Unlike, for example, Nigel Farage.
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Rupert Lowe.
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Unlike, for example, Nigel Farage.
Should make sense to more than a few on here:
My message to the youngsters receiving their exam results today? Please remember that more school and then university is not your only option. It will no doubt get rammed down your throat, but spending three years studying some bullshit degree at a nonsense university will not serve you well. It may seem appealing now, but for many - it is simply not the way.
The alternative? Learn a trade. Plumbing, electrics, engineering, construction, carpentry. So much more...
This is the way to learn a real skill that will serve you for your entire life.
AI will never install pipes, fix a boiler, wire a kitchen. But you can. And that’s a skill that will stay with you forever - opening up so many opportunities that a degree in gender studies can never provide. Not forgetting, avoiding the ludicrous mountain of debt that will likely never get repaid - adding a graduate tax to every monthly salary. Is that what you want? What’s the point? To get drunk at university for a few years? It will end, quickly, and then you’re stuffed.
This is for boys and girls. Learning a trade may be seen as a male route, but an increasing number of young women are making the same choice. It is a wise one.
Through my companies, we’ve developed hundreds of apprentices. I take such huge delight in seeing young men and women learn a trade, develop as people and build a rewarding career. As a country, this is what we need to encourage - or we will simply run out of these skills. It is already happening...
So, to anyone feeling the pressure today - don’t let yourself be pushed into a path that doesn’t suit you. University is right for some, yes, but for many, the smarter choice is to pick up a trade, learn on the job, earn while you learn.
Apprenticeships. Consider it.
My message to the youngsters receiving their exam results today? Please remember that more school and then university is not your only option. It will no doubt get rammed down your throat, but spending three years studying some bullshit degree at a nonsense university will not serve you well. It may seem appealing now, but for many - it is simply not the way.
The alternative? Learn a trade. Plumbing, electrics, engineering, construction, carpentry. So much more...
This is the way to learn a real skill that will serve you for your entire life.
AI will never install pipes, fix a boiler, wire a kitchen. But you can. And that’s a skill that will stay with you forever - opening up so many opportunities that a degree in gender studies can never provide. Not forgetting, avoiding the ludicrous mountain of debt that will likely never get repaid - adding a graduate tax to every monthly salary. Is that what you want? What’s the point? To get drunk at university for a few years? It will end, quickly, and then you’re stuffed.
This is for boys and girls. Learning a trade may be seen as a male route, but an increasing number of young women are making the same choice. It is a wise one.
Through my companies, we’ve developed hundreds of apprentices. I take such huge delight in seeing young men and women learn a trade, develop as people and build a rewarding career. As a country, this is what we need to encourage - or we will simply run out of these skills. It is already happening...
So, to anyone feeling the pressure today - don’t let yourself be pushed into a path that doesn’t suit you. University is right for some, yes, but for many, the smarter choice is to pick up a trade, learn on the job, earn while you learn.
Apprenticeships. Consider it.
Well said, that man!
Then later, once you have some training, and skills under your belt, you can still go to university, on various full-time, and part-time courses, without the risk.
Back in the day when a trade and an apprenticeship was considered the way to go, I chose mechanics. Once, I was offered a job for a fair bit more than I was earning as an apprentice by the owner of a breakdown firm that I worked part time at, during the evenings. My dad phoned the bloke up and told him in no uncertain terms that should he employ me, he'd better be prepared to have me living under his roof! My dad said I was to finish my apprenticeship, get my papers and then as far as he was concerned, I could sweep the streets if I wanted to as with a trade behind me and being a qualified tradesman, I would always have something to fall back on.
Odd that liberals choose the word gammon as an insult. Surely it's only really offensive to our friends in the religious death cult.
Shut up you tart!
Well said. I couldn’t have put it better myself.
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He's looking for a party, to join, you could consider voting for them if he finds one.
I could. So could you if you agree with what he says. BTW, who do you agree with?
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I generally agree with him on this but many have been saying the same thing for years, it's nothing new.
Ironic that he was educated at a private boys school and then wen to Uni. A case of do as I say, not as I do.
Perhaps he was fortunate in that his parents could afford to send him there. It must be obvious to him that not many parents are in the position his parents were so are unable to do as his parents did.
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He didn't mention money, he was saying "spending three years studying some bullshit degree at a nonsense university" isn't worth it.
He chose to go to Uni, if others do the same then good for them. But yes, there are other options.
Odd that any right wing Brit would choose the word liberal as an insult. Mrs Thatcher described herself as a liberal.
