Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160713122023/@comment-53539-20160825101102

CCyclone wrote: Wow...that is extremely complicated. It seems like way more hoops to have to jump through than the US, bless you. That's so strange though, that college and university are separate. That's incredibly confusing. There is a lot of complications involved, but in the end we end up with a better skilled worker, supposedly. But alas, we may produce better doctors and nurses then in the USA, but its not like they stay here. If you've got the grades to earn £80,000+ a year and the UK doesn't offer as much, you'll leave and head to the bigger paying USA. So you guys end up with an awful lot of the people we trained.

I will say though, at school you study about 9-12 subjects for GCSE. which crumble down to 1-3 at college, university is about specialization and the more you attend the more specialized you become. For the most part, the only thing about degrees is I got a 2:2 grade, when these days they want a 2:1 (which is higher). In the UK if you don't head abroad, you work in London normally once you've got the qualifications you want.

Saying that, all could change in the future, we've left EU and will be completely out in less then 2 years. Right now Germany has vouched for us and are working out how we can still trade with EU. Our focus turns now more to trading with the USA, so things will change perhaps inthe next decade.

Speaking of which, the sore losers of the Brexit stuff are going quiet at last. For a while after it happened, they were calling for a re-do of the vote and all sorts of things. However, when you loo at the chart of how the UK voted... It was mostly England responsible for it and mostly those outside of London. London has a habit of passing on its problems to the rest of England, which is why we voted as we did. Decades of issues London created bit the UK in the butt. Scottland is still trying to get Independence despite its not possible even if they did to exist as a separate country. Since the referendum she has been trying to use it to leverage an excuse for another push out of the UK. Its all troubling times for the UK'ers either way here.

Politically, things change every year right now. Sometimes per month. Last year there was Dvid Cameron as our PM. My mother and I said at X-mas he is both a coward and changes his mind more times like the wind. Now when the UK leaves the EU, he leaves and refuses to see things through... i think less of him. I always believe a PM should be prepared to see their country through to the bitter end even it is not what they as a leader wants... Not leave because he didn't get his own way! :-/