Tory London Mayoral hopeful favours male teachers and harsh discipline

VincentHanna said:
The conservatives have 318 MP's

20 are from ethnic minority backgrounds, which is approx 6%

Labour have 257 MP's

33 are from ethnic minority backgrounds, which is approx 13%

As of the last census, the UK population were 87% White British and the rest was a mixture of ethnic background

As such you could argue that "token" is applicable in the context of the conservatives...or at the very least they are paying lip service to having ethnic minority members. Whereas Labour are exactly in line with representation of the makeup of the country.
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Tell me how is the Labour party going recent?
 
It's the increase in parents who don't see their kids at all due to work. They drop the kid off at breakfast club at 8, pick them up at 6 after afterschool club, kid probably goes to bed by 8. They don't know how to discipline their child as they don't spend enough time actually parenting to learn how to do it.
 
Aren't most of the black Labour MP's who were prominent on the front bench up before the beak or fired? ;) I saw something about a video of the last one to be chucked out pretending to cut a line of narcotics... they sure can pick `em :) That's not to say there are no good ones of course. I never even looked at the colour of the mayoral candidate this thread is about, doesn't bother me if he is sky blue pink so long as he has the genuine welfare of the country and its citizens at heart. Hopefully he and his family are not crooks and he does a good job if he's elected.
 
VincentHanna said:
How recently? I meant they increased their seats in an election from 232 to 262 when Theresa May thought she would wipe the floor with them...
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If they cannot beat the deary May, they have zero chance once they get a different leader. Labour are unfit for office.PEROID.
 
VincentHanna said:
How recently? I meant they increased their seats in an election from 232 to 262 when Theresa May thought she would wipe the floor with them...
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How about recently enough that this government is an absolute train wreck and has been for the last 15 months and they still can't poll above them? If Corbyn was Blair and there was an election tomorrow he'd win in a landslide. The UK doesn't want a marxist chancellor, a gaffs-for-days home secretary or a nationalise everything prime minister.
 
Given how controversial Brexit was + having the Maybot and all her charisma as leader it isn't really much of an accomplishment to point out that Labour didn't lose quite so badly in the last election....
 
LabR@t said:
If they cannot beat the deary May, they have zero chance once they get a different leader. Labour are unfit for office.PEROID.
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I think a lot will depend on the leader and mood of the nation come any election - a lot depends on how any given politician comes across at the wrong/right time.
 
VincentHanna said:
Brexit is the big political issue though, and that can't be divided against traditional party lines.

That's the problem.
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Agreed. Although the proportions amongst party voters was variant, I still think considering the magnitude of the task that there should have been a cross party government for this. Brexit isn't a party political issue. And I hate how some of the labour party and conservative party (not all) are making it out to be one.
 
Mason- said:
Agreed. Although the proportions amongst party voters was variant, I still think considering the magnitude of the task that there should have been a cross party government for this. Brexit isn't a party political issue. And I hate how some of the labour party and conservative party (not all) are making it out to be one.
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Every big issue becomes ammunition for for party politics. We had enough of that crap just internally within the tory party for the lat year, i couldn't even begin to imagine the cluster **** we would have had if it was both Labour and Tory in government trying to sort it out. They'd probably still be arguing over what we should call it...
 
StriderX said:
No, my concern wasn't around him being there as a disingenuous act or some wry plan, just that considering the numbers in London, the polls, Brexit focus that is likely to be the case for the next election, that whatever process they had for choosing a candidate to put forward was biased against whatever Goldsmith was. This is a party that power-stance'd at one point, they know how to be told to act and just run on corporate junk to appear professional, i would not put it past them.
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I think you just called him a token again, but with more words.
 
ianh said:
When I went to highs chool in the late 80's -early 90's the split of our 60-ish teachers was about 50/50 with a fairly good spread of male/female teachers in most of the lessons (i.e most lessons had teachers of both genders) and the average age was mid 40's to 50-ish where the youngest teachers were late twenties (a female Science and female English teacher) and the oldest were the 55+ female deputy head and a male History teacher.
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Similar. I don't recall the exact ratio and I think it leaned a little towards women, but not by much. And there was little gender stereotyping in subjects either - maths, English, History, PE, all was a mix. A couple of exceptions being both my science teachers were men and my Home Ec. teacher was a woman. Not a big deal, though.

Mason- said:
Agreed. Although the proportions amongst party voters was variant, I still think considering the magnitude of the task that there should have been a cross party government for this. Brexit isn't a party political issue. And I hate how some of the labour party and conservative party (not all) are making it out to be one.
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I'd agree but I don't think Labour are interested in working towards actual Brexit. It would be an opportunity for Labour to backtrack on the referendum result and May's government is set on following through on the results of the referendum (I hope).
 
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