The sad thing is that is us, the sweaty masses, who are to blame as we vote (or abstain from voting) in the twats who make laws and we employ the social workers who squeel about them etc. The only ones we cant take the blame for are the greedy ambulance chasing lawyers who make a killing on legal aid!
In my humble opinion, the biggest mistake in the last 20 or so years has been the dumbing down of the universities. It used to be you know where you stood if someone had been to a polytechnic, a college or a uni (and futher broken down into which one), but now with everybody being a graduate or post-graduate, these days you cannot sort out the dumbasses from the 1/2 decent ones. I would now rather employ a non further education applicant than I would someone with honours as they dont mean squat, what with all the cheating, getting someone else to sit for you etc, and you can probably fake them easy enough as they people in the HR dept (notice no longer personel) are usually just as dumb as the ex-students putting in the applications!
Make them all leave school at 14 and reopen the mines - that what I say. Makes perfect economic, social,enviromental sense if you think about it.
1/ we are in a fuel crisis at the mo and the goverment are never going to take the tax down - the mines are still viable.
2/ keeps the neds and the future teenage welfare mothers to be off the streets
3/ Coal and wood and peat are the perfect renewable energy sourse - it just takes slightly longer than unpredictable wind, wave and solar power but in the lifetime of the earth, it really not long term.
Right rant over and away for me tea now.
(might need to come back and edit the school age down to 12 methinks)