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Lancaster will be looking for another job. No real surprise, two opensides beat two blindside flankers as we all knew they would do.
We didn't have Armitage, Wade, Cipriani, Tuilagi or Corbisiero for various reasons. Robshaw gave 100% but ... the back row were big blobs.
Australia were better.
Thank you. We're through to the quarter finals. The English should remind everyone of it the next time there's a referendum.
2 Injured Hotspurs Scrap Heap 385
3 Weedol Colin D 373
4 The Four Canals Screaming Eagles 371
The SNP have already thrown her out, the question is when will she be forced to resign.
The SNP have a small majority but against the LD who have disintegrated completely in scotland since the election.
It will be an interesting race to see if the SNP can hold in the midst of a scandal and where will the LD vote go.
Goodnight.
Over the last 10 days, Obama’s top advisers on cyber-security, ISIS, and Russia have all resigned. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/top-obama-cyber-security-adviser-quietly-leaves-post-at-white-house/ …
Probably can no longer stand the stench of betrayal that Obama gives off.
At the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, GB got 0 golds, 3 silvers and 0 bronze. The Worlds have 19 events, where GB can enter more than 1 entrant per event.
Do you just make your spew up?
Senior ministers may now be regretting some of the glowing election endorsements they provided before the election, including Social Justice Secretary Alex Neil, who said Ms Thomson understood "how business can be used to support social justice".
Do try and keep up.
Good night
Don't go all IOS on me, calling the result before the final whistle.
The SNP came from fourth on 6,115 to win with 21,378. a majority of 8%
The Liberals will not win the by election. Especially if the SNP put up Michael Stewart who is the candidate they really should have had in the first place.
My Spurs superstars haven't had their game yet either so that's a point each for turning up at least...
Perhaps you should re-post the application form here now for more members
As I recall it was a single multiple choice question:
Mark Reckless is a:
a) Treacherous
b) Pig-Dog
c) Both of the above
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Denis_Healey
If you are a failing sport (and Athletics is a failing sport which barely hit a low-ball target for London 2012) you can use your intermediate Worlds to either support the case that you are making progress or attempt to argue that the Olympic measure was too harsh.
The first one usually helps, the second doesn't.
Roughly half of that list would struggle to be recognised in a mirror.
A second cabinet minister said: “There will be three candidates. George, the ‘stop George’ candidate, and whoever George runs as the ‘stop-stop-George’ candidate.”
I didn't like the guy, either, I'm afraid...
Must have had good genes though. His father lived to be 92, his mother 99.
Putting on a considerable amount of weight in middle age didn't seem to do him any harm at all, either.
PB Tories: Yeah!
Sgt. Sunil: Are ya mean?
PB Tories: Yeah!
Sgt. Sunil: WHAT ARE YOU?
PB Tories: Lean and mean!
Sgt. Sunil: WHAT ARE YOU? RobD! TSE! Get on the ready line, PB Tories, get some today! Get on the ready line! Move it out! Move it out, goddammit! Get hot! One, two, three, four! Get out, get out, get out! Move it out, move it out, move it out! Move it out, move it out, move it out! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven! Aaarrrrr, absolutely badasses! Let's pack 'em in! Get in there!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3258159/Asian-family-converted-Christianity-driven-home-Muslim-persecutors.html
He whom the gods love dies young.
Copyright, Lucy Powell MP
You missed out the best part : -
Monaghan was also involved in a more recent controversy. In 2008 he resigned from his post as head of planning and development at Northern Constabulary before he was due to face a disciplinary hearing.
Monaghan was accused of circulating an unflattering email about the force’s then chief constable, Ian Latimer, suggesting he had lost the respect and support of his staff.
Oh Loyalists, you should be reading your Burns.
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion
And for that we owe her a massive debt.
Under-estimated is IDS.
And us fellow Pro-EU Tories have to stick together.
Never on PB
As long as Dair has breath in his body, "they may take our lives but they will never take our fuckwittery!"
Unfortunately here's nothing in the slightest surprising about that article.
(although I suspect you meant that phrase figuratively rather than literally)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html
For example I always know who is in the bottom 2 and who has been sent home.
Don't worry, I'm not posting spoilers
https://twitter.com/GregVann/status/650457747805224960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bclh43hAhwU
She attacks Farage for blaming the 'stranger' and being 'prejudiced' playing the same false racist card. She claims they come here to work, and while that may be true of the vast majority - should we not force the EU to mandate that they have a job lined up on arrival? Even that little reform seems too difficult for the ancient machinery and doesn't fit their usual solution to everything, federalism or more Europe.
She stands shoulder-to-shoulder with white-vanman & England flag hating Emily Thornberry. This woman you speak of is not a Tory but an embarrassment.
***** BETTING POST *****
If Jamie Redknapp is correct in his claim that Jose Mourinho is losing the dressing room at Chelsea, then the Blues may struggle to finish in the top 6, let alone qualify for next season's Champions League by finishing 4th or better (always assuming England's allocation is not reduced to just three sides as has recently been suggested). There is simply no way back for a manager once this tipping point has been reached, yet it's difficult to imagine The Special One being sacked, especially at this early stage of the season.
In such circumstances, PBers may wish to consider LAYING Chelsea against them finishing in the top 6, currently available with the Betfair Exchange at 1.15, equivalent to odds of 5.38/1 in old money, net of 5% commission.
As ever, DYOR.
How many have already quoted the "dead sheep" ?
I would be surprised however if the SNP did not hold this seat in a by-election given the way things have developed in the last few months. Caithness and Sutherland, should that come about, might be a more marginal call.
I'm not sure I trust this survey - but that's only because I find it scarcely believable that nearly half of teachers are planning to stay in the profession.
Let's look at the problems in teaching:
1) Workload. People on PB do not believe me when I tell them I routinely work around 70-80 hours per week. But I do. I worked five days, than yesterday I was in school working again, and today I go back in and will be continuing to work.
2) OFSTED. Yes, I know Wilshaw has said OFSTED is not a factor in teacher disillusionment. However, it is, and unless he is as stupid as he looks he knows it is. The fact that he says otherwise therefore makes him either an idiot or a liar. Alas, OFSTED reflects his general incompetence. The reason I am working insane hours is because we are
inspectingexpecting (Freudian slip) the goons, as we call them, in a few weeks. And unfortunately, it is not enough to prove that our results are excellent (which they are - among the best in the land for the last seven years, probably the best for a non-selective school) we have to somehow prove that we were responsible for them. That means endless extra paperwork to evidence planning, differentiation, outstanding marking, examples of peer and teacher dialogue and support, etc etc etc. If I didn't have to do all that rubbish, I would be working about 50-55 hours per week, which would be hard but acceptable. Unfortunately, OFSTED will ignore such evidence if it doesn't feel it fits a preconceived narrative. Nothing is more soul-destroying than doing a good job and being told off for being rubbish by some talentless mediocrity who got a job because of their political connections (I'm looking at you, Wilshaw, but also thinking of dear old Woodenhead).3) The abolition of university ITT courses. The idea that they were a hotbed of radicalism is bunkum. True, the lecturers tended to be leftwing, but the students were not (until Gove came along and converted us). What they did provide was a straightforward, well-supported way into teaching. SCITT does not - there are no resources, no chance to mingle with other students in your course, and a distinct lack of help with careers.
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4) The age of teachers - a great number are in their late fifties. As they get on the whole pretty good salaries and pensions, they will shortly be joining doctors in getting out while the going is good, leaving a vast gap.
5) Exams. The changes to exams, although in many ways a dramatic improvement on what has gone before, have been rushed in (attempting to beat the Conservatives' expected ejection from office last May) and are in an organisational mess. We still do not have final SoWs for the new GCSE - in Maths, the most vital of subjects, they don't even have draft SoWs yet. Meanwhile, in roughly 30% of schools (including mine) teaching on the new courses began last month. What am I supposed to teach them? Horrible Histories and chess? It would have been much better to delay them 18 months and get it right.
Classroom assistants are filling the gap (and teaching unions can rant and rail all they want, I admire classroom assistants and have no problem with them covering my lessons from time to time). But it isn't fair on them, or the children, to expect them to fill in permanently. Therefore, at some point, we will have a massive implosion of the education system. That will be particularly bad for the large numbers of children currently working through it (a bit of a population bulge about to hit secondary - we've just had our busiest ever open event, and a colleague in Walsall was similarly overwhelmed the other night).
Politically speaking, this should be a gift to Labour as all of the above are wholly unforced errors from the Cameron governments. But with the EdStone's creator shadowing education, Labour have as much chance of making capital out of education as Corbyn has of getting my vote (none). That also means that there is unlikely to be redress for us as no government will admit disastrous mistakes and rectify them unless it is forced to.
Nasty business, and I feel sorry for parents and above all for the children who have to deal with the damaging results.