Major certainly did negotiate and there was a ceasefire. My understanding is that various members of his party were against any compromise on prisoner release which stalled the peace process.
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It was Mo Mowlam that āhad the ballsā to talk to paramilitaries, and build genuine relationships on both sides of the divide.
Blair just stepped in at the end to take the glory. Mowlam famously remarked āIām just the tea lady around hereā when Blair took credit for her work.
Bastard has made a fortune boasting about it round the world since, whitewashing his Middle East warmongering
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Couldnāt agree more with this. Mo Mowlam was an incredible woman.
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Tony Blair was, and continues to be, a fucking horrible cunt.
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Still well thought of here. Though my kids only know her as a play parkā¦the best one in Belfast, beside Stormont.
i.e. ācan we go to the mo mowlam today daddy?ā
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I havenāt read his article but i suspect many of those criticising Starmer for it havenāt either and are largely just resorting to their own prejudices, perhaps based on the headlines alone.
He wasnāt from what I have seen of the article and that written about it actually praising Thatcher. The article was basically to say that a government that has a clear aim and public support can deliver effective change - this current government has neither of those things and will just amble from one crisis into another, and this will continue if they are re-elected.
He contrasted this with three examples of previous governments - two labour and one conservative because he was writing an article in a conservative supporting paper it had to include at least one. Beyond Thatcher, who else could he realistically pick?
He also set out his case why Labour would be the better option.
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Exactly this, I read it last night.
As an aside, a teacher called JOB yesterday to tell the story of a kid who asked to take home the potato cuttings from art class because there is no food in the house.
I completely understand why Starmer doesnāt resonate, he doesnāt resonate with me either, but these cunts need to go, and if āpraisingā that ghoul gets us there, I can swallow it.
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This bit being very important. I get the impression that the current shower has literally no idea of how to make policy other than to try to scam money out of the public purse. That probably accounts for why they seem to want to micromanage everything.
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Fuck me that is upsetting even through the medium of fourth/fifth hand via an internet thread half the world away; must be absolutely heartbreaking for the teacher(s) who experience it directly (before we even consider what it means for the children themselves).
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Mateā¦it kept me awake last night.
These fucking pricks that exist only to funnel money upwardsā¦
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The unhappy reaction to your post is for the first paragraph. Thatās awful.
Only this morning I was looking at a BBC article on how standards in writing, reading, maths and science have fallen off a cliff in Wales.
Big part of that is pandemic but when you look closer thereās a decline in science I think it was across the UK for the last 12 years.
That really doesnāt bode well.
my sister has her masterās degree in education, she worked with at-risk youth in the school district for 15+ years. it pretty much broke her, so many kids were at the mercy of their neglectful parents who would piss away their monthly income on drugs and alcohol and not put food on the table or clothes on their backs. End of summer, I would gather up the clothes that I couple spare for the upcoming winter and send them with her to school so these kids has jeans/sweaters and a pack of wool socks.
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āFortunatelyā deprivation used to be far less frequent than it is now. There are people with meaningful, full-time employment who canāt put food on the table.
I have no doubt there have always been shit parents. Now there are good parents who just cannot survive thrown into the mix.
To be blunt, I donāt care why theyāre deprivedā¦all I give a shit about is the fact that no child in a country this rich should ever be hungry.
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Got to admit, while Iām on a decent wage, some may say excellent, I feel like Iām being hammered financially from every direction right now.
Lord knows how some people manage. Itās just tragic, and decades in the making. Iād even argue some aspects deliberate too.
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what killed her the most was the parents walking around with $1000 iphones and their kid doesnāt have socks on. She quit that position a few years ago. itās becoming far too prevalent
All of them ?
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I donāt know bud, Iāll ask my sister. These are just what sheās told me over the years. I donāt make this shit up.
Maybe not however you could well be perverting the story!
My ex and her daughter are both social workers, itās tough. Particularly for her daughter who works with kids.
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Iām not, and I really donāt care if you believe me. People ask why I am so jaded against society these days, and I truthfully tell them Iāve seen enough shit to believe in the worst of society.
My neighbor is a retired EMT, did the Vancouver downtown east side area for 20yrs because heās got the personality to deal withā¦the poorest postal code in the country.
Thereās a report in Aus this morning about the standard of literacy and numeracy being the lowest in 20 years despite aus ranking as one of the highest worldwide
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