Carol Vorderman: What is happening in this wonderful country of ours is morally corrupt
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- Former Countdown superstar Carol Vorderman joined Nick Ferrari in the LBC studios to reflect on pledges by Rishi Sunak that every child would learn maths in school until the age of 18.
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I am nearly eighty, and never in my life has there been a time such as this when the government is so out of touch with ordinary people.
@pat. Absolutely. We Oldies feel it very much. Not just for ourselves , but for the young who’ll never have what we had back then.
Do you remember Margaret Thatcher?
Well do us all a favour and stop voting for the tories!!the OAP in the UK are more interested in the triple lock rather than voting for a competent party.
@@bigballer4651 the other parties are also out of touch.
@@Parrotting Out of touch isnt the problem. Punishing taxpayers and the poor, and destroying the countries infrastructure in the pursuit of personal wealth is. There's only one party that has ever done that.
I'm not even British and I'm feeling for the British right now ,it's like watching the apocalypse unfolding on many fronts. The leadership is unreal. What is happening?
Great post , couldn't not agree more. big problem is that many still believe our current systems that are causing the problems, can fix the problems that they purposely create and feed.
Politicians,Politics,Politicians,Politics, Ah you get my point 🤣🤣
It IS the apocolypse, and it's happening worldwide. Start looking into the World Economic Forum and their agenda and how their leader, Klaus Scwab brags about how he has infiltrated every govt in the world through their "Young Global Leaders" scheme and then look at how many (and who!) of our MPs have been through it.
Uk Govt is literally a puppet controlled by a foreign power.
Wait to you see what happens when the opposition take over - i'm packing my bags ready
Was always coming under the Tories, probably the fault of the global economic recession in 2008 though which was obviously all Labours fault.
When you realise Sunak is not there for us, but for them, it will all make sense.
Rich boy helping himself and his rich mates to OUR money.
WEF boy
Carol is absolutely right about people who like myself have a mental block about numbers. At secondary school my brain froze when daily confronted with mental arithmetic tasks. Yet I did well with other academic disciplines and went on to Degree level studies at University. The idea of making it compulsory for students to continue with maths after 16 will only reinforce feelings of inadequacy when they could otherwise gain confidence elsewhere is wrong. At University I met many gifted mathematicians who constantly struggled with practical everyday problems. We should work to encourage people’s strengths, not emphasise their weaknesses. Everyone has a value, the art is recognising their particular value.
I struggled in school really bad, joined the military at young age that gave me direction,discipline, and motivation went on later in life to study pre hospital medicine among other courses.
Same! I think it’s the type of maths that’s taught. Like Carol says, keep it a subject for those that enjoy it. Otherwise just teach it in relevant ways in other subjects. Example measurements in art when mixing. Formulas in excel in computer science etc etc. Then lessons on money management
It is the education system! Math can be taught to children in a way they can understand! Look at the work of Siegfried Englemann. I have used his book to teach my low IQ autistic son to read and do math. I was shocked how wonderful his method is.
Not to mention, the whole education system as a whole fails. But yes, I agree with your point.
I found that it depends on having a personalised explanation. One needs the explanation that fits you. In desperation at university on one topic I read every book in the library until one of them had an explanation that made it clear. The impossible became possible. Obviously I have never done a partial differential equation since then :-D There is also a motivation issue because if one cannot see why one is learning it then there's no oomph to get over the problems. Being taught by people who just like it for itself is useless.
Carol has never been one of my favourites. Today, she has really impressed me with her empathy and her conviction. She is totally right when she questions the morals of the Tory government and attacking them for trying to make it easier for cronies to even take more taxpayers money. Well done Carol.
Because of this video, I am now a fan of Carol V!!!
Wumins a pure legend and she has a brain that makes politicians look like the Peppa Pig crew they really are
Can we get a truckload of Carol’s in parliament please 🙏
I’m fortunate that I can admit when I’m wrong (hence why I’m not a politician), I wouldn’t normally watch anything with Carol Vordeman, but I’m glad I did as I have now reevaluated my opinion of her.
I have always liked her k think she is gorgeous, I did fin it annoying for a few years when she was on every other tv advert , aside from that she’d still get a 1 from me
This government is simply far too out of touch with regular people.
It's been like that for many years. Regular people are too out of touch with Regular people. That's why they still believe voting makes a difference.
@@Frank.and.Beanzz And that's the attitude that allows them to win. I hope that you're a retiree then I'd be in favour of you having that mentality.
However, it's likely that you're not. The elderly who don't know what year it is will continue to vote, if the young or even younger don't, we will forever have to deal with their senility.
Their rhetoric is alienating from your own reality. You're under a curse and a magic spell.
*their voters are out of touch
ferrari makes our government look like saviors
Got to love Carol's honesty and practicality. I'm hopeless at maths, and feel failed by the school system I went through, I did okay on most other subjects but found that teachers taught at the pace of the brightest two or three kids in the class, the rest where left to catch-up the best way they could. It was a boys grammar school and we had the headmaster as our maths teacher. We weren't encouraged to ask questions, quite the opposite, if you did the teacher would humiliate you. Even if you got the right answer, in your own roundabout way, it was dismissed as 'no one in their right mind would do it that way'. I lost all confidence and scrapped through exams, maths still makes my mind go into a blind panic.
My school teachers were just the same x
That's what the system is designed to do. Pick winners and make sure they fill the roles the economy needs. Everyone else is human trash.
what about spelling
Don't be afraid of maths... Compared to most other subjects there's perspectives and opinions, for 99% of maths it's either right or wrong, start to learn basics and build it up!
Very true experienced this when 'A' levels were rock hard in the 80's. They can't even cope with teaching kids basic maths !!. My daughter was diagnosed with a delay problem in junior school which was not passed on to the Secondary School . She struggled in Maths and English until we got Tutors at home for English and Maths. The English Tutor recognised she had a problem and submitted her for testing and low and behold she had a delay problem. She was given a extra 20% time in her GCSE's (the first generation to sit exams again). and passed. Thankyou to the Tutor I paid for as the education system stinks !!.
Well said Carol! You've gone up in my estimation! Bravo for speaking up for ordinary people .
When you lose morality in society, you loose empathy, sympathy, care, everything decent which makes us human. Couldn't have said it better Carol 👍🏼.
lose*
Generally - Politicians, Lawyers, Ceo's (those with the power) don't have any real morality, they are usually sociopaths and psychopaths that don't listen to the moral argument
@@Nilguiri you don't need to pick people up for spelling and grammar when we know what they meant, this is not an English exam, its a discussion stream on you tube where people with all sorts of disabilities may want to try and join in, or do you mean to intimidate disabled people who may have reading/writing difficulties like Dyslexia so they don't want to take part? do they have dyslexia like me? point is you don't know, so enjoy their point and move on. you loose points for not having anything real to offer in the discussion.
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Angry bitter old farts will call those things "woke" lol
Teach them critical thinking and help the kids to identify when they are being lied to with charts and statistics then politicians of all stripes will have to work harder to get those kids as adults to vote against their own best interests. Then we may get somewhere.
Instead of blaming politicians for doing what they have to do to get people to support them and vote for them, you might want to ask why people believe the BS. You won't do this because the answer is unpalatable.
Like the huge lie every time our vassal nation take part in yet another American proxy war
@@LordOfLight So come on then. What is the answer? Or do you simply imagine yourself to be smarter than you actually are?
@@LordOfLight oh wise one
@@mobsiesixsixsix9785 Oh dear, I seem to have upset you. I wonder why?
Actually, I know the answer to that one too. Do you?
As to whether I'm smarter than I think I am, I'm hardly the right person to ask as, of necessity, I must think I'm as smart as I think I am. I wouldn't think it else. It's not for me to say; nor you either.
She’s a national treasure, she truly sees through the sheisters in No10
Thank you Carol for standing up and being counted
Absolutely “morally corrupt” . Well said Carole
@Tom She wasn't born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Clearly, she has a gift and has used it to her advantage. Who with any sense wouldn't do the same ?
@Tom She may not be perfect but at least she is calling out a system from which she does well. Many will not.
Only if she has not promoted unethical loan firm for money.
@@TOM-TOM-TOM Why are you fighting back for the government ? And I’m being serious here.
@Tom they're not mutually incompatable
"Does he have any conception of what real people are having to go through?"
Quite simply, no. He does not. He never has and he never will. The guy doesn't even know how to pay for things in a shop!!
Well I hope what you say is true in a way, because if he does understand then he is evil rather than just ignorant.
If he was competent we could give him a pass. Churchill was as posh as they come, an Establishment man through and through, but he did the job. Sunak has yet to show he can do anything, let alone be PM.
When was the last time we had a PM that did the job? Maggie?
@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle Maggie certainly did the job...the job of starting the destruction of Britain.
He neither knows not cares. My friends kids', who are in their early 20's work part time this covers their daily expenses (living at home). They see no reason to work themselves to death because they will never be able to buy their own house or new car so they would rather have more free time.
Clueless
Carol has such a warmth and charisma about her. Great lady.
I'm 28 and when I was in school maths was the bane of my existence, the anxiety and dread I felt while lining up outside my teachers' door beforehand, the knowledge that I was the lowest performing student in the lowest grade class. The teacher was great and tried to help but I couldn't make sense of anything other than addition, subtraction and small multiplication. To this day I avoid it out of a sense of fear of looking dumb, I am dumb but maths just brings up the reality of how much so.
You're not dumb at all. You've just put together an extremely well written comment that is superior to the vast majority that I see.
Rishi launches this idea to sidestep and not to tackle Great Britain's real and acute problems!
Yeh cant agree more. He wont go into the state the country is in . Hope someone stops him giveing our money too china we need it ourselves . The non doms should be paying tax it is morally wrong when the poorest have too pay tax .instead as always in the uk one rule for the rich another for the rest of us
His name is Sunak.
Exactly shove the problem to one side then create another one well done rishi rashi tool
Yes it's a classic look in this direction and not at what I'm doing or not doing more to the point. 🙄
@Longrodvonhugendon What's diversity got to do with it?
The government is getting more out of touch with people, than ever before. Great to see Carol Vorderman speaking out.
Were they ever'In Touch with the people' Maybe the Labour Government of 1947 after coming back from WW2! They knew we (as a people) things had to change and they did, for a while. All based on a Welsh Co-operative system the birth of the NHS and it didn't stop there. The Welfare State improved life and Housing for so many of us working class. Ever since Conservatives have tried to reverse and put back into private for profit hands AND they will succeed eventually because they believe there's a profit to be made without their management responsibility/accountability. Power Corrupts and it's more noticeable these days?
The only thing their education has taught them is how to line their own pockets and make loop holes to do just that
well said ❤x
Well said Carol. Calling this dogsh**e government out for what it is. And a credit to the rest of us born in ‘60!
Thank you Carol, I am in complete agreement. Teach children realistic maths that will help them throughout their lives. The leaders in government do not care about this country whatsoever...sadly, but we must carry on fighting for morality
a lot of kids scrap a grade 1 in gcse. they should learn life skill maths
As Maths and Physics teacher having an honours degree in Physics I am with you Carole. I taught 17+ years old in Technical College the AEB Certificate in Arithmetic. The syllabus included simple and compound interest, tax, mortgages, all averages etc. It was what most people needed
None of that is on the A level syllabus, IIRC.
It's one thing knowing how to do calculations, knowing what calculations to do is quite another.
Don't teach our children Mathematices, instead nstruct them on how to be mathematicians.
@@corydorastube Was that English ?
@@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 well said what is this physics teacher on? so advanced changing subject & factorisation & subsitution you definitely need to apply it physics alevel plus velocity charts,distance time,& standard form plus more to apply it thats basic higher maths gcse vectors in progamming etc
Its crazy we don't teach kids about mortgage, loans, basic economics, its all the vast majority need. She is so on point here.
if we taught maths people would be able to clearly see the BS that comes out of tories' mouths
In a way you do teach them this when they're taught percentages.
A mortgage and a loan are pretty much the same thing.
Like a credit card.
There's a principal that needs to be paid down over a term with an interest rate that is added over time. However like anything you can work this out this upfront.
Boom you now understand finance.
Or are you talking about dept consolidation. Moving a short term loan to a long term loan.
It’s deliberate. A feature, not a big, as they say. Much like our history, all cartoon nonsense. Deliberately kept in a fog of ignorance.
If they taught kids these things, they wouldn't be able to squeeze money out of people as easily.
Well as a teacher I have taught these things. It’s in citizenship lessons. We didn’t when I was younger but do know. 90% of people who talk about what is or isn’t done in schools haven’t actually been in once since they were a kid
Carol is simply a living legend!!
I struggled with math at school. Belittled and ridiculed over it. A concerned teacher pushed me to study an alternative form of math based on real world necessity. Not the UK i must add. Balancing a check book, calculating interest rates, trigonometry etc. I loved it and i could see real reasons to know it. A BSC later and in a well paid job, this obsession by our ruling class to force our kids to learn subjects that some are plainly not suitable for is pie in the sky. I use basic math every day and value my knowledge in it but there are other routes to success and ignoring them is failing a large percentage of young people today. We learn and digest knowledge differently and there is no one option that fits all. I fear that our kids are all being programmed to fit an ideal construct that suits the investor class.
Your comment is absolutely spot on. Every example that the PM gave was about £££££ finance. The examples that he used were all money based (your finances, best mortgage rate, best interest rate, get paid more.) An obsession with money is NOT all of maths. What if people want to work out the area of carpet they need, a volume of liquid, the average mpg your car uses, etc, etc. He was preaching accountancy NOT the broader understanding of maths. How sad! So out of touch. And well said Carol Vorderman….
Well done Carol. Says what the entire nation is thinking.
It’s about time everyone woke up, stuck together and downed tools until we get a government we want.
It's time we had a government that acted in the interests of the people who elected it, rather than in the interests of their own pockets, and of those people and companies that fill them.
Agreed
@@tonyb9735 The big problem is that most of the individuals at the top of the government are millionaires, and can't possibly have much connection with reality.
@@brimkathstampex2306 "The big problem is that most of the individuals at the top of the government are millionaires ...."
That is a problem, yes, but being a millionaire does not inherently prevent somebody from being a decent human being even if you are somewhat insulated.
The BIG problem is that most of the individuals at the top of the government are deceitful, greedy and self-serving - and most likely corrupt.
Downed tools? Yeah, because that won't make matters worse, will it?
It absolutely amazes me that 16yr olds leave school ready to enter the workplace but have never been taught in school about income tax,national insurance etc. Yes as a parent it was my responsibility to ensure my son and daughters know about such things but finding out they hadn't even been given a basic understanding of it at school shocked myself and my wife. As the wonderful Carol said,real world numeracy skills need to be taught.
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Yep real life skills should be taught in schools, there a lot of energy wasted on nonsense only a very small minority will ever use.
they teach about square roots and exponents in year 7... some people are just not clever enough to understand maths
Exactly ! And some kids don’t have parents to teach them
Presumably you were never taught it at school though. But I guess less was taught, for most children, generations ago.
At two schools, I was always in the top 5 in English and the bottom 5 in maths (math in the US). Basic arithmetic was taught quite well, and remains useful to me. If only those of us baffled by equations and trigonometry had had a champion like Carol Vorderman. As for Sunak, he is Johnson in everything but name. Same as the old boss...
Absolutely spot on! 😃Great to hear from Carol Vorderman.
I’m 61 years old and maths was compulsory until I left school at 18. I even failed dummy’s maths in my final exam. No amount of teaching maths will ensure every child becomes a maths wiz. Sunak is so removed from the real universe that he’s a joke.
Yes but these days not having a maths GCSE or A level can prevent someone from going on to do certain careers, for example you need a degree to be a nurse and I bet you need maths for that, you also needed an A grade in maths to do an apprenticeship as a mechanic at my previous employer. I am not a natural at maths but I have a tick in the box for society that got me through the door onto something else. These days if you don't have that tick in the box you're disposed of before you get the chance to show your worth.
@@tiger6218 I'm sure he didn't say you needed a maths degree to be a nurse. He said you need maths at GCSE level to study for a nursing degree or an equivalent nursing qualification.
My dad once said to me the only o level you need gal is to be ON THE LEVEL no truer word spoken
Wrong, simple arithmetic is beyond most millennials
@@markburt783 You even need GCSE maths to be a squaddy these days
Well said Carol, it's refreshing to hear the corruption being called out.
Thank you Carol. I agree with you. It’s about our children. Let them learn freely and at a pace that’s right for them. We all learn differently. Thank you for your empathy 💜
Ah Carol. You were always my darling but I never knew this social conscience side of you, and I have nothing but the greatest respect for it.
Carol has just gone up immensely in my personal opinion.
You just wrote what I was thinking as she spoke.
Such an eloquent interview. Major respect to her.
I was thinking the same thing as I watched the video.
Your SO right.😄😄😄😄.
I agree completely...respect to her!
He has no conception of ordinary people at all....serving breakfast in a soup kitchen he actually asked a homeless man what line of business he was in!
Lovely to hear Carol and yes the children matter greatly 👍
Absolutely
Thank you Carol for pointing out the problems in teaching today, it is like a breath of fresh air to hear your opinion on how our children are being disregarded at all levels.
Thank you Carlol I have been saying this for a long time children need to know the basics off maths first that will impact there lives the most if they want to aspire to greater things it will happen , Carlol the voice of reason 😀
NHS going down faster than the titanic... and Rishi's excuse is 'more maths until you're 18' is disgusting.
Nurses are literally crying in their cars after 12-15 hour shifts
TITANIC WAS A INSURANCE JOB. IT WAS PAID OUT WITH IN A WEEK.
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Try 72 hour shifts I'm afraid
Agreed
Just said goodbye to my wife who is doing back to back 15 hour night shifts. She is so demotivated and just about holding it together...
Thanks to all the NHS workers
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@cameronclarkhull. Spot on ! The country is falling apart and this is all he has to say! Between you and me - I don’t think he’s even noticed. People are dying in ambulances ! Somebody should try telling him. And then lead him away to some quiet place where he can’t do any more damage.
I have dyscalculia and Carol Vorderman's workbooks (when I was growing up) are one of the only reasons I have any concept of numbers at all. I was regularly in panicked tears during maths lessons at school and would have found it incredibly hard to carry on with it post-16. Great to hear her opinions on this. There are huge problems in this country and post-16 maths isn't really in the top 10 is it.
Some people (like me) can stare at a sum all day and still not get it. I haven't got dyscalculia, there seems to be a block that's very hard to break through and as a consequence I now don't even try. No point. Have to say, teachers calling me thick didn't help
Me too. The thought ot having to do maths until the age of 18 gives me a panic attack!
@@howardchambers9679 Those teachers were and are bafoons !
@@howardchambers9679 No teacher worth his salt would ever say that to a child. It’s unprofessional. It shows a lack of care
everybody knows about dyslexia but Who Knows about dyscalculia We have Spellcheck for one and nothing for being Number Blind
Finally someone sane speaking! I have known Carol since my childhood and I'm glad she is around
What a great presentation by Ms. Vordeman. Nice to finally see someone who is truly a leader in the struggles of Great Britain.
Carol talks so much sense. She has risen in my estimation.
That's Numberwang!
@@maryhinge128 what do you mean ?
Mine too
@@michaelketley876 search CZcams for "Numberwang".
@@maryhinge128 "I only have shinty-six days left to live"
Respect to Carol. She's got a heart and is grounded.
Only if she has not promoted unethical loan firm for money.
Contrast with Riley
@@FreaksSpeaks Is your sorrow real ?
@@belindamay8063 Nopes. Part wind up and part exposing Carol's hipocrisy.
I'm a Canadian of the 1960 vintage. And I hear Carol on the point.
- There's too many that forget what has already happened.
Carol im glad u have strong views we need people like u to speak up for us.
Carol is a wise person and has nailed it, basic numeracy is so important for all children!
Excellent, Carol - thankyou for speaking out about this. Kids don't need more maths lessons - the Tories need reality lessons (or better still, they should just take themselves and their cretinous enablers and leap off a cliff and allow us to get back to a life of reality)
Tories? They all do. Most of them are Establishment and the rest are merely pets. They have no idea how the people live and hate the way, they believe, we think.
Well said
"Tories need reality lessons" brilliantly put...
You may be right about the tories, but this country's mathematical acumen is lower than sub par and that does need addressing
This gov't has the largest trade deficit and borrowing. Pity they didn't have a better command of maths!
This summer they almost crashed our economy - thankfully the still independent bank of England came to the rescue.
This very same gov't wanted to take control of the Bank of England this year.
I'd love to see each cabinet minister take a 'maths test' that is aimed towards 16 - 18-year-olds.
Our country is in a mess, Carol is correct
I thought I heard Carol just agree with exactly what Rishy said about better numeracy helping people with practical aspects such as managing their finances, and securing the best mortgages and savings rates. This is sorely needed in our education system.
Gotta be honest, I’ve never paid any attention to Vorderman before but I will in future. She seems eminently sensible, down to earth and in touch with the British public. Shame the same can’t be said for the government.
One of the few celebrities speaking up & being honest about what’s happening in the UK
Only if she has not promoted unethical loan firm for money.
@@FreaksSpeaks 😆 Yes that is a great point. Morally corrupt indeed.
The great reset in full swing
It doesn't matter, it won't change anything. I've come to the realisation that our 'democracy' is an illusion. And what goes on Parliament is just a farce to distract. The real power brokers of this country don't sit in Downing St.
Really? Has she ever spoke up about the destruction of British/English identity? Or how the capital city, second city and many others up and down the land are now minority British?
Course she hasn't. None of them will. Left or right.
As a guy who has to take off my socks and shoes to count beyond ten, Carol’s words impressed me no end. Not often you hear a lady fessing up to her age and I wish that shower we refer to as politician’s had half her honesty. She is a wonderful combination of both brains and beauty.
She´s taken, mate.
Lol
Bless You carol. Anyone wanting to help our children is top class in my book.❤✌
I'm from a developing country in Africa and even here we do mathematics to the age of 18 as compulsory including basics of calculus. Its incredible to see how bad standards are in the developed world but they pretend to have the best schools, universities in terms of standards etc.
In the developed world we are conned into believing that we are still world leaders. for example, the government in England is making a great fuss about the building of our first high speed rail link. Japan had their bullet trains since the sixties.
Carol Vorderman calls it out for what it is.
Brilliant and congratulations Carol!! I agree with every word...you've hit the nail on the head. When will this government look at the needs of children. We have not all had public school educations. It's a different academic world for most of us.
Public school education isn’t brilliant. Kids are only there for social contact. Some of the best brains came from Council School, Grammar, City Universities.
I fancied Carol when I was young and she gets better with age. What an elegant, attractive and intelligent lady. 😍
Wow what an incredibly intelligent and insightful addition to the comment section
I've always thought she is a kind person. She would be a model teacher because she has fun with maths. Children need fun.
I’m someone who judged the book by its cover.. How wrong I was to do that. Carol Vorderman has just spoken how we all are thinking etc. Wow.. What a fantastic honest human being.
was just thinking the same🤦♂go carol
Only if she has not promoted unethical loan firm for money.
@@FreaksSpeaks So this is the Government’s fight-back , is it ? Who’s paying you, then ? Absolutely pathetic.
@@belindamay8063 I am not defending the government here. I am only pointing out the hypocrisy of Vorderman. But I think it is too much for some to understand, as they carry chip on their shoulders.
I 'judged the book but it's cover' when I saw and heard Sunak for the first time. Turns out I was absolutely right - he is as bad as I first thought.
I briefly met Carol at a 10 Downing St reception for STEM ambassadors from around the country, way back in Tony Blair's premiership. She remains among the friendliest, nicest and most passionate people I have ever met.
Well said Carol ....👍
Carol so proud of u for taking to us all about what was said. More pressing issues to solve in this country at the moment.
My respect for Carol Vorderman has gone up tenfold!
That's Numberwang!
Plus always worth a pump...
Every tv celeb is a left wing virtue signalling Champagne Socialist! Didn't you know?
@@davekelley4076 Is she wrong tho?
@@w-james9277 ...Who cares as worth a pump...😆
I'm so glad people like Carol are speaking out!! Morals hasn't left our society and she is saying what ppl are thinking. ... why aren't they in prison!!!
Well she does vote for them.
@@Ballistic23 “Does” ? Or “did” ? Work it out.
Carol is great she's brilliant to watch and listen too. 👍
As Ms Vorderman says, the CSE was a practical qualification. I did what was called CSE "Everyday Mathematics" until 16, and it has served me well 40+ years later.
You are amazing Carol! We need more people like you. Outstanding effort during lockdown, they should put you and Martin Lewis in charge of economics and maths in education! Rishi is so out of touch its unreal, the public have been asleep to let the tories go on for so long, there's no other way to look at it.
What do you expect from a classics educated yob from a posh public school. Johnson was the same. Clueless.
@user-wh3pz1wm2d. Agree 100%. Wonderful Carol. The PM is a bird-brain. He owes his position - not to talent, but to the privileged anti-social gang that have been causing mayhem for years. Wasting our time and hard-earned money when they could have been dedicating themselves to our people. ( It’s their own education that ought to be looked at.) It stands out a mile : beyond our immediate physical needs, we need to rescue our unrivalled world-class culture. The greatest literature, the greatest language ever. We once knew how to talk and express ourselves properly in speech and in writing. Once, we all knew how to listen and to make things. To remember poems and songs. Not to be afraid of books and ideas - but to reach out for them. English is what we need. Language and literature - our greatest achievement and pleasure. Bring them back to the life they once had. All we do now is watch and listen to the same stuff every day. It has to stop before we go under. Look at the governments we elect ! I believe Carol would agree. She is alert to everything. Yes, put her in charge. And thank you.
Brainwashed by overwhelming help from UK MSM.
Well said Carol, especially regarding the nom-dom status. It's not illegal because they have no desire to make it so all his rich mates benefit from the same loophole and it will never be fixed because their greed for money outweighs their concerns for us ordinary people.
I totally agree with you. It isn't just him and his mates it is all the goverments before him and after him, in the future. And have you noticed that none of the MP's bring that subject up and debate about it. They are in it together. That has being used somewhere before, meaning the populace are not in it but themselves.
@@colincrowley9131 I have noticed, they will never bring it up because all the extremely wealthy benefit from it. There is so much untaxed wealth in this country which is in no way proportioned fairly. His wife is someone who benefits from these loopholes and he has the cheek to deny nurses a better wage.
Ordinary people? What exactly is an ordinary person in the 21st century? Can't you think for yourself? Vorderman is a "celebrity", lining her own pockets. I see her on line wearing some glamorous outfit or advertising some product or other and she is no ordinary person. On the contrary she is a parasite making as much money as she possibly can AND YOU LOT ARE INFATUATED WITH THE WOMAN?😂
Well done Carol, well said. I was born in 61 and share many of your practical ideas re Maths! Yes, its important yo know practical maths because it empowers children and adults alike. You don't need to have the grasp that the lovely Carol has unless, as she pointed out ,it is going to be intrinsic to you're chosen career. I am also with her in not following a particular party at present, they are all appalling in every sense and I am now a completely disillusioned voter.
I've not been a fan of Carol ... However ... Was very impressed with this common sense approach to education, and life skills, for young people. For what Ive experienced, witnessed over the years is that, our education system is geared up for academic levels. It isn't rocket science, that not all brains are wired for it. There are a high percentage of Practical minded brains out there, that all to often, are left behind in the uk education system. Bring back technical colleges. Back in my day of schooling 1950-60, needed to go to night school, and also tech college night school, that suited my level of learning, and aptitude. Proving that, I for one, was not wired up, for academics.
Thank you Anne ... And very much share your anger to Mr Sunak's recent speech. Being, way out of touch.
Wasn’t expecting that! Respect to Carol for living in the real world.
Only if she has not promoted unethical loan firm for money.
A very compelling and passionate interview, Thank you.
Thanks for posting
I used to be a TA working specifically with young people who suffer with learning disabilities and this lady did not say one wrong word. Our system is flawed in so many ways and it is genuinely frightening. Can I just say respectfully I still have a schoolboy crush on Carol and as always thank to the team at LBC keep doing what you do best 👍
Carol Vorderman has never featured on anything I saw locally, when, back about 1990-something, a friend in the UK sent me a videotape with some SciFi shows on them. Somehow by accident was recorded some maths education game show. Similar to what Matthew said above... I also found Carol V to be very 'crush'-able right then and there. What a perfect mix of Brains, Beauty and a Moral Compass. Carol if ever you're heading Down Under and wanna catch up for a coffee, call me up, eh.
I support people with learning disabilities too & agree, we have got so many things wrong in our education system. Trouble is we public school boys keep on insisting one size fits all pushing the class system. We need to look to a successful model ie Germany where equality of opportunity in education works and there's a real opportunity for students who don't fit into academia.
When I was at school I was one of those people who relied on their TA maths was always the worst subject for me, its so hard 😫 thankyou for helping people Matthew I doubt you get much credit for doing something very hard yet so rewarding for those under your wing
@@KiwiCatherineJemmaher moral compass gets a bit broken near other peoples husbands…….
@@lindalaw5466 Thanks for the extra info ! I'd never heard anything about that before. Here in NZ we only get a limited amount of UK news, mostly just the big stories. (Lately, mostly about the "royals" yes, small 'r' used deliberately).
He should sort out the free school meals debacle first as I'm sure an empty belly does more damage to learning, than not getting a slightly better grade in maths.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Well put!
@@blackeyedsusan727 Thank you! ☺
@ritagreenwood. Gold star for you !
@@belindamay8063 Nice! 😃🙏
“Are we in a parallel universe?”
A question I ask myself every day Carol.
i have had brain damage all my life and i had a terrible problem doing math at school, my math teachers used to get so mad with me because i could not do it or understand it, when i left school i had well over 100 detentions over my performance at school, no body noticed or cared about my problems, they just cared about the schools performance record, found out in the end 30 years later that i have M.S. lots of damage in the brain via M.R.I. with contrast, the only thing that school taught me is to avoid the deputy head master standing at the school gate sending kids back in for detention, on the last day of school was the only time in years i left by the main gate and was congratulated at my avoidance skills by said deputy head master.
i have had employment over the years but found it very hard to keep a job down, i ran my own buisness for 7 years too and did my own tax returns, not much that i learned at school was valid for the rest of my life, about 4 years after i left school the qualifications i got where worth nothing as they changed it so it was all pointless anyway.
as long as you can read and write, add up and take away, money, time and numbers, everything else is a waste of time.
Well said Carol! Nice to see someone in the celeb world with great empathy and morality. And above all common scence :)
Go carol, don't hold back,we need more celebrities telling it as it is.👏👏👏♥️
Love ya Carol, thank you for this.
Should get Carol in as Chancellor, someone who understands numbers and can produce workings out to back up and support her conclusion, which is something Osbourne, Hammond, Javid, Sunak, Zahawi & Kwarteng struggled to do!
She could get one of her pay day loans to help everyone out. You know, the ones she advertised.
@@highdownmartin or maybe get the rich to pay their fair share of tax instead of shoving it in offshore tax havens or get rid of non dom status for people like the wife of the prime minister and use that money to give people decent pay rises and people then wouldn’t need a pay day loan because they can actually afford to work and live well!👍
Sorry, but the next incumbent for that post is Diane Abbott, can't wait for it!
@@polaris7122 you mean Dianne Abbott who isn’t even in the Shadow Cabinet?
@@attackpatterndelta8949 so you can't take a joke, what a prat, and it's Diane. Take a day off lame brain!
Carol Vorderman. Who knew? A Goddess! Full of expertise, intelligence and -what is sadly lacking elsewhere COMMON SENSE! I’m a new fan. She totally gets what so manyvORDINARY people thought about that pathetic, redid speech! Thank you Carol!
The term "common sense" is discrimination. You have to say "understanding through life experience". No joke
Happy New Year Carol, and Everyone. 💃👍🙏❤️🙏
Oh! how refreshingly sensible and genuinely empathic. Respect to you Carol Vorderman
As a multi skilled engineer of 27 years, I can say with all honesty is that you don't need to be some sort of maths genius to get by in this vocation. There are some very basic laws which you use over and over but you learn these doing your vocational training, and 90% of what you learn, you never use again. What Sunak doesn't take into account is that we all have the most powerful educator in our pockets. If I want to calculate something which I've forgotten the formulae to because I learned it 20 odd years ago, I just Google it.
@Pupenhausen. Sunak just needed something to say. It shames us that he’s there at all.
@@belindamay8063 He's trying to distract you with one hand as the other remove your wallet..
My 19 year old niece couldnt even add up 2 numbers on a pair of dice over christmas. How is googling gonna help her?
@@dave4728 are you sure it wasn't thenj!
Are you sure it wasn't the drink?
Finally someone who talks sense in regards to maths, my son struggled and was almost vilified for it, he used to get so stressed out. On the flip side, he’s very artistic etc….. what a waste of time teaching to an exam, it’s crazy
She spoke a lot of truth on her morally corrupt stance too!!
It was tried here in the U.S. and failed miserably. USians can't even add.
Politicians are living on another planet! "Let them eat cake" 🎂😂
what a legend Carol is - well said beautiful, thanks for reaching out and telling MSM exactly what the country is thinking - your a star!!
This reminds me of my first day learning to drive, the instructor said "I can teach you to drive a car in 1 day, but to teach you to pass will take weeks", kids NEED the BASICS of maths, and see its value and they'll realise that it is worthwhile. Bugeting, loans, etc. great life skills.
Certainly. However, keeping with algebra (for example) or other forms of maths unless you are to follow further steps in that area is not something everyone needs.
She absolutely hits the nail on the head with "when does polical negligence become criminal".
There needs to legal implications.
Only if she has not promoted unethical loan firm for money.
@@FreaksSpeaks Was this your brilliant idea ? Either your real name is ***** or you’re just on “Repeat”.
@@belindamay8063 look up guardian article asking her to stop advertising for loan company. I understand people have preconceived ideas and don't want the otherside.
An impressive contribution from Carol. Well said!
Common sense from carol. I got a D in gcse maths. But I can figure out mortgages, bills and other financial matters. More of a problem is shops closing down. A lack of opportunities for the young to work.
Artificial intelligence will do most jobs. Chat bots do people’s work. Big businesses pay too little to live on. House prices are too high. People need affordable places to live.
Studying numeracy isn’t the same as learning life skills such as understanding every day finance and learning to set yourself up financially for later in life..
Litheon: exactlement ‼️ see my post about percentages.
Exactly, Sunak's point that studying maths until 18 makes you magically able to understand mortgages and taxes is ridiculous
@@Neji961 as ridiculous as Sunak himself.
Yep, confusing maths with arithmetic and economics. Sin, cos, tan aren’t going to be much use in everyday life but calculating a numerical budget and knowing how interest rates work most definitely will.
Numeracy is exactly what is needed.
Well said, Carol!
Carol Voderman is completely right. There is absolutely no point in teaching children maths until they are 18 if they haven't got any understanding of number by 14 or before. As an ex teacher [not maths] of children with social, emotional and behavioural issues who would benefit greatly from understanding basic how to understand their pay-check, manage their tax etc, I think it is setting up children to fail and or to receive a lot of bullying from those peers who are mathematically astute.
Countdown was never the same without her. A beautiful national treasure.
MMMM Silicon.
Well spoken, Carol. Admirable sentiments. Head and shoulders above most politicians.
While it is obviously desirable for children to become more numerate and confident in areas that will make life easier for them, like dealing with savings, loans, mortgages, etc., I think one of the most important things every child needs to understand upon leaving school is that today, the pound in their pocket is backed by nothing more than "full faith and confidence". A confidence trick, one might say.
And that every billion pounds the government conjures up out of thin air to bail out their banker friends, to virtue-signal, or to fund some vote-catching scheme dilutes the spending power of everyone's hard-earned savings and pensions, so that over the course of a lifetime people's wealth is surreptitiously stolen from them through inflation.
We were never taught any of this in school, but I do believe that if every school-leaver truly understood the difference between a fiat currency - backed by nothing - and real money (gold, silver, or in the broader sense commodities and hard assets) there would be greater financial discipline, increased scrutiny of politicians' spending, greater demands for accountability, and overall, less moral corruption than we have today.
Focus on managing finances and mental health, especially are key. However, the system is saturated and operating as such, so people are trapped.
Thank you LBC for broadcasting Carol's views .Personally , i didn't know she was so normal and down to earth. Made my day.
Well done carol, talking sense what most people think. Cracking pair too
Love Carol such passion for a subject I’ve always dreaded 😂
I failed maths at GCSE at school and then went back to further education at 37, studying Higher level maths as part of my civil engineering hnc. And got a distinction, trigonometry , algebra, calculus, vectors, hypothesis testing, arithmetic progression... I learnt it later in life as I understood it more. I wasn't ready for maths during school, now my role in construction as a project manager requires a level of maths but not the level I just got a unit distinction in. Maths has a place but a lot of the syllabus will never be used in the real world for most. This is a "look over there, not here" tactic to distract from the abject failure of this government.
I bet you werent taught by someone trying to entertain you in the lesson or watching You Tube videos on maths. This is the type of manure that goes on in most maths classes these days. Basically its all dumbed down to keep everyone happy.
I'm 37 and sick of working dead end Jobs, I wish I could go back into education and gain some qualifications.
@Just Daniel go back to education then. There is nothing stopping you, level 4 hnc are mostly funded, nvq3 are funded as well. If you have an employer that will pay for it and let you have time off even better. I'm in construction but most employers won't put roadblocks in the way of those who want to further their careers or improve their marketability
@Mark Donnelly I didn't pay attention in secondary school so I was never on task. The teaching was fine, I was the problem as I wasn't ready or mature enough to understand it.
I'm a retired lawyer. For over forty years I hardly ever had to do any maths in the course of my work. Even the calculation of damages only requires simple maths. I scraped my maths O level and I can count. Thats all I needed in adult life. Why should I have wasted time in the sixth form doing maths on top of my A level subjects especially if it would not lead to any qualification? Only students geared towards science need to study maths post-GCSE.
could a young adult get a place in a law firm or even get to study law at uni these days without maths qualification? If you were starting out now you would probably have to choose a different career, washing dishes or something?
@@Ian-if2lf A GCSE in maths would be enough
@@fattysl26 You would not even need that to be an MP.
Paterm: I agree that generally it is not necessary. Except if you have an aptitude for figures and enjoy it, then knock yourself out. I can do basic add, subtract, divide and multiply but I HATE maths and I'm lousy at it.
If only there were some sort of calculation device in everyone's pocket 🤦🏻♂️