This may destroy the good feeling of the favourites thread, but given the divisive nature of the various political threads so far, how about naming your favourite pre-election proposal?

I suggest keeping it about the 2017 general election to avoid the hysteria of Brexit again (so no mentioning the £350m weekly increase to the NHS budget).

My favourite so far goes to the Official Monster Raving Loony Party;

"All University Tuition fees for women would be free as we are strong believers in Female intuition. (Due to gender equality laws we would include males as well)".

Let's just hope they don't enter a coalition and have to abandon this one.....

Asteroid mining!

Free sex for the over 50's. On the NHS.... Nubile Horny Sluts!

Free higher education as I have s very clever 5 year old daughter

Alanstevensonsgloves wrote:Free higher education as I have s very clever 5 year old daughter

If she's clever then why does she need education?! Checkmate, libtard!

Imploding Turtle wrote:Asteroid mining!

This could be the all time winner.

Imploding Turtle wrote:If she's clever then why does she need education?! Checkmate, libtard!

Quite simple. Many jobs require applicants to have higher education qualifications.

Another one you have lost.

Alanstevensonsgloves wrote:Many jobs require applicants to have higher education qualification.

The con of the 21st century. Degree level access to very simple jobs.
All done to extend the educational life and keep the dole figures down.

Govt could slash the stress related illness industry costs by offering free hand jobs at all gp surgeries ( booking required weekdays or " toss n go" Thurs evenings)

Feeling a bit stressed? Simply book in for a quick hand shandy and you'll continue your day relaxed,refreshed and de-stressed .

Alanstevensonsgloves wrote:Quite simple. Many jobs require applicants to have higher education qualifications.

Another one you have lost.

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minnieclaret wrote:The con of the 21st century. Degree level access to very simple jobs.
All done to extend the educational life and keep the dole figures down.

How true is this...

When my sister went to polytechnic in Brighton (yes, polytechnic because she wasn't clever enough to go to a real university) she received a full grant and it was supplemented by my parents. Not sure of the figures for her year 1980 but I have found the historic figures below:

Overall participation in higher education increased from 3.4% in 1950, to 8.4% in 1970, 19.3% in 1990 and 33% in 2000.

taken from https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j ... o1p1mfUDjQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I was going to estimate approximately 10% went on to higher education, and I think I would have been about right.

When I went in 1991 the intake was around 20% (as demonstrated by the figures above) and I had to pay my own way in terms of living expenses, but I still had the course fees paid. I went to a university that used to be a polytechnic (in fact it changed during my first year there), and I felt at the time that the system was being dumbed down a little. There was still prestige about going to an Oxbridge college (I was in fact fast tracked to go myself, but destroyed my chances with beer, drugs and women), but nowadays the students attending even these fine establishments dont appear to have much about them.

I think minnieclaret has it spot on, in that the system has been manipulated to ensure that young people are almost forced into higher education and if they dont do this then they are considered failures - my son could have done a lot more at school, but he didn't and didn't achieve the exam results needed to progress to higher education (as in Uni), but he is happy doing his sport science at college and he has a lot more about him that other more educated young people and I am very proud of him.