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To me, Starkey is someone who is, like a number of people on this forum, culturally very ignorant as he seldom takes the opportunity to step outside his relatively very small cultural bubble and interact with others.
The Jamie does schools and failing kids didn't happen then?
But he believes, due perhaps to his elevated status as a 'historian', that he is somehow qualified on all sorts of matters that he actually knows very little about. As is painfully proven in this case
his first comment was that he was an historian and to ask him in 10 years time. Unfortunately he failed to shut up at that point.
Then again, we have a Prime Minister who talks about finding solutions to problems he has no clue whatsoever about, so I spose we shoon't be surprised....
I suppose he could ask David Lamy, he only works across the road, after him IDS and Frank Field have some views as well
I also watched the C4 discussion about the issues when the presenter asked the audience for good idea's about what practical steps could be taken guess how many he got?
What are your big ideas because the claim that others don't know what they are talking about means you must know what you are talking about.
But you could counter argue are the higher echelons, our business leaders, politicians etc, who see it as perfectly acceptable to falsify expenses, to award themselves salaries far removed from the majority, to deny help to those that need it, in any position to complain about those at the bottom??
I agree, we need more Martin Bell type characters about to ensure that those at the top don't abuse their position. The expectations of those who are in or aspire to power should be higher than those at the bottom and both should share a common moral grounding
The Jamie does schools and failing kids didn't happen then?
Pfft. That's like me eating some shortbread biscuits and claiming I know all about Scotland....
What are your big ideas because the claim that others don't know what they are talking about means you must know what you are talking about.
Big ideas about what? How to prevent rioting and looting and stuff?
Address the needs of [i]all[/i] sections of our society in a way that is actually effective, by talking and listening to people from all sections, and learning what they actually need, rather than what some ignorant and quite frankly disinterested self-serving politicians claim they do....
Plenty in my profile to give you some ideas. Why not have a read, keep you busy for a few weeks at least. 😆