Poll: Poll: Prime Minister Theresa May calls General Election on June 8th

Who will you vote for?

  • Conservatives

  • Labour

  • Lib Dem

  • UKIP

  • Other (please state)

  • I won't be voting

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OldCoals said:
How does getting rid of 50% of the staff that speak polish help in a school where 26% of the pupils have polish as a first language.
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In such a scenario, it probably doesn't, at least not if sufficient planning (such as getting the remaining staff learning polish as part of their development) hasn't been put into place due to poor future planning, or making polish a desired recruitment characteristic in teachers being brought in.
 
OldCoals said:
How does getting rid of 50% of the staff that speak polish help in a school where 26% of the pupils have polish as a first language.
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How many children are there in the school in total and despite 26% of the children having Polish as a first language what percentage of those children were perfectly fluent in English despite it being a "second" language?
 
It bought her a six week delay to the start of Brexit talks, that's about it. "Look over there" will be quite a common theme for the next couple of years I'd say.
 
Caged said:
It bought her a six week delay to the start of Brexit talks, that's about it. "Look over there" will be quite a common theme for the next couple of years I'd say.
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Too bad she lost any ability to call for an extension, because no way that the EU is going to look at the General election and think that May deserves anything. Complete utter waste.
 
Poor May is getting trashed right now.
I hope it's enough to make her reconsider gutting so many vital and essential institutions. We need more staffing for the police force, the NHS and in schools, not less.
 
To be fair I think Labour may have played a blinder really. Corbyn has shown a great deal of tenacity to still be leader at this point, what he says is generally fair and considered, he doesn't provoke like May does, and the underlying message of Labour's campaign "For the many, not the few" resonates with the electorate on so many levels, when they've seen the sorry state of decline in this country across the NHS, police, education, railways and the Conservatives simply come out announcing more austerity.

You also have to factor in May's threat of a hard-brexit, you'll have a great deal of Conservative remainers who won't bring themselves to support May's ruthless agenda, so that could easily swing more votes towards Labour.
 
KNiVES said:
Poor May is getting trashed right now.
I hope it's enough to make her reconsider gutting so many vital and essential institutions. We need more staffing for the police force, the NHS and in schools, not less.
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Kinda harsh to blame Theresa May for the cuts that happened over the last few years, yes she was Home Secretary but they were driven by George Osborne who used the language of the economic simpleton - "nations credit card", there's no money left etc. Whatever else she may have got wrong, one thing I'm certain she got right was sacking that cretin. The new chancellor seems a lot more pragmatic - promising to eliminate the deficit by 2022 rather than 2020, which IIRC was more like what Ed Milliband's Labour were committed to in 2015.
 
Wow, the polls are crazy right now. All the Tories had to do was keep on doing what they were doing, but for some strange reason they decided that screwing it all up was a better way to go.

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I actually thought May would get a vote boost after the attack, but people seem to have realised it was her as home sec that gutted the police in the first place.
 
scorza said:
Kinda harsh to blame Theresa May for the cuts that happened over the last few years, yes she was Home Secretary but they were driven by George Osborne who used the language of the economic simpleton - "nations credit card", there's no money left etc. Whatever else she may have got wrong, one thing I'm certain she got right was sacking that cretin. The new chancellor seems a lot more pragmatic - promising to eliminate the deficit by 2022 rather than 2020, which IIRC was more like what Ed Milliband's Labour were committed to in 2015.
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2025 isn't it? Plus with all the holes they haven't budgeted in their manifesto that is going to become 2030 or even later unless there are massive tax rises.
 
Greebo said:
2025 isn't it? Plus with all the holes they haven't budgeted in their manifesto that is going to become 2030 or even later unless there are massive tax rises.
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Throwing mud and random presidential invites amid delicate world stage negotiating are probably more costly than investing in the UKs infrastructure.
 
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dowie said:
I'm not sure that is very representative of the private education sector in the UK - most are not for profit trusts set up as charities that reinvest their profits into the school and invest in scholarship funds for academically gifted students and those from poorer backgrounds.
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Yes, but I was responding to Dolph, who would privatise everything as far as I know. Certainly education. Maybe not the military, although I don't know for sure. Not charities. Not trusts. Businesses. They make Thatcher look like a communist.
 
Greebo said:
2025 isn't it? Plus with all the holes they haven't budgeted in their manifesto that is going to become 2030 or even later unless there are massive tax rises.
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Yes, the Conservative manifesto now pledges to balance the books by 2025 (i.e. not in the lifetime of the next parliament).
 
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