Nasty party attacks reading & study

[matgb]

The Sun Online - News: Cameron's call-up for teenagers:Bookish swots will be shown there is more to life than just exams.
Best reaction I've seen? The political editor of the Daily Mail:My reaction on reading this was to bristle. Surely this was just my chum George Pascoe-Watson applying his talent for distilling complicated ideas; Mr Cameron must

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[nadriel]

I think I might actually be incensed by this. I'm currently trying to work out what I'm more offended by, but once I've sorted that, I'll settle to working out my elaborate and painful punishment. It may involve ferrets.

[yuxonomei]

I don't know whether to laugh at this or not.

Obviously Mr Cameron has no idea how teenagers work. The only ones that are going to be remotely interested in this are the ones who are in Scouting and Guiding organisations, those in any similar group and those who do Duke of Edinburgh awards. Even then, they may find that what Cameron is proposing does not fit into their already busy lives.

Kids can't win at all these days, sigh.

[greyarea]

Agree 100% with everything you just said. This is absolutely mystifying; as you say, it'll appeal to none of the people it's clearly aimed at benefiting (does he really think the terror of Middle England, the "vodka-swigging hoodie" is going to volunteer to do the three peaks, FFS? And does he really think the incentive of being to donate cash to a charity of said hoodie's choice is going to work?!), and will actively offend/put off many of those it's presumably meant to appeal to.

Saddest of all is that is probably the most detailed policy that the Conservative party have put out under his "leadership". I mean, jesus wept - is this really the most pressing thing he can come up with? Reactionary, ill thought through, counter-productive twaddle.

Keep it up Dave, keep it up :)

[matgb]

Aye. I want a hung parliament to force through constitutional reform as per Ming's stuff yesterday.

I've proposed a tactical voting campaign in order to get this.

To acheive it, we have to persuade some people to vote Tory.

I don't see how it is possible to do this.

[tyrell]

It's funny, I look at 90% of school leavers at 16, and indeed also those going on to further education, and I'm just not seeing the problem that they're too academic...

[davidnm]

Cameron's lost the plot, hasn't he?

I've never understood the vague-National-Service-nostalgia thing that some politicians have going on; everyone I've spoken to who actually did it hated it and said it was a miserable and useless experience. I'm starting to despair of the Tories getting their act together.

[matgb]

It appeals well to the core vote group of the Tory party. PRoblem is, they're the last people you need to be placating at the moment.

Labour kept the core happy with stuff like fox-hunting bans. Cameron is keeping them happy by giving them the extreme stupidity that they want. Gah!