Thursday 19 June 2014

NEETional Service

But what is Ed Miliband going to do for and about older NEETs? For example, Damian Thompson.

The way is now clear for real Catholic comment, rather than absurd Brideshead queenery centred on someone who has devoted her life to damaging the Church by means of malicious gossip.

I had half-expected to wake up cured this morning. Perhaps when she dies? Or perhaps when someone rather more local dies? He knows who he is. Regular readers will not have too much trouble identifying him, either. The problem is that he is only months older than I am, so I might very well go before him.

Mabel also used to say that she wanted someone else “paleo-Labour”, just not me. She never managed to find one, though. Well, this is an opportunity for her successor. Whoever that is could try every signatory to this, this and this.

He or she could also seek out someone in each of the 11 areas of the United Kingdom that are now poorer than Eastern Europe. By no means all of them are Labour strongholds, at least for now; Cornwall, the poorest of all, currently has no Labour MPs at all.

Richard Ingrams is also known to be available for work.

Now, to the main event.

We need universal and compulsory – non-military, but uniformed, ranked and barracked – National Service, between secondary education and tertiary education or training.

As much as anything else, this would send people to university that little bit worldly-wiser, which would not only be good for academic and behavioural standards, but would also drain such swamps as Marxism, anarcho-capitalism, and the marriage of the two in neoconservatism. No one who had been around even a little bit would ever fall for such things for one moment.

Of course, that is also a very good reason for broadening the social and socio-economic base from which students, and indeed academics, are drawn.

Instead of “widening participation” by abolishing everything in which one might wish to participate, and then only letting in the offspring of the upper middle classes anyway, on the smug assumption of having done one’s bit.

If you like this policy, or of any other that you might read on here, then remember that the above-unnamed is the reason why it is not being promoted in Parliament.

I would have held the council seat that he was always going to lose. But he was apparently too pretty, and too possessed of an encyclopaedic knowledge of football and pop music while knowing absolutely nothing about anything else whatever, to be denied the opportunity of nominally contesting it. Oh, and of course he was a pure blood Caucasian, whereas anything else would have been  “unelectable” according to his employer at the time, who was the Government Chief Whip.

I would then have become the MP for this seat, possibly as early as 2005, and certainly in 2010. See anything on here that you like (say, raising the age of consent to 18), and remember that its lack of a parliamentary platform is all his fault and hers.

Like his protectress, who had wished to be his predecessor but who had lost all national clout in the transition from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown, he comes from a family that attempts, not very successfully, to pass itself off as haute bourgeois due to having acquired some political connection somewhere along the line, but which otherwise would not secure the income or the status of beggars or prostitutes.

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