It's not really an argument. I just wondered tbf.
Disgusted by a culture of entitlement? Nurses should be leftwing?
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Oh there's no doubt that you get bigots of every political persuasion and I do think it is a myth that the left or some how a nicer bunch of people than the right. However, most acts of charity come from people who aren't loaded. They may not give as much in terms of wealth or time (time perhaps being a more important commodity?) but as group they give more - if that makes sense.
Edit: Geri said it more succinct
Edit: Geri said it more succinct
Evidence?
Studies mainly in America, the NY Times had quite a large piece on it last year. Give me a moment to dig it up.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22FOB-wwln-t.html?_r=1
There's similar studies over here by Centre Point IIRC.
Plumdaff
joy in people
What Mrs Magpie said. My decision to become a nurse definitely was affected by my socialism, but nurses vary. Anecdotally I'd say mental health nurses tend to be more left wing than others, but I used to work with a very right wing Mail reader who was very good at her job. I did mental health in A&E for over six years and for every exasperating frequent attender who might lead you to question your left wing beliefs there would be the person who had had their benefits stopped or had shitty accommodation, their refugee claim turned down, and many other examples, that led me personally to be even more convinced of my beliefs. You go in with your own beliefs and prejudices and your experience confirms them regardless I suspect.
That's the reasonable bit done. I have always thought that purely for self interest nurses voting Tory is remarkably stupid. You might as well burn cash Klf style if that's all you're interested in. You'd think that experience would stop people even if they have been brutalised beyond repair by their job.
That's the reasonable bit done. I have always thought that purely for self interest nurses voting Tory is remarkably stupid. You might as well burn cash Klf style if that's all you're interested in. You'd think that experience would stop people even if they have been brutalised beyond repair by their job.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
My OH is fascinating on this stuff, cos it's his job to analyse that kind of data in the third sector. Not sure if I can persuade him to post this evening though, I think he's done one post about Boris being trapped and has probably had enough for one day
My OH is fascinating on this stuff, cos it's his job toet analyse that kind of data in the third sector. Not sure if I can persuade him to post this evening though, I think he's done one post about Boris being trapped and has probably had enough for one day
I was thinking of him when I was reading this thread, wondering if he'd say something, hehe.
He's tweeted, posted on my Facebook and on here. Poor bugger must be knackered
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
He was also a robber baron who hired people to kill strikers and union organisers.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
You can't win 'em all.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Not sure - beyond the normal exploitation at least.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Oh aye, but tempered by the candy coating.
Titus Salt was an interesting fella: http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/sir_titus_salt.htm
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
he was also a megalomaniac who paid his workers in credits which they could only use at the local shop in his pre-built town, Saltaire. if you ever go he has the place surrounded by statues of himself, there's even one in the church - and the whole town had his spies employed and living in the large end-of-terraces at street corners enforcing his often bizarre and authoritarian rules. Saltaire workers lived in something resembling a totalitarian state
likesfish
You can't park here sir
dylan redefined became more a more a stalinist before he gave up nursing
bill gates is possibly going to give malaria a massive kicking he's spent more in a couple of years than goverments have in thirty
he's scarily geeky about it as well one scientist who met him he gave him a reading list of 25 book and reports thinking that would be the last he heard.
6 months later gates had read 20 of them.
bill gates is possibly going to give malaria a massive kicking he's spent more in a couple of years than goverments have in thirty
he's scarily geeky about it as well one scientist who met him he gave him a reading list of 25 book and reports thinking that would be the last he heard.
6 months later gates had read 20 of them.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Wow, he'd said that he could read 20 whole books in a year!
What were these genius books?
What were these genius books?
grit
an ugly force for good
geminisnake said:Did you ask for an explanation of the thinking behind that?? Think I would have had to.
WTF have tattoos got to do with anything?? They don't have an adverse affect on your health/ability to get a job/life, etc afaik
Plenty of professional jobs would look at visible tattoos as being a negative.
lighterthief
Well-Known Member
Quite. Ability to do a job - no problem. Ability to get a job - different story.
_angel_
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We're getting close to "work for your tesco vouchers in tescos" tbh now. Only difference is the state will be paying and there won't be any need to house your workers either.
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
Yeah, I wonder if you could even get into med school if you had one? I've never seen a doctor with a visible tat, ever.
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