As a rat that has left the sinking ship I feel a bit of a fraud seconding this motion. Not because I don't agree with it, but rather because, despite having a job I loved for many years, I eventually had to put my family first and stop being an underpaid nursery nurse. This year for the first time in ten years we are going on a proper holiday, on an aeroplane. It will only be the second time in the lives of my children that this has been possible.
Those of you who have young children or work with them, will be well aware of the phrase 'selectively deaf' - this condition appears when an adult says 'It's time to tidy up now.' I accuse this Government, its predecessors and paid advisors of being selectively deaf.
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