellow student was having, to be recognised and the search for a solution to be started.
It makes me ask, what are teachers doing today that they either don't recognise when a student has a problem, or they just don't care enough to get that student some extra help.
Heck we knew our new classmate had health problems because, it was explained to us before he started and we were asked to take his problems into account and to cut him some slack.
We were not told about the dyslexia, hell no one had ever heard of the word in those days, we found that out for ourselves.
Today dyslexia is, I believe, over diagnosed and everyone and his cousins dog has heard of it.

As a teacher, I can tell you that if a kid is not getting the attention he/she needs, it's because there are too many kids in the class and the teacher has too much work on their plate. Since the 90s and Bliar, the political solution to education has been to blame the teachers and slash the budgets. The do-more-with-less mantra is nonsense and everyone knows it.

Public schools would laugh at the idea of cutting their fees because it's laughably ridiculous to think that a school is going to get better results with less funding.

Education is expensive and providing a decent education to every child in Britain is very expensive but if you want to live in a decent, civilised country, it's a price you should be willing to pay.
 
As a teacher, I can tell you that if a kid is not getting the attention he/she needs, it's because there are too many kids in the class and the teacher has too much work on their plate. Since the 90s and Bliar, the political solution to education has been to blame the teachers and slash the budgets. The do-more-with-less mantra is nonsense and everyone knows it.

Public schools would laugh at the idea of cutting their fees because it's laughably ridiculous to think that a school is going to get better results with less funding.

Education is expensive and providing a decent education to every child in Britain is very expensive but if you want to live in a decent, civilised country, it's a price you should be willing to pay.

Sad to say BB, the number of good teachers in the job is diminishing year on year.
Political interferrence in the education profession started in 1964 and has happened every year since, until now a teacher has no time to teach, they have become nothing but glorified clerks, writing reports in triplicate that nobody but the bean counters read.
Unfortunately there are a growing number in the profession who are only in it for the pension and/or the kudos of being able to say they are teachers, people who don't give a fig for the kids future's.
The powers that be have finally got their way, they now have an under-educated populace and that makes it a lot easier to control and misdirect, even turning them against each other, with pseudo-logic that says, this week it's group 'A' thats at fault for all your wrongs. Then next week it'll be group 'B' thats at fault and so on.

Yes BB, I'm afraid this country is becoming less and less civillised by the year.
Look at the crime stats if you need convincing, we now have more knife crime than that most uncivillised country the USA.
 
Sad to say BB, the number of good teachers in the job is diminishing year on year.
Political interferrence in the education profession started in 1964 and has happened every year since, until now a teacher has no time to teach, they have become nothing but glorified clerks, writing reports in triplicate that nobody but the bean counters read.
Unfortunately there are a growing number in the profession who are only in it for the pension and/or the kudos of being able to say they are teachers, people who don't give a fig for the kids future's.
The powers that be have finally got their way, they now have an under-educated populace and that makes it a lot easier to control and misdirect, even turning them against each other, with pseudo-logic that says, this week it's group 'A' thats at fault for all your wrongs. Then next week it'll be group 'B' thats at fault and so on.

Yes BB, I'm afraid this country is becoming less and less civillised by the year.
Look at the crime stats if you need convincing, we now have more knife crime than that most uncivillised country the USA.

That last bit is actually a bit of a fallacy. In February London did have more murders than New York, but from April onwards they dropped to two thirds of those in the States. Of course, that doesn't stop the media using the February figures.

I'm not sure on the knife crimes stats, but if we do have more then it's because they use guns over there. You are 4 times more likely to be murdered in the States than the UK. That's a huge difference.
 
CRUMB AND DUMBER
Yorkshire bakery blasted for selling gender-neutral Gingerbread Persons

HIGH street bakery chiefs have been accused of taking the biscuit — by selling gender-neutral Gingerbread Persons.

Stunned shoppers condemned Thomas the Baker for rebranding the traditional sweet treat.

:shake:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/?p=7574913
 
Police issue appeal over video of Grenfell Tower mock-up being burned
Footage shows people setting cardboard model of tower alight and shouting, ‘Help me’

Police have appealed for information after a group of people burned a model of Grenfell Tower and laughed as they pretended to be trapped residents who died in the disaster.

A video posted online showed a large cardboard model marked “Grenfell Tower” being placed over a fire in what appeared to be someone’s back garden, in which an English flag was mounted on a pole.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/05/police-appeal-video-mock-up-grenfell-tower-burned
 
Merseyside Police Investigate After Youths 'Put Lit Firework In Homeless Veteran’s Pocket’

Police in Liverpool are investigating an attack on a homeless man, who was targeted by a group of youths who allegedly placed a lit firework in his pocket.

Images on social media appear to show his burnt clothing and red marks on his skin following the incident at around 8.20pm on Lime Street, Liverpool city centre.
 
A man who has spent £33,000 on plastic surgery says he is now even MORE determined to look like David Beckham - after a chip-pan fire left him in a coma.

Jack Johnson has vowed to keep transforming himself into the former United legend and England captain and will not stop 'until he is dead'.

His next target is his bone structure and he is looking at having three ribs removed so he can fit in the same waistcoats that David Beckham wears.

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https://goo.gl/iA3sZ5
 
He's the kind of cock that allows the rags to skew the reality of benefits and only aides those calls for food stamps.

In fairness though, where did the £20k come from, the report talks £30+ but loans not benefits?