@Steviejdavies I remember this great country before Blair & his sleaze, lying reweapons of mass destruction, hyperinflation, busting the banks, mass immigration, ridiculous overinflated university enrolment targets (everyone's a winner, babe!). It was a wonderful peaceful place, then he came...
@WeeBee333 What on earth were the governors, the Head Teacher and the teachers thinking? This is a safeguarding issue and all of them should be hauled over the coals for their flagrant breaches of the Children's Act 1989. Name and shame them.
@that_1 Wired. Why is he speaking to children? Does he have an enhanced DBS check? Are parents pre warned? If so, I would exercise my right under the Children's Act to withdraw my child from any time he is present on school property. What were the governors/head/teachers thinking?
@danny__kruger This is heartbreaking. The CoE is declining in faith, practice and numbers. It will fall. And the current management is facilitating and encouraging it. Utter betrayal.
@Alexarmstrong Follow me out, Alex. Left 2 years ago in spirit due our parish church's position post 7/10 and other ideological matters; now physically leaving for good. And 1 wedding & 2 gdchdn baptised at Leeds Minster, but will lobby for third to be baptised in non-CofE place of worship.
@Adrian_Hilton@ArchbishopSarah Not good enough, I'm afraid. The AOC personally conferred the award on 9/11 to a muslim cleric in the presence of two fully shrouded women, one of whom is apparently his wife. No sensible person would have even considered participating in that charade. Shame on her.
@Adrian_Hilton "...embarrassed the AOC"? AOC willingly participated in this charade. If she were a stronger person, even a sensible person, she would have refused to go along with this utter betrayal of the Christian church, christians, those who died & suffered on 9/11, all of us. Shame on her
@Inevitablewest To (slightly mis-) quote Anna Soubrey: I did not leave the Church of England; the Church of England left me. So very very sad and still devastated.
@DefundBBC No, no, no. We choose not to watch left-wing propaganda. Why should we pay for it? This would be a tax and nothing else no matter how much they try to camouflage it with their usual linguistic gymnastics. Levy? No, it would be a tax, pure and simple.
@tweedy151@raphaeldogg I'm really pleased for those workers who were employed by Cadburies, M&S etc. Good for them.
Blocked for using very narrow specific examples then claiming that those examples are representative of a whole generation of workers.
@Northpr7@raphaeldogg Define "lots" please. Many, many didn't have access to private pension incl. women. I was one of those women as were my female colleagues. Blocked for trying to justify the current vitriol targeted at pensioners who just want to survive in this current financial/political climate
@hayek_tendency I am in the cohort you cite. I was unpensionable as were my female colleagues. Please do not claim to know something about which you know nothing. Or are you denying my experience? Claiming that I'm lying?
@hayek_tendency With all due respect, how far back are you going & to which type of employee are you referring? Pensioners who worked post-WW11 to 1980s in a lot of manual labour jobs (which extended to the millions) did not have the benefit of any pension at all. And women were unpensionable.