Really? I'm not the biggest fan of Corbyn, but at least he sticks to his principles. Burnham will literally agree with anything he thinks will win him votes. He's shameless.
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Really? I'm not the biggest fan of Corbyn, but at least he sticks to his principles. Burnham will literally agree with anything he thinks will win him votes. He's shameless.
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True, plus ITV would probably match his yearly salary for 3 weeks in the jungle. Also, can he dance?
I agree. Burnham was one of the better Labour MPs and it's a shame he's leaving the Commons.
If the SNP are doing such an amazing job, why according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for 2015 has Scotland has tumbled down league tables for maths, reading and science when compared to 34 other developed countries and the UK’s three other home nations? "Overall, Scotland’s ranking has dropped from 11th to 23rd for reading since 2006, from 11th to 24th for maths and from 10th to 19 for science. A record number of nations are now doing better than Scotland, with the English education system boasting a significantly superior performance at science." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...h-education-system-records-worst-ever-rating/
If you define doing well as falling down the education league tables, then the SNP are amazing
If all the leave groups want to create a coalition then sure, they can create a governing party...
How do you know the soft Brexit and diet Brexit people would want to form a coalition with the hard brexiters though?
Honestly it's not a great example either way.
If you define doing well as falling down the education league tables, then the SNP are amazing
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Great news for those of us in greater Manchester, though, assuming he wins the mayoral election.
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Somebody needs to tell the SNP this - I agree with you, but they've taken it to mean that a vote for SNP is a vote in favour of independence.
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You forget I Can't Believe It's Not Brexit.If all the leave groups want to create a coalition then sure, they can create a governing party...
How do you know the soft Brexit and diet Brexit people would want to form a coalition with the hard brexiters though?
Honestly it's not a great example either way.
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Strange. A load of minorities collaborating to exclude the majority was all fine a few posts back.If all the leave groups want to create a coalition then sure, they can create a governing party...
How do you know the soft Brexit and diet Brexit people would want to form a coalition with the hard brexiters though?
Honestly it's not a great example either way.
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Being authoritarian doesn't go hand in hand with being far-right. Labour are authoritarian but left-wing.
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The two are different axes, yes. I'm slightly left wing and libertarian.
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Don't go voting Conservative then, even as a brexiteer. The Cons definitely don't have your best interests at heart.
But you just know most Brexiteers will vote Conservative, even though we can see it's turkeys voting for Christmas, they just have the one issue in mind and it's being reinforced by all of May's soundbites
Better to be the person who stood for election as an MP seven times and lost rather than the person who stood eight times and lost I guess.
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If the SNP are doing such an amazing job, why according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for 2015 has Scotland has tumbled down league tables for maths, reading and science when compared to 34 other developed countries and the UK’s three other home nations? "Overall, Scotland’s ranking has dropped from 11th to 23rd for reading since 2006, from 11th to 24th for maths and from 10th to 19 for science. A record number of nations are now doing better than Scotland, with the English education system boasting a significantly superior performance at science." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...h-education-system-records-worst-ever-rating/
If you define doing well as falling down the education league tables, then the SNP are amazing
I did not say
I said they were doing better than Labour did.
Crude league tables do not evaluate how well a system is doing but how it is measured compared to other countries. You could stay the same but other countries could move up and therefore you are lower. All countries in the UK had similar drops so it is not just a Scottish phenomenon as you are trying to imply.
As far as education goes I do know a little about it being a recently retired teacher. One thing people seem to forget is that education is a two way process. In the west, by that I mean mainly but not exclusively America and the UK we have an anti education agenda. Teachers are routinely attacked as being left wing troublemakers for example when the evidence shows nothing of the kind. As a society we are holding up as role model people such as those in TOWIE. Using drugs is seen as cool(although this is starting to change). You also have other factors such as poverty ..... our school a few years ago had disruptive pupils and when investigated it turned out they were not getting breakfast before coming to school ..... we started a breakfast club and the disruption all but disappeared. Scotland has been going through the introduction of a new curriculum .. 'Curriculum for Excellence' which was badly implemented. A lot of that was down to COSLA(the employers) who were arguing over funding with the Govt. I was meant to get an exemplar of the new course in April the following year but was meant to start the new course that year in August. It has started to settle down so we will see what happens in the coming years.
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