Ed attacked Clegg on tuition fees, Clegg shot back with the financial crisis and Ed counterattacked with a Clegg quote aboutClegg's position at the time of the financial crisis.
The leaders all come close in the poll for the first half, with 19% to 24%. But what matters is how many people think the leader won compared to their polling support. 24% liking Farage is far above the 14-15% they average in the polls. Worrying. EU immigration is just a killer for us. We really need to try to renegotiate more than just benefits with Brussels.
I do fear we'll have a full day and perhaps more of tedious media analysis. Huzzah for Cameron buggering up the three planned debates, even if it was entirely down to self-interest.
Farage going big on grammar schools, most important policy of all for me.
You will never improve social mobility without them.
So UKIP wants to ring back secondary moderns.
I got a shed load of As and A*s at a comp and could have done just as well at a secondary modern.
We need grammar schools to nurture talent from a young age, something which comps do not do at all well.
Yep, and a comp is very different from a Secondary Modern School.
Having been to a Grammar school and seen those at the Modern having much less opportunity it scares me that people think that this is a way to increase social mobility.
Farage going big on grammar schools, most important policy of all for me.
You will never improve social mobility without them.
So UKIP wants to bring back secondary moderns?
The real Mike Smithson used to work for Oxford and Cambridge universities and would know that without input from proper selective schools, both public and grammar, both universities would be vying in the league tables with the College for Further Creationist Studies, Onehorseville, Ga.
Yes. It's a big thing for me. The Tories used to love grammar schools but now they're too embarrassed to support them.
I went to one (being of Kent), and have just finished a PhD. Doubt I would have accomplished it without the good work of the grammar.
I have two sons-one at Langton Boys (Grammar) the other probably going to sandwich tech. so i see both side of the story.
Grammar schools are great-the problem is what is the alternative if you dont get in?
Exactly, what about the 60% who do not get into the Grammar school, they do not go to Comprehensives, they end up in Modern Schools with very limited opportunity.
Anyone offering to build 000's of houses is talking bollocks. There is such a lack of supply of cement and bricks that it's an impossibility.
As someone who lives in a new build house on a new estate on a brownfield site, in a fast growing town* with lots of new build estates being built that seems like total nonsense. There's '000s of houses being built in my town today let alone the country as a whole.
* Warrington - got mentioned in the debate earlier by Cameron who visited today.
Farage going big on grammar schools, most important policy of all for me.
You will never improve social mobility without them.
So UKIP wants to ring back secondary moderns.
I got a shed load of As and A*s at a comp and could have done just as well at a secondary modern.
We need grammar schools to nurture talent from a young age, something which comps do not do at all well.
Yep, and a comp is very different from a Secondary Modern School.
Having been to a Grammar school and seen those at the Modern having much less opportunity it scares me that people think that this is a way to increase social mobility.
My primary school was "allowed" about 10 places at local grammar schools. Nothing to do with ability.
Farage going big on grammar schools, most important policy of all for me.
You will never improve social mobility without them.
So UKIP wants to ring back secondary moderns.
I got a shed load of As and A*s at a comp and could have done just as well at a secondary modern.
We need grammar schools to nurture talent from a young age, something which comps do not do at all well.
Yep, and a comp is very different from a Secondary Modern School.
Having been to a Grammar school and seen those at the Modern having much less opportunity it scares me that people think that this is a way to increase social mobility.
My primary school was "allowed" about 10 places at local grammar schools. Nothing to do with ability.
and we probably never hear from those that did not make the Grammar school cheering about how good Modern Schools are.
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That's a village where the window cleaner carries a sander and the dogs go round in pairs.
I do fear we'll have a full day and perhaps more of tedious media analysis. Huzzah for Cameron buggering up the three planned debates, even if it was entirely down to self-interest.
WHAT A RICK THAT WAS !
We need grammar schools to nurture talent from a young age, something which comps do not do at all well.
Just had a thought. Farage is the oldest at 50 (51 tomorrow). Wood the youngest at 43. Not much variation in age.
O wow 7/1 for a heckler.
Having been to a Grammar school and seen those at the Modern having much less opportunity it scares me that people think that this is a way to increase social mobility.
Grammar schools are great-the problem is what is the alternative if you dont get in?
Ed is going for 0 hours again.
* Warrington - got mentioned in the debate earlier by Cameron who visited today.
call me dave has not mentioned this. interest costs are something people understand
Farage had a better second half but it was already too late, and Clegg slaughtered Miliband.
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