Oooh my Munch post has disappeared. That’s a bit off.
I carefully reduced all my little piccies into one place and screenshot them into 1, yes just 1, picture and put them up here. They weren’t 5 miniature photos. Just 1 photo screenshot. And that was my first photo of the day.
Boo
Anyway I was saying how wonderful the Munch collection is at the National museum of Oslo and it’s worth going there before you go to the new Munch museum.
They should open a Munch Museum in Munich. Just because they could call it Munich Munch. Which is snappy.
Auf Deutsch it is better still: Munchen Munch.
With a cafe:
Munchen Munch Munchies.
And, similar to the Tate in Liverpool, a subsidiary. Munchen Moenchengladbach Munch Munchies.
Don't people realise @Mexicanpete is a piss taking satirist par excellence?
On this occasion I am genuinely fearful. I read articles back in 1992 explaining that the Tory vote was bolstered in handy constituencies by South African voters (not ANC voters). I have subsequently been unable to locate such evidence.
Thinking 100k is an average salary is no different to the remainer lie that we lost 4% gdp when even where we were in the eu the last time our gdp increased by 4% was in 2000
Is this a riddle?
No its simple statement...our gdp didnt grow by 4% a year while we were in the eu since 2000.....the remainer lie is we lost 4% gdp somehow by leaving even though our gdp has continued rising. If it didnt rise by 4% while we were in the eu claiming it would have done is people like you just talking bollocks or as I would put it being a fucking lying piece of shit
I think you missed your last dose of thorazine
Pagan's initial post wasn't clear, but his clarification is quite easy to understand unless you're dull-witted or being deliberately obtuse for rip-roaringly comedic effect.
The second post was hilariously abusive and seemed to indicate I'd been talking about some 4% thing. I sort of assumed he was continuing a conversation he'd been having with someone else, and honestly that might still be the case idk. Quite why he decided I was a "fucking lying piece of shit" on the back of me asking "is this a riddle?" was way past my extremely limited capacities to understand. I assure you I was not being deliberately obtuse, so I guess that leaves the dull-witted option.
Oooh my Munch post has disappeared. That’s a bit off.
I carefully reduced all my little piccies into one place and screenshot them into 1, yes just 1, picture and put them up here. They weren’t 5 miniature photos. Just 1 photo screenshot. And that was my first photo of the day.
Boo
Anyway I was saying how wonderful the Munch collection is at the National museum of Oslo and it’s worth going there before you go to the new Munch museum.
They should open a Munch Museum in Munich. Just because they could call it Munich Munch. Which is snappy.
Auf Deutsch it is better still: Munchen Munch.
PB Pungent Pendant Alert: Münchner Munch.
I hope they have a Munch museum in Münster, just saying.
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
Everybody should leave Richard Holden alone. Assuming he wins his seat, it's more than sufficient punishment to know that he will, presumably, be obliged to have a home in Basildon or Billericay. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Don't people realise @Mexicanpete is a piss taking satirist par excellence?
I realised that long ago
Good. I'm glad it's not just me. He really is great at it, isn't he? I often read his posts, and my hackles getup. Then I see the author and have a wry chuckle to myself.
Someone posted government data on actual incomes pre and post tax. It is quite fascinating. A 50k wage puts you in the top 16% of earners, £100k in the top 4%. What this seems to demonstrate to me is that the salary expectations of graduates as envisaged by the student loan system is completely disconnected from reality. To even service the interest payments on a 70k loan you would need to be in the top 10% of earners.
Are we comparing apples with apples?
How are earners defined? Do they include those on pensions, for example, or only those of working age from 16-65?
Even if the latter in any society like ours you will have vast swathes of people earning 15k-30k in all sorts of semi-skilled/services jobs so I'd expect top-end graduate jobs to be a top segment of 20%.
It does beg the question why we aim for 50% graduates, though.
I don't think it's a coincidence that countries with more successful economies than Britain's have high rates of participation in tertiary education.
I mean, Britain could continue to be a backward second-rate economy with low productivity if you really want, and deciding not to educate British children and instead importing the educated people the economy requires saves you some spending on the education budget, but it's not an approach that any other country with aspirations follows.
Why is British culture so anti-education?
I agree with you, but how do you move the balance of jobs in that direction?
I'm not sure how it works if 50% go to university but only 20% get decent graduate jobs.
Well I'd guess that it's partly the problem with British companies not investing. I've also said in the past that I think there's a problem with technical tertiary education not being as prestigious as academic tertiary education in Britain. So we might be encouraging people to get the wrong sort of education to some extent, or the wrong people.
Also, in Ireland, if you had large numbers of graduates not finding work at the right level for their qualifications, they'd go and find work in Australia/Canada/US/Britain/etc that paid better and they were qualified for. I know Britain has a larger population than Ireland, and so there are more graduates looking for work, but why aren't they finding work in other Anglophone countries?
Someone posted government data on actual incomes pre and post tax. It is quite fascinating. A 50k wage puts you in the top 16% of earners, £100k in the top 4%. What this seems to demonstrate to me is that the salary expectations of graduates as envisaged by the student loan system is completely disconnected from reality. To even service the interest payments on a 70k loan you would need to be in the top 10% of earners.
Are we comparing apples with apples?
How are earners defined? Do they include those on pensions, for example, or only those of working age from 16-65?
Even if the latter in any society like ours you will have vast swathes of people earning 15k-30k in all sorts of semi-skilled/services jobs so I'd expect top-end graduate jobs to be a top segment of 20%.
It does beg the question why we aim for 50% graduates, though.
I don't think it's a coincidence that countries with more successful economies than Britain's have high rates of participation in tertiary education.
I mean, Britain could continue to be a backward second-rate economy with low productivity if you really want, and deciding not to educate British children and instead importing the educated people the economy requires saves you some spending on the education budget, but it's not an approach that any other country with aspirations follows.
Why is British culture so anti-education?
I agree with you, but how do you move the balance of jobs in that direction?
I'm not sure how it works if 50% go to university but only 20% get decent graduate jobs.
Well I'd guess that it's partly the problem with British companies not investing. I've also said in the past that I think there's a problem with technical tertiary education not being as prestigious as academic tertiary education in Britain. So we might be encouraging people to get the wrong sort of education to some extent, or the wrong people.
Also, in Ireland, if you had large numbers of graduates not finding work at the right level for their qualifications, they'd go and find work in Australia/Canada/US/Britain/etc that paid better and they were qualified for. I know Britain has a larger population than Ireland, and so there are more graduates looking for work, but why aren't they finding work in other Anglophone countries?
Increasingly they are. Starting salaries for graduates are noticeably higher in USA etc.
Unsurprisingly. He is utterly useless and duplicitous.
Seems that when Richard Holden kicked a sick fellow Tory MP out of his seat, for purposes of expropriating it - he hopes - for himself, he was borrowing Rishi Sunak's "thinking" cap.
OR was it visa-versa?
I once worked (briefly) for a state senator who'd been a political player in his district and at the state capital, also in the state capitol.
Unfortunately he suffered serious head trauma in an accident which severely messed with his head, literally. Which was obvious to anyone who spoke to him for more than a couple minutes.
Nevertheless, his constituents, including many who knew him personally and more who knew something about his condition, re-elected him to another term. Because they knew the guy, and considered him one of them, and most were ok with his politics (conservative labor Democrat). He also had local phone books, in which he underlined and annotated numbers of the MANY local voters he'd called, generally for short "just touching base" conversations.
Like I say, they re-elected him after his life-altering accident. But that was it; next time around, his family and staff convinced him to hang it up. But since being in the legislature was a very important part of that life, he got an appointment as one of the deputy Sargent-at-Arms, so he still got to hang out at the legislature.
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
I do not pretend to understand who is who in European elections but seems the right are making gains, especially in Germany and France, and Macron has called an unexpected election
I expect Farage to be all over this and it is not helpful to those worried about the right and his part in the UK
Somewhat ironic if Farage is telling us to follow Europe.
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
Actually, teachers even in the 1960s had to undergo *training to the equivalent of degree level or HNC, roughly, and do a diploma specifically in teaching. My father was one (ex-Navy), non-graduate.
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
I'm firmly of the opinion teaching is an art not a science. Rather like drawing, you can be taught to be a little better, but fundamentally you either have it or you don't. Which is why the insistence, particularly nowadays, post-Gove on a subject specific degree, even at Primary is such a barrier. No problem at all with HLTA'S taking classes. My issue is the shocking level of pay differentiation for doing exactly the same job.
I’ve read too many unpleasant things about them to keep them in my diet any more.
The hardest thing will be Pepsi Max, which I’m weirdly fond of, but if I can kick booze I can kick owt. I’ve taken to chopping lemons and limes up into cold fizzy water and while it takes more effort it is obvs cheaper, almost certainly healthier and also hits the spot.
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
At a previous job, for a prestigious multinational, I discovered that incoming CVs were filtered to 2.1 or 1st, Russell Group* or international equivalent - from a list.
The filtering was done by a young lady with no degree - bottom end job….
I do not understand why people obsess about him to be honest
He is a commentator from the right as far as I understand, but I do not read anything he publishes just the same as I ignore the hard left
People obsess about Matt Goodwin because he's a respected political scientist, an academic, a Professor at the University of Kent, whose objective analysis of a range of political trends happen to have led him to advocate policies and politics that could on occasion make even Farage blush.
In short: he uses his academic credentials to push, pretty fervently, a far-right agenda on immigration in particular.
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
Point of order. Afrikaners tend not to have British citizenship.
Could there be a link between sweetened fitness supplements and cardiovascular issues in young athletes?
Tbh it would not surprise me in future decades if we look back appalled at the shit we let companies get away with putting in our food that they no doubt knew full well is bad, but hey - money. Same as with ciggies only obviously significantly further-reaching.
Everybody should leave Richard Holden alone. Assuming he wins his seat, it's more than sufficient punishment to know that he will, presumably, be obliged to have a home in Basildon or Billericay. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
I don't think it's a dead cert that he will win the seat. If Reform have a good, local candidate (and I agree it's a big if), he looks in serious trouble.
I do not understand why people obsess about him to be honest
He is a commentator from the right as far as I understand, but I do not read anything he publishes just the same as I ignore the hard left
People obsess about Matt Goodwin because he's a respected political scientist, an academic, a Professor at the University of Kent, whose objective analysis of a range of political trends happen to have led him to advocate policies and politics that could on occasion make even Farage blush.
In short: he uses his academic credentials to push, pretty fervently, a far-right agenda on immigration in particular.
I understand that but he is entitled to express his views as is everyone who values free speech
I utterly reject far right views, but will defend the right to express them and it is upto opponents to make the case against them, not to try to close down the debate
And I would just add the same applies to those in Universities who express far left views
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
You are absolutely correct. One factor over the decades has been increasing tendency of employers, particular of larger organizations (and also some smaller ones) to use academic credentials as an "objective" criteria when evaluating resumes, or rather in may cases quickly weeding out candidates who do NOT meet the required thresold.
Essentially copying the system employed by medieval guilds, as means of restricting trades & professions to "qualified" (and generally well-connected) entrants, barring those judged unsuitable (often for very biased reasons) AND last but NOT least, restricting the supply of the qualified in order to increase demand and with it income, status, etc.
Young and not-so-young people are urged (by me anyway) to obtain such credentials when they have the opportunity. And governments, employers and philanthropy should help create educational opportunities, for the good of the individuals, families and communities affected.
For the good of the order, as we say in USA as per "Robert's Rules of Order.
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
Point of order. Afrikaners tend not to have British citizenship.
I didn't have the Dutch courage to use "white" as an adjective to describe South African UK. ex-pats. I didn't want to be a Boer.
I do not understand why people obsess about him to be honest
He is a commentator from the right as far as I understand, but I do not read anything he publishes just the same as I ignore the hard left
People obsess about Matt Goodwin because he's a respected political scientist, an academic, a Professor at the University of Kent, whose objective analysis of a range of political trends happen to have led him to advocate policies and politics that could on occasion make even Farage blush.
In short: he uses his academic credentials to push, pretty fervently, a far-right agenda on immigration in particular.
I understand that but he is entitled to express his views as is everyone who values free speech
I utterly reject far right views, but will defend the right to express them and it is upto opponents to make the case against them, not to try to close down the debate
I don't see anyone trying to close down debate or stopping him expressing his views. He merely incurs judgement as the price of such intervention.
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
Only one snag. Afrikaaners are prime Reform voters, surely?
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
To be clear, are you still forecasting a Tory victory (albeit in July rather than January, as you had insisted ad nauseam on here)
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
Point of order. Afrikaners tend not to have British citizenship.
I didn't have the Dutch courage to use "white" as an adjective to describe South African UK. ex-pats. I didn't want to be a Boer.
Just call them immigrants from the UK. Works well enough, surely.
I do not understand why people obsess about him to be honest
He is a commentator from the right as far as I understand, but I do not read anything he publishes just the same as I ignore the hard left
People obsess about Matt Goodwin because he's a respected political scientist, an academic, a Professor at the University of Kent, whose objective analysis of a range of political trends happen to have led him to advocate policies and politics that could on occasion make even Farage blush.
In short: he uses his academic credentials to push, pretty fervently, a far-right agenda on immigration in particular.
Goodwin is just another iteration of the "Minford Paradigm"*.
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
The number of overseas registered UK voters peaked at over 250 000 in 2016 (driven by Brexit of course) but has dropped since to about 100 000. Of course some may wish to register for this GE, so it may spike up slightly, but hard to see by much.
The change was to remove the 15 year limit, but surely those most likely and motivated to vote are those with more recent migration, the Sandpit or RCS rather than the £10 Poms from the 1960s.
It's a daft change, but in terms of numbers is going to be a handful per constituency.
I guess he reckons his government will collapse and thinks a quick collapse better than a drawn out one.
So the same thought process as Sunak
It's a bit more complicated in France because the government is not the same as the presidency and the president controls the levers of power. Probably I should have said Macron expects to have to ditch his own party and thinks it better to do it now rather than dragging it out. But it is a one time shot, and a high risk one. Macron will have to work with whatever coalition transpires. He may be hoping the coalition won't include RN, le Pen's party.
Everybody should leave Richard Holden alone. Assuming he wins his seat, it's more than sufficient punishment to know that he will, presumably, be obliged to have a home in Basildon or Billericay. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
I don't think it's a dead cert that he will win the seat. If Reform have a good, local candidate (and I agree it's a big if), he looks in serious trouble.
Could there be a link between sweetened fitness supplements and cardiovascular issues in young athletes?
... seriously, though, I doubt it. Sweeteners are so prevalent anyway. THere are many other potent things in supplements. Maybe even viruses in some cases: see this:
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
Point of order. Afrikaners tend not to have British citizenship.
I didn't have the Dutch courage to use "white" as an adjective to describe South African UK. ex-pats. I didn't want to be a Boer.
I do not understand why people obsess about him to be honest
He is a commentator from the right as far as I understand, but I do not read anything he publishes just the same as I ignore the hard left
People obsess about Matt Goodwin because he's a respected political scientist, an academic, a Professor at the University of Kent, whose objective analysis of a range of political trends happen to have led him to advocate policies and politics that could on occasion make even Farage blush.
In short: he uses his academic credentials to push, pretty fervently, a far-right agenda on immigration in particular.
I understand that but he is entitled to express his views as is everyone who values free speech
I utterly reject far right views, but will defend the right to express them and it is upto opponents to make the case against them, not to try to close down the debate
And I would just add the same applies to those in Universities who express far left views
I'm not aware of anybody who doesn't think Goodwin is entitled to express his views. Indeed, his abilities as a self-publicist mean his views are scattered across a wide range of media, frequently.
Though as a side note, Goodwin does think that anybody who disagrees with him is not worth listening to, because he's always right. He regards his opinions as facts. He has this in common with a handful of PB posters.
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
Although this measure was intended to help the blue team, it has been suggested expats are among the biggest losers from Brexit, so who knows?
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
Point of order. Afrikaners tend not to have British citizenship.
I didn't have the Dutch courage to use "white" as an adjective to describe South African UK. ex-pats. I didn't want to be a Boer.
Don’t worry, it’s ok.
We get it. You need an ethnic group to hate. But you don’t want end up with the semi-semi-ex-football hooligans and Yarxley-Lennon. They don’t wash and you’re rightly worried about social stigma.
Be careful though. You might like The Hate, but The Hate may take a liking to you… and then you’ll be on about the Rothschilds and the rest of the dreary clown fest.
Everybody should leave Richard Holden alone. Assuming he wins his seat, it's more than sufficient punishment to know that he will, presumably, be obliged to have a home in Basildon or Billericay. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
I don't think it's a dead cert that he will win the seat. If Reform have a good, local candidate (and I agree it's a big if), he looks in serious trouble.
I confess to being mystified by one of his "what can we do for the constituency" aims: Keep local people local! What on earth does he mean, I wonder? Do they have to stay in Basildon/Billericay for their holidays?
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
The number of overseas registered UK voters peaked at over 250 000 in 2016 (driven by Brexit of course) but has dropped since to about 100 000. Of course some may wish to register for this GE, so it may spike up slightly, but hard to see by much.
The change was to remove the 15 year limit, but surely those most likely and motivated to vote are those with more recent migration, the Sandpit or RCS rather than the £10 Poms from the 1960s.
It's a daft change, but in terms of numbers is going to be a handful per constituency.
Our eldest qualifies despite having gone to New Zealand in 2003 and Vancouver in 2015
He is with us and has no desire to vote here at all
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
Actually, teachers even in the 1960s had to undergo *training to the equivalent of degree level or HNC, roughly, and do a diploma specifically in teaching. My father was one (ex-Navy), non-graduate.
Edit: * in service, in part.
As I said a job where level of education actually is important, you wouldn't want some one with a gsce in maths teaching a level maths for example
One Conservative candidate just messages this for circulation:
“Richard Holden is a disgrace to the Conservative Party. He’s put himself over candidates. He’s shown complete disdain for Party members. The only reason this fool won’t be associated with this disastrous election is because nobody believes anyone thinks he competent, capable or trusted enough to be involved in the day to day decision making of this campaign. It’s a running joke amongst candidates that they hope it’s a Labour gain in Basildon and Billericay.”
So hard to defend the Beeb anymore as it constantly fails in its actual remit.
I had never heard of him until this week. But then I know plenty of people don't like football and that gets more prominence than it deserves.
Odd, though. The 10 O'Clock News is supposed to have a bit more of an international focus so I'm surprised the EU elections and news from France isn't the lead story.
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
The number of overseas registered UK voters peaked at over 250 000 in 2016 (driven by Brexit of course) but has dropped since to about 100 000. Of course some may wish to register for this GE, so it may spike up slightly, but hard to see by much.
The change was to remove the 15 year limit, but surely those most likely and motivated to vote are those with more recent migration, the Sandpit or RCS rather than the £10 Poms from the 1960s.
It's a daft change, but in terms of numbers is going to be a handful per constituency.
My concern is that if after 15 years they can't remember which constituency they were last associated with, or their parents and grandparents before them a local Conservative Party agent could help with a suitable seat and even a proxy vote on their behalf. White supremacist having never set foot in the UK, no ID. Me, a Senior Citizen Oyster card before I can vote.
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
FWIW I will hire a software engineer based on their github/track record over their degree (or lack thereof).
But my CEO will always have degree snobbery. And oxbridge snobbery, come to think of it. That will only last a short while until someone proves themselves however...
Thing that's confusing me is this - the presence of coconuts in the homeland of the Tamils. Seems odd (to me anyway) that person of Tamil heritage would think of "coconut" as a racial slur or deploy it that way against an election opponent.
Everybody should leave Richard Holden alone. Assuming he wins his seat, it's more than sufficient punishment to know that he will, presumably, be obliged to have a home in Basildon or Billericay. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
I don't think it's a dead cert that he will win the seat. If Reform have a good, local candidate (and I agree it's a big if), he looks in serious trouble.
I confess to being mystified by one of his "what can we do for the constituency" aims: Keep local people local! What on earth does he mean, I wonder? Do they have to stay in Basildon/Billericay for their holidays?
We've finally found a real-life advocate for the conspiracy theory version of 15-minute cities!
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
To be clear, are you still forecasting a Tory victory (albeit in July rather than January, as you had insisted ad nauseam on here)
Sunak isn't helping me out here, but as Laura Kuenssberg keeps reminding us, 3 and a half weeks is a long time in politics.
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
FWIW I will hire a software engineer based on their github/track record over their degree (or lack thereof).
But my CEO will always have degree snobbery. And oxbridge snobbery, come to think of it. That will only last a short while until someone proves themselves however...
But will they get chance to prove themselves is the issue
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes alone
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.
You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.
Yes Mexican is tiresome. The sad fact is he is good poster when not droning on about how great the Tories are.
You may think of me as the poor man's Boris Johnson, but on this I am deadly serious. You'll be crying in your beer when 3.5 million Afrikaaners swing the election. Why do you think the Tories changed the 15 years rule, voters ID and boundary changes? They are cheating barstewards.
They’re going for the ten-pound pom vote…
Exactly!
I'm willing to bet Reform has the 350-pound Pom vote sown up.
Everybody should leave Richard Holden alone. Assuming he wins his seat, it's more than sufficient punishment to know that he will, presumably, be obliged to have a home in Basildon or Billericay. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Thirty years ago I moved around a lot with my job, one consequence of which is that my eldest son was actually born in Basildon, for which he will no doubt never forgive me.
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
FWIW I will hire a software engineer based on their github/track record over their degree (or lack thereof).
But my CEO will always have degree snobbery. And oxbridge snobbery, come to think of it. That will only last a short while until someone proves themselves however...
Some years back, the Saudis were having a spasm about immigration. They were demanding that only people with degrees could get a certain type of work visa.
We had a contractor who was needed out there. Ex-BT, no degree.
So we fixed the problem by buying a degree for him from one of those websites. My boss had no sense of humour and refused to pay the extra for a PhD.
So hard to defend the Beeb anymore as it constantly fails in its actual remit.
I had never heard of him until this week. But then I know plenty of people don't like football and that gets more prominence than it deserves.
Odd, though. The 10 O'Clock News is supposed to have a bit more of an international focus so I'm surprised the EU elections and news from France isn't the lead story.
Mosley is legitimately the biggest story, especially after all that time looking for him. Nothing much has happened in our election campaign, and the EU results won't be known yet. Not one person in a hundred could name the French prime minister so why would they care they might be electing a new one?
There often is a problem with poor news judgement overnight and at weekends when the senior people work 9 to 5 but in this instance, it is moot.
Thinking 100k is an average salary is no different to the remainer lie that we lost 4% gdp when even where we were in the eu the last time our gdp increased by 4% was in 2000
Is this a riddle?
No its simple statement...our gdp didnt grow by 4% a year while we were in the eu since 2000.....the remainer lie is we lost 4% gdp somehow by leaving even though our gdp has continued rising. If it didnt rise by 4% while we were in the eu claiming it would have done is people like you just talking bollocks or as I would put it being a fucking lying piece of shit
I think you missed your last dose of thorazine
Pagan's initial post wasn't clear, but his clarification is quite easy to understand unless you're dull-witted or being deliberately obtuse for rip-roaringly comedic effect.
The second post was hilariously abusive and seemed to indicate I'd been talking about some 4% thing. I sort of assumed he was continuing a conversation he'd been having with someone else, and honestly that might still be the case idk. Quite why he decided I was a "fucking lying piece of shit" on the back of me asking "is this a riddle?" was way past my extremely limited capacities to understand. I assure you I was not being deliberately obtuse, so I guess that leaves the dull-witted option.
Well, he was abominably rude to you to call you a lying piece of shit, and actually you handled it in a very classy way, but I think I sort of blanked that part of his post out and just thought he'd explained his concept and you were still having a general giggle at his incoherence. Apologies.
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
FWIW I will hire a software engineer based on their github/track record over their degree (or lack thereof).
But my CEO will always have degree snobbery. And oxbridge snobbery, come to think of it. That will only last a short while until someone proves themselves however...
Some years back, the Saudis were having a spasm about immigration. They were demanding that only people with degrees could get a certain type of work visa.
We had a contractor who was needed out there. Ex-BT, no degree.
So we fixed the problem by buying a degree for him from one of those websites. My boss had no sense of humour and refused to pay the extra for a PhD.
Don't get me wrong here, I do not think education is in anyway worthless. I object mainly to the degreeification of jobs that really don;t need it and I think it costs companies a lot of talent and also keeps a lot of talent down that would otherwise be worthwhile.
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
FWIW I will hire a software engineer based on their github/track record over their degree (or lack thereof).
But my CEO will always have degree snobbery. And oxbridge snobbery, come to think of it. That will only last a short while until someone proves themselves however...
I will almost always hire off personal recommendations, because the ability of developers to get along is much underrated.
You can be the most amazing developer in the abstract, or even of an open source project where you are the sole cause, but if you have annoying habits that drive your colleagues crazy, then you're probably not going to be a net benefit to the team.
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
FWIW I will hire a software engineer based on their github/track record over their degree (or lack thereof).
But my CEO will always have degree snobbery. And oxbridge snobbery, come to think of it. That will only last a short while until someone proves themselves however...
Careers with that kind of accessible track record are pretty distinctive; it would make sense. I suppose the question is what better way you can signal your abilities than university. CVs, interviews, probably do not tell you enough about personal resilience or even the mere ability to work on thinking problems for more than a few hours. And then there are things like financial resilience - which you can signal pretty well by completing a degree - I know they used to look at the cut of your suit in some jobs.
Everybody should leave Richard Holden alone. Assuming he wins his seat, it's more than sufficient punishment to know that he will, presumably, be obliged to have a home in Basildon or Billericay. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
I don't think it's a dead cert that he will win the seat. If Reform have a good, local candidate (and I agree it's a big if), he looks in serious trouble.
I confess to being mystified by one of his "what can we do for the constituency" aims: Keep local people local! What on earth does he mean, I wonder? Do they have to stay in Basildon/Billericay for their holidays?
Oh, the irony:
"Born in London and moving to Essex in the early 80’s... ...I would like to ringfence the constituency in respect of:- Local housing for local people first. All new build rental stock to be offered to local people first no exceptions. All new build property to be offered at a discounted rate minimum 5% to local people who wish to buy."
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
What is their incentive to do so?
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here. Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's. On as little as less than £23k.
Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debt
FWIW I will hire a software engineer based on their github/track record over their degree (or lack thereof).
But my CEO will always have degree snobbery. And oxbridge snobbery, come to think of it. That will only last a short while until someone proves themselves however...
I will almost always hire off personal recommendations, because the ability of developers to get along is much underrated.
You can be the most amazing developer in the abstract, or even of an open source project where you are the sole cause, but if you have annoying habits that drive your colleagues crazy, then you're probably not going to be a net benefit to the team.
You mean I always insist on programming naked is a negative?
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Munchen Moenchengladbach Munch Munchies.
I assure you I was not being deliberately obtuse, so I guess that leaves the dull-witted option.
Xylitol is prothrombotic and associated with cardiovascular risk
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae244/7683453
He is a commentator from the right as far as I understand, but I do not read anything he publishes just the same as I ignore the hard left
I'm glad it's not just me. He really is great at it, isn't he? I often read his posts, and my hackles getup. Then I see the author and have a wry chuckle to myself.
Also, in Ireland, if you had large numbers of graduates not finding work at the right level for their qualifications, they'd go and find work in Australia/Canada/US/Britain/etc that paid better and they were qualified for. I know Britain has a larger population than Ireland, and so there are more graduates looking for work, but why aren't they finding work in other Anglophone countries?
What's coming?
I'm suspicious
OR was it visa-versa?
I once worked (briefly) for a state senator who'd been a political player in his district and at the state capital, also in the state capitol.
Unfortunately he suffered serious head trauma in an accident which severely messed with his head, literally. Which was obvious to anyone who spoke to him for more than a couple minutes.
Nevertheless, his constituents, including many who knew him personally and more who knew something about his condition, re-elected him to another term. Because they knew the guy, and considered him one of them, and most were ok with his politics (conservative labor Democrat). He also had local phone books, in which he underlined and annotated numbers of the MANY local voters he'd called, generally for short "just touching base" conversations.
Like I say, they re-elected him after his life-altering accident. But that was it; next time around, his family and staff convinced him to hang it up. But since being in the legislature was a very important part of that life, he got an appointment as one of the deputy Sargent-at-Arms, so he still got to hang out at the legislature.
https://x.com/Gavin_Haran/status/1799504507090415956/photo/2
Edit: * in service, in part.
No problem at all with HLTA'S taking classes.
My issue is the shocking level of pay differentiation for doing exactly the same job.
The hardest thing will be Pepsi Max, which I’m weirdly fond of, but if I can kick booze I can kick owt. I’ve taken to chopping lemons and limes up into cold fizzy water and while it takes more effort it is obvs cheaper, almost certainly healthier and also hits the spot.
Remember that.
The filtering was done by a young lady with no degree - bottom end job….
*Yes, I know.
In short: he uses his academic credentials to push, pretty fervently, a far-right agenda on immigration in particular.
Afrikaners tend not to have British citizenship.
I utterly reject far right views, but will defend the right to express them and it is upto opponents to make the case against them, not to try to close down the debate
And I would just add the same applies to those in Universities who express far left views
Essentially copying the system employed by medieval guilds, as means of restricting trades & professions to "qualified" (and generally well-connected) entrants, barring those judged unsuitable (often for very biased reasons) AND last but NOT least, restricting the supply of the qualified in order to increase demand and with it income, status, etc.
Young and not-so-young people are urged (by me anyway) to obtain such credentials when they have the opportunity. And governments, employers and philanthropy should help create educational opportunities, for the good of the individuals, families and communities affected.
For the good of the order, as we say in USA as per "Robert's Rules of Order.
Well played, sir, you almost slipped that one past me.
https://x.com/Gavin_Haran/status/1799813166983172102
* Copyright Emily Maitlis.
The change was to remove the 15 year limit, but surely those most likely and motivated to vote are those with more recent migration, the Sandpit or RCS rather than the £10 Poms from the 1960s.
It's a daft change, but in terms of numbers is going to be a handful per constituency.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/jun/09/raw-milk-powdered-meat-smoothie-erewhon
Though as a side note, Goodwin does think that anybody who disagrees with him is not worth listening to, because he's always right. He regards his opinions as facts.
He has this in common with a handful of PB posters.
https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1799900826338754832
The Spectator Index
@spectatorindex
BREAKING: Belgium's prime minister resigns
We get it. You need an ethnic group to hate. But you don’t want end up with the semi-semi-ex-football hooligans and Yarxley-Lennon. They don’t wash and you’re rightly worried about social stigma.
Be careful though. You might like The Hate, but The Hate may take a liking to you… and then you’ll be on about the Rothschilds and the rest of the dreary clown fest.
News at 10 leads on Mosley.
So hard to defend the Beeb anymore as it constantly fails in its actual remit.
https://www.reformparty.uk/basildon-and-billericay-constituency
I confess to being mystified by one of his "what can we do for the constituency" aims:
Keep local people local!
What on earth does he mean, I wonder? Do they have to stay in Basildon/Billericay for their holidays?
He is with us and has no desire to vote here at all
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One Conservative candidate just messages this for circulation:
“Richard Holden is a disgrace to the Conservative Party. He’s put himself over candidates. He’s shown complete disdain for Party members. The only reason this fool won’t be associated with this disastrous election is because nobody believes anyone thinks he competent, capable or trusted enough to be involved in the day to day decision making of this campaign. It’s a running joke amongst candidates that they hope it’s a Labour gain in Basildon and Billericay.”
Odd, though. The 10 O'Clock News is supposed to have a bit more of an international focus so I'm surprised the EU elections and news from France isn't the lead story.
But my CEO will always have degree snobbery. And oxbridge snobbery, come to think of it. That will only last a short while until someone proves themselves however...
Does that make any sense in this context?
Is Rishi Sunak a fighter or a quitter?
Big week ahead. The latest from the campaign trail from
@serenabarksing
https://x.com/AliFortescue/status/1799911410350366778
We had a contractor who was needed out there. Ex-BT, no degree.
So we fixed the problem by buying a degree for him from one of those websites. My boss had no sense of humour and refused to pay the extra for a PhD.
There often is a problem with poor news judgement overnight and at weekends when the senior people work 9 to 5 but in this instance, it is moot.
Monday’s TIMES: “Tories must embrace Farage, says Braverman” #TomorrowsPapersToday
https://x.com/AllieHBNews/status/1799913094933606730
You can be the most amazing developer in the abstract, or even of an open source project where you are the sole cause, but if you have annoying habits that drive your colleagues crazy, then you're probably not going to be a net benefit to the team.
"Born in London and moving to Essex in the early 80’s...
...I would like to ringfence the constituency in respect of:-
Local housing for local people first.
All new build rental stock to be offered to local people first no exceptions.
All new build property to be offered at a discounted rate minimum 5% to local people who wish to buy."