Coming to an estate near you.

[Workingman]

Demolition, rebuilding, regeneration and flower beds.

Or is it just another off-the-hoof sound bite policy from Cameron?

Apparently 100 sink estates around the country will be identified and £140m will be given to community groups, councils and housing associations for the planning stage. He does not say how much the whole thing will cost, how effective it will be, or where the money will come from.

[Kaz]

Sound bite. The man is all talk.

[Aggers]

Meaningless rubbish.

[Suff]

Sound bite. The man is all talk.

Not really on the UK home front. He has made many significant changes which make our lives easier but the press choose to ignore them or try and hide them because they don't like him. The press like to put words in his mouth he never said then tell everyone he has not followed through on those words he never said.

Meanwhile SORN on vehicles is back to permanent. Other areas of red tape have vanished and he has, finally, given us the referendum he never promised.

He and Osborne have stabilised the economy but can't bring the deficit down quickly enough because every time they want to stop spending money they can't afford (excluding foreign aid which is annoying me more and more), everyone is up in arms and shouting that they can't do it.

The press can only report that Cameron has halted bilateral aid to India by prattling on about how some poor deprived person is going to miss out when Cameron pulls the plug....

When the analysis is over and done with and the press are taken out of the equation, he will go down in history as a PM who did most of what he said. The polar opposite of Blair....

[cruiser2]

Where are they going to house the people in the high rise flats and other accomodation which will be demolished before the new ones are built?
Our local council has recently spent a lot of money refurbishing several high rise blocks of flats and had also built new flats for asylum seekers.
Where are the bricklayers and other trades coming from to build these extra dwellings?

[Aggers]

You ask some awkward questions, Cruiser.

[Suff]

Where are the bricklayers and other trades coming from to build these extra dwellings?

Where they come from to everywhere else in the EU that needs building work done.... Poland...

[Kaz]

Cruiser we should be training young lads in these trades, proper apprenticeships that end in jobs. So many non-academic youngsters would benefit from this. Other countries do it; I know Germany takes non-academic youngsters down the vocational route from around the age of 14 - so why can't we?

[Workingman]

For decades now politicians and educationalists, and I do not mean teachers but those in places such as the Institute for Education and DfE, have turned their backs on practical skills.

Schools have become Academies and everyone has had to buy in to the "five good GCSEs" scheme of things. Even grades D-G are sold as passes, so almost everyone thinks that they are academic in some way.

Another thing that has changed is that there are fewer opportunities for schools to identify those with good all-round practical skills as those types of subjects have been dropped.

[Kaz]

It's a crying shame......