Sturgeonland

[TheDeeDon]

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...lasgow-campus/

My EIS/FELA comrade at another college reacts:

“For the 'West' read ********** for us.

Kelvin is cutting provision for courses in Educational Support and Trade Union Education (completely). Both areas were recently praised as providing essential services for the community.

The attack on TU education fits in with Sturgeon's neo-liberal policies of marginalising the disadvantaged. The SNP are squeezing FE to compensate for their fûck-up with schools and HE.

Mass direct action needed to dislodge the corrupt and powerful.

It's likely that Comms and Social Sciences will be hit at **********. That's my prediction.”

This has been going on since the former 43 Scottish FE colleges were merged, swallowed up, and closed from 2007 onwards, with considerable loss of expertise, growth of ‘senior management teams’ coinciding with the cuts to teaching and support posts, the redundancy of teaching posts, and the resulting downgrading of teaching posts to far less costly ‘instructor’ level. The number of colleges has reduced to 26, with some wholly-unsuitable ‘mergers’ (frequently aggressive take-overs by predatory larger colleges with ministerial blessing).

Thank fuuck I got out of it 15 years ago when the writing on the wall became joined-up. The incompetence of Education ministers is now generally just accepted. Shirley-Anne Somerville is the latest nodding dog post-holder, displaying the ability level of John Inglis with her bootlaces tied together.

Still, rocks will melt in the sun and all that.

I went back to college at 26 (to study accountancy!) and the lecturers were always complaining about how shyte things were becoming and that was over 20 years ago. I also remember the ad-hoc way they got lecturers which meant we often changed lecturers every two-three weeks for some subjects, especially law.

If I live to be a 1000, I will never understand why we need politicians to run or at least pretend to have anything to do with the running of any public services.

[57vintage]

If I live to be a 1000, I will never understand why we need politicians to run or at least pretend to have anything to do with the running of any public services.

Never let them forget that they just collect and allocate the tax take, ie your hard-earned (and mine again from today…), VAT, fuel duty, NI contributions, and 101 other ways, according to preference. That’s it.

So whilst they’re grandstanding, virtue-signalling, practising exceptionalism, riding each other daft, and exploiting their positions, it’s with the earnings of their mythical ‘hard-working families’.

I trust I can rely on your vote?

[Donanddusted]

So whilst they’re... riding each other daft, and exploiting their positions, it’s with the earnings of their mythical ‘hard-working families’.

I trust I can rely on your vote?

They must be doing a hell of a lot of riding because there are very few who aren't stupid.
Criminally so in quite a few instances.

[Mason89]

They must be doing a hell of a lot of riding because there are very few who aren't stupid.
Criminally so in quite a few instances.

It’s pretty amazing how far in life some of them can get. If I live to 1000, I’ll never understand why secretaries of state never require any experience in their field to hold down the job. If I applied for a job with no experience or qualifications, I wouldn’t get an interview. These c*nts just stroll in and they’re Secretary of State for defence

[Donanddusted]

It’s pretty amazing how far in life some of them can get. If I live to 1000, I’ll never understand why secretaries of state never require any experience in their field to hold down the job. If I applied for a job with no experience or qualifications, I wouldn’t get an interview. These c*nts just stroll in and they’re Secretary of State for defence

Absolutely.
Johnson.
Case closed.

[TheDeeDon]

Never let them forget that they just collect and allocate the tax take, ie your hard-earned (and mine again from today…), VAT, fuel duty, NI contributions, and 101 other ways, according to preference. That’s it.

So whilst they’re grandstanding, virtue-signalling, practising exceptionalism, riding each other daft, and exploiting their positions, it’s with the earnings of their mythical ‘hard-working families’.

I trust I can rely on your vote?

We don't even need them to collect the taxes.

I know there are still some from all parties who are in it for the right reasons, but on the whole a shower of entitled c u n t s feathering their own nests to the detriment of most of us proles.