According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
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Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
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Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
The UK is a country where you can tell what class someone is by the soap powder they use.
According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
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Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
Boris Johnson calling Starmer posh was a particular highlight
According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
Burn
Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
Burn
Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
The waitrose thing as a class insult is at least 10 years out of date. Its stupid. I shop at Asda personally because it is the closest shop. If it was a Waitrose i'd go there instead. This whole discourse is idiotic and embarrassing.
According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
Burn
Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
Burn
Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
The waitrose thing as a class insult is at least 10 years out of date. Its stupid. I shop at Asda personally because it is the closest shop. If it was a Waitrose i'd go there instead. This whole discourse is idiotic and embarrassing.
According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
Burn
Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
The UK is a country where you can tell what class someone is by the soap powder they use.
We use surcare, as it’s the only non fragranced one we can find, and my wife suffers hugely from perfume allergies.
Keir Starmer has sacked shadow minister Sam Tarry.
Labour spox: “This isn’t about appearing on a picket line. Members of the frontbench sign up to collective responsibility. That includes media appearances being approved and speaking to agreed frontbench positions.
Great, isn't it? You get nostalgic for that uniform, filtered light sky.
As Bill Bryson said, living in Britain is like living in a Tupperware box. In the fridge
He hated it so much, he moved here.
I went off Bill Bryson when he said that the British, by their very nature, would have knuckled down and made life under Soviet occupation tolerable. Rather patronizing I thought.
Owen Jones would rather see a Tory Government forever.
He has not done anything for the working class
Prediction: He will be one of the first and most enthusiastic to hail "the sea change transformation" of a Labour Starmer/Reeves government in 2024/5 and burble on about how this shows the country has changed and moved on from neo-liberal economics and warmongering and baby eating and so on.
Having done almost nothing personally except snipe from the side to get from here to there.
According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
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Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
Wow. I hadn't seen it until now. No room for doubt. Jones wants the Tory party to win in 2024/5 because that would be better than a Labour leader who followed the classic 'run from the left and then tack to the centre' strategy that is bog standard in US Dem politics.
And he obviously hates Waitrose, which last time I looked was... a shop.
Great, isn't it? You get nostalgic for that uniform, filtered light sky.
As Bill Bryson said, living in Britain is like living in a Tupperware box. In the fridge
He hated it so much, he moved here.
I went off Bill Bryson when he said that the British, by their very nature, would have knuckled down and made life under Soviet occupation tolerable. Rather patronizing I thought.
Fairly accurate though. Pretty much all countries have a lot of collaborators when occupied.
According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
Burn
Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
The UK is a country where you can tell what class someone is by the soap powder they use.
We use surcare, as it’s the only non fragranced one we can find, and my wife suffers hugely from perfume allergies.
According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
Burn
Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
Chippiness problem well in hand, I see
And this is how they police their borders.
If you want to be a house n*gr* I'm recruiting.
Mr Chippy in off topic flag shock
It pisses off the mods, all of whom are so much more awful than you can imagine in your wildest dreams, that they went to Cambridge.
Great, isn't it? You get nostalgic for that uniform, filtered light sky.
As Bill Bryson said, living in Britain is like living in a Tupperware box. In the fridge
He hated it so much, he moved here.
I went off Bill Bryson when he said that the British, by their very nature, would have knuckled down and made life under Soviet occupation tolerable. Rather patronizing I thought.
Fairly accurate though. Pretty much all countries have a lot of collaborators when occupied.
It wasn't really about collaboration; it was more that there is something about the British psyche that would rather enjoy communist oppression.
Great, isn't it? You get nostalgic for that uniform, filtered light sky.
As Bill Bryson said, living in Britain is like living in a Tupperware box. In the fridge
He hated it so much, he moved here.
I went off Bill Bryson when he said that the British, by their very nature, would have knuckled down and made life under Soviet occupation tolerable. Rather patronizing I thought.
Fairly accurate though. Pretty much all countries have a lot of collaborators when occupied.
It wasn't really about collaboration; it was more that there is something about the British psyche that would rather enjoy communist oppression.
I haven't read the article, but the only thing it is possible to positively prove would be the lab leak hypothesis, and then only if an employee or two came out and said 'yes, it happened here'.
(And it is worth noting that it's perfectly possible it to have been a lab leak, without the lab itself even knowing.)
Absent an actual ablation, it's all conjecture and probabilities.
It seems unlikely that it is a mere coincidence that the city where bat coronaviruses were studied had an outbreak of a bat coronavirus.
It would be fabulous if Rishi withdrew. BoZo would be out immediately and while the members want Truss when she blows up they can say "Well we didn't vote for her..."
According to Owen Jones, Keir Starmer supporters are "the most tedious and ridiculous Waitrose customers"
Burn
Owen Jones became famous for writing a book about class warfare and name calling.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
Owen Jones called for Corbyn to resign in 2017. He was right.
Yes, and then he cravenly fell in with the Corbyn crowd.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.
People who go on about other people shopping at Waitrose always shop at Waitrose themselves.
The whole Waitrose thing’s a bit weird to me.
The English elite is incredibly narrow and they all hate each other and themselves. Thus Tories who live in Islington and attend dinner parties go on about left wing luvvies who live in Islington and attend dinner parties. Privately educated Labourites go on about posh Tories. They all knew each other at Oxford. They are all awful. In theory the country deserves better, but in reality it gets the leaders it deserves.
The UK is a country where you can tell what class someone is by the soap powder they use.
Or which decade they live in, if still using soap powder.
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
The last of these could use some quotation marks. 69: "nice".
As Richard Quest outlined in the S Times (he attended the same school as Truss) the issue for him was that the catchment area for Roundhay's two ex-grammar schools (which merged to form the comp) was massively expanded way beyond the sought-after leafy suburbs of Roundhay.
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
The last of these could use some quotation marks. 69: "nice".
That's rather a personal comment on Mr Eagles' preferences.
Great, isn't it? You get nostalgic for that uniform, filtered light sky.
As Bill Bryson said, living in Britain is like living in a Tupperware box. In the fridge
He hated it so much, he moved here.
I went off Bill Bryson when he said that the British, by their very nature, would have knuckled down and made life under Soviet occupation tolerable. Rather patronizing I thought.
Fairly accurate though. Pretty much all countries have a lot of collaborators when occupied.
It wasn't really about collaboration; it was more that there is something about the British psyche that would rather enjoy communist oppression.
There is something to that. The British do have a tendency to masochism.
I think they would have to be endogenous Communist oppressors though.
It would be fabulous if Rishi withdrew. BoZo would be out immediately and while the members want Truss when she blows up they can say "Well we didn't vote for her..."
Go on, you know it makes sense
Though, for the pure popcorn fantastic giggles what if Sunak throws in the towel and the 1922 say that the third placed candidate goes into the ballot as they are determined the members get a say.
I said once Johnson had dedicated his whole life and career to becoming Prime Minister. The unfortunate truth was consequences meant the job he expected and wanted wasn't what was on offer. He won the election but ran straight into a global pandemic which changed everything.
Instead of inculcating the nation with post-Brexit optimism, he was faced with the awful (for him) prospect of shutting us all in our homes and suspending normal life and frivolity.
The thing for which he dreamt was in reality a nightmare and now he will live his life in the past tense. Some Conservatives may want him back (not surprising considering the choices on offer as his successor) but there's no mood in the country for him at present and it's hard to see how he could return. Would he want to be leader of a much reduced Parliamentary Party facing a triumphant Starmer? I suspect not - in truth the next Conservative leader after Truss (or Sunak) is probably Kemi Badenoch but whether she will end up the Hague de nos jours remains to be seen.
Johnson disreputable behaviour worked in the media and maybe even as mayor of London. But being Prime minister isn't a job where you can just do what you want. You are on a pedestal for people to shoot at 24/7. How could he not have understood this?
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
Though, for the pure popcorn fantastic giggles what if Sunak throws in the towel and the 1922 say that the third placed candidate goes into the ballot as they are determined the members get a say.
It would be fabulous if Rishi withdrew. BoZo would be out immediately and while the members want Truss when she blows up they can say "Well we didn't vote for her..."
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
"...think 'nice,' " I think.
They Cannes come up with some silly ideas.
As my Mar Seilles, “you can fool some of the people Arles the time and Arles the people some of the time”.
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
"...think 'nice,' " I think.
They Cannes come up with some silly ideas.
As my Mar Seilles, “you can fool some of the people Arles the time and Arles the people some of the time”.
But Boris was caught Lyon once too often.
(Yes, I know that doesn't work, in fact there's a Gulf between how we pronounce it and the French do. But it's difficult to come up with a decent pun on 'lying' in French. It breaks every Loire of pronunciation.)
It would be fabulous if Rishi withdrew. BoZo would be out immediately and while the members want Truss when she blows up they can say "Well we didn't vote for her..."
Go on, you know it makes sense
Though, for the pure popcorn fantastic giggles what if Sunak throws in the towel and the 1922 say that the third placed candidate goes into the ballot as they are determined the members get a say.
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
"...think 'nice,' " I think.
They Cannes come up with some silly ideas.
Yes. Some of them are strongly in favour of bes; but me, i'm very...
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
"...think 'nice,' " I think.
They Cannes come up with some silly ideas.
As my Mar Seilles, “you can fool some of the people Arles the time and Arles the people some of the time”.
But Boris was caught Lyon once too often.
(Yes, I know that doesn't work, in fact there's a Gulf between how we pronounce it and the French do. But it's difficult to come up with a decent pun on 'lying' in French. It breaks every Loire of pronunciation.)
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
"...think 'nice,' " I think.
They Cannes come up with some silly ideas.
As my Mar Seilles, “you can fool some of the people Arles the time and Arles the people some of the time”.
But Boris was caught Lyon once too often.
(Yes, I know that doesn't work, in fact there's a Gulf between how we pronounce it and the French do. But it's difficult to come up with a decent pun on 'lying' in French. It breaks every Loire of pronunciation.)
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
"...think 'nice,' " I think.
They Cannes come up with some silly ideas.
As my Mar Seilles, “you can fool some of the people Arles the time and Arles the people some of the time”.
But Boris was caught Lyon once too often.
(Yes, I know that doesn't work, in fact there's a Gulf between how we pronounce it and the French do. But it's difficult to come up with a decent pun on 'lying' in French. It breaks every Loire of pronunciation.)
Boris’ lying just Saint Ma Low. She felt the pain of his behaviour deep in her Brest. To her he was the Rouen of conservatism.
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
"...think 'nice,' " I think.
They Cannes come up with some silly ideas.
As my Mar Seilles, “you can fool some of the people Arles the time and Arles the people some of the time”.
But Boris was caught Lyon once too often.
(Yes, I know that doesn't work, in fact there's a Gulf between how we pronounce it and the French do. But it's difficult to come up with a decent pun on 'lying' in French. It breaks every Loire of pronunciation.)
Ok, I’m going to try and mount a defence of Liz Truss re the schooling.
I find it somewhat curious that the Guardian is now seeking to uphold the quality of state school education under the Thatcher government. I suspect that their issue here isn’t someone complaining that they didn’t feel their state school was able to compete in giving opportunities to their students, but who is saying it. Funny, that.
I also find it amusing that so much energy is being expended to rebut Truss’s experiences (what happened to people’s own “truth”?) which I suspect would not be the case if, say, a figure on the left had the same complaints.
A lot of what Truss says rings true in the state school system of that era: there were good and bad schools, but no matter how good the school was run or well meaning the teachers were they couldn’t compete with the private sector in terms of the opportunities and attention they could bestow on their students. I’m not suggesting that means the school was terrible (perhaps Truss could be accused of over-egging the pudding here).
The angle I think is far more damaging is the fact that she is complaining about the Thatcher era education system whilst… err… running as the heir to Thatcher. In fact there seems to be a lot about Tory governments Liz doesn’t like. She didn’t think her school was up to scratch under Thatcher, she thinks that the Tory government she’s been a member of wasn’t radical enough on the economy, and she certainly doesn’t agree with her government’s tax rises. Perhaps someone needs to ask Liz what she is doing running for leader of a Party she seems to have been at odds with for large chunks of her life?
If you're looking for just the right temperature today, you probably can find it in my area. The high here should be around 33 degrees Celsius at sea level, and about 0 degrees Celsius at 14,411 feet at the summit of Mt. Rainier, about 60 miles away from Seattle. So, somewhere in between, it should be just right for you.
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
"...think 'nice,' " I think.
They Cannes come up with some silly ideas.
As my Mar Seilles, “you can fool some of the people Arles the time and Arles the people some of the time”.
But Boris was caught Lyon once too often.
(Yes, I know that doesn't work, in fact there's a Gulf between how we pronounce it and the French do. But it's difficult to come up with a decent pun on 'lying' in French. It breaks every Loire of pronunciation.)
He's very much in favour of Brest.
These puns have officially gone the full Monte.
Dijon’t you get the memo about keeping the French puns going otherwise everyone gets Bordeaux of the constant political discourse.
Ok, I’m going to try and mount a defence of Liz Truss re the schooling.
I find it somewhat curious that the Guardian is now seeking to uphold the quality of state school education under the Thatcher government. I suspect that their issue here isn’t someone complaining that they didn’t feel their state school was able to compete in giving opportunities to their students, but who is saying it. Funny, that.
I also find it amusing that so much energy is being expended to rebut Truss’s experiences (what happened to people’s own “truth”?) which I suspect would not be the case if, say, a figure on the left had the same complaints.
A lot of what Truss says rings true in the state school system of that era: there were good and bad schools, but no matter how good the school was run or well meaning the teachers were they couldn’t compete with the private sector in terms of the opportunities and attention they could bestow on their students. I’m not suggesting that means the school was terrible (perhaps Truss could be accused of over-egging the pudding here).
The angle I think is far more damaging is the fact that she is complaining about the Thatcher era education system whilst… err… running as the heir to Thatcher. In fact there seems to be a lot about Tory governments Liz doesn’t like. She didn’t think her school was up to scratch under Thatcher, she thinks that the Tory government she’s been a member of wasn’t radical enough on the economy, and she certainly doesn’t agree with her government’s tax rises. Perhaps someone needs to ask Liz what she is doing running for leader of a Party she seems to have been at odds with for large chunks of her life?
Someone - maybe an enterprising young journalist perhaps! - should ask her whether she thinks her school would have been better staying as two separate (girl/boy) grammars and being 11+ plus selective or as a merged, expanded comp.
Richard Quest in his S Times piece says a lot of the problems were around shellshocked former grammar school teachers suddenly facing a new, wider non-11-plus intake and being totally lost and unable to maintain control.
I was a student in Leeds back in the day and no way on God's green earth would anyone in the city describe Roundhay area as deprived or suffering.
Didn't Jimmy Saville own Roundhay Park?
He owned a penthouse flat there. Lived there for 30 years. Don't think he owned the park though. Can you own a park? Surely it becomes your garden rather than a park then?
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
"...think 'nice,' " I think.
They Cannes come up with some silly ideas.
As my Mar Seilles, “you can fool some of the people Arles the time and Arles the people some of the time”.
But Boris was caught Lyon once too often.
(Yes, I know that doesn't work, in fact there's a Gulf between how we pronounce it and the French do. But it's difficult to come up with a decent pun on 'lying' in French. It breaks every Loire of pronunciation.)
He's very much in favour of Brest.
These puns have officially gone the full Monte.
Dijon’t you get the memo about keeping the French puns going otherwise everyone gets Bordeaux of the constant political discourse.
Grammar fascist note: the first para of the leader could do with a run through MS Word - "voters wants" ..."tweets states", and what does "think nice" mean?
"...think 'nice,' " I think.
They Cannes come up with some silly ideas.
As my Mar Seilles, “you can fool some of the people Arles the time and Arles the people some of the time”.
But Boris was caught Lyon once too often.
(Yes, I know that doesn't work, in fact there's a Gulf between how we pronounce it and the French do. But it's difficult to come up with a decent pun on 'lying' in French. It breaks every Loire of pronunciation.)
He's very much in favour of Brest.
These puns have officially gone the full Monte.
Dijon’t you get the memo about keeping the French puns going otherwise everyone gets Bordeaux of the constant political discourse.
Keir Starmer has sacked shadow minister Sam Tarry.
Labour spox: “This isn’t about appearing on a picket line. Members of the frontbench sign up to collective responsibility. That includes media appearances being approved and speaking to agreed frontbench positions.
Keir Starmer has sacked shadow minister Sam Tarry.
Labour spox: “This isn’t about appearing on a picket line. Members of the frontbench sign up to collective responsibility. That includes media appearances being approved and speaking to agreed frontbench positions.
Great, isn't it? You get nostalgic for that uniform, filtered light sky.
As Bill Bryson said, living in Britain is like living in a Tupperware box. In the fridge
He hated it so much, he moved here.
I went off Bill Bryson when he said that the British, by their very nature, would have knuckled down and made life under Soviet occupation tolerable. Rather patronizing I thought.
Fairly accurate though. Pretty much all countries have a lot of collaborators when occupied.
It wasn't really about collaboration; it was more that there is something about the British psyche that would rather enjoy communist oppression.
I still like him, but it did basically come across as the old 'Good idea poorly executed' line even whilst saying it was a terrible system.
Note, Gioia does still have his own Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia And for those who enjoy trivia, had one of his compositions feature on Better Call Saul a week ago.
Kafkaesque is an exaggeration. It’s simple stuff if you’re familiar with Wikipedia’s ways… but of course most people aren’t. But any complex operation is going to appear complicated from the outside. I don’t think there’s a magic solution to that.
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Go west, young man
A balmy 29 in New York.
Factionalism and sacking people under Corbyn - good
Factionalism and sacking people under Keir - bad
If Keir Starmer comes campaigning in your area, challenge him politely but robustly on the lies he said to become leader of the Labour Party.
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1552358208034988032
He has not done anything for the working class
He might not be so jolly afterwards.....
The Elizabeth Line serves Sam Tarry's Ilford South, but NOT Wes Streeting's Ilford North!
Which has its fair share of slate grey skies.
Having done almost nothing personally except snipe from the side to get from here to there.
What’s your tipple ? A craft beer, wine, lager ?
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1552335219147014149?t=Jl39hg0iOnyIxrnSX0WTEw&s=19
And he obviously hates Waitrose, which last time I looked was... a shop.
Tequillllaaaa
It pisses off the mods, all of whom are so much more awful than you can imagine in your wildest dreams, that they went to Cambridge.
(And it is worth noting that it's perfectly possible it to have been a lab leak, without the lab itself even knowing.)
Absent an actual ablation, it's all conjecture and probabilities.
It seems unlikely that it is a mere coincidence that the city where bat coronaviruses were studied had an outbreak of a bat coronavirus.
But that's all we have right now.
I didn't realise he had been the editor of the business section of the Indie.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/27/imprudent-priest-uses-inflatable-mattress-as-altar-during-mass-in-sea
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1552364929398743040
https://twitter.com/PA/status/1552363506665676801
It would be fabulous if Rishi withdrew. BoZo would be out immediately and while the members want Truss when she blows up they can say "Well we didn't vote for her..."
Go on, you know it makes sense
Truss is fabricating her past imho.
and the 33 in an over is the most England have ever scored in an over.
Boycott would have taken 8 sessions.....
I think they would have to be endogenous Communist oppressors though.
And it's been the driest July on record. Complaining about a mildly cloudy day the week after the hottest day on record seems a little churlish.
LOL.
It's so posh it's a bit of Leeds which used to be famous for its rugby union side!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-62322484
*sucking air through teeth*
"Wouldn't have done that myself....."
(Yes, I know that doesn't work, in fact there's a Gulf between how we pronounce it and the French do. But it's difficult to come up with a decent pun on 'lying' in French. It breaks every Loire of pronunciation.)
SHOT
SHOTS!
I find it somewhat curious that the Guardian is now seeking to uphold the quality of state school education under the Thatcher government. I suspect that their issue here isn’t someone complaining that they didn’t feel their state school was able to compete in giving opportunities to their students, but who is saying it. Funny, that.
I also find it amusing that so much energy is being expended to rebut Truss’s experiences (what happened to people’s own “truth”?) which I suspect would not be the case if, say, a figure on the left had the same complaints.
A lot of what Truss says rings true in the state school system of that era: there were good and bad schools, but no matter how good the school was run or well meaning the teachers were they couldn’t compete with the private sector in terms of the opportunities and attention they could bestow on their students. I’m not suggesting that means the school was terrible (perhaps Truss could be accused of over-egging the pudding here).
The angle I think is far more damaging is the fact that she is complaining about the Thatcher era education system whilst… err… running as the heir to Thatcher. In fact there seems to be a lot about Tory governments Liz doesn’t like. She didn’t think her school was up to scratch under Thatcher, she thinks that the Tory government she’s been a member of wasn’t radical enough on the economy, and she certainly doesn’t agree with her government’s tax rises. Perhaps someone needs to ask Liz what she is doing running for leader of a Party she seems to have been at odds with for large chunks of her life?
A properly funny young comic in America. Notably unWoke but manages to stay the right side of the line. Highly political, great riffs on Trump
https://youtu.be/zKUpf1Vx0vs
Would this be allowed in the UK? Some say not
Dijon’t you get the memo about keeping the French puns going otherwise everyone gets Bordeaux of the constant political discourse.
Richard Quest in his S Times piece says a lot of the problems were around shellshocked former grammar school teachers suddenly facing a new, wider non-11-plus intake and being totally lost and unable to maintain control.
Don't think he owned the park though.
Can you own a park?
Surely it becomes your garden rather than a park then?
Edit. It belongs to Leeds City Council.