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...but she has recanted her former madness. Corbyn wanted to foist his onto all of us.

Oh and first.

Somebody nobody has ever heard of was a headcase thirty years ago. But has since recanted.

Be honest, this is not about the IRA. It is about Brexit.

She has not recanted. Not her support for the IRA. Nor her denial of the Serbian genocide of the Bosnian Muslims. Nor her vile views on child abuse videos and jihadist videos.

If the PM wanted a Brexit supporter in the Lords (why? it’s been done, we keep being told) Carswell or Hannan would do. Gisela Stuart and Kate Hoey were ennobled. What does Fox bring other than a disregard for facts, vile opinions and insults to those bereaved and injured by terrorists?

It is utterly shameful by the PM and Tory supporters who defend it share in his shame.

Well, I have never before been condemned for sharing in Johnson's shame.

I was merely pointing out that Corbyn's evil remains ever present. This woman's unpleasant, peculiar views are from history, Corbyn's remain today..

Her views are not from history. They are not peculiar. They are dangerous. Someone who denies facts is no better than a Holocaust denier. She has never recanted them. She is a female version of Corbyn.

But unlike him, once she is in the Lords we can never vote her out.

It is utterly contemptible and contemptuous of the public the Tories claim to be speaking for.

...but she has recanted her former madness. Corbyn wanted to foist his onto all of us.

Oh and first.

Somebody nobody has ever heard of was a headcase thirty years ago. But has since recanted.

Be honest, this is not about the IRA. It is about Brexit.

She has not recanted. Not her support for the IRA. Nor her denial of the Serbian genocide of the Bosnian Muslims. Nor her vile views on child abuse videos and jihadist videos.

If the PM wanted a Brexit supporter in the Lords (why? it’s been done, we keep being told) Carswell or Hannan would do. Gisela Stuart and Kate Hoey were ennobled. What does Fox bring other than a disregard for facts, vile opinions and insults to those bereaved and injured by terrorists?

It is utterly shameful by the PM and Tory supporters who defend it share in his shame.

Well, I have never before been condemned for sharing in Johnson's shame.

I was merely pointing out that Corbyn's evil remains ever present. This woman's unpleasant, peculiar views are from history, Corbyn's remain today..

Her views are not from history. They are not peculiar. They are dangerous. Someone who denies facts is no better than a Holocaust denier. She has never recanted them. She is a female version of Corbyn.

But unlike him, once she is in the Lords we can never vote her out.

It is utterly contemptible and contemptuous of the public the Tories claim to be speaking for.

Mexicanpete is nonetheless correct it’s about Brexit.
Apparently if you tick that box, anything else (IRA apologism; genocide denial; all round moonbattery) doesn’t matter

...but she has recanted her former madness. Corbyn wanted to foist his onto all of us.

Oh and first.

Somebody nobody has ever heard of was a headcase thirty years ago. But has since recanted.

Be honest, this is not about the IRA. It is about Brexit.

She has not recanted. Not her support for the IRA. Nor her denial of the Serbian genocide of the Bosnian Muslims. Nor her vile views on child abuse videos and jihadist videos.

If the PM wanted a Brexit supporter in the Lords (why? it’s been done, we keep being told) Carswell or Hannan would do. Gisela Stuart and Kate Hoey were ennobled. What does Fox bring other than a disregard for facts, vile opinions and insults to those bereaved and injured by terrorists?

It is utterly shameful by the PM and Tory supporters who defend it share in his shame.

I don't know if giving people predicted grades is much more arbitrary and unfair than grading people based on how much they can memorise and write down in a couple of hours. Especially when some people have paid to be spoon-fed the relevant information in smaller classes with more resources than everyone else.

Well - you could make that argument in any year. This is not about whether or not to change the system, it is about how to award grades which rank pari passu with previous years by rewarding pupils justly based on what they would have got if they had taken the exams.

I had 6 A level tutees this year (4 Russian, 2 French). In normal circumstances I would be confident of all 6 getting A/A* due to the traditional beasting I give them in the last two weeks with past papers. This year they all feel like they are getting fucked. They (and their parents) blame the government.

The government are stepping on a landmine here and will soon be carrying a bloody foot around in their hat. If you ever want to raise the venomous and undying enmity of Middle (as opposed to Little) England then fuck around with their kids' A level results.

Moral - The left nearly won a GE with a poor leader. With better packaging we can do so one day soon.

Unfortunately, you and by extension the Labour left are drawing the wrong moral.

Corbyn nearly beat Theresa May, who was determined to do her best to spook everyone who wasn't a hardcore Conservative voter. Result, the opposition rallied behind Labour in a bid to reduce her majority, thinking that as Corbyn had no chance of winning it wouldn't cause a problem.

Or let me put it to you another way. When standing on a basically similar manifesto, against a much weaker leader, who had no policy platform and who had just been found guilty of misusing a prerogative power in the courts - Labour lost horrendously badly. Their worst result, indeed, since 1935.

The moral of this story is that people are only willing to vote for far left policies when there is no chance of them winning. Therefore, to win, ditch the far left policies based on drug-addled dogmatism and try to come up with a vaguely realistic and costed policy agenda.

It is quite significant that in the early stages of the 2017 campaign the Tory strategists identified a number of seats that they failed to take then, but which did fall in 2019 - Bolsover and West Bromwich West, for example.