The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[peteblue]

The quality of teaching is no better. That, I am convinced of.

Based on what?, Experience, Data, Something you just made up ?.......

 

[peteblue]

No it isn't. It absolutely isn't.

So what level should we be raising all schools up to..........

 

[Eggs]

And a poor leader.....

......absolutely but only one group to blame for that.

 

[Seanjd]

Based on what?, Experience, Data, Something you just made up ?.......

Experience. Rather like paying over the odds for designer labels, you pay for the right to say you were privately educated. Employers lap that up.

 

[edge]

intresting week coming up, budget , looks like Ukip are shooting themselves in the foot by saying they will prop up the tories up in return for an in out vote, which they are having anyway,that will cost them a lot of votes in the north in labour play it right.

 

[Blue 1]

So what level should we be raising all schools up to..........

Clint's argument is quite simply that state schools should have the same resources that private schools do, I think.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Not sure if this is backed/supported by the new Greek government

http://politicalinnovation.gr/?lang=en

Looks like a nice project though.

 

[hullefc]

Grant Shapps admits he 'screwed up' dates in second job row

L***, l*** pants on fire. You just can't make up the level of forgetfulness amongst Tory MPs. It's a wonder they can get up in the morning and remember how they get dressed.

 

[peteblue]

intresting week coming up, budget , looks like Ukip are shooting themselves in the foot by saying they will prop up the tories up in return for an in out vote, which they are having anyway,that will cost them a lot of votes in the north in labour play it right.

I think UKIP peaked at the wrong time and are now just going backwards and I cannot for the life of me understand why the SNP (the clue is in the name) would want to sit as MP's in Westminster. A strange and weird election this one.......

 

[peteblue]

Clint's argument is quite simply that state schools should have the same resources that private schools do, I think.

I thought he was arguing that state schools have better resources/teachers and are better schools..........

 

[peteblue]

Grant Shapps admits he 'screwed up' dates in second job row

L***, l*** pants on fire. You just can't make up the level of forgetfulness amongst Tory MPs. It's a wonder they can get up in the morning and remember how they get dressed.

It's these continuous failures of all politicians that really turns me against the lot of them, professional parasites.........

 

[Blue 1]

Grant Shapps admits he 'screwed up' dates in second job row

L***, l*** pants on fire. You just can't make up the level of forgetfulness amongst Tory MPs. It's a wonder they can get up in the morning and remember how they get dressed.

Who on Earth would've expected the chairman of the Tory Party to be a mendacious spiv?

 

[Tubey]

Grant Shapps admits he 'screwed up' dates in second job row

L***, l*** pants on fire. You just can't make up the level of forgetfulness amongst Tory MPs. It's a wonder they can get up in the morning and remember how they get dressed.

All the same. Money, money, money, no matter how they get it.

 

[hullefc]

You can always trust the Tories to act on their promises.

"At the moment, there is no way that local constituents can remove an MP found guilty of serious wrongdoing until there is a general election. That is why a Conservative government will introduce a power of ‘recall’, to allow electors to kick out MPs, a power that will be triggered by proven serious wrongdoing. And we will introduce a Parliamentary Privilege Act to make clear that privilege cannot be abused by MPs to evade justice".

I wonder if Shapps 'screwing up' his memory may be some 'sort of defence' against 'serious wrongdoing'.

 

[Brennan]

Experience. Rather like paying over the odds for designer labels, you pay for the right to say you were privately educated. Employers lap that up.

Absolute nonsense.

I went to a private school, whose examination results are consistently leaps and bounds ahead of the national average. In 2013 A-Level results, 45% of grades attained were either A* or A. The national average was 26%. Parents send their children to said school because the education is superior, not for some kind of 'prestige'.

Don't tar every private school with the same brush as if they're all Eton or Harrow. I wouldn't act as if every state school is a failing joke just because some are.