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Post by frankiegth on May 12, 2010 17:06:58 GMT
Sounds a bit like a 1930's music hall double act.
I don't think Ant n Dec have got too much to worry about.
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Post by robotsmfc on May 12, 2010 18:49:37 GMT
Eton, Westminster, Oxford and Cambridge.
What chance did Gordon have against a tie and a crest?
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Post by peekay on May 13, 2010 1:02:11 GMT
I give it 18 months tops.
Then David Miliband will open a can of whoop-ass on both of them.
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on May 30, 2010 6:00:38 GMT
Eton, Westminster, Oxford and Cambridge. What chance did Gordon have against a tie and a crest? I do find that kind of inverted snobbery a bit depressing. Which century are we in now? I'm sure that the voters who gave Aidan Burley a 14% swing to the Conservatives in Cannock Chase weren't forelock-tugging yokels in awe of Oxbridge, still less those in Tamworth or Redditch. As someone who once was turned down for a job with Clerical Medical by some prat with a "wah-wah" upper-class drawl on account of my "noticeable Wolverhampton accent" to this day i've been careful to vote for who i believe to be the best candidate in my constituency, regardless of party or background. Errr.. Gordon had every chance if he'd run the country properly. From when he wrecked the most successful pension system in Europe with his first budget, flogging off our gold cheap to Communist China, claiming all the credit as we rode the wave of a worldwide boom, vaingloriously claiming to have "eliminated boom and bust" (well he certainly eliminated the boom) and thn taking none of the blame as we were the first major nation to enter recession and the last to leave it, and for taking the strongest ever economic situation inherited by an incoming government since before WW1 and leaving the worst set ever behind him. Not to mention his grubby attempts to hang on until October as Britain's first ever twice un-elected Prime Minister. I've gone from Sultan to Baron Hard-up during the New Labour years and won't miss them much. I give it 18 months tops. Then David Miliband will open a can of whoop-ass on both of them. Bananaman? Do me a favour! He's not even the most able politician in his own family, let alone the country ;D |
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Post by robotsmfc on May 30, 2010 13:17:09 GMT
It was more of a musical reference than a serious comment, Sultan.
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on May 31, 2010 16:26:14 GMT
They have made an interesting start; but the devil, as they say, i in the detail!
I find it rather interesting that the Daily Telegraph seems to have the hatchet out for the Lib Dem element though - the revelations of the past week could SO easily have surfaced a while back. Both the MPs involved are rising stars within the Lib Dem element of the new Govt. It proves that, to the Telegraph at least; the only option was a Tory win outright. Some people are never happy...
I'm waiting to discover just how much of the past 12 months changes within DWP are going to be unravelled. Already, a couple of initiatives which have proved to be extremely useful for 18-24 yr old jobseekers have been scrapped - leaving us and some of the youngsters in question, scratching our heads!
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Post by robotsmfc on May 31, 2010 21:33:53 GMT
Michael Gove's moves as education secretary have been interesting. He seems to have some interesting ideas but could well be going about it all wrong.
His plans to reform the history curriculum, for a start, are much needed and a good idea at face value. However, getting a right-wing, imperialist-apologist, Eurocentric, whig historian to write the curriculum for him is possibly the worst approach to the problem possible. The second stupid thing about it is that they're planning a 'grand narrative'. The trouble with history at schools is that it's too narrative, and the step up to A-level, where some actual understanding and interpretation are required, is far too big.
The idea to make most schools academies is ridiculous. No private business or individual should be allowed to take control of a school, even for philanthropic reasons. It's too open to abuse for profiteers or fundamentalists of all varieties. Plus, why should teachers in the public sector be answerable to businessmen rather than civil servants. If they'd wanted to be private employees then they'd have done their hardest to get work in a fee-paying school.
What I do fundamentally agree with is the scrapping of league tables in favour of a system highlighting schools who deliver the highest percentage of GCSEs overall in Maths and Science. The league table system has helped to exacerbate a state of affairs where 'failing' schools attract only failing or (often underprepared) newly qualified teachers. Kids with parents who value education or are really pushy generally desert these schools for less local ones with better league table positions or go private. Also, middling schools are more likely to focus on middling candidates (and ignore strugglers or high-flyers) in order to make sure they get a C and boost their league table score. Hopefully the new system will help to solve those problems.
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Post by peekay on Jun 3, 2010 3:35:05 GMT
Put the two of them together to get...
thingy Cleggeron!
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Post by ambersalamander on Jun 3, 2010 13:14:51 GMT
And what variety of thingy was that before the swear-filter ate it? ;D
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Post by peekay on Jun 3, 2010 14:02:47 GMT
And what variety of thingy was that before the swear-filter ate it? ;D Never noticed that. Arf! Think short for Richard. ;D |
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Post by ambersalamander on Jun 4, 2010 7:01:02 GMT
Ahhh. Ricky  |
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