What’s the point of giving £160,000 to bullied pupil?

Our concerns as taxpayers should not be side tracked by the term ‘affordability’. We should be focussed upon the ‘necessity’ of this colossal expenditure by a profligate and ineffective public ‘service’ which has become almost irrelevant to real crime. Dick Van Dyke, actor, Christopher Plummer, actor, Robert Lindsay actor, Tom Verlaine, singer and rock guitarist

Paula Wilcox, actress, John Francome, author and former jockey, Steve Buscemi, actor/writer/director, Jamie Foxx, actor and singer, Sara Cox, radio DJ, Taylor Swift

singer, WHY, why, why have people given nearly £160,000 to a young person who has been bullied?

Money will not take away what this lad suffered.

What he really needed was his teacher to put an arm round him and for the bully to be paraded in front of the whole school and made to apologise to the young Syrian (in my day the bully would have been caned six on each hand).

The giving of this large amount of money will open the floodgates.

Youngsters will now be asking their parents to open a bank account for them.

There are hundreds and thousands of people out there who were bullied at school. I wonder what they are thinking right now.

The parents of the Syrian lad want to turn on the TV and see those little children dying from hunger. That’s where their money ought to go. Do some good with it.

Or maybe it should be invested till the young boy is over 25 years old. This family have suffered in their own country but at least they are alive and well. Not like those who we see in other countries.

I was bullied for a few years, until my older brother caught the bully, gave him a good hiding and pushed him into the river. That’s what they did seventy years ago.

We ought to bring the cane back for bullies. of a bad Brexit deal will hit us severely in our pockets.

But Mark Carney, rolling in money, has thrown a party for his staff at a cost of £100,000 – what a hypocrite.

Does he just step over all the down and outs who would be grateful for any humble party at Christmas. Instances like this are one of the reasons for leaving Europe – all bureaucrats feeding from the trough and not caring for homeless at this time of year.

If Brexit does turn sour it will be the ordinary working man who will suffer.

The rich with their many homes will simply jet off, leaving us to pick up the mess they have made.