Students, Schools and Snoods

So student 'activists' are planning more occupations, sit-ins and disruption, following on from yesterday's debacle in central  London. Proof that they've got too much time on their hands and are unable to use their so called 'superior intellects' to debate their grievances effectively. Instead they gravitate to the lowest common denominators of violence and vandalism. This country is grossly over intellectualized with people waving around degrees in Zoology, Philosophy and Art who then wonder why that 'qualification' doesn't immediately get them a job. I'll tell you why, they are worthless and carry no value whatsoever in the commercial world.

Doctors, Solicitors, Teachers and other professions requiring specific degree qualifications are obviously necessary, but more vocational qualifications with relevance to the real world and the requirements of our economy makes much better sense. Incidentally the intensity (or lack of) in degree courses is quite frankly a joke. Nearly all courses could be cut by 12 months and the work rate intensified, this would also be a year less of tuition fees. You do not have birth right to free further education and should be expected to repay the costs (at a reasonable level admittedly) when able.

I do genuinely have a small amount of sympathy with our present student population who had been groomed by a Labour administration and their policies to believe that a degree was a guarantee of a free ride to the land of milk and honey. Wake up to real world, get of your a**es and do a proper days work.

My 2 daughters are at junior school and due to the fact they have as healthy appetites as their father, school dinners are inadequate for them. For this reason they take packed lunches, I have tried to be creative with regard to their diets and during the winter months, flasks of home made soups and pastas are an ideal lunch......Until now, the school has stated that due to health and safety issues they are no longer allowed to bring hot food. I assume from this that the school dinners are served cold! Another healthy snack previous enjoyed by both girls was nuts and raisins, you've guessed it, they are banned too in case what? My daughters force feed someone with a nut allergy? What the hell is going on when I am restricted in delivering my own children a healthy balanced diet by petty bureaucratic nonsense?

Snoods, a final nail in the coffin for Football I'm afraid, what on earth are you thinking? Also if my kids are not allowed to wear Help for Heroes wrist bands at school in case they injure themselves by catching them on something, how ridiculous that in a semi-contact sport you are allowed to wear something around your neck? Well done Sir Alex for banning your players from wearing them.

Have a great weekend, and you students take it easy after your busy week defacing monuments to national heroes. Tiring work I'm sure

Not so grumpy old man!

Having just celebrated my 42nd birthday , it has been a time for reflection. I have received a few comments about this blog that I am in danger of becoming a grumpy old man. Not so, my life has greatly improved over the past few months after a nightmare year in business and financial dire straits. I am physically in the best shape of my life, have re-focussed on my goals, recently started a new job, have 2 great children, a great partner and a few valued friends.

The point of this blog is to provide a conduit for opinions and share my thoughts with like minded individuals as well as provoking debate. It's not all negative either, I just genuinely believe it is increasingly important for real people's opinions to be voiced and eventually taken into account by others. It is not arrogant to believe that my opinion counts, I am not saying that it is more or less valuable than someone else's, but I am totally over being told by the media and politicians what my opinions are, or what they should be.

Dirty Harry said "Opinions are like arseholes and everybody has one" I firmly believe that.

So if you are interested and fancy coming along for the ride and adding your voices too then you are more than welcome. Every topic is open to discussion and debate.

World Cup

Why is Mr Cameron flying to and from Switzerland? To support the World Cup bid that we all want apparently. I'm as keen on the World Cup coming to England as I was on the Olympic 2012 bid. Most commentators and politicians keep telling me how glad I was that we won the 2012 bid. I wasn't, and did not have the luxury of contributing to a decision that cost my tax money and delivers no tangible benefit to me or my family.

The same applies to the World Cup bid which was instigated by a previous administration, not the Football Association, so why does my Prime Minister feel the need to take his eye off the day job i.e. running the country and sorting out the god awful mess that Labour left us in and keep to'ing and fro'ing  from Switzerland to bid for a football competition? Populist politics is what cost the country from 1997 onwards, I hope that the present administration doesn't fall into the same trap.

Luckily for us that decision was taken out of our hands, dodged a bullet there, pity we didn't dodge the Olympic one.