British 1986

After the secretary left, the office fell into silence again.

Major's right hand subconsciously touched the education reform draft. This thing can be regarded as a big killer.

There have always been a large number of schools in Great Britain, not to mention universities, only primary and secondary schools.

Among these schools, there are public and private schools. Public schools account for about 95% of all schools, while private schools only account for less than 5%.

However, among all the British elite, those who have studied in private schools account for more than 60%.

This kind of extremely distorted data is scary to think about.

Although public schools are the choice of most families, and the quality of teaching in some public schools is indeed good, but given the huge school base, everything is empty talk.

To give a very simple example, let's make a horizontal comparison between primary schools in London and primary schools in Carmarthenshire. Both schools are public, but there is a huge gap between them.

It simply cannot be measured with data.

Carmarthenshire also has a complete education system, whether it is kindergarten, primary and secondary school, or even university.

But the quality of teaching in these schools is shattering just thinking about it.

Although there is no such thing as the college entrance examination in Great Britain, it is finally time to go to college. There are opinions on where to go and which school to go to, and it also depends on some hard scores.

For most ordinary families, even if their children can attend a prestigious school, can the family afford the expensive tuition?

Even if the family has extremely extreme ideas and takes out loans to send their children to a prestigious school, how many years will it take to repay the student loans alone after the children graduate?

There are not so many people in Great Britain who say that attending a prestigious school will change their life.

The more thought is that the children can inherit whatever property the family has.

For example, in Carmarthenshire, if the family is a farmer and has its own small pasture, wouldn't it be okay for the children of such families to go to a local agricultural and animal husbandry school similar to a junior college?

After the children graduate, they can take over the family ranch and everything will be settled. This has been the case for generations. Why go out and spend a lot of money to go to a prestigious school?

Besides, in many people’s minds, just graduating from a prestigious school is good enough?

Some college students who graduated from prestigious schools may not be able to earn as much as a servant working for a nobleman after working hard all his life.

So what's the use of this kind of struggle?

Ordinary people are more concerned about whether they can find a job, whether their income is high, and whether their benefits are good. That’s all!

Different concepts have created different views on education in different regions, different classes, and even different industries.

What Major wants to do now is to change this situation, such as unifying the management system, optimizing teaching plans, etc., and tilting or evening out more educational resources to areas with poor concepts.

This kind of reform seems to be of great benefit to ordinary people.

Moreover, during the reform, a large number of schools with better teaching quality will be added. With these schools, won't the housing in the school districts around the schools be able to stimulate consumption?

As for the future, as long as we do it right now and leave the rest to the future prime minister, what does it have to do with him?

And as long as this draft is passed by Congress, his reputation will greatly increase, and next year will be an election year again!

At this critical point, he desperately needs fame!

In normal times, if this draft is to be passed, it will inevitably go through a long period of debate and obstruction, because there are too many hidden interests that cannot be seen in it!

But now. When Allen beat the Duke of Marlborough that day, Major also followed Boss Cha to watch. The MPs who were watching at that time, because of the fierce power of the Earl of Carmarthen, helped him "testify", but when they waited What about when the Earl of Carmarthen cannot sit in the House of Lords for a year?

If we take the opportunity to submit this draft, we will be able to remove a huge obstacle.

As for why Major firmly believes that the House of Lords will not embarrass him with this bill.

Ha. Before that, we must let the media report some negative cases that happened in primary and secondary schools in Great Britain, such as a child of a certain nobleman hitting someone, and so on.

Let the public have a sense of urgency, and then use the heat of public opinion to promote education reform.

In this case, it must have enough influence. The higher the protagonist’s identity, the better!

Now, the candidates are very clear. Prince William and Prince Harry have been following someone for so many years. These two naughty children have not learned their temper very well. There is a lot of dirty information about them!

As one of the top figures in the UK, if Prince William is revealed to have engaged in campus violence with other students while at school, then...

Under such circumstances, if Major, as Prime Minister, leads the education reform and puts forward the draft, those former members of the House of Lords who had enmity or quarrels with Allen will definitely be hurt, because Allen will be in trouble for some time in the future. I can’t come to the House of Lords!

When no one else is around, who can let go of such a good opportunity to add insult to injury?

As long as the bill is finally passed, Major will gain a lot of reputation, whether it is his courage to lead education reform or his subtle prestige with Allen.

One thing can benefit many parties, how great!

Now there are only two things left. First, the members of the House of Lords need to know quietly what the consequences of Allen's punishment will be. They need to know clearly that in the future, the extremely arrogant Card will be punished. Count Marson can't come to London anymore, so you can feel free to add insult to injury boldly!

Second, choose a scapegoat to take the lead and let him propose education reform first.

Major still took precautions. He was also a little worried about Allen. This time he took the opportunity to cause trouble for this person. Sooner or later, he would be released from the ban and come back. For future safety, he needed a scapegoat to divert hatred. When this happens in the future, When your Excellency's anger reaches this point, throw the scapegoat out!

Let him vent his anger.

Um.

After reviewing the plan in his mind, Major looked at the cold coffee on the table and didn't dislike it. He picked it up and took a sip. He never drank cold coffee in the past, but when he tasted it today, it tasted surprisingly good. !

Strasbourg, home to the headquarters of the European Parliament.

Inside Allen's small riverside villa.

He just got up early in the morning. Next to the large floor-to-ceiling window with a river view, Allen finished his morning exercise with sweat all over his body. He very roughly threw Adjani, who was slightly delirious, onto the sofa next to her, and then picked up the fallen one. The towel on the floor was used to wipe sweat randomly.

This little bitch actually dared to criticize him yesterday, which is unbearable!

Allen, who was holding his breath, stayed up until after two o'clock last night, finally venting the pain of house arrest during this period. After waking up in the morning, he made a comeback again, which was satisfying.

Putting down the French newspaper in his hand, he stretched out his hand to signal the servant to take away the breakfast.

Allen looked at the river view outside the window and thought about how he used to dislike being a member of the European Parliament. He didn't expect that he now needs to rely on this status to go out. It's such a cold world.

The majestic Earl of Carmarthen actually had to leave Wales in the name of inspecting a French woman, Isabelle Adjani!

After returning from London, Allen only stayed in Wales for one day as a sign of respect, and then found an excuse to come to France for a "business trip."

"Master."

Xiaoshi bent down slightly and interrupted Alan in a daze in a low voice.

"What's wrong?"

"The addresses of several stores in Qatar have been selected. Among the documents to be processed this time, there is this application. Before leaving, Butler Hu Te told me to review it as soon as possible."

"oh?"

Allen pinched his eyebrows and yawned. Are you finally ready?

"Let's go to the study!"

Looking at the store location in the document, Qatar is not large in area and has a small population. The current total population is about the same as Wales, with only more than two million people.

However, among the more than two million people, there are only about 200,000 locals, that is, serious Qataris, and the rest are foreign workers.

Most of these workers come from India, Pakistan and areas surrounding Qatar.

These people are basically outside the service scope of the Blue Knights. To describe these migrant workers vividly, they are equivalent to the "servants" of the more than 200,000 Qataris, and earn what they consider to be considerable wages. ,Then

Make money in Qatar and spend it back home!

Don’t even think about expecting them to order takeout or something like that.

Therefore, it seems that it is serving more than two million people, but in fact, the food delivery company only needs to serve the total number of Qataris, which is only more than 200,000.

Fortunately, these Qatar locals are distributed fairly regularly. Looking at the applications for a total of eight terminals and dozens of service outlets on the information, Allen nodded.

Needless to say, Doha, their capital, has a total of six stations, and their locations are built in a large circle around the palace.

The remaining two terminals are located in the industrial city of Durhan not far from Doha. This is an oil processing city. There are not many local Qataris. The reason why two terminals are built here is that Allen wants to build a better future. To take good care of his oil fields, as long as he puts nails in this city, it is equivalent to tying a dog at the gate of Qatar.

Each takeout station is equivalent to a small branch, with several or even a dozen small stations under its jurisdiction. It can radiate all the takeout business in the surrounding area of ​​about ten kilometers. And among so many stations, it is necessary to squeeze in four to five hundred. "Combatant", that's pretty simple and unremarkable.

"Swish, swish, swish."

After looking at the distribution points on the map, it was all a set plan. All that was left was for him to sign and agree. Allen did not hesitate to write down the approved approval. The next step was to send people over to build the takeout site and arrange the preliminary work. personnel.

Next, when the site is built and the personnel are in place, the plan discussed with Moza can almost be implemented.

Thinking of this, Allen put down his pen and looked at Xiao Shitou and said: "What did the TV station say? Have the address and specifications been booked?"

Hearing this, Xiao Shitou pulled out another document from the pile of documents, handed it to Allen and said: "Ms. Ceylon said that after the Christmas party is over, we will have another group of employees to receive training, but BBC Middle East She has already had a second round of negotiations with the people in the branch, and recently, uh, it's been a bit of a stalemate."

"Well, at which step are you stuck?"

Since there are differences, we must find a solution quickly. Allen is afraid that the economy will not pick up by then and the BBC will regret not dismantling the Middle East branch. That would be fun.

"The specific details should be mentioned in the document, but Ms. Ceylon did not elaborate on it with me."

Xiao Shitou pointed at the document and motioned for Allen to take a look for himself.

"Um!"

Allen is still in the sage time at the moment, he is calm and can see everything.

Open the file. The first part is a general introduction to the current employees of the Middle East branch.

There are a total of more than 200 employees of various types here, including dozens of well-known hosts, but more than half of these people are locals, that is, people from the Middle East, and half are from the BBC. Came to dispatch from the headquarters.

The situation of other employees is similar, with a half-British and half-Middle Eastern configuration.

In the past, this configuration brought great convenience to their work. The people from the British side were responsible for the international news, while the news from other regions in the Middle East were sorted and summarized by locals like them, and then both parties were responsible for it together.

But now that the department is about to be abolished, the issue of personnel retention is very troublesome.

There are a large number of local employees who have changed their ideology a lot because of "opening their eyes to see the world". Even if they know that the TV station is going to be abolished, they don't want to leave. Instead, they want to follow them to the UK for development.

But some people from Great Britain who came here to work abroad have found new partners and started new families here. They feel that the work environment here is better than the working environment in Great Britain, so they don’t want to leave. .

In this way, the problem arises. If you want to win over these people, there is a difficulty. These people's ideas are polarized.

Even if it remains unchanged, there are still some people who want to take advantage of this opportunity to leave.

Ceylon’s idea is that she wants to keep everyone, at least for half a year to a year, to maintain the big framework of the previous TV station, and to hand over work to the new batch of employees from Wales.

Now the difficulty is this.

Looking at the information, Ceylon had used tricks such as salary increases and vacation time, but it still couldn't change some people's minds. Allen almost laughed.

Looking at this scene, you can say it is sad. He is somewhat sad.

These locals from the Middle East who want to go to the UK have never thought about why the BBC canceled its Middle East branch?

Isn’t it because of the poor economic environment?

They can't do it in the Middle East. Why do they think that if they go to Great Britain, they can do it?

Besides, even if the salary cut passes, can the cost of living in Great Britain be comparable to that in the Middle East?

I make less money than before, but spend more than before. What is this for?

Just because they have been brainwashed for a long time and yearn for their dream hometown of Great Britain?

Why.

It’s hard to persuade the damn ghost. Allen’s ideas are different from Ceylon’s. He doesn’t care about the size of the future Al Jazeera TV station or the number of employees. He only needs to finish Moza’s plan by then. It's enough to have your own "local" TV station to help promote it, and the legal principles are firmly established, and the rest will develop slowly.

As for these people, just leave if you want. Wasting your breath on them will do no good except slowing down the progress of his plan. Since you don't want to hang out with him, Mr. Allen, then don't regret it!

Let’s see if you cry when you go to Daying.

snort.