| CrazyHorse said: @SciFiBoy My responses in italic
oh cool, another pro-Europe brit, there are way too few of us The way the mainstream media report on European issues is very damaging to the pro-european opinion. Certain 'news'papers will report the bendy banana rules the EU impossed but they often forget to report that the Eu passed laws restricting the cost of pan European mobile calls, restricted the charge that credit card companies impose on purchases abroad and making it possible for you to claim compensation should an airline overbook your flight or arrive late. electoral reform im in favour of too I understand the suspicion but it is much safer than the media would have you believe and disposal technologies are constantly moving forward. Not to mention it really is the only available option at the minute (renewables are inefficient and we don't want to have to rely on foregin states for our energy). tuition fees should be scrapped on principle that education should be free to access for all imo (or at the very least, there should be a free option when it comes to education at any level), I agree some course's need to go (pointless ones), however, I think education is great, people should do it if they want too, raising entry standards a little maybe, but not so much as to stop people like me going (im good at stuff, just not great at exams, don't see why that should stop me learning more though) Education is great but too many resources are being spent on sending people to uni when it has no benefit to society. More should be done on voactional training and internships. okay, sure, that makes sense, maybe they should make some of the degrees more vocational too, that would be good taxes I don't know too much about, but should be covered on my politics course (doing at the moment) The Taliban were able to fight off the USSR as they were funded/equiped/trained by the west. My fear is that if we pull out the country will revert to what it was under the taliban and the people will suffer. Altough the situation is bad now there is at least the prospect that we can force some sort of political peace. why? sorry to sound callus, but we don't help the 700 or so other nations who treat there people badly, look at Zimbabwe or Iran, they have awful regimes that are fowl to there people, we cant police the whole world, nor should we try to, what we SHOULD do is try to set a good example for them, its like with a child, you cant force them to be polite, but you can set a good example for them to follow, you see what I mean? |
