All you need is Gove, all you need is Gove, All you need is Gove, Gove, Gove is all you need. Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove. All you need is Gove, all you need is Gove, All you need is Gove, Gove, Gove is all you need. There's nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy. All you need is Gove, all you need is Gove, All you need is Gove, Gove, Gove is all you need. All you need is Gove (all together now) All you need is Gove (everybody) All you need is Gove, Gove, Gove is all you need.
Yes, Gove, Gove changes everything: Now I tremble At your name. Nothing in the World will ever Be the same.
Set to work idle hands Shake these thoughts Had I planned them They never would be teasing me As viciously as these
Is this Gove? Is this Gove?
Gove lifts us up where we belong...
Stop in the name of Gove before you break my heart!
We are in a first past the post system. Everything depends what happens in specific seats.
National vote share is irrelevant in determinng the outcome. In CON-LAB battlegrounds the LDs will plummet in terms of votes. . In CON-LD battles the opposite will happen as we've seen in what polling of the marginals that there's been.
Because he is causing Lib Demmers to switch to Labour ? I'd say thats bad for LD and good for Labour ! In a round about FPTP way its probably not great for CON, but the LDs will hopefully divorce and state their own education policies before the next election which should get back some of the switchers.
Party A shouldn't really worry too much about people from party B switching to party C. Thats more party B's problem. If you state it is party A's issue then party B has lost their identity and is truly f***ed.
All you need is Gove, all you need is Gove, All you need is Gove, Gove, Gove is all you need. Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove, Gove. All you need is Gove, all you need is Gove, All you need is Gove, Gove, Gove is all you need. There's nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy. All you need is Gove, all you need is Gove, All you need is Gove, Gove, Gove is all you need. All you need is Gove (all together now) All you need is Gove (everybody) All you need is Gove, Gove, Gove is all you need.
Yes, Gove, Gove changes everything: Now I tremble At your name. Nothing in the World will ever Be the same.
Set to work idle hands Shake these thoughts Had I planned them They never would be teasing me As viciously as these
Is this Gove? Is this Gove?
Gove lifts us up where we belong...
Stop in the name of Gove before you break my heart!
Could it be that when I'm with you My fears all go away? Could it be that when I'm with you It's like the start of a brand new day? Or is it just that when I hold you I can't hold you enough? Or could it be that I'm in Gove?
No wonder applications for places at Free Schools far exceed availablity.
You really shouldn't believe the 'spin' but should actually look at the reality.
I gather DfE data indicates that there are 2.97 applications per place at free schools. Sounds oversubscribed, until you factor in standard application practice which involves parents selecting several schools on an application form - typically three, in London six. So 2.97 applications per place isn't really oversubscribed at all - for that to be the case you'd need at least 3 applications per place (6 in London).
So in my local area (where you apply to three schools) the range of applications per place ranges from 2.4 up to about 5. But in reality only those above 3 are oversubscribed.
So overall, as a class of school, there is no evidence to support a view that Free Schools are oversubscribed, if anything they are a bit below the line and are a touch undersubscribed compared to other schools.
We are in a first past the post system. Everything depends what happens in specific seats.
National vote share is irrelevant in determinng the outcome. In CON-LAB battlegrounds the LDs will plummet in terms of votes. . In CON-LD battles the opposite will happen as we've seen in what polling of the marginals that there's been.
Because he is causing Lib Demmers to switch to Labour ? I'd say thats bad for LD and good for Labour ! In a round about FPTP way its probably not great for CON, but the LDs will hopefully divorce and state their own education policies before the next election which should get back some of the switchers.
Party A shouldn't really worry too much about people from party B switching to party C. Thats more party B's problem. If you state it is party A's issue then party B has lost their identity and is truly f***ed.
Let's not forget Labour's vote share in 2010 was near its historic lows (only 1983 was worse). It's hard to see how they can poll any less. IF we assume that 1/3 of the 2010 LD vote is now firmly in the Labour camp minus the drift to UKIP from Labour and that explains the Labour figures in the mid-30s.
The Conservative share of 36% was their highest since 1992 and clearly some of that has gone to UKIP.
Simplistically, what will happen as the May 2015 date approaches? Historically, the "third party" or "protest" vote has returned to its original homes at the first hint of electoral gunfire but we don't know whether that will apply to UKIP. Perhaps its vote will be more resilient.
The battle is between Conservatives and Labour as it always is - the LDs and UKIP are sideshows to the main feature. The battleground is or will be the 100-125 seats which were held by Labour from 1997 to 2010 and many of which went Conservative last time. Nowhere else matters that much by comparison.
Labour need to win back 65-70 of these seats to win or be close to an overall majority - the Conservatives can't afford to lose more than 30 in my estimation. The decimation of the LD vote is or will be one factor in these seats, the UKIP vote will be another but the key question is whether the Conservatives can regain and retain their 2010 vote. Given the vagaries of the current system, they've little room for manoeuvre.
You gotta be bad You gotta be bold You gotta be wiser You gotta be hard You gotta be tough You gotta be stronger You gotta be cool You gotta be calm You gotta stay together All I know all I know is Gove will save the day
The problem with the free schools is that at the moment it just looks like rich trendy people set them up in their spare time in preparation for little Daisy when she's old enough.
Sad to say there probably needs to be a profit motive to really kick start the revolution, then there wouldn't be this problem with state funding from Gove's back pocket.
Boris is a ridiculous bet. Yvette Cooper is far more likely to be next PM over Boris.
Reasoning: If Dave stays PM the 2015 GE he won't be going anywhere. Ed will be replaced, most likely by Yvette Cooper. I think their odds are the wrong way round.
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Guilty of Gove in the first degree
National vote share is irrelevant in determinng the outcome. In CON-LAB battlegrounds the LDs will plummet in terms of votes. . In CON-LD battles the opposite will happen as we've seen in what polling of the marginals that there's been.
What's Gove got to do, got to do with it,
What's Gove, but a second hand emotion...
Sad but true ! Labour landslide incoming on 32% of the vote !
Shot through the heart,
And tim's to blame,
you give Gove a bad name...
Gove comes quickly whatever you do
Suit you, sir. All the ladies like a man in hat, sir. Suit you sir....
(from Aspects of Love)
We found Gove in a Hopeeless place
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/lZTrB-HRr8e/Ryder+Cup+Day+Two+Afternoon+Four+Balls/t5_zWDPRAxJ/Alex+Salmond
I want Yougov to show me
Tina Turner "What Gove's Got To Do With It"
My fears all go away?
Could it be that when I'm with you
It's like the start of a brand new day?
Or is it just that when I hold you
I can't hold you enough?
Or could it be that I'm in Gove?
URGH.
I gather DfE data indicates that there are 2.97 applications per place at free schools. Sounds oversubscribed, until you factor in standard application practice which involves parents selecting several schools on an application form - typically three, in London six. So 2.97 applications per place isn't really oversubscribed at all - for that to be the case you'd need at least 3 applications per place (6 in London).
So in my local area (where you apply to three schools) the range of applications per place ranges from 2.4 up to about 5. But in reality only those above 3 are oversubscribed.
So overall, as a class of school, there is no evidence to support a view that Free Schools are oversubscribed, if anything they are a bit below the line and are a touch undersubscribed compared to other schools.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22959336
Carroll on way out with a £20m loss.
I want Yougov to show me
Top banana...
You'll never stop me from Goving you
The Conservative share of 36% was their highest since 1992 and clearly some of that has gone to UKIP.
Simplistically, what will happen as the May 2015 date approaches? Historically, the "third party" or "protest" vote has returned to its original homes at the first hint of electoral gunfire
but we don't know whether that will apply to UKIP. Perhaps its vote will be more resilient.
The battle is between Conservatives and Labour as it always is - the LDs and UKIP are sideshows to the main feature. The battleground is or will be the 100-125 seats which were held by Labour from 1997 to 2010 and many of which went Conservative last time. Nowhere else matters that much by comparison.
Labour need to win back 65-70 of these seats to win or be close to an overall majority - the Conservatives can't afford to lose more than 30 in my estimation. The decimation of the LD vote is or will be one factor in these seats, the UKIP vote will be another but the key question is whether the Conservatives can regain and retain their 2010 vote. Given the vagaries of the current system, they've little room for manoeuvre.
Lopez selfishly beat Nieminen, so I'm afraid that tip was red.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2343736/Get-meow-t-Three-week-old-kitten-survives-1-000-mile-trip-inside-engine-car.html?ico=news^headlines
"The cat has now been named 'Love'"
Because she getS ONYA nerves
You gotta be bold
You gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard
You gotta be tough
You gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool
You gotta be calm
You gotta stay together
All I know all I know is Gove will save the day
Sad to say there probably needs to be a profit motive to really kick start the revolution, then there wouldn't be this problem with state funding from Gove's back pocket.
Gove inda Jaya Jaya
Gove pala Jaya Jaya
Radha Ramana Hari
Gove inda Jaya Jaya
I would do anything for Gove,
But I won't do THAT...
Strange Gove
Strange highs and strange lows
Strange Gove
That's how my Gove goes
Boris is a ridiculous bet. Yvette Cooper is far more likely to be next PM over Boris.
Reasoning: If Dave stays PM the 2015 GE he won't be going anywhere. Ed will be replaced, most likely by Yvette Cooper. I think their odds are the wrong way round.
Will be Ed though.