I'd expect those that stand out as being good at their jobs to get promoted into more secure ones.
How do you know they are all good at their jobs? I don't bank with Barclays and never have to go into branches for personal banking, but on very rare occasions I've had to go into Lloyds branches on business and not all cashiers are created equal. There is clearly some variation in how good or bad they are.
I'd also expect any intelligent person to know that their job is becoming extinct and start some kind of retraining to cover it. Please don't try to tell me that any of those cashiers have never heard of internet banking, or that they couldn't make the pretty small leap in understanding more internet banking = fewer cashiers.
As the husband of someone who (until recently) was a state school teacher for over 10 years I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that teaching assistants are more of a hindrance than a help. Other than in the very rare cases where a teaching assistant is generally very good (ask any teacher - almost never) or very specifically trained to deal with a particular problem one or two students may have (Asperger's, speech impediments, etc), most teachers simply don't want them in the classroom.
That's an opinion I've heard from a good number of teachers and most of them are from your end of the political spectrum (as you'd expect with that kind of vocation).
Wow, you union types really are fun vacuums aren't you!?
I get that you don't think socialism is what I think it is. I get that in your head it's all unicorns and kittens in socialism land, but that's simply not the case for the rest of the country. Here in the real world, we've voted for (or at least thought we did) right of centre, capitalist governments for more than a generation. There are people who are old enough to be council estate grandparents who've never seen a government that claims to be left of centre.
If the king of the autists manages to convince the country that this is where he sits on the political spectrum then he stands a decent chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. That won't be too much of a problem though as he'll need to stay somewhat within the boundaries set by his party's manifesto and they simply won't get voted in on one that stands left of centre.
The first point can be thrown back as you,you are making as big an assumption as I am.
Both my parents are school teachers have been for over 30 years and disagree with you. However my point is not that all teaching assistants but that some are. Those that are competent are thrown out with those that are. Hence to equate competence with value is a category mistake.
I bloody hate kittens,I hope they are not in any future society. You do not get to decide what the real world is,the real world defence has been used to excuse almost all cruelty the world has seen. Also it interest you are willing to appeal to argument by majority when it suits you. The majority of the world still believe in a supernatural deity in the sky. Does that mean there is a GHod ?
The right on economic issues have as of yet won the economic argument when the majority of people. That is not however enough to discourage me. I see too many contradictions within the current economic system. I do not want communism,I do not want bland uniformity. Just as I would hope you do not want to see children starving to death in a total pay as you go society.
I am willing to fight to get the ideas in across. Not by bloody revolution. No one wants that. I want to win via the ballot box,though I admit as someone that wants to change things I will face more defeats than victories.
I am a Tottenham fan,I am used to supporting a team that often loses,but still has the echo of glory. As with my football team,as with my politics.
Enjoy your real world of rampant unfairness,homelessness growing,the need for begging for food growing,wages continuing to fall. The majority of people having no control over their lives.
That however is not for me. Will Ed change any of this ? **** no,he won't have the balls{excuse the overused political pun} to do it. I still will take the path of lesser evil.
Anyway that is the end of me in this thread,bitch about Ed all you want. Make everyone that wants some change into a rampant fantasist. I will still believe.
