Labour & Lib Dem Lords on the side of Private Schools & Elite Universities and against C1/C2 voters.....
Clearly they have not heard of the parliament act - rather oddly given the amount Labour used it.
More difficult politically since it isn't in the manifesto. Perhaps May will instruct the Queen to de-enoble loads of Labour/LD peers?
Nothing in the parliament act limiting it to manifesto pledges. Think you are getting mixed up with the Salisbury convention that is basically a gentlemans agreement that the lords wont vote down manifesto committments.
Pretty sure some if not all of the war crimes act 1991, European Elections act 1999 and Sexual Offences Act 2000 were not manifesto commitments.
Yeah, hence why I caveated it by saying "difficult politically". The Lords will delay this to the fullest extent possible
Cant see Theresa being bothered unless there was any risk of not getting it through in that Parliament. Unelecting Labour and Liberal peers opposing it in the Lords would be completely toxic to their parties.
Having sacked Osborne seemingly for playing political games to put labour on the wrong side of the voters in an argument it seems she has now delivered a masterclass in how to do just that lol.
The polling finds more than twice as many people are in favour of creating more grammar schools or just keeping the current ones (55%) than scrapping existing grammar schools (23%)
But you didn't.
Instead you pretended 38 and 40 are statistically different......
Bottom of the class!
That expensive education gone to waste.....
Nah, it is the intellectual self confidence of a private education that allows me present the numbers thusly.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a set of figures presented so ineptly and to the detriment of your case as anyone [except maybe a Public school twit] can readily see.
I pitched this thread for the PB masses.
I'm shocked by the politics of envy displayed by so many PBers. It is like being at a meeting of the SWP with so many of you obsessed about us former public schoolboys and schoolgirls.
People like me needed grammar schools to compete with people like TSE who were lucky enough to have a private education.
No they don't. Many of us came from bog standard comprehensives.
I wonder if any PBers came from Secondary Moderns?
When you're one of the worst funded areas for state education in the country, you really do...
Jeremy Corbyn is to share a platform with a Muslim Brotherhood-linked Hamas sympathiser at the Stop the War Coalition conference next month. Fellow speaker Anas Altikriti has been described as “the key spokesman and lobbyist for the Brotherhood in Britain”. He has reportedly expressed sympathy with Hamas:
Jahadi jez the terrorist sympathizer doing everything possible to convince people those claims are untrue.
Which war are they trying to stop? I wasn't aware we were involved in any at the moment.
Labour & Lib Dem Lords on the side of Private Schools & Elite Universities and against C1/C2 voters.....
Clearly they have not heard of the parliament act - rather oddly given the amount Labour used it.
More difficult politically since it isn't in the manifesto. Perhaps May will instruct the Queen to de-enoble loads of Labour/LD peers?
Nothing in the parliament act limiting it to manifesto pledges. Think you are getting mixed up with the Salisbury convention that is basically a gentlemans agreement that the lords wont vote down manifesto committments.
Pretty sure some if not all of the war crimes act 1991, European Elections act 1999 and Sexual Offences Act 2000 were not manifesto commitments.
Yeah, hence why I caveated it by saying "difficult politically". The Lords will delay this to the fullest extent possible
The Lords can delay legislation for up to one year. The PM could flood the chamber with new Tory peers or perhaps restore the writ of summons to the hereditaries.
Two years, and I doubt May would flood the upper chamber to be honest.
Two years was the 1911 Parliament Act. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the 1949 Parliament Act reduced the power of delay to one year.
The polling finds more than twice as many people are in favour of creating more grammar schools or just keeping the current ones (55%) than scrapping existing grammar schools (23%)
But you didn't.
Instead you pretended 38 and 40 are statistically different......
Bottom of the class!
That expensive education gone to waste.....
Nah, it is the intellectual self confidence of a private education that allows me present the numbers thusly.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a set of figures presented so ineptly and to the detriment of your case as anyone [except maybe a Public school twit] can readily see.
I pitched this thread for the PB masses.
I'm shocked by the politics of envy displayed by so many PBers. It is like being at a meeting of the SWP with so many of you obsessed about us former public schoolboys and schoolgirls.
People like me needed grammar schools to compete with people like TSE who were lucky enough to have a private education.
No they don't. Many of us came from bog standard comprehensives.
I wonder if any PBers came from Secondary Moderns?
I think if you want to be a doctor and are talented enough then comprehensives are fine. At the end of the day you can't bluff your way to being a good doctor (at least, I hope you can't).
The problem is if you don't want to do that sort of technical vocational subject. I'd have loved to have done PPE at Oxford. I know we Kippers give those who have done it a hard time, but in my case it is out of envy. The problem I had is that I didn't know it existed and didn't know how highly regarded it was until it was too late.
Labour & Lib Dem Lords on the side of Private Schools & Elite Universities and against C1/C2 voters.....
Clearly they have not heard of the parliament act - rather oddly given the amount Labour used it.
More difficult politically since it isn't in the manifesto. Perhaps May will instruct the Queen to de-enoble loads of Labour/LD peers?
Nothing in the parliament act limiting it to manifesto pledges. Think you are getting mixed up with the Salisbury convention that is basically a gentlemans agreement that the lords wont vote down manifesto committments.
Pretty sure some if not all of the war crimes act 1991, European Elections act 1999 and Sexual Offences Act 2000 were not manifesto commitments.
Yeah, hence why I caveated it by saying "difficult politically". The Lords will delay this to the fullest extent possible
The Lords can delay legislation for up to one year. The PM could flood the chamber with new Tory peers or perhaps restore the writ of summons to the hereditaries.
Two years, and I doubt May would flood the upper chamber to be honest.
Its nearer a month if you choose the right moment.
Labour & Lib Dem Lords on the side of Private Schools & Elite Universities and against C1/C2 voters.....
Clearly they have not heard of the parliament act - rather oddly given the amount Labour used it.
More difficult politically since it isn't in the manifesto. Perhaps May will instruct the Queen to de-enoble loads of Labour/LD peers?
Nothing in the parliament act limiting it to manifesto pledges. Think you are getting mixed up with the Salisbury convention that is basically a gentlemans agreement that the lords wont vote down manifesto committments.
Pretty sure some if not all of the war crimes act 1991, European Elections act 1999 and Sexual Offences Act 2000 were not manifesto commitments.
Yeah, hence why I caveated it by saying "difficult politically". The Lords will delay this to the fullest extent possible
The Lords can delay legislation for up to one year. The PM could flood the chamber with new Tory peers or perhaps restore the writ of summons to the hereditaries.
Two years, and I doubt May would flood the upper chamber to be honest.
Its nearer a month if you choose the right moment.
I thought the Parliament Act said that the passage of a bill using said Act could only be two years after second reading in the Commons?
A good post on Guido saying that the Grammar school policy wouldn't have been announced until the conference had it not been snapped by photographers. Suspect No 10 now scrambling for new ideas for the keynote speech!
Railway renationalisation?
The railways are already renationalised. NR is state owned.
Not a chance of train operation being renationalised - splitting it into 20 odd franchises makes a national rail strike virtually impossible
Jeremy Corbyn is to share a platform with a Muslim Brotherhood-linked Hamas sympathiser at the Stop the War Coalition conference next month. Fellow speaker Anas Altikriti has been described as “the key spokesman and lobbyist for the Brotherhood in Britain”. He has reportedly expressed sympathy with Hamas:
Jahadi jez the terrorist sympathizer doing everything possible to convince people those claims are untrue.
Which war are they trying to stop? I wasn't aware we were involved in any at the moment.
The one where the Zionists are taking over the world? ;-)
The polling finds more than twice as many people are in favour of creating more grammar schools or just keeping the current ones (55%) than scrapping existing grammar schools (23%)
But you didn't.
Instead you pretended 38 and 40 are statistically different......
Bottom of the class!
That expensive education gone to waste.....
Nah, it is the intellectual self confidence of a private education that allows me present the numbers thusly.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a set of figures presented so ineptly and to the detriment of your case as anyone [except maybe a Public school twit] can readily see.
I pitched this thread for the PB masses.
I'm shocked by the politics of envy displayed by so many PBers. It is like being at a meeting of the SWP with so many of you obsessed about us former public schoolboys and schoolgirls.
People like me needed grammar schools to compete with people like TSE who were lucky enough to have a private education.
No they don't. Many of us came from bog standard comprehensives.
I wonder if any PBers came from Secondary Moderns?
When you're one of the worst funded areas for state education in the country, you really do...
Leics school funding is one of the lowest in the country. Less than £4200 per pupil last year.
Labour & Lib Dem Lords on the side of Private Schools & Elite Universities and against C1/C2 voters.....
Clearly they have not heard of the parliament act - rather oddly given the amount Labour used it.
More difficult politically since it isn't in the manifesto. Perhaps May will instruct the Queen to de-enoble loads of Labour/LD peers?
Nothing in the parliament act limiting it to manifesto pledges. Think you are getting mixed up with the Salisbury convention that is basically a gentlemans agreement that the lords wont vote down manifesto committments.
Pretty sure some if not all of the war crimes act 1991, European Elections act 1999 and Sexual Offences Act 2000 were not manifesto commitments.
Yeah, hence why I caveated it by saying "difficult politically". The Lords will delay this to the fullest extent possible
The Lords can delay legislation for up to one year. The PM could flood the chamber with new Tory peers or perhaps restore the writ of summons to the hereditaries.
Jeremy Corbyn is to share a platform with a Muslim Brotherhood-linked Hamas sympathiser at the Stop the War Coalition conference next month. Fellow speaker Anas Altikriti has been described as “the key spokesman and lobbyist for the Brotherhood in Britain”. He has reportedly expressed sympathy with Hamas:
Jahadi jez the terrorist sympathizer doing everything possible to convince people those claims are untrue.
Which war are they trying to stop? I wasn't aware we were involved in any at the moment.
Labour & Lib Dem Lords on the side of Private Schools & Elite Universities and against C1/C2 voters.....
Clearly they have not heard of the parliament act - rather oddly given the amount Labour used it.
More difficult politically since it isn't in the manifesto. Perhaps May will instruct the Queen to de-enoble loads of Labour/LD peers?
Nothing in the parliament act limiting it to manifesto pledges. Think you are getting mixed up with the Salisbury convention that is basically a gentlemans agreement that the lords wont vote down manifesto committments.
Pretty sure some if not all of the war crimes act 1991, European Elections act 1999 and Sexual Offences Act 2000 were not manifesto commitments.
Yeah, hence why I caveated it by saying "difficult politically". The Lords will delay this to the fullest extent possible
The Lords can delay legislation for up to one year. The PM could flood the chamber with new Tory peers or perhaps restore the writ of summons to the hereditaries.
Two years, and I doubt May would flood the upper chamber to be honest.
Two years was the 1911 Parliament Act. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the 1949 Parliament Act reduced the power of delay to one year.
One session actually so no real delay at all if you send it to them towards the end of the current session and send it back there again after the Queens Speech
Labour & Lib Dem Lords on the side of Private Schools & Elite Universities and against C1/C2 voters.....
Clearly they have not heard of the parliament act - rather oddly given the amount Labour used it.
More difficult politically since it isn't in the manifesto. Perhaps May will instruct the Queen to de-enoble loads of Labour/LD peers?
Nothing in the parliament act limiting it to manifesto pledges. Think you are getting mixed up with the Salisbury convention that is basically a gentlemans agreement that the lords wont vote down manifesto committments.
Pretty sure some if not all of the war crimes act 1991, European Elections act 1999 and Sexual Offences Act 2000 were not manifesto commitments.
Yeah, hence why I caveated it by saying "difficult politically". The Lords will delay this to the fullest extent possible
The Lords can delay legislation for up to one year. The PM could flood the chamber with new Tory peers or perhaps restore the writ of summons to the hereditaries.
Two years, and I doubt May would flood the upper chamber to be honest.
Two years was the 1911 Parliament Act. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the 1949 Parliament Act reduced the power of delay to one year.
One session actually so no real delay at all if you send it to them towards the end of the current session and send it back there again after the Queens Speech
My bad! I was on the 1949 page, but failed to notice the two year bit was under a section describing the 1911 Act.
I'd agree with that piece but it ducks the really important and difficult question, namely what is a site "for profit"? Is it enough, as PB has, to have advertising banners on it to impose the higher duties or does it need to be a commercial website for a newspaper etc?
If the answer to the previous question is the former then this decision could have quite a chilling effect on discussion on the internet. If this was deemed a social media type site then people could relax. The more time I have spent looking at that the less clear I am what the answer is.
National courts will now interpret. As a lawyer I guess it's an impossible one to second guess when advising a client. This will probably end up before the ECJ again. My base assumption for the UK is that courts will tend to lean to looking after copyright owners.
Another complication is will there be a difference between a hyperlink on behalf of the site in the thread header (where the site is clearly producing the material) and that of us below the line where this site at least takes on some editing in respect of inappropriate comments but generally does nothing to vouch or check what links are being made?
I think that this case generates more questions and answers and have some sympathy with those that suggest that it once again shows a limited understanding on how the internet actually works on the part of the CJE.
The polling finds more than twice as many people are in favour of creating more grammar schools or just keeping the current ones (55%) than scrapping existing grammar schools (23%)
But you didn't.
Instead you pretended 38 and 40 are statistically different......
Bottom of the class!
That expensive education gone to waste.....
Nah, it is the intellectual self confidence of a private education that allows me present the numbers thusly.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a set of figures presented so ineptly and to the detriment of your case as anyone [except maybe a Public school twit] can readily see.
I pitched this thread for the PB masses.
I'm shocked by the politics of envy displayed by so many PBers. It is like being at a meeting of the SWP with so many of you obsessed about us former public schoolboys and schoolgirls.
People like me needed grammar schools to compete with people like TSE who were lucky enough to have a private education.
No they don't. Many of us came from bog standard comprehensives.
I wonder if any PBers came from Secondary Moderns?
When you're one of the worst funded areas for state education in the country, you really do...
Leics school funding is one of the lowest in the country. Less than £4200 per pupil last year.
Fox jr went to the local comp.
And the local house prices? Because you need far fewer resources when you've priced the anti-education oiks and their offspring out...
Jeremy Corbyn is to share a platform with a Muslim Brotherhood-linked Hamas sympathiser at the Stop the War Coalition conference next month. Fellow speaker Anas Altikriti has been described as “the key spokesman and lobbyist for the Brotherhood in Britain”. He has reportedly expressed sympathy with Hamas:
Jahadi jez the terrorist sympathizer doing everything possible to convince people those claims are untrue.
Which war are they trying to stop? I wasn't aware we were involved in any at the moment.
The war on privately educated people I hope.
What is the LibDem policy on private education - anyone know off-hand? I would have thought a parent should be free to decide themselves would be the liberal view.
Labour & Lib Dem Lords on the side of Private Schools & Elite Universities and against C1/C2 voters.....
Clearly they have not heard of the parliament act - rather oddly given the amount Labour used it.
More difficult politically since it isn't in the manifesto. Perhaps May will instruct the Queen to de-enoble loads of Labour/LD peers?
Nothing in the parliament act limiting it to manifesto pledges. Think you are getting mixed up with the Salisbury convention that is basically a gentlemans agreement that the lords wont vote down manifesto committments.
Pretty sure some if not all of the war crimes act 1991, European Elections act 1999 and Sexual Offences Act 2000 were not manifesto commitments.
Yeah, hence why I caveated it by saying "difficult politically". The Lords will delay this to the fullest extent possible
The Lords can delay legislation for up to one year. The PM could flood the chamber with new Tory peers or perhaps restore the writ of summons to the hereditaries.
Restoring the hereditaries would be delicious.
While it would, I don't think it fits in to the whole meritocracy agenda.
I'd agree with that piece but it ducks the really important and difficult question, namely what is a site "for profit"? Is it enough, as PB has, to have advertising banners on it to impose the higher duties or does it need to be a commercial website for a newspaper etc?
If the answer to the previous question is the former then this decision could have quite a chilling effect on discussion on the internet. If this was deemed a social media type site then people could relax. The more time I have spent looking at that the less clear I am what the answer is.
National courts will now interpret. As a lawyer I guess it's an impossible one to second guess when advising a client. This will probably end up before the ECJ again. My base assumption for the UK is that courts will tend to lean to looking after copyright owners.
Another complication is will there be a difference between a hyperlink on behalf of the site in the thread header (where the site is clearly producing the material) and that of us below the line where this site at least takes on some editing in respect of inappropriate comments but generally does nothing to vouch or check what links are being made?
I think that this case generates more questions and answers and have some sympathy with those that suggest that it once again shows a limited understanding on how the internet actually works on the part of the CJE.
Will this be of any relevance once we are out of the EU?
Hmmmm.. the hijab is fine sine you can still see the face, not so sure about the burka. I think being able to identify a police officer is quite important. I suppose officers do have other identifying marks on the uniform, but it still feels wrong.
Labour & Lib Dem Lords on the side of Private Schools & Elite Universities and against C1/C2 voters.....
Clearly they have not heard of the parliament act - rather oddly given the amount Labour used it.
More difficult politically since it isn't in the manifesto. Perhaps May will instruct the Queen to de-enoble loads of Labour/LD peers?
Nothing in the parliament act limiting it to manifesto pledges. Think you are getting mixed up with the Salisbury convention that is basically a gentlemans agreement that the lords wont vote down manifesto committments.
Pretty sure some if not all of the war crimes act 1991, European Elections act 1999 and Sexual Offences Act 2000 were not manifesto commitments.
Yeah, hence why I caveated it by saying "difficult politically". The Lords will delay this to the fullest extent possible
The Lords can delay legislation for up to one year. The PM could flood the chamber with new Tory peers or perhaps restore the writ of summons to the hereditaries.
Two years, and I doubt May would flood the upper chamber to be honest.
Two years was the 1911 Parliament Act. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the 1949 Parliament Act reduced the power of delay to one year.
One session actually so no real delay at all if you send it to them towards the end of the current session and send it back there again after the Queens Speech
My bad! I was on the 1949 page, but failed to notice the two year bit was under a section describing the 1911 Act.
No prob. Liberals severely restricted the lords powers in 1911and Labour basically ended the powers of the laws to block most things in 1949, ramming it through by using the parliament act to change the parliament act (and getting the King to open a two week session of parliament and making him open another session two weeks later). So Ive not too much sympathy with their peers if Theresa rides roughshod over them.
The polling finds more than twice as many people are in favour of creating more grammar schools or just keeping the current ones (55%) than scrapping existing grammar schools (23%)
But you didn't.
Instead you pretended 38 and 40 are statistically different......
Bottom of the class!
That expensive education gone to waste.....
Nah, it is the intellectual self confidence of a private education that allows me present the numbers thusly.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a set of figures presented so ineptly and to the detriment of your case as anyone [except maybe a Public school twit] can readily see.
I pitched this thread for the PB masses.
I'm shocked by the politics of envy displayed by so many PBers. It is like being at a meeting of the SWP with so many of you obsessed about us former public schoolboys and schoolgirls.
People like me needed grammar schools to compete with people like TSE who were lucky enough to have a private education.
No they don't. Many of us came from bog standard comprehensives.
I wonder if any PBers came from Secondary Moderns?
When you're one of the worst funded areas for state education in the country, you really do...
Leics school funding is one of the lowest in the country. Less than £4200 per pupil last year.
The latest in a new series of Survation omnibus polls continues to show Prime Minister Theresa May as the most favourable party leader, although her rating has dropped some 13 points since the last poll.
Despite the drop, Mrs May’s positive rating of +21 compares to Jeremy Corbyn’s -27, with the Prime Minister maintaining a healthy lead over the Leader of the Opposition.
Labour & Lib Dem Lords on the side of Private Schools & Elite Universities and against C1/C2 voters.....
Clearly they have not heard of the parliament act - rather oddly given the amount Labour used it.
More difficult politically since it isn't in the manifesto. Perhaps May will instruct the Queen to de-enoble loads of Labour/LD peers?
Nothing in the parliament act limiting it to manifesto pledges. Think you are getting mixed up with the Salisbury convention that is basically a gentlemans agreement that the lords wont vote down manifesto committments.
Pretty sure some if not all of the war crimes act 1991, European Elections act 1999 and Sexual Offences Act 2000 were not manifesto commitments.
Yeah, hence why I caveated it by saying "difficult politically". The Lords will delay this to the fullest extent possible
The Lords can delay legislation for up to one year. The PM could flood the chamber with new Tory peers or perhaps restore the writ of summons to the hereditaries.
A good post on Guido saying that the Grammar school policy wouldn't have been announced until the conference had it not been snapped by photographers. Suspect No 10 now scrambling for new ideas for the keynote speech!
Electoral reform.
I think it has to be - and indeed should be.
Not that drafted AV though. We had our once in a generation referendum about that.
AV's a decent system for electing an individual (such as a party leader) but it's a lousy system for electing a parliament.
The Tories have built up a fearsome reputation for ruthlessness with constitutional change; in favour of anything that benefits them and ferocious and seeing it through, and just as ruthless at stopping anything that isn't in their favour. Just look at the anger over boundaries and their determination to see it through, and what happened to Lords reform in coalition.
I can't believe that they'd go for electoral reform in any serious way (PR for councils maybe?) it's just too out of character.
Jeremy Corbyn is to share a platform with a Muslim Brotherhood-linked Hamas sympathiser at the Stop the War Coalition conference next month. Fellow speaker Anas Altikriti has been described as “the key spokesman and lobbyist for the Brotherhood in Britain”. He has reportedly expressed sympathy with Hamas:
Jahadi jez the terrorist sympathizer doing everything possible to convince people those claims are untrue.
Which war are they trying to stop? I wasn't aware we were involved in any at the moment.
The war on privately educated people I hope.
What is the LibDem policy on private education - anyone know off-hand? I would have thought a parent should be free to decide themselves would be the liberal view.
The liberal democrats are not necessarliy very liberal.
The polling finds more than twice as many people are in favour of creating more grammar schools or just keeping the current ones (55%) than scrapping existing grammar schools (23%)
But you didn't.
Instead you pretended 38 and 40 are statistically different......
Bottom of the class!
That expensive education gone to waste.....
Nah, it is the intellectual self confidence of a private education that allows me present the numbers thusly.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a set of figures presented so ineptly and to the detriment of your case as anyone [except maybe a Public school twit] can readily see.
I pitched this thread for the PB masses.
I'm shocked by the politics of envy displayed by so many PBers. It is like being at a meeting of the SWP with so many of you obsessed about us former public schoolboys and schoolgirls.
People like me needed grammar schools to compete with people like TSE who were lucky enough to have a private education.
It has been interesting to see the alliance between the left and the public school lobby in their rather disproportionate reaction to the creation of a little more selective as an option for the ordinary people. Very interesting.
Just slightly too big a vote share to be the Farronite 45.1
There seems to be a LD bounce across these local results. Real votes in real elections, etc.
Huge swing in that election and everybody else was down, UKIP by the largest amount. Elsewhere not UKIP's worst night.
UKIP have won four seats in Kent over the past month, and got a strong result in Gravesham. Ominously for Labour, all of them are formerly safe for the party. If Labour can't recover in Kent (they held 8 seats from 1979-97) they will find it very hard to return to government.
I think the argument is prorogation could be used to speed the arrival of the next " Session ". That would just leave you with the ' final month ' exclusion in the 49 Parliament Act. So to a determined government the Lords delaying power could be just a few months. The other option would be to declare it a ' Money Bill '. The Coalition did this with it's Welfare Reform Bill rather than play ' Ping Pong ' over the Bedroom Tax.
Hmmmm.. the hijab is fine sine you can still see the face, not so sure about the burka. I think being able to identify a police officer is quite important. I suppose officers do have other identifying marks on the uniform, but it still feels wrong.
To be fair, it was a pretty non-committal statement from the police. I don't see how a police officer could perform her duties if she was wearing a burka.
There is no credible left or right wing debate which relates to grammar schools, the only issues which can be considered important are educational factors.
Secondary moderns will become the schools for the majority of children if this policy of expansion of grammar schools goes ahead. Every academy or comprehensive or free school will de facto become a secondary modern because the top layer will have been removed and placed in a separate building. Yes we do have selection now within our schools but the ability to transfer between sets is enshrined in this system.
It is not difficult to see that May needed a distraction from Brexit which would give the public something else to talk about but did she really have to pick on children to do this?
Incidently, I am not the only person who thought that May looked ill at ease during PMQ, Cameron was a much sharper act in every sense of the word.
Jeremy Corbyn is to share a platform with a Muslim Brotherhood-linked Hamas sympathiser at the Stop the War Coalition conference next month. Fellow speaker Anas Altikriti has been described as “the key spokesman and lobbyist for the Brotherhood in Britain”. He has reportedly expressed sympathy with Hamas:
Jahadi jez the terrorist sympathizer doing everything possible to convince people those claims are untrue.
Which war are they trying to stop? I wasn't aware we were involved in any at the moment.
The war on privately educated people I hope.
I get a bit irritated about the moaning directed at privately educated people who do well is sports, arts, or business, but I wouldn't describe it as a war (yet).
Wow, that polling is, umm, pretty conclusive on the issue. Mrs May is clearly parking her tanks on the lawn of populist middle Britain.
It depends on the question. Do you think 80% of children should be denied the opportunity to attend the best state schools might get a different response. This is the issue.
Yes it would, but people appreciate that 80% not going isn't the same as 80% being denied the opportunity to go.
I am not sure people do accept the difference. More to the point they would be right to think 80% not going is the same as 80% being denied the opportunity to go. If the places aren't there, that 80% can't actually go to grammar school. The justification would be that the country only needs 20% of its children to be educated to that level. A pretty difficult justification to make, I would say.
0.000571%* of British people got to be part of Team GB at Rio 2016. The rest weren't talented enough or determined enough to do so, but they weren't 'denied the opportunity'.
366 athletes/64.1 million UK population
There was quite a funny bit from the olympics from JohnOliver,a very lefty comedian, criticising one of the opening speakers talking about how the olympics is about how we are all equal or something like that, when the point is we're not, and we hold the games to determine who's the best and literally make them stand on unequal podiums so one is higher than the rest.
The polling finds more than twice as many people are in favour of creating more grammar schools or just keeping the current ones (55%) than scrapping existing grammar schools (23%)
But you didn't.
Instead you pretended 38 and 40 are statistically different......
Bottom of the class!
That expensive education gone to waste.....
Nah, it is the intellectual self confidence of a private education that allows me present the numbers thusly.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a set of figures presented so ineptly and to the detriment of your case as anyone [except maybe a Public school twit] can readily see.
I pitched this thread for the PB masses.
I'm shocked by the politics of envy displayed by so many PBers. It is like being at a meeting of the SWP with so many of you obsessed about us former public schoolboys and schoolgirls.
People like me needed grammar schools to compete with people like TSE who were lucky enough to have a private education.
No they don't. Many of us came from bog standard comprehensives.
I wonder if any PBers came from Secondary Moderns?
When you're one of the worst funded areas for state education in the country, you really do...
Leics school funding is one of the lowest in the country. Less than £4200 per pupil last year.
Fox jr went to the local comp.
And the local house prices? Because you need far fewer resources when you've priced the anti-education oiks and their offspring out...
Good value compared to the rest of the country. Oadby has the best state schools, though they also take a lot from over the border in the city.
You can get a 3 bed house in a nice part of Oadby starting at £200 000. It is possible to buy a 2 bed flat for half that, but with houses so cheap they are not easy to sell.
The polling finds more than twice as many people are in favour of creating more grammar schools or just keeping the current ones (55%) than scrapping existing grammar schools (23%)
But you didn't.
Instead you pretended 38 and 40 are statistically different......
Bottom of the class!
That expensive education gone to waste.....
Nah, it is the intellectual self confidence of a private education that allows me present the numbers thusly.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a set of figures presented so ineptly and to the detriment of your case as anyone [except maybe a Public school twit] can readily see.
I pitched this thread for the PB masses.
I'm shocked by the politics of envy displayed by so many PBers. It is like being at a meeting of the SWP with so many of you obsessed about us former public schoolboys and schoolgirls.
People like me needed grammar schools to compete with people like TSE who were lucky enough to have a private education.
It has been interesting to see the alliance between the left and the public school lobby in their rather disproportionate reaction to the creation of a little more selective as an option for the ordinary people. Very interesting.
There is no credible left or right wing debate which relates to grammar schools, the only issues which can be considered important are educational factors.
Secondary moderns will become the schools for the majority of children if this policy of expansion of grammar schools goes ahead. Every academy or comprehensive or free school will de facto become a secondary modern because the top layer will have been removed and placed in a separate building. Yes we do have selection now within our schools but the ability to transfer between sets is enshrined in this system.
It is not difficult to see that May needed a distraction from Brexit which would give the public something else to talk about but did she really have to pick on children to do this?
Incidently, I am not the only person who thought that May looked ill at ease during PMQ, Cameron was a much sharper act in every sense of the word.
Unsurprising given it was Cameron's job to help prepare for PMQs before he became LotO.
Secondary moderns will become the schools for the majority of children if this policy of expansion of grammar schools goes ahead. Every academy or comprehensive or free school will de facto become a secondary modern because the top layer will have been removed and placed in a separate building. Yes we do have selection now within our schools but the ability to transfer between sets is enshrined in this system.
Probably about the fiftieth person to say it but we already have secondary moderns. Rescuing some of the brighter students from them is a step in the right direction. And there's no good reason why skimming a handful of the most academic students from a few comprehensives to make up the intake for a grammar should make outcomes for the other students in those schools worse. Essex for instance has excellent grammars and excellent comprehensives (which does I guess demonstrate that selection is not the be all and end all).
There is no credible left or right wing debate which relates to grammar schools, the only issues which can be considered important are educational factors.
Secondary moderns will become the schools for the majority of children if this policy of expansion of grammar schools goes ahead. Every academy or comprehensive or free school will de facto become a secondary modern because the top layer will have been removed and placed in a separate building. Yes we do have selection now within our schools but the ability to transfer between sets is enshrined in this system.
It is not difficult to see that May needed a distraction from Brexit which would give the public something else to talk about but did she really have to pick on children to do this?
Incidently, I am not the only person who thought that May looked ill at ease during PMQ, Cameron was a much sharper act in every sense of the word.
It is probably not her natural forte, PMQs and other types of live interactive event. PMs learn though on the job and anyway what does it matter for the next four years? She could just stand there and say 'wooble' every week given the present LOTO.
Mr. Llama, I'm eking the work one out. And money is significantly sub-optimal.
I like having a massive dividing line between work and play, not to mention my technical aptitude is akin to that of a cabbage.
Fair enough. Stand by for a dinner invitation for the weekend of of the 25th by the way. Time to return the boy to Leeds and I feel a Brazilian meal coming on (though last time I was up he took me to a BBQ place (Red's) which was something of an experience).
The polling finds more than twice as many people are in favour of creating more grammar schools or just keeping the current ones (55%) than scrapping existing grammar schools (23%)
But you didn't.
Instead you pretended 38 and 40 are statistically different......
Bottom of the class!
That expensive education gone to waste.....
Nah, it is the intellectual self confidence of a private education that allows me present the numbers thusly.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a set of figures presented so ineptly and to the detriment of your case as anyone [except maybe a Public school twit] can readily see.
I pitched this thread for the PB masses.
I'm shocked by the politics of envy displayed by so many PBers. It is like being at a meeting of the SWP with so many of you obsessed about us former public schoolboys and schoolgirls.
People like me needed grammar schools to compete with people like TSE who were lucky enough to have a private education.
No they don't. Many of us came from bog standard comprehensives.
I wonder if any PBers came from Secondary Moderns?
When you're one of the worst funded areas for state education in the country, you really do...
Leics school funding is one of the lowest in the country. Less than £4200 per pupil last year.
Fox jr went to the local comp.
And the local house prices? Because you need far fewer resources when you've priced the anti-education oiks and their offspring out...
Good value compared to the rest of the country. Oadby has the best state schools, though they also take a lot from over the border in the city.
You can get a 3 bed house in a nice part of Oadby starting at £200 000. It is possible to buy a 2 bed flat for half that, but with houses so cheap they are not easy to sell.
So very little a family of 4 with two unskilled adults could rent. Got it.
I'm a Miner's Son born into a Council House who missed the 11 plus by one year, went to a very Bog Standard Comprehensive school and ended up being the first person in my traceable family history to go to University. A Russell Group university despite cultural presdue at school not to apply " too high ". I think all schools should have charitable status, support Free and Faith Schools on liberal choice grounds and think returning to Grammars is post fact populist nonsense. Which side of this culture war am I on ?
Mr. D, a police officer wearing a burka is a terrible idea.
I know, police officers with their faces covered. Shocking
They tend not to be the ones knocking on the door though!
He doesn't look like someone who is going to bother with knocking first.
The militarisation of the police, another unwelcome American import.
One of the blessings of living in the boonies is that we have no police, militarised or otherwise. I did see a distant police car a week last Tuesday though.
Just slightly too big a vote share to be the Farronite 45.1
There seems to be a LD bounce across these local results. Real votes in real elections, etc.
Huge swing in that election and everybody else was down, UKIP by the largest amount. Elsewhere not UKIP's worst night.
UKIP have won four seats in Kent over the past month, and got a strong result in Gravesham. Ominously for Labour, all of them are formerly safe for the party. If Labour can't recover in Kent (they held 8 seats from 1979-97) they will find it very hard to return to government.
I think it is safe to say that Labour are going to find it hard to return to government.
Mr. Eagles, a majority of Britons polled want the burka banned. I don't believe there are similar figures for wanting to ban policemen wearing balaclavas.
It'll be interesting to see how UKIP gets a new leader, and whether the party sticks together. If it does, this sort of tosh could see it do well.
There is no credible left or right wing debate which relates to grammar schools, the only issues which can be considered important are educational factors.
Secondary moderns will become the schools for the majority of children if this policy of expansion of grammar schools goes ahead. Every academy or comprehensive or free school will de facto become a secondary modern because the top layer will have been removed and placed in a separate building. Yes we do have selection now within our schools but the ability to transfer between sets is enshrined in this system.
It is not difficult to see that May needed a distraction from Brexit which would give the public something else to talk about but did she really have to pick on children to do this?
Incidently, I am not the only person who thought that May looked ill at ease during PMQ, Cameron was a much sharper act in every sense of the word.
Cameron had 5 years of practice from the other side before he had to answer PMQs. Give May some time to get used to it.
Your contributor from Essex is under the misapprehension that comprehensives exist in areas where grammar schools exist.That would be impossible because comprehensives by definition need to have an all ability intake.Kent has grammar schools and secondary moderns because of this fact.
As mentioned on the previous post, May needs to soften up her euroloons and this seems to be as good a way as possible.
Even grammar school fans say they need to be sited in less affluent areas in order not to exacerbate inequality of outcomes and I can't see any government policy being so nuanced.
Your contributor from Essex is under the misapprehension that comprehensives exist in areas where grammar schools exist.That would be impossible because comprehensives by definition need to have an all ability intake.Kent has grammar schools and secondary moderns because of this fact.
That's only be true if they were teaching a different curriculum to other comps, wouldn't it?
Your contributor from Essex is under the misapprehension that comprehensives exist in areas where grammar schools exist.That would be impossible because comprehensives by definition need to have an all ability intake.Kent has grammar schools and secondary moderns because of this fact.
Erm, 11 plus is not mandatory therefore those schools which are not grammars are comps. They don't select by ability.
BBC - "Three women arrested over a foiled attack in Paris were directed by so-called Islamic State, a French prosecutor has said. - A policeman was stabbed during an operation late on Thursday to arrest the women after the discovery of a suspect car containing gas canisters.
The vehicle was found near Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Sunday."
This never seems to end - must be playing havoc with their tourist industry.
The polling finds more than twice as many people are in favour of creating more grammar schools or just keeping the current ones (55%) than scrapping existing grammar schools (23%)
But you didn't.
Instead you pretended 38 and 40 are statistically different......
Bottom of the class!
That expensive education gone to waste.....
Nah, it is the intellectual self confidence of a private education that allows me present the numbers thusly.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a set of figures presented so ineptly and to the detriment of your case as anyone [except maybe a Public school twit] can readily see.
I pitched this thread for the PB masses.
I'm shocked by the politics of envy displayed by so many PBers. It is like being at a meeting of the SWP with so many of you obsessed about us former public schoolboys and schoolgirls.
People like me needed grammar schools to compete with people like TSE who were lucky enough to have a private education.
No they don't. Many of us came from bog standard comprehensives.
I wonder if any PBers came from Secondary Moderns?
When you're one of the worst funded areas for state education in the country, you really do...
Leics school funding is one of the lowest in the country. Less than £4200 per pupil last year.
Fox jr went to the local comp.
And the local house prices? Because you need far fewer resources when you've priced the anti-education oiks and their offspring out...
Good value compared to the rest of the country. Oadby has the best state schools, though they also take a lot from over the border in the city.
You can get a 3 bed house in a nice part of Oadby starting at £200 000. It is possible to buy a 2 bed flat for half that, but with houses so cheap they are not easy to sell.
So very little a family of 4 with two unskilled adults could rent. Got it.
Those are for sale, but a very reasonable rental market too:
This 3 bed Semi might suit. 5 min walk to the best state schools in the county £850 pcm.
Cameron had 5 years of practice from the other side before he had to answer PMQs. Give May some time to get used to it.
This whole "May's a bit rubbish" thing is mostly coming from upset Cameroons or Labour supporters who are whistling in the dark knowing full well that they face obliteration at the next general election.
There is no credible left or right wing debate which relates to grammar schools, the only issues which can be considered important are educational factors.
Secondary moderns will become the schools for the majority of children if this policy of expansion of grammar schools goes ahead. Every academy or comprehensive or free school will de facto become a secondary modern because the top layer will have been removed and placed in a separate building. Yes we do have selection now within our schools but the ability to transfer between sets is enshrined in this system.
It is not difficult to see that May needed a distraction from Brexit which would give the public something else to talk about but did she really have to pick on children to do this?
Incidently, I am not the only person who thought that May looked ill at ease during PMQ, Cameron was a much sharper act in every sense of the word.
Cameron had 5 years of practice from the other side before he had to answer PMQs. Give May some time to get used to it.
Yes, DC had eleven years' practice at the format, and got very good at it. May has done it twice now, she's not done too badly but needs to cut the number of scripted jokes. That said, it's much easier to have a joke lined up than to have to think too much about the question - it's a brutal format, sending unseen verbal questions at someone on almost any subject, who is expected to reply immediately to them.
@glw I've not been particularly impressed with Theresa May so far (though she's done some things well). Prime Minister's Questions, however, is a pretty minor thing to be worrying about right now. It's fairer to look at more substantive matters.
In certain specialist roles it may be quite useful. A specialist domestic violence officer for example. Domestic violence is quite common in such communities, in part because of systematic misogynistic attitudes and in part because the burka is great for covering up bruises. Investigating forced marriages, "honour" crimes and suspected radicalisation may be possible too.
Wow, Jeb! spent $139m to get as far as the first three primaries.
"Where did all the money go? Sources inside and outside the Bush circle have indicated that it wasn’t embezzled or blown on strip clubs and five-star restaurants..."
It is clear to me that May is going for the soft UKIP vote and blue collar small C conservative, traditional working class vote that Labour has abandoned.
Mortimer, I think you have misunderstood my point.Comprehensive schools only exist in areas without grammar schools.
They may not be called Secondary Modern's but that is their status.
My parents took the line that when articulate and ambitious parents move their children out of a school then heaven help the others. They saw maintaining standards and pressing the teachers and management of a school to take academic and disciplinary duties seriously a civic duty and responsibility. They were fully in favour of comprehensives, despite being grammar school educated Conservative voters themselves.
Dr. Foxinsox, I would've guessed the reverse would be true.
Imagine you're getting a beating on a regular basis from your fundamentalist husband. Then the cop who you want to talk to rolls up and has a burka on. That'll make you wonder whether they're going to be more interested in the law of the land or 'cultural sensitivities'.
Edited extra bit: also, do we want an Islam-specific police force or units? I'm not convinced.
In certain specialist roles it may be quite useful. A specialist domestic violence officer for example. Domestic violence is quite common in such communities, in part because of systematic misogynistic attitudes and in part because the burka is great for covering up bruises. Investigating forced marriages, "honour" crimes and suspected radicalisation may be possible too.
Not on more general public facing roles though.
That's a fair point, but not what is being proposed in this case.
Dr. Foxinsox, I would've guessed the reverse would be true.
Imagine you're getting a beating on a regular basis from your fundamentalist husband. Then the cop who you want to talk to rolls up and has a burka on. That'll make you wonder whether they're going to be more interested in the law of the land or 'cultural sensitivities'.
It would depend on how it is handled.
First you need to find the victim and get them to admit what happened.
Mortimer, I think you have misunderstood my point.Comprehensive schools only exist in areas without grammar schools.
They may not be called Secondary Modern's but that is their status.
My parents took the line that when articulate and ambitious parents move their children out of a school then heaven help the others. They saw maintaining standards and pressing the teachers and management of a school to take academic and disciplinary duties seriously a civic duty and responsibility. They were fully in favour of comprehensives, despite being grammar school educated Conservative voters themselves.
Good schools need good activist parents.
And that would still be their prerogative. But why should others in poorer off areas suffer because you happened to be lucky/they were able to choose a well-schooled area in which to live.
Mortimer, I think you have misunderstood my point.Comprehensive schools only exist in areas without grammar schools.
They may not be called Secondary Modern's but that is their status.
My parents took the line that when articulate and ambitious parents move their children out of a school then heaven help the others. They saw maintaining standards and pressing the teachers and management of a school to take academic and disciplinary duties seriously a civic duty and responsibility. They were fully in favour of comprehensives, despite being grammar school educated Conservative voters themselves.
Good schools need good activist parents.
We shouldn't be using well raised 12 year olds as shock troops in some kind of proxy war on poor parenting.
Mortimer, I think you have misunderstood my point.Comprehensive schools only exist in areas without grammar schools.
Comprehensive, secondary modern, whatever. The point is there are plenty of not-grammar schools which manage to be shockingly bad without any nearby grammars, and excellent not-grammars existing with grammars down the road.
Mortimer, I think you have misunderstood my point.Comprehensive schools only exist in areas without grammar schools.
Nope. I understood your point. But you're wrong. There are comps in Dorset (where also grammars). They don't select on ability.
I think you need to define your terms, Mr Mortimer. Either you are very confused, or you are confusing us.
No. People (mostly leftish idealists) think that Comprehensives means 'no grammars here'. It doesn't.
Some of my pals in Poole did very well at Comps. Mostly those with professional parents and a household income of 100k pa who also paid for tuition and numerous out of school activities.
My parents were not in the same position, and so I am very grateful for my grammar.
There is no credible left or right wing debate which relates to grammar schools, the only issues which can be considered important are educational factors.
Secondary moderns will become the schools for the majority of children if this policy of expansion of grammar schools goes ahead. Every academy or comprehensive or free school will de facto become a secondary modern because the top layer will have been removed and placed in a separate building. Yes we do have selection now within our schools but the ability to transfer between sets is enshrined in this system.
It is not difficult to see that May needed a distraction from Brexit which would give the public something else to talk about but did she really have to pick on children to do this?
Incidently, I am not the only person who thought that May looked ill at ease during PMQ, Cameron was a much sharper act in every sense of the word.
Cameron had 5 years of practice from the other side before he had to answer PMQs. Give May some time to get used to it.
Yes, DC had eleven years' practice at the format, and got very good at it. May has done it twice now, she's not done too badly but needs to cut the number of scripted jokes. That said, it's much easier to have a joke lined up than to have to think too much about the question - it's a brutal format, sending unseen verbal questions at someone on almost any subject, who is expected to reply immediately to them.
And a format that in terms of holding the government to account fails miserably. Years ago a question on a matter of policy had to be answered there and then, a question on a matter of detail would be answered in writing in due course. The theory being that the PM or minister (the rule applied to both types of question sessions) could reasonably be expected to answer immediately on questions of policy but not on individual cases.
Ministers questions, since that old rule was abandoned, have become a farce, PMQs most of all.
I haven't had time to read the whole thread and I'm writing this on my phone in the pub, but as I teach I a grammar school I thought I ought to contribute a comment or two. I'd be interested to read the studies some are referring to, but in my experience educational research is very good at confirming the prejudices of the researcher. All systems will select using some mechanism. Grammar schools try (with varying degrees of success) to do so by ability rather than the more common ability to pay. They are also the refuge in the state sector of a lot of teachers whose strengths are academic rather than crowd control: many of us would be off either to the independent sector (which would welcome our abolition) or out of teaching entirely. I cannot speak for those who teach in the local secondary modern (in all but name) of course.
The fact a plurality of voters want more grammars and think they are good for social mobility suggests May can win this battle and it will certainly go down well with Tory voters and especially those who might consider UKIP. As for the picture overall some selective areas like Trafford have above average GCSE results so there is no evidence selection harms the average child.
Of course private schools are often the most vocal supporters of comprehensive schools as they reduce the competition, when grammars were at their height many public schools faced a challenging time filling all their places. However with many public schools now offering excellent all round facilities to attract parents and providing bursaries and scholarships which meet the demands May set out, they should not have too much to fear
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Having sacked Osborne seemingly for playing political games to put labour on the wrong side of the voters in an argument it seems she has now delivered a masterclass in how to do just that lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_Acts_1911_and_1949
The problem is if you don't want to do that sort of technical vocational subject. I'd have loved to have done PPE at Oxford. I know we Kippers give those who have done it a hard time, but in my case it is out of envy. The problem I had is that I didn't know it existed and didn't know how highly regarded it was until it was too late.
Not a chance of train operation being renationalised - splitting it into 20 odd franchises makes a national rail strike virtually impossible
Fox jr went to the local comp.
Doubt it'll happen, though.
I think that this case generates more questions and answers and have some sympathy with those that suggest that it once again shows a limited understanding on how the internet actually works on the part of the CJE.
Hmmmm.. the hijab is fine sine you can still see the face, not so sure about the burka. I think being able to identify a police officer is quite important. I suppose officers do have other identifying marks on the uniform, but it still feels wrong.
The latest in a new series of Survation omnibus polls continues to show Prime Minister Theresa May as the most favourable party leader, although her rating has dropped some 13 points since the last poll.
Despite the drop, Mrs May’s positive rating of +21 compares to Jeremy Corbyn’s -27, with the Prime Minister maintaining a healthy lead over the Leader of the Opposition.
http://survation.com/theresa-may-remains-favourable-party-leader/
The Tories have built up a fearsome reputation for ruthlessness with constitutional change; in favour of anything that benefits them and ferocious and seeing it through, and just as ruthless at stopping anything that isn't in their favour. Just look at the anger over boundaries and their determination to see it through, and what happened to Lords reform in coalition.
I can't believe that they'd go for electoral reform in any serious way (PR for councils maybe?) it's just too out of character.
http://tinyurl.com/juc76t4
Secondary moderns will become the schools for the majority of children if this policy of expansion of grammar schools goes ahead. Every academy or comprehensive or free school will de facto become a secondary modern because the top layer will have been removed and placed in a separate building. Yes we do have selection now within our schools but the ability to transfer between sets is enshrined in this system.
It is not difficult to see that May needed a distraction from Brexit which would give the public something else to talk about but did she really have to pick on children to do this?
Incidently, I am not the only person who thought that May looked ill at ease during PMQ, Cameron was a much sharper act in every sense of the word.
I know, police officers with their faces covered. Shocking
https://youtu.be/7-LPcVo7gC0
You can get a 3 bed house in a nice part of Oadby starting at £200 000. It is possible to buy a 2 bed flat for half that, but with houses so cheap they are not easy to sell.
Sunday lunch or evening might be best.
Document showing Owen Smith's main donor's firm is registered to a Cayman Islands PO box: https://t.co/cztAlB3NiU https://t.co/guojrPdgbu
I also thought the police were supposed to wear their number for identification purposes?
The militarisation of the police, another unwelcome American import.
Trio who raised £10,000 for a relative fighting for IS by flogging his stuff on eBay jailed for a total of eight years and five months
Neil Minto
@CourtNewsUK Will that affect their feedback?
Mr. Eagles, a majority of Britons polled want the burka banned. I don't believe there are similar figures for wanting to ban policemen wearing balaclavas.
It'll be interesting to see how UKIP gets a new leader, and whether the party sticks together. If it does, this sort of tosh could see it do well.
Well worth reading ^
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/09/british-police-force-says-it-may-allow-female-officers-to-wear-f/
Does anyone else feel that this market is not unlike trying to bet on the Grand National?
Even grammar school fans say they need to be sited in less affluent areas in order not to exacerbate inequality of outcomes and I can't see any government policy being so nuanced.
The vehicle was found near Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Sunday."
This never seems to end - must be playing havoc with their tourist industry.
This 3 bed Semi might suit. 5 min walk to the best state schools in the county £850 pcm.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-56019760.html
Not on more general public facing roles though.
As Ave it might say, Con maj nailed on.
My parents took the line that when articulate and ambitious parents move their children out of a school then heaven help the others. They saw maintaining standards and pressing the teachers and management of a school to take academic and disciplinary duties seriously a civic duty and responsibility. They were fully in favour of comprehensives, despite being grammar school educated Conservative voters themselves.
Good schools need good activist parents.
Imagine you're getting a beating on a regular basis from your fundamentalist husband. Then the cop who you want to talk to rolls up and has a burka on. That'll make you wonder whether they're going to be more interested in the law of the land or 'cultural sensitivities'.
Edited extra bit: also, do we want an Islam-specific police force or units? I'm not convinced.
First you need to find the victim and get them to admit what happened.
http://m.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14204818.Poole_Grammar_School_told_to_improve_by_Ofsted___18_months_after__outstanding__rating/
Maybe Grammar Schools are not a magic bullet...
Some of my pals in Poole did very well at Comps. Mostly those with professional parents and a household income of 100k pa who also paid for tuition and numerous out of school activities.
My parents were not in the same position, and so I am very grateful for my grammar.
Ministers questions, since that old rule was abandoned, have become a farce, PMQs most of all.
Anyone would think I went there.
I'd be interested to read the studies some are referring to, but in my experience educational research is very good at confirming the prejudices of the researcher.
All systems will select using some mechanism. Grammar schools try (with varying degrees of success) to do so by ability rather than the more common ability to pay. They are also the refuge in the state sector of a lot of teachers whose strengths are academic rather than crowd control: many of us would be off either to the independent sector (which would welcome our abolition) or out of teaching entirely.
I cannot speak for those who teach in the local secondary modern (in all but name) of course.
Of course private schools are often the most vocal supporters of comprehensive schools as they reduce the competition, when grammars were at their height many public schools faced a challenging time filling all their places. However with many public schools now offering excellent all round facilities to attract parents and providing bursaries and scholarships which meet the demands May set out, they should not have too much to fear