"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:57:24 +0100, "IMM" wrote:


The way you defend cowboyism and the vast profits they make, leads me to
believe you may have a cowboy streak in you too.

I'm not defending cowboyism at all.

You are.

We need people to go to universities,
as history will show that a highly
educated population always prospers.

Yes but that notion does not extend to 50%
of the population going to "university" as
Mr EU Turn seems to think.

Has someone done a study to assess what %age need to go to uni? Those who
are against are mainly Little Middle Englanders.

There's nothing wrong
with higher education for a broad section of the population as such -
it is question of appropriateness. Not everybody can benefit from an
academic university education,

What a stupid comment.

There is a long waiting list for plumbing
and heating courses which
rubbishes your petty snob views.

This has nothing to do with snobbery at all.

It has.

The real question is why is there a
proposal to bribe 16 year olds to
stay on in education?

We need a highly educated population. Graduates tend to be into positions
of power. If many of them are from the working class a form of meritocracy
will prevail, and hopefully these people will get rid of the public
school/Oxbridge self interest group.

If plumbing and heating have suddenly
become so popular, where are all
the people who are passing?

Filling the skills gap.

) and his cronies?

Prescott should dish out a few left hooks, that
is clear. The ST Rich list still puts parasite
landowners and large construction company owners as the
richest people in the UK.

Nothing wrong with that.

There is. The land should not be in the
hands of few unproductive parasitic
few who make billions by taking rent.
The land already belongs to the
people. It is called sovereignty.

I'm not wasting time on that silly nonsense again.

1% of the population owning 70% of the land is not nonsense at all. We are
the only major country in the world not to re-distribute land and it shows.

They can be here, but they are NOT UK billionaires as the ST Rich list
say
they are. Strangely, they list the Irish rich, north and south, and do
not
list those who made there money outside of Ireland yet list foreign
billionaires as being British: Reusling (sp), Abromovich, The Indian
steel
billionaires, etc.

Take these people off the list and the rich list and it is spattered with
unproductive landowning parasites.

So what...

You can't be that dumb. The riches people in the UK take RENT and become
billionaires to the detriment of the people as a whole. That is obvious.

Many of the landowners are worth a hell
of a lot more than what they are, the royal
family comes to mind. The problem is that
it is near impossible to assess their wealth,
which is not the case in proper countries.

It's nobody else's business.

It is. Every other sane country thinks so too.

Large landowners, and the aristocracy, have
always hid their real wealth, as Kevin Cahill
revealed when they suppressed
a land census in the late 1800s, because
the census reveal how much land
they actually owned.

So a small number of people have a lot of assets.

That can be reversed and measures taken to prevent it occurring again.

That always has been the case and likely always will be.

It always will be with brainwashed people like you around. These parasites
must love the likes of you.