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10:03AM
malcolmg said:
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Just think Tory greed and megolamania and squandering of public money on self aggrandisement whilst whinging about Sturgeon spending a Fiver.
much clearer.
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10:05AM
Alistair said:
Recipients of fee school meals are often targeted and bullied at school, to the extent that they avoid having lunch altogether to avoid the mockery and exclusions. Which means they are underfed and under perform academically.
The point of universal free school meals is to remove the stigma and improve the scholastic performance of children from the poorest families.
True but if they made them payable online or by direct debit etc then there would be no need for anyone to know as no cash would ever change hands for the meals. Easy solution and means it is cost effective. Should be no requirement for cash, otherwise they could issue cards which ar etopped up by same method and again no need to know who is paying.
malcolmg said:
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Perhaps if you read it Rob you would do a comparison , £10M vanity upgrade of their private jet , then they just hire private ones as well to fly nearly empty around the world, versus Sturgeons's handful of standard flight tickets to the US.
Get a grip, at least if you are going to be a sleazy Tory pick a topic a blind man may be able to support. These people are beyond redemption and breed teh Labour idiots with their plundering of teh public purse to make themselves feel important.
I believe the RAF Voyager they converted represents a cost saving over the previous arrangement.
LOL: £10M refit pays a shedload of Toffs flights for sure. Pull the other one Rob it plays bells. Can I interest you in a very cheap gold, I have a stack stuck in Frankfurt airport and would be happy to sell to you for 10% of its value.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/david-cameron-raf-plane-save-money
PS: Nicola's couple of thousand bill seems very extravagant against these millions and not one woman or child murdered as part of her trip, ridiculous.
1. Make it harder to operate the pupil premium at primary level and even harder to do so with the current level of targetedness.
2. Make no difference to children from poor backgrounds so is essentially a subsidy to C1/C2 parents.
3. Increase pressure on the state system as a fairly sizable number of children are forced out of private schools whose parents are either
a. Directly forced out of the private system by the 20% hike that VAT would impose, or
b. Indirectly forced out of the private sector as the school closes for lack of numbers and no other local alternative is available.
4. Following on from (3), require considerable additional resource for additional teachers, support staff and resources, and also for capital spending.
It's a daft policy that was almost certainly driven back-to-front ("we want to impose VAT on private education because we believe ideologically that it's a bad thing; now, what can we spend it on"), and would have all sorts of perverse effects.
But of course, Corbyn and Raynor don't really care about that. It's hitting the private education sector that matter to them.
https://twitter.com/dailymailuk/status/849914332209192961
Far too many of them are charging exorbitant fees that put them well out of the reach of their traditional middle-class supporters, and they risk becoming bastions of the super-rich.
Even the cheapest day schools now charge upwards of £15k a year, and you either need pre-tax salary wiggle room of about £30k to fund that, per child - i.e. you need to be close to a six figure salary - or to raid a meaty inheritance.
“Inevitably, there are clashes in scheduling. On a previous occasion, the PM used it and the Prince of Wales chartered an aircraft. This time, it is the other way round.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/05/theresa-may-flies-around-middle-east-chartered-jet-prince-charles/
Meanwhile Margaret Rutherford thinks "Nicola spent a fiver" - I wonder if she'll release her expenses with the same alacrity Eck did.....and the PM is traipsing around in a 20 year old jet....
I can't speak for all schools, but we aleady use an electronic payment system for meals which makes it very difficult if not impossible to work out who gets free school meals. A couple of other points about this idea:
Eligibility for Free School Meals is currently used as a beanch mark for a number of things in education. Making eveyone eligible would mean a new measure would be needed which would not be easy (largly due to the fact that parents have to apply for FSM and would have no incentive to give out their finacial details without a reward at the end);
Why not give the money to the schools and let them decide the best way to use it?
Would it apply to fees charged by state boarding schools?
It is also interesting to see some who are opposed to the existance of grammar schools supporting the independent sector. Obviously selection by ability to pay is more important than selection by ability.
If I have a kid it'll be state + tutoring (Which I can do myself for maths)
Except @BiP who said Primary continued to 14. :-D .
But, given Corbyn, it is likely to be beyond bonkers anyway.
To allow Indy Schools to justify themselves by comunity integration and inclusiveness, then kick then anyway because you are a socialist dinosaur is mad.
http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2017/04/dominic-raab-there-are-plenty-of-reasons-to-be-optimistic-about-the-brexit-negotiations.html
Genuine question. The only information I can find online is from the Sun, which simply states “over 200 students” attended. The total student/staff population of Stanford will be about 20000.
And why Stanford? Rather than, say NYU or Berkeley?
Or, better still, Carnegie-Mellon? Stanford was founded by a robber baron, but Carnegie-Mellon was founded by a Scot from Dunfermline.
Why not in fact Glasgow Caledonian’s famous Manhattan campus, of which the Scottish Government has been such a supporter?
Without answers to some of these questions, it is hard to say whether it was value for money. Certainly, talking to 200 students at Stanford doesn’t sound like value for money, or even particularly prestigious.
https://twitter.com/undefined/status/849877399584075776
I read the comments while the ad played.
I'll ask Vice News
An SNP attempt to downplay Alex Salmond's five-star hotel bills has backfired spectacularly after it emerged he stayed at luxury accommodation singled out by Nicola Sturgeon for direct criticism.
The Deputy First Minister recently defended Mr Salmond's controversial oversees expense claims by saying he would not get caught staying at New York's upmarket Benjamin Hotel like Jack McConnell, his Labour predecessor.
But The Telegraph can disclose Mr Salmond has in fact stayed at The Benjamin, spending three nights in a king suite there during a taxpayer-funded trip to the United States in October 2007.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/10751287/Expenses-Alex-Salmond-stayed-at-luxury-hotel-publicly-condemned-by-Nicola-Sturgeon.html
If you are going to curtail child benefit to two children your options are - do it absolutely - or do something like this - which is worse?
I'm certain had he remained Chancellor he would have ditched it.
Do you realise how pathetic you sound for an elderly woman who pertains to be intelligent.
Source on graph..
He glides over the terms of the possible deal in just one paragraph and his last sentence may come back to haunt him over the next few years as EU growth outperforms the UK.
"Next, on trade, the guidelines spell out with surprising honesty what Brussels really fears. Paragraph 19 seeks ‘safeguards’ from post-Brexit Britain on competition, state aid and ‘fiscal, social and environmental dumping’. This is not about UK exports meeting EU regulatory standards – a given in any trading relationship. The EU knows that, free from Brussels’ straitjacket regulation and trading globally, Britain presents a massive competitive challenge to its rather languid economy. It’s correct. But we’ll need to find ways to assuage the EU’s worst fears, without diluting our commitment to taking back democratic control over our laws."
A furious row has erupted between the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party (SNP) after Labour voted against introducing free school meals to primary school pupils in their first three years of school. They also voted against a proposal to widen free childcare provision. The First Minister had earlier announced that the Scottish Government would provide funding to ensure that each primary 1-3 pupil would have access to a free school meal each day from 1 January 2015.
The merits of free school meals to children in early years of education are well understood. They help to raise educational attainment, improve health and wellbeing and ensure that every child gets at least one hot meal a day. At a time when ordinary families are struggling, this measure will also save them on average £330 per child per school year.
SNP as ever show them how to implement decent policies and no need for ideological nastiness to fund it either
Until we have an independent Scottish government running teh Scottish economy the numbers are just guff based on UK handling of the economy, fancy graphs or not.
I think some people are being a bit prissy to be honest.
Until we have an independent Scottish government running the Scottish economy the numbers are just guff based on UK handling of the economy, fancy graphs or not.
Basic childcare should only be an issue from 6 months old to 5 years old, though. Once the child is in school, it ceases to become a major problem.
Having said that, I do think State schools should extend their hours from 3pm to 6pm, with after-school activities, as private schools do, to make full-time work feasible for all parents.
The security stuff aside, I was impressed by the May A50 letter, which was conciliatory and realistic as to the UK's position. As Raab says, the EU response was also pretty decent. I would suggest that the big issue moving forwards may well be not so much May's current critics but future ones that any kinds of compromise will create. When the Mail, the Sun and the Telegraph are all being extraordinarily bellicose about Gibraltar - for absolutely no reason - that tells me that they are going to give May very little room for sensible manoeuvre over issues such as immigration, the pooling of sovereignty and the role of the ECJ. Given that May has never shown any inclination to take positions that will play badly in the anti-European Tory press that is a concern.
There's an argument to say that having more than two children causes the carbon footprint of that family to increase the world's problems, so they should actually have to pay the state if they want more kids, not vice versa. Amazing how many of those protesting about our destruction of the planet have their own tribe of snot-goblins in tow....
EDIT: Besides surely we already want all rape victims to go to the Police who can then deal with the second and third parts.
I hear this a lot, but it's amazing how much of the problems of comprehensive schools are simply laid at the door of not having enough articulate, loud middle-class parents attending them and shouting loudly enough.
You might as well say the problems with Southern trains or Tesco is because not enough pushy middle-class people are being forced to use their services and complain about them.
Good schools are contingent upon being well-funded, and well-led, within the right governance framework that gives them the chance to both develop their own identities and the freedom of action to adjust to the changing needs of communities, parents and children.
Competitive pressure and choice is a big part of that.
Fact is - Nicola takes them seriously enough to take a paid holiday when they come out.
I suspect what might be more controversial is the distinction the form makes between 'rape ' and 'coercive and controlling relationships'.
Macron 25% (-1)
Le Pen 24% (NC)
Fillon 18% (NC)
Mélenchon 17% (+1)
Hamon 9% (-1)
Dupon-Aignan 3% (-1)
http://www.lefigaro.fr/elections/presidentielles/2017/04/06/35003-20170406ARTFIG00106-presidentielle-a-l-approche-du-premier-tour-les-ecarts-se-resserrent.php
A degree of regulatory alignment, budgetary contributions, and preference on immigration will all be a part of that, and this is where the negotiations will be the most complex and fraught.
I.e. it will be a trade off.
https://twitter.com/Baddiel/status/849909067053137920
You forget that the primary school day typically ends at 2.30-3.00pm....unless you are particularly lucky in having flexible jobs working from or close to home, I can assure you that childcare does not cease to be a "major problem" when your kids go to school, if both parents want to carry on working full time....and it certainly is a major problem when they are sick.
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I really can't see anything to take exception to in either the form or the policy behind it. Mr Eagles is being less than generous to George Osbourne - for a change!
Exhaustion of natural resources due to overpopulation is not a problem in this country. It makes sense to aim for a birthrate of 2.1-2.2 rather than the current 1.8-1.9.