Errmm, think I'd need to practice for about a year first......hound of the baskervilles wrote:Thats the plan. Making an appearance on the Trombone, RR???
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£8 for a drink? How big are the glasses?Great Plum wrote:No, 4 drinks in jamie's Wine Bar!Richard Ruck wrote:6 drinks in Jamie's Wine Bar......
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I recieve £30 a week ema, and find/found it very useful in paying for driving lessons (which I otherwise could not have/have had). And if the government are going to give it to us then why not? Just a shame we end up paying it back several times over with the new uni top-up fees.... which many of us will be paying back for most of our lives.... where's the logic in that?!
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I don't think the point of it is to have driving lessons though!99yorkpj wrote:I recieve £30 a week ema, and find/found it very useful in paying for driving lessons (which I otherwise could not have/have had). And if the government are going to give it to us then why not? Just a shame we end up paying it back several times over with the new uni top-up fees.... which many of us will be paying back for most of our lives.... where's the logic in that?!
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What IS the real point of it ? Does anyone know?Great Plum wrote:I don't think the point of it is to have driving lessons though!99yorkpj wrote:I recieve £30 a week ema, and find/found it very useful in paying for driving lessons (which I otherwise could not have/have had). And if the government are going to give it to us then why not? Just a shame we end up paying it back several times over with the new uni top-up fees.... which many of us will be paying back for most of our lives.... where's the logic in that?!
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YOU need to get a life?Mrs C. wrote:What IS the real point of it ? Does anyone know?Great Plum wrote:I don't think the point of it is to have driving lessons though!99yorkpj wrote:I recieve £30 a week ema, and find/found it very useful in paying for driving lessons (which I otherwise could not have/have had). And if the government are going to give it to us then why not? Just a shame we end up paying it back several times over with the new uni top-up fees.... which many of us will be paying back for most of our lives.... where's the logic in that?!
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Where does that put me...Isn't the point to buy books and things?
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Well you would have thought so, but as schoools provide most of the necessary books, libraries are also available, as is that recent invention , the internet!Great Plum wrote:Isn't the point to buy books and things?
And I really don`t think anyone needs £30 a week to buy stationery, as a large amount of work is done on the computer anyway!
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Maybe it's to pay for the PC!Mrs C. wrote:Well you would have thought so, but as schoools provide most of the necessary books, libraries are also available, as is that recent invention , the internet!Great Plum wrote:Isn't the point to buy books and things?
And I really don`t think anyone needs £30 a week to buy stationery, as a large amount of work is done on the computer anyway!
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It is to pay an allowance for things which parents can't afford.
Driving lessons, clothes, mobile phone etc. To keep the kids at school rather than going out to earn the money.
Parents who can afford such things give their children an allowance, or buy them anyway.
Driving lessons, clothes, mobile phone etc. To keep the kids at school rather than going out to earn the money.
Parents who can afford such things give their children an allowance, or buy them anyway.
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And those in-between get nothing.englishangel wrote:It is to pay an allowance for things which parents can't afford.
Driving lessons, clothes, mobile phone etc. To keep the kids at school rather than going out to earn the money.
Parents who can afford such things give their children an allowance, or buy them anyway.
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It appears to me that, as a taxpayer, I am funding the existance, maintenance, staffing etc. of schools to which youths from 5 to 18 might care to go if they have nothing else to do.99yorkpj wrote:I recieve £30 a week ema, and find/found it very useful in paying for driving lessons (which I otherwise could not have/have had). And if the government are going to give it to us then why not? Just a shame we end up paying it back several times over with the new uni top-up fees.... which many of us will be paying back for most of our lives.... where's the logic in that?!
Fine, if they are not at school then I consider it only fair to assume that they are in meaningful employ and that, from their income elsewhere, they should pay for the services offered to them and not taken up. ie fine them £30 per week that they don't attend (time in hospital for injuries incurred whilst sober excluded).
Of course I can't suggest that in public because it would be read that I am trying to influence Saint Tony, alias HM Government, and any attempt to influence HM Government by any peaceful and reasonable (or violent for that matter) means whatsoever is an offence under the Terrorism Act 2000 resulting in incarceration at Saint Tony's pleasure,