Clinton v Trump in 5 seconds

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this is a very good bbc radio 4 show.

If you can't be ****d giving it 30 mins, then skip to 26.10. A discussion about why folk are voting for their preferred candidate.

26.10 to 26.15 sums this election up more articulately than anything else I have read or heard ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080xz1w

The bit about the race

 

[Nedreud]

The whole thing is very scary. I usually listen to Today, World At One and PM on Radio 4 each day and thought the months running up to the Brexit vote was head-doing enough, but the US elections are something else. The only good thing I can see for us is that the general consensus is that if Trump wins the dollar is likely to fall against the pound, although I'm sure our government can **** up some other **** in the EU to level it back down again.

 

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[johnwhitfield]

Student debt is unbelievable. The average student is now expected to be 60k in debt when they graduate. Combine this with a lack of real graduate jobs and it's a huge mountain of debt successive governments have encourage young people to have. Then the government is surprised that young people don't live within their means. They've been trained to see debt as normal by .... the government

There's no way I would have trained to be a teacher if I was in my 20s. 60k debt on leaving uni then having to pay another 9k for the privilege to train to be a teacher? Who the hell does that for a job that pays 25k to start with?

Combine this with house prices of 500k for a small flat in London and something has to give at some time. Even for someone on a good salary 500k in totally unreachable. Average rent in London is somewhere around £1300 a month. ****ing hell that's a pinball machine each month.

There are some great alternatives to university out there. I took some of my students to an open day with KPMG. 18k starting salary + they pick up a degree at Durham uni in a sandwich style course (all funded by the company) with a guaranteed job on 40K+ after finishing the course (+pension, car at 21 and various other fringe benefits). It means kids have to specialise very early on and miss out of the social side of going to uni but is far better. Nestle also do a similar scheme. The concept of pushing 50% of people into uni is crazy.