J4M13
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Registered: 15th Apr 06
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Is this a f**king joke?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/12/brown_home_access_scheme_national_rollout/
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*JonnyG*
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Location: Lincolnshire
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I hope so
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J4M13
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Registered: 15th Apr 06
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and i thought we were still in the middle of a recession
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Eck
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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We have far more pressing issues than giving these people laptops. The cunt's lost the plot.
[Edited on 14-01-2010 by Eck]
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J4M13
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Registered: 15th Apr 06
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Providing the troops with sufficient equipment would be a start instead of throwing away £300m on something thats not going to change a thing.
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: London
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shoud stop wasting our money, they'll just trade them in for drugs.
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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OMFG
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KingDoug
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Registered: 13th Oct 09
Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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How do I get a free laptop? I can fake being a deprived and abused child.
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DAZ1985
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Registered: 3rd Sep 06
Location: Scholar Green, Cheshire
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Its get better
what a twat
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_Allan_
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Registered: 24th Mar 04
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We get ours next week, can't wait 
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
Location: carluke/braidwood--IRNBRULAND
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heard this days ago, it is quite mental, but supposed to be for checking their childs progress at school.....what wrong with a fucking phone?
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
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ok now its the kids getting the laptops 
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
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Are people THAT deprived they can't afford a 2nd hand laptop? We're talking £40-50 here. I don't believe it. Even a doley could afford that.
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Root
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Registered: 28th Dec 08
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bnp
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sand-eel
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so deprived kids don't do as well in exams as richer ones? probably true but its their up bringing, if they did just as the riches ones do with books and shit they will be the same, all they are going to do is go on facebook etc all day and not study. FUCKING waste of money, majorly pissed at this actually, WHY just WHY.
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Root
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quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
so deprived kids don't do as well in exams as richer ones? probably true but its their up bringing, if they did just as the riches ones do with books and shit they will be the same, all they are going to do is go on facebook etc all day and not study. FUCKING waste of money, majorly pissed at this actually, WHY just WHY.
why are you people pissed off now? When he first became in power, he said that this was one of his plans for the country. Pretty big waste of money tbh. why not reduce the wages of all the cunts in power and all the cunts we pay with our tax and spend it on useful shit? They are morons. We need more prisons so that murderers and rapists don't get light sentences, we need better education for our country, that's just basically investing in the countries future and we need to stop wasting money on shit like this, when it could be better spent in the NHS to reduce waiting times etc. Anything is better than this shite.
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Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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I was waiting for someone to post this, heard it a week or so ago, it's a joke really. They believe that giving laptops to chavs and retards will make them instantly clever and will improve their chances of getting jobs....
There's still no jobs out there, no matter how educated people are, qualifications don't mean a thing anymore as their easier to get so companies prefer experience.
They also said that deprived families will be able to keep in touch with their friends easier with free laptops and broadband... because that's what they should spend our money on, the ability for chavs to have facebook. Brilliant.
What happens when the morons download some dodgy porn, and get a virus? Just a free doorstop then as I guess they won't be able to afford, or have the knowledge to fix it?
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Aaron
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
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I'm actually involved in this project...with working in a school.
We "gave out" 150 laptops about 2 years ago...over half came back broken beyond repair less then 6 months later. The other half....who knows.
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Wrighty
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Registered: 28th Feb 04
Location: Howden
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this angers me
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
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They better not get their internet paid for aswell 
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DaveyLC
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Registered: 8th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire
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I recall in 1997 just before the election labour were talking about how they were going to give a laptop to every secondary school child..
So judging by previous sucess rates I would say the chances of it happening are very slim.
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C2RL R
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Registered: 28th Mar 02
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i am shocked by this. when i first heard about it earlier in the week they never said how much they were going to waste. do they really think this will make scrubber kids do better at school? i never had access to the internet when i was at school and rarely had a computer to myself as we had to share between 3 of us. i still did ok in school. we really do have brainless pricks in charge of our country.
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
Location: South Lakes
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Should use some of the money to provide better snow clearing and gritting services.
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Tomnova16
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
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next they will be buying deprived families cars to get the kids to school, whats wrong with a normal it department at school, takes the piss. i might stop working and go on the dole and have loads of kids. you seem to get more than when you try at life
http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
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I don't know why you lot are so shocked by this, we already give 'deprived' families free houses and benefits etc. what difference is a laptop going to make.
I personally would have spent the £300m getting the able-bodied retrained in different careers/vocations or apprenticeships in other fields etc. so they they will have more of a chance of getting a job and thus be able to afford to buy their own laptop and Internet.
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