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[UncleUB]

Gordon Brown is set to announce that every low income family will get £700 to get a computer and internet access,where do they get £700 from  .
This sounds about as good as the beer money child trust fund set up by this government.
What is this idiot on.



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[Floydoid]

Precisely... £700 to cover the cost of a PC and internet access???... I think he lives in cloud cuckoo land. 

He sure doesn't live in the real world.

[UncleUB]

And whats going to happen when a lot of these no-marks low income families get on the internet?Are they going to look/study for jobs online?Or are they going to.............................I'll let you decide that one.

[toulouse]

@UncleUB

What is this idiot on ?

I don't know Uncy, but I sure wish I could get hold of a bottle of it. Come the revolution, he'll be one of the first up against the wall.

TTFN

toulouse

[UncleUB]

Oh yes Toulouse,put me down for a place on the firing squad. 

[tuftedduck]

Makes you wonder why we all worked all our days and tried to save a bit for our retirement.

We're the worst off ones now, the new opulent classes are the idlers and the irrelevant (by that I mean sportspersons and showbusiness types)

[chrissie]

Makes you wonder why we all worked all our days and tried to save a bit for our retirement.

We're the worst off ones now, the new opulent classes are the idlers and the irrelevant (by that I mean sportspersons and showbusiness types)

You should have heard me when reading our morning teletext pages and that popped up.... oh boy..... no lady in this house at that time!!!!   I just wish from the time this lot of incompetents got in POWER, I'd have kept a log of all the loony things they'd done and are still doing.  Might have made a best seller book - Believing the Unbelievable - Idiots and their wonderful ideas!  Trouble is I get soooo mad at the things they come up with... I don't think they are doing any good for my blood pressure!

[Floydoid]

The more I think about it, the more I think this is a cynical vote winning tactic, aimed at the ignorant underclass, i.e. 'vote for us and we'll give you more beer money funds for a computer'.

Anyone remember the (largely unfulfilled) promise of free computers for the poorest households?

[oldfogy]

In a make-or-break speech to Labour's conference in Manchester, the Prime Minister will announce plans for a voucher scheme worth up to £700 to hard-up families to get a broadband connection.

The scheme, funded by Ed Balls' Department for Children, Families and Schools, will be paid for by efficiency savings made in Whitehall, according to senior Government insiders.

The internet pledge is part of a move to promote what Mr Brown will call "fair chances for everyone".
He will tell his party that 1.4 million school age children live in households with no internet access.

He will say that all the evidence suggests that access to the internet has a big impact on the educational achievement of children in school.

The vouchers proposed by the Government will be to pay for broadband connections, technical support, software and - where necessary - a computer.

In a make-or-break speech to Labour's conference in Manchester, the Prime Minister will announce plans for a voucher scheme worth up to £700 to hard-up families to get a broadband connection.

Most have already got it and the rest don't want it.

... will be paid for by efficiency savings made in Whitehall,....

Then wasted on a futile attempt to get people surfing the internet.

The internet pledge is part of a move to promote what Mr Brown will call "fair chances for everyone".

The internet pledge is part of a move to promote "Himself"

He will tell his party that 1.4 million school age children live in households with no internet access.

Whats the point of internet access if you can't read or write.

He will say that all the evidence suggests that access to the internet has a big impact on the educational achievement of children in school.

Yes it's called "Plagiarism" (hope thats in the dictionary)

The vouchers proposed by the Government will be to pay for broadband connections, technical support, software and - where necessary - a computer.

What a load of hoggs wash.

Get me out and beam-me-up-Scottie before I die of laughing.

[chrissie]

The more I think about it, the more I think this is a cynical vote winning tactic, aimed at the ignorant underclass, i.e. 'vote for us and we'll give you more beer money funds for a computer'.

Anyone remember the (largely unfulfilled) promise of free computers for the poorest households?

Think I have to agree with you Floydy on this one.... money buys votes doesn't it.... hand it on a plate and they are in with a chance..... cynical??  Moi??

[UncleUB]

The funny thing is the so called 'voters' he is aiming this at will not/have not ever voted in their lives.You can't vote when you are in bed/pub/betting shop.
When these no marks get on the internet(if the voucher has not already been sold on)what will they do.Kids(social networking and games)Fathers(porn and gambling).Mothers(bingo).
I am typing this still thinking 'It can't be true'

[oldfogy]

Do you want to hear a "REALLY GOOD ONE"?

This is totally true.
I was talking to my estranged daughter-in-law last night who is complaining that with all her benefits.
She can't manage on WAIT FOR IT IT

£1,000 yes "One Thousand Pounds" per month benefits.

And that does not included any money toward paying for the mortgage/interest on her £180,000 house.
Payment is for 1 adult and 2 children under 16 years old, with a working adult son also living at home.

Comments on a post-card c/o Somerset CC.

[UncleUB]

OF,this is why a lot of young girls can't wait to pregnant.............Council house,benefits galore and never have to do a days paid work in their lives.

[Floydoid]

OF,this is why a lot of young girls can't wait to pregnant.............Council house,benefits galore and never have to do a days paid work in their lives.

I watched something about careers advice in schools not so long back, and they featured one school which was in a run down inner city area, and it seemed that most of the female pupils' idea of careers research was to find out about all the state benefits they can get, and picking the *furniture that they want from the Argos book for when the council gives them a flat because they are pregnant.

*all paid for by the government of course

I tell you, the TV set came so close to being pulverised with a sledge hammer that day.

[UncleUB]

OF,this is why a lot of young girls can't wait to pregnant.............Council house,benefits galore and never have to do a days paid work in their lives.

I watched something about careers advice in schools not so long back, and they featured one school which was in a run down inner city area, and it seemed that most of the female pupils' idea of careers research was to find out about all the state benefits they can get, and picking the *furniture that they want from the Argos book for when the council gives them a flat because they are pregnant.

*all paid for by the government of course

I tell you, the TV set came so close to being pulverised with a sledge hammer that day.

And there's me thinking all they wanted to do was win the 'X' Factor.