Though there are issues with the education system in this country, the biggest problem is educational aspiration - it's a culture thing. Until the culture changes, WWC children in particular will continue to underperform. It's that simple...
I agree with murali shock...
Goes beyond education though - the fetishisation of being "working class" that Labour encourage is a major barrier.
Toby Young's essential problem was that he was entirely unqualified for the job. He would have been able to ride out the media storm if he had something to offer. But he didn't.
Yes - the last thing Universities need is someone outside the academia bubble representing the consumers of their product - the prospective students.
They should queue up to hand over £9k a year and take what they are given.
Toby Young has absolutely no qualification to perform that role. Other than being chums with the family of the relevant minister. So his Neanderthal views assumed disproportionate importance.
Apart from setting up 3 excellent schools - yeah what would he know about what pupils and parents want from education..
He set up schools at huge expense that are now performing at a decent standard in a city that has the best state school system in the country. That he worked hard to do it is beyond dispute, but the results at the schools themselves are nothing special in London. A real achievement would have been to do what he has done in a part of the country where the schools generally are not performing.
Well what is stopping the shrieking ninnies of Labour twitter setting up schools in other parts of the country ? Perhaps it's easier to tweet than do.
I have no idea - I suspect that most people in Labour are opposed to free schools because they take resources away from existing schools. My only point is that Toby's schools are performing at the level you'd expect them to perform given their location and pupil profile. In fact, given the resources they have been given, there is an argument for saying they should be doing a lot better.
Toby Young's essential problem was that he was entirely unqualified for the job. He would have been able to ride out the media storm if he had something to offer. But he didn't.
Yes - the last thing Universities need is someone outside the academia bubble representing the consumers of their product - the prospective students.
They should queue up to hand over £9k a year and take what they are given.
Toby Young has absolutely no qualification to perform that role. Other than being chums with the family of the relevant minister. So his Neanderthal views assumed disproportionate importance.
Apart from setting up 3 excellent schools - yeah what would he know about what pupils and parents want from education..
This may come as a revelation to you but schools are not universities.
Universities are one part of this country that function pretty well by any objective measure. It is hard to see why the government should wish to let their unqualified chums meddle with them.
From a student's perspective, universities are questionable value for money. As they are now substantially funding their own education, students rightly have a bigger say over what they get for their money. Ideological nonsense about "no platforming" is a distraction.
Toby Young's essential problem was that he was entirely unqualified for the job. He would have been able to ride out the media storm if he had something to offer. But he didn't.
Yes - the last thing Universities need is someone outside the academia bubble representing the consumers of their product - the prospective students.
They should queue up to hand over £9k a year and take what they are given.
Toby Young has absolutely no qualification to perform that role. Other than being chums with the family of the relevant minister. So his Neanderthal views assumed disproportionate importance.
Apart from setting up 3 excellent schools - yeah what would he know about what pupils and parents want from education..
Universities are one part of this country that function pretty well by any objective measure. It is hard to see why the government should wish to let their unqualified chums meddle with them.
Are they ? They seem quite effective at taking in state cash - who is monitoring their added value ?
There are numerous league tables comparing universities internationally. Britain's universities always do remarkably well.
Our elite Universities are undoubtedly world class. But there is a hell of a tail and it is overcharging for what it provides.
Toby Young's essential problem was that he was entirely unqualified for the job. He would have been able to ride out the media storm if he had something to offer. But he didn't.
Yes - the last thing Universities need is someone outside the academia bubble representing the consumers of their product - the prospective students.
They should queue up to hand over £9k a year and take what they are given.
Toby Young has absolutely no qualification to perform that role. Other than being chums with the family of the relevant minister. So his Neanderthal views assumed disproportionate importance.
Apart from setting up 3 excellent schools - yeah what would he know about what pupils and parents want from education..
Universities are one part of this country that function pretty well by any objective measure. It is hard to see why the government should wish to let their unqualified chums meddle with them.
Are they ? They seem quite effective at taking in state cash - who is monitoring their added value ?
There are numerous league tables comparing universities internationally. Britain's universities always do remarkably well.
Oxbridge certainly does well.
In other news if you include Eton and Harrow, our education system is the best in the world.
No, it's many more than Oxbridge. There has been a decline over recent years, but even now our universities generally rank very highly in international tables - second only to the Americans, I believe.
Lilian Baylis of the Old Vic was another not to let tact get in the way of clarity - to a Juliet - “You’ve had your chance my dear, and you’ve muffed it.” Also “Sweet little Goneril”.....
Toby Young's essential problem was that he was entirely unqualified for the job. He would have been able to ride out the media storm if he had something to offer. But he didn't.
Yes - the last thing Universities need is someone outside the academia bubble representing the consumers of their product - the prospective students.
They should queue up to hand over £9k a year and take what they are given.
Toby Young has absolutely no qualification to perform that role. Other than being chums with the family of the relevant minister. So his Neanderthal views assumed disproportionate importance.
Apart from setting up 3 excellent schools - yeah what would he know about what pupils and parents want from education..
Universities are one part of this country that function pretty well by any objective measure. It is hard to see why the government should wish to let their unqualified chums meddle with them.
Are they ? They seem quite effective at taking in state cash - who is monitoring their added value ?
There are numerous league tables comparing universities internationally. Britain's universities always do remarkably well.
Oxbridge certainly does well.
In other news if you include Eton and Harrow, our education system is the best in the world.
No, it's many more than Oxbridge. There has been a decline over recent years, but even now our universities generally rank very highly in international tables - second only to the Americans, I believe.
I don;t think anyone's worrying about Red brick/Russell group Uni's. It's the former polys and the like which it's questionable how well they are operating and how much value they provide.
Toby Young's essential problem was that he was entirely unqualified for the job. He would have been able to ride out the media storm if he had something to offer. But he didn't.
Yes - the last thing Universities need is someone outside the academia bubble representing the consumers of their product - the prospective students.
They should queue up to hand over £9k a year and take what they are given.
Toby Young has absolutely no qualification to perform that role. Other than being chums with the family of the relevant minister. So his Neanderthal views assumed disproportionate importance.
Apart from setting up 3 excellent schools - yeah what would he know about what pupils and parents want from education..
Universities are one part of this country that function pretty well by any objective measure. It is hard to see why the government should wish to let their unqualified chums meddle with them.
Are they ? They seem quite effective at taking in state cash - who is monitoring their added value ?
There are numerous league tables comparing universities internationally. Britain's universities always do remarkably well.
Oxbridge certainly does well.
In other news if you include Eton and Harrow, our education system is the best in the world.
What's impressive about Britain's universities is the strength in depth. Take this list:
Though there are issues with the education system in this country, the biggest problem is educational aspiration - it's a culture thing. Until the culture changes, WWC children in particular will continue to underperform. It's that simple...
I agree with murali shock...
Goes beyond education though - the fetishisation of being "working class" that Labour encourage is a major barrier.
Not to mention the perception in many WWC areas that schools in London and areas of high migration receive significantly higher levels of funding.
Toby Young's essential problem was that he was entirely unqualified for the job. He would have been able to ride out the media storm if he had something to offer. But he didn't.
Yes - the last thing Universities need is someone outside the academia bubble representing the consumers of their product - the prospective students.
They should queue up to hand over £9k a year and take what they are given.
Toby Young has absolutely no qualification to perform that role. Other than being chums with the family of the relevant minister. So his Neanderthal views assumed disproportionate importance.
Apart from setting up 3 excellent schools - yeah what would he know about what pupils and parents want from education..
Universities are one part of this country that function pretty well by any objective measure. It is hard to see why the government should wish to let their unqualified chums meddle with them.
Are they ? They seem quite effective at taking in state cash - who is monitoring their added value ?
There are numerous league tables comparing universities internationally. Britain's universities always do remarkably well.
Oxbridge certainly does well.
In other news if you include Eton and Harrow, our education system is the best in the world.
No, it's many more than Oxbridge. There has been a decline over recent years, but even now our universities generally rank very highly in international tables - second only to the Americans, I believe.
UCL, Imperial, Bristol Edinburgh and Manchester all do well on academic rankings. In a post-EU world this is a success that we need to be running with, although a lot of it depends on those pesky foreigners...
If you want an equal share of the good stuff but not an equal share of the bad, you don't want equality, you want preference and privilege.
The proportion of prisoners from ethnic minorities significantly exceeds the percentage they comprise of the general population. This is often decried as indicative of racism of some variety in the justice system. A higher proportion (and therefore more disproportionate percentage) of doctors comes from ethnic minorities. Nobody claims that's due to anti-white discrimination.
You have to look at both ends of the scale. You can't complain you're not getting enough cake if you refuse to ever work in the kitchen.
As an aside, above average male representation at the top and bottom ends actually fits in with an interesting theory that men are just more variable than women (ie more likely to be both awful and fantastic) because of evolution, specifically men are less likely to leave offspring but have a chance of a genetic jackpot. That's why, the theory goes, prisons and Darwin Awards are full of men, but so are the ranks of geniuses.
Scotlands NHS figures are worst recorded with large increase in those not seen in the four hour target.Poor figures and Sturgeon has apologised.
Add in the failure of Wales NHS it is clear that the NHS throughout the UK needs a cross party working group to formulate plans on health and social care and funding for the next 10 years as Jeremy Hunt alluded to earlier in the week
Well there's one positive about all of this, we know for sure that 2022 will have a different Tory leader. May will never be able to hang on now. She's created too many enemies and botched everything up one too many times.
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Our red brick/Russell Group universities are very good. The problem is the former polytehnics and the middling ones. We have no equivalent to the German technical schools or the Indian coding colleges. That is going to be a major issue as the world loses so many jobs in automatable tasks, which form the bulk of lower middle class and upper working class jobs. We need to train people for more technical skills and also on much-derided social/management skills.
Well there's one positive about all of this, we know for sure that 2022 will have a different Tory leader. May will never be able to hang on now. She's created too many enemies and botched everything up one too many times.
What it shows is that the commentariat had decided in advance it would be a shambles. Actually it was OK, with some Twitter hiccups and a couple of ministers refusing offers of jobs, which always happens. Overall it seems a pretty reasonable reshuffle within the very limited room the PM has for manoeuvre.
Of course, nothing matches the all-time Gold Standard Shambles of Corbyn's shadow cabinet reshuffle before the election.
I'm liking the message the government is sending out with this reshuffle. We want to promote and encourage working class and disadvantaged people into positions of power. And once they are there, we want to sack them.
I'm liking the message the government is sending out with this reshuffle. We want to promote and encourage working class and disadvantaged people into positions of power. And once they are there, we want to sack them.
Will Hutton makes Toby Young look self aware and connected to reality. He says: "Labour – internationalist, pro-European and profoundly anti-racist – should find the courage to speak out, and insist that in times like these to leave the EU is folly. The time for temporising is over."
Presumably he does not bother with what Corbyn says, or anti-Semitism, or McDonnell's economic plans. Or, of course, the democratic wishes of the British people. The argument that the collapse of parts of the EU into illiberal, undemocratic nationalism is a reason for staying in does not suggest much in the way of rationality either.
Will Hutton makes Toby Young look self aware and connected to reality. He says: "Labour – internationalist, pro-European and profoundly anti-racist – should find the courage to speak out, and insist that in times like these to leave the EU is folly. The time for temporising is over."
Presumably he does not bother with what Corbyn says, or anti-Semitism, or McDonnell's economic plans. Or, of course, the democratic wishes of the British people. The argument that the collapse of parts of the EU into illiberal, undemocratic nationalism is a reason for staying in does not suggest much in the way of rationality either.
Socialism and Brexit.
Two fantastic political ideas, if only they were done right.
Scotlands NHS figures are worst recorded with large increase in those not seen in the four hour target.Poor figures and Sturgeon has apologised.
Add in the failure of Wales NHS it is clear that the NHS throughout the UK needs a cross party working group to formulate plans on health and social care and funding for the next 10 years as Jeremy Hunt alluded to earlier in the week
Are they worse than England's?
The Scottish government has been progressing with health & social care integration for several years now. I'm sure they'd be happy to advise Jeremy in that area.
Well there's one positive about all of this, we know for sure that 2022 will have a different Tory leader. May will never be able to hang on now. She's created too many enemies and botched everything up one too many times.
What it shows is that the commentariat had decided in advance it would be a shambles. Actually it was OK, with some Twitter hiccups and a couple of ministers refusing offers of jobs, which always happens. Overall it seems a pretty reasonable reshuffle within the very limited room the PM has for manoeuvre.
Of course, nothing matches the all-time Gold Standard Shambles of Corbyn's shadow cabinet reshuffle before the election.
Democracy seems to be doing what the EU wants - not whaf the democratically elected governments of Poland and Hungary want? The ruling Polish and Hungarian parties have massive poll leads - so the locals don't seem too unhappy
I also dare say people feel a lot safer walking the streets of Warsaw or Budapest these days than many parts of Brussels. And they want to keep it that way! Perhaps Verhofstadt ought to be worried about the freedom and Rights of many of his own people living in the sort of poorer areas he never visits to walk the streets safely at night?
As the Irish, French and Dutch know the EU only likes democracy when the people vote the right way. If they don't they are ignored or asked to keep voting until they vote the right way.
Democracy seems to be doing what the EU wants - not whaf the democratically elected governments of Poland and Hungary want? The ruling Polish and Hungarian parties have massive poll leads - so the locals don't seem too unhappy, I also dare say people feel a lot safer walking the streets of Warsaw or Budapest these days than many parts of Brussels. And they want to keep it that way!
As the Irish, French and Dutch know the EU only likes democracy when the people vote the right way. If they don't they are ignored or asked to keep voting until they vote the right way.
I would love to wear a t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops to my Club but they won't allow it. Damn them. Not cancelling the direct debit, that said.
Will Hutton makes Toby Young look self aware and connected to reality. He says: "Labour – internationalist, pro-European and profoundly anti-racist – should find the courage to speak out, and insist that in times like these to leave the EU is folly. The time for temporising is over."
Presumably he does not bother with what Corbyn says, or anti-Semitism, or McDonnell's economic plans. Or, of course, the democratic wishes of the British people. The argument that the collapse of parts of the EU into illiberal, undemocratic nationalism is a reason for staying in does not suggest much in the way of rationality either.
The behaviour of the Polish government doesn't seem much different from the behaviour of a new US administration, appointing its supporters to key positions, and the Courts. Whether Verhofstadt likes it or not, the governments of Poland and Hungary are popular with their voters.
Toby Young's essential problem was that he was entirely unqualified for the job. He would have been able to ride out the media storm if he had something to offer. But he didn't.
Yes - the last thing Universities need is someone outside the academia bubble representing the consumers of their product - the prospective students.
They should queue up to hand over £9k a year and take what they are given.
Toby Young has absolutely no qualification to perform that role. Other than being chums with the family of the relevant minister. So his Neanderthal views assumed disproportionate importance.
Apart from setting up 3 excellent schools - yeah what would he know about what pupils and parents want from education..
Universities are one part of this country that function pretty well by any objective measure. It is hard to see why the government should wish to let their unqualified chums meddle with them.
Are they ? They seem quite effective at taking in state cash - who is monitoring their added value ?
There are numerous league tables comparing universities internationally. Britain's universities always do remarkably well.
Oxbridge certainly does well.
In other news if you include Eton and Harrow, our education system is the best in the world.
No, it's many more than Oxbridge. There has been a decline over recent years, but even now our universities generally rank very highly in international tables - second only to the Americans, I believe.
I don;t think anyone's worrying about Red brick/Russell group Uni's. It's the former polys and the like which it's questionable how well they are operating and how much value they provide.
Added value is always a problem but often outside the universities' own remit. For instance, if ACME plc only recruits from Oxbridge and Bristol then that places Sunderland graduates who want to work there at a disadvantage.
On research, the extra cash in the system means that the dance department at the University of Brighton can hire a Nobel Prize winner. Research excellence is more spread out than people think.
Well there's one positive about all of this, we know for sure that 2022 will have a different Tory leader. May will never be able to hang on now. She's created too many enemies and botched everything up one too many times.
What it shows is that the commentariat had decided in advance it would be a shambles. Actually it was OK, with some Twitter hiccups and a couple of ministers refusing offers of jobs, which always happens. Overall it seems a pretty reasonable reshuffle within the very limited room the PM has for manoeuvre.
Of course, nothing matches the all-time Gold Standard Shambles of Corbyn's shadow cabinet reshuffle before the election.
Mr Nabavi, please remind me, whose A**e is sitting on the leather of the Prime Ministers Chair? When, and, more accurately, if, the electorate decide that Corbyn should be Prime Minister then you may call names and comment on back history, or are you just getting in some practice for the results of the oncoming General Election?
What’s revealing is that the U.K. had freedom, democracy and rule of law well before there was an EU - and it appears does not feel it needs an EU to guarantee these things.....
Will Hutton makes Toby Young look self aware and connected to reality. He says: "Labour – internationalist, pro-European and profoundly anti-racist – should find the courage to speak out, and insist that in times like these to leave the EU is folly. The time for temporising is over."
Presumably he does not bother with what Corbyn says, or anti-Semitism, or McDonnell's economic plans. Or, of course, the democratic wishes of the British people. The argument that the collapse of parts of the EU into illiberal, undemocratic nationalism is a reason for staying in does not suggest much in the way of rationality either.
Hutton has Brexychosis. Like Grayling, Adonis and co. Literally driven nuts by Brexit.
There is surely a top political thriller to be written about such twittery?
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
What’s revealing is that the U.K. had freedom, democracy and rule of law well before there was an EU - and it appears does not feel it needs an EU to guarantee these things.....
We forget we've never had things like Nazism, Fascism, and Communism, a lot of Europe has one of the above in the recent past.
Will Hutton makes Toby Young look self aware and connected to reality. He says: "Labour – internationalist, pro-European and profoundly anti-racist – should find the courage to speak out, and insist that in times like these to leave the EU is folly. The time for temporising is over."
Presumably he does not bother with what Corbyn says, or anti-Semitism, or McDonnell's economic plans. Or, of course, the democratic wishes of the British people. The argument that the collapse of parts of the EU into illiberal, undemocratic nationalism is a reason for staying in does not suggest much in the way of rationality either.
Hutton has Brexychosis. Like Grayling, Adonis and co. Literally driven nuts by Brexit.
I can't help feeling that Justine Greening thought she would be left in post if she simply said no, as so many others had. May obviously felt that she could not back down again without looking (even more) ridiculous.
I said at the weekend that an attempt to have a significant reshuffle could be fatal for Mrs May. She simply does not have the power to make these kinds of decisions and is there on the tolerance of many different sections of her party, any one of which is larger than her majority.
The Brexit negotiations are undoubtedly a complicating factor forcing people to hold their hands at the moment but the end has been brought closer by this farce. Her political incompetence is extraordinary for someone who held such senior office for so long before becoming PM.
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
@MikeSmithson – looking forward to the Oprah thread. I dare members of all political shades have had more than enough of the hapless May and the odious Young.
Democracy seems to be doing what the EU wants - not whaf the democratically elected governments of Poland and Hungary want? The ruling Polish and Hungarian parties have massive poll leads - so the locals don't seem too unhappy
I also dare say people feel a lot safer walking the streets of Warsaw or Budapest these days than many parts of Brussels. And they want to keep it that way! Perhaps Verhofstadt ought to be worried about the freedom and Rights of many of his own people living in the sort of poorer areas he never visits to walk the streets safely at night?
As the Irish, French and Dutch know the EU only likes democracy when the people vote the right way. If they don't they are ignored or asked to keep voting until they vote the right way.
We don't want to play by the EU's rules, so we are leaving. Poland and Hungary both have exactly the same option. If they decide to remain, they are subject to the rules. It's not brain surgery.
I can't help feeling that Justine Greening thought she would be left in post if she simply said no, as so many others had. May obviously felt that she could not back down again without looking (even more) ridiculous.
I said at the weekend that an attempt to have a significant reshuffle could be fatal for Mrs May. She simply does not have the power to make these kinds of decisions and is there on the tolerance of many different sections of her party, any one of which is larger than her majority.
The Brexit negotiations are undoubtedly a complicating factor forcing people to hold their hands at the moment but the end has been brought closer by this farce. Her political incompetence is extraordinary for someone who held such senior office for so long before becoming PM.
According to the papers Mrs May has not liked then tone of Justine Greening, nor the fact that Greening was proven right about grammar schools and made Nick Timothy look like an idiot.
From this morning's Red Box email.
It had been briefed that Justine Greening's hold on the role of education secretary was in doubt, but after other ministers had refused to budge, she did the same. Unlike the others, Theresa May deployed her renowned skills of compromise, flexibility and guile, and sacked her.
The PM had wanted to shift Greening to work and pensions, claiming she could continue her work on improving social mobility. This might have worked if the reshuffle had been the big wide-ranging affair we had been led by No 10 to expect.
Instead, Greening dug her heels in, laid out her achievements at education and more she wanted to do. May made clear it was a "take or leave it" offer. Greening left it. The job went to Damian Hinds, who is well liked, and good to see a straight white man finally get a break.
So the first openly gay woman in cabinet and the first state-educated education secretary returns to the backbenches: because what the prime minister really needs is another Remainer with a grievance. Greening has made clear she will be "representing" her community, which happened to vote something like 70 per cent in favour of Remain. A rebel is born.
Friends insist she had done a "bloody good job" in education and did not want to be just shunted around Whitehall. They also suspect the hand of Nick Timothy, May's former chief of staff, who has used a number of articles to single out Greening for criticism. There were whispers of Greening getting "too close" to teaching unions (perhaps no bad thing when only 8 per cent of teachers voted Tory last year) and speaking up too much in cabinet.
"A number of people who have been disloyal and ineffective have been allowed to stay in their roles," one senior Tory MP told me last night. "Why is Justine the only one to go? Because the PM has Nick Timothy whispering in her ear."
Mr. F, glad to hear it. Reading a biography of John is a weird thing. It's the opposite of an Alexander bio (which leaves one feeling a bit rubbish) but also crammed with England losing to France, which isn't great.
Mr. Eagles, John was better with finances but also a serial traitor, extortionist, failure in war and personally cruel.
Mr. Eagles (2), well, *we* here don't forget that. Others do. And the EU forgets that too.
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
Henry I was praised at the time for his leniency towards a corrupt servant - the man was blinded and castrated, rather than being executed.
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
Bloody Mary was pretty brutal, too.
You basically had to be to surivive. Kill or be killed.
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
Conversely Richard the Lionheart pardoned the crossbowman who mortally wounded him. According to some accounts after the king died he was tortured to death anyway, but it was a nice gesture.
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
So our Queen isn't too bad, she's only had Diana, Princess of Wales executed.
Mr Nabavi, please remind me, whose A**e is sitting on the leather of the Prime Ministers Chair? When, and, more accurately, if, the electorate decide that Corbyn should be Prime Minister then you may call names and comment on back history, or are you just getting in some practice for the results of the oncoming General Election?
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You need to edit it again if you want anyone to understand what you're going on about.
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
Bloody Mary was pretty brutal, too.
You basically had to be to surivive. Kill or be killed.
I am sure that there is a tag line to GOT to a similar effect. Brutal times and we are fortunate not to have lived in them. We should perhaps reflect that today incompetent and inadequate rulers mainly just cost us money.
Democracy seems to be doing what the EU wants - not whaf the democratically elected governments of Poland and Hungary want? The ruling Polish and Hungarian parties have massive poll leads - so the locals don't seem too unhappy, I also dare say people feel a lot safer walking the streets of Warsaw or Budapest these days than many parts of Brussels. And they want to keep it that way! Perhaps Verhofstadt ought to be worried about the freedom and Rights of many of his own people to walk the streets safely at night?
As the Irish, French and Dutch know the EU only likes democracy when the people vote the right way. If they don't they are ignored or asked to keep voting until they vote the right way.
I can tell you from experience that Hungarian trains don't run on time, which seems to be the type of defence that you are offering for their government.
The Hungarian government is lacking any kind of coherent opposition. In the meantime, it controls the media with a grip that Silvio Berlusconi would have envied: Viktor Orban boasts of leading an illiberal democracy. He's half right. He will be re-elected later this year, probably with the two thirds majority required to alter the constitution. Two years after the event, Brexiters still have a meltdown about a factual document about the EU referendum that the government issued in advance. But they are entirely comfortable supporting governments with a vice-like grip on the local media.
Any independent voices are to be stifled. So George Soros, who founded the Central European University following the fall of Communism, is a favourite bogeyman (curiously, he's hated by closet racist kippers and Trump supporters too - he must be doing something right). The government has tried to close the university down.
And Viktor Orban's family is unaccountably wealthy: the Hungarians have the word "stroman" which I think is directly lifted from the English words "straw man", which is much used for Viktor's friends who have acquired a remarkable amount of property for his family. This, more than anything else, seems to be motivating his policies.
So young people move away, seeing better prospects elsewhere. Hungary offers the prospect of what Britain may well turn into post-Brexit - a population fearful of outsiders whose brightest and best seek their fortunes abroad.
Friends insist she had done a "bloody good job" in education and did not want to be just shunted around Whitehall. They also suspect the hand of Nick Timothy, May's former chief of staff, who has used a number of articles to single out Greening for criticism. There were whispers of Greening getting "too close" to teaching unions (perhaps no bad thing when only 8 per cent of teachers voted Tory last year) and speaking up too much in cabinet.
"A number of people who have been disloyal and ineffective have been allowed to stay in their roles," one senior Tory MP told me last night. "Why is Justine the only one to go? Because the PM has Nick Timothy whispering in her ear."
Sheer unadulterated bitchiness did for Justine (one of the finest cabinet members). May didn't like her speaking out, and offered her the poisoned chalice of DWP. Absolutely pathetic.
Didn't Henry I imprison for decades, rather than murder, his older brother (Robert, I think his name was)?
Amongst the nobility there was generally more mercy than might be supposed in the early Middle Ages. It's why John killing his own nephew was so shocking. His grandson, Prince Edward (later Edward I) slew a huge number of men of note at the Battle of... Evesham (I think) which was harsh by standards of the day but successfully ended the Montfort rebellion.
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
Bloody Mary was pretty brutal, too.
You basically had to be to surivive. Kill or be killed.
A fair analysis of today's Conservative government.
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
So our Queen isn't too bad, she's only had Diana, Princess of Wales executed.
I can't help feeling that Justine Greening thought she would be left in post if she simply said no, as so many others had. May obviously felt that she could not back down again without looking (even more) ridiculous.
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According to the papers Mrs May has not liked then tone of Justine Greening, nor the fact that Greening was proven right about grammar schools and made Nick Timothy look like an idiot.
From this morning's Red Box email.
It had been briefed that Justine Greening's hold on the role of education secretary was in doubt, but after other ministers had refused to budge, she did the same. Unlike the others, Theresa May deployed her renowned skills of compromise, flexibility and guile, and sacked her.
The PM had wanted to shift Greening to work and pensions, claiming she could continue her work on improving social mobility. This might have worked if the reshuffle had been the big wide-ranging affair we had been led by No 10 to expect.
Instead, Greening dug her heels in, laid out her achievements at education and more she wanted to do. May made clear it was a "take or leave it" offer. Greening left it. The job went to Damian Hinds, who is well liked, and good to see a straight white man finally get a break.
So the first openly gay woman in cabinet and the first state-educated education secretary returns to the backbenches: because what the prime minister really needs is another Remainer with a grievance. Greening has made clear she will be "representing" her community, which happened to vote something like 70 per cent in favour of Remain. A rebel is born.
Friends insist she had done a "bloody good job" in education and did not want to be just shunted around Whitehall. They also suspect the hand of Nick Timothy, May's former chief of staff, who has used a number of articles to single out Greening for criticism. There were whispers of Greening getting "too close" to teaching unions (perhaps no bad thing when only 8 per cent of teachers voted Tory last year) and speaking up too much in cabinet.
"A number of people who have been disloyal and ineffective have been allowed to stay in their roles," one senior Tory MP told me last night. "Why is Justine the only one to go? Because the PM has Nick Timothy whispering in her ear."
On the other hand, one can only have limited sympathy for someone who flounces when offered a reasonable Cabinet job. She wasn't being demoted.
Just to be clear, May leaving cabinet ministers in place is evidence she doesn't have any power, and May sacking people like Greening is evidence she lacks the skills of "compromise and flexibility"?
I'm not especially a fan of May, but it's very clear most of this board will interpret anything she does in a negative light. They start from the conclusion what she has done is wrong, and then work backwards to interpret the facts to fit that appropriately. Even if such a thought process contradicts the logic of the previous day.
Incidentally, as we're mostly talking about grim things, there's a nice anecdote of William Rufus (son of the Conqueror) angrily berating a servant for buying him shoes that weren't expensive enough for a king
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
Henry I was praised at the time for his leniency towards a corrupt servant - the man was blinded and castrated, rather than being executed.
And allowed Luc de Barre to kill himself rather than be killed.
But them's was the rules back then. No space or longevity for any shrinking violet, as subsequent monarchs found out.
Democracy seems to be doing what the EU wants - not whaf the democratically elected governments of Poland and Hungary want? The ruling Polish and Hungarian parties have massive poll leads - so the locals don't seem too unhappy, I also dare say people feel a lot safer walking the streets of Warsaw or Budapest these days than many parts of Brussels. And they want to keep it that way!
As the Irish, French and Dutch know the EU only likes democracy when the people vote the right way. If they don't they are ignored or asked to keep voting until they vote the right way.
I would love to wear a t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops to my Club but they won't allow it. Damn them. Not cancelling the direct debit, that said.
Except of course these are political decisions being made by the EU, not legal ones.
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
So our Queen isn't too bad, she's only had Diana, Princess of Wales executed.
I thought that Kate Middleton arranged the assassination. She's like Cersei.
According to the papers Mrs May has not liked then tone of Justine Greening, nor the fact that Greening was proven right about grammar schools and made Nick Timothy look like an idiot.
From this morning's Red Box email.
It had been briefed that Justine Greening's hold on the role of education secretary was in doubt, but after other ministers had refused to budge, she did the same. Unlike the others, Theresa May deployed her renowned skills of compromise, flexibility and guile, and sacked her.
The PM had wanted to shift Greening to work and pensions, claiming she could continue her work on improving social mobility. This might have worked if the reshuffle had been the big wide-ranging affair we had been led by No 10 to expect.
Instead, Greening dug her heels in, laid out her achievements at education and more she wanted to do. May made clear it was a "take or leave it" offer. Greening left it. The job went to Damian Hinds, who is well liked, and good to see a straight white man finally get a break.
So the first openly gay woman in cabinet and the first state-educated education secretary returns to the backbenches: because what the prime minister really needs is another Remainer with a grievance. Greening has made clear she will be "representing" her community, which happened to vote something like 70 per cent in favour of Remain. A rebel is born.
Friends insist she had done a "bloody good job" in education and did not want to be just shunted around Whitehall. They also suspect the hand of Nick Timothy, May's former chief of staff, who has used a number of articles to single out Greening for criticism. There were whispers of Greening getting "too close" to teaching unions (perhaps no bad thing when only 8 per cent of teachers voted Tory last year) and speaking up too much in cabinet.
"A number of people who have been disloyal and ineffective have been allowed to stay in their roles," one senior Tory MP told me last night. "Why is Justine the only one to go? Because the PM has Nick Timothy whispering in her ear."
Hadn't seen that but it is consistent with what I was saying. Deeply depressing that May is still talking to that idiot Timothy, if it is true. It would certainly explain the incompetence.
I can't help feeling that Justine Greening thought she would be left in post if she simply said no, as so many others had. May obviously felt that she could not back down again without looking (even more) ridiculous.
I said at the weekend that an attempt to have a significant reshuffle could be fatal for Mrs May. She simply does not have the power to make these kinds of decisions and is there on the tolerance of many different sections of her party, any one of which is larger than her majority.
The Brexit negotiations are undoubtedly a complicating factor forcing people to hold their hands at the moment but the end has been brought closer by this farce. Her political incompetence is extraordinary for someone who held such senior office for so long before becoming PM.
She doesn’t have a majority at all...
I think she should have sacked Boris and otherwise shuffled a few junior posts/promoted a few. Maybe Steve Baker or Hunt to FCO.
It would have looked strong, the press would have seen it as very decisive, no one could argue it wasn’t deserved on merit, she’d have made friends abroad with it.
Boris will plot regardless whether inside or out probably - but I suspect it’s too soon for him to challenge - no MP can seriously think he has enough of a grasp on details to deliver Brexit.
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
Conversely Richard the Lionheart pardoned the crossbowman who mortally wounded him. According to some accounts after the king died he was tortured to death anyway, but it was a nice gesture.
Yes true - but he had a lot of goodwill to make up after Acre.
Mr. Eagles, he certainly gave plenty of people the chop.
They were the lucky ones, some were burned alive.
They were also the lucky ones. Some were boiled, dismembered, or hung in chains to die of starvation.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
I think William the Bastard, AKA the Conqueror, who left entire parts of the nation unpeopled for centuries, following the Harrying of the North, must take that title.
To say nothing of chopping off your hands and feet if you were tactless enough to remind him who his grandfather was.
I don't think William had the monopoly on that kind of behaviour - most monarchs of the time were similarly ruthless - Henry I had his grandchildren's eyes put out and nose cut off as one of many typical actions of the day.
Democracy seems to be doing what the EU wants - not whaf the democratically elected governments of Poland and Hungary want? The ruling Polish and Hungarian parties have massive poll leads - so the locals don't seem too unhappy, I also dare say people feel a lot safer walking the streets of Warsaw or Budapest these days than many parts of Brussels. And they want to keep it that way!
As the Irish, French and Dutch know the EU only likes democracy when the people vote the right way. If they don't they are ignored or asked to keep voting until they vote the right way.
I would love to wear a t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops to my Club but they won't allow it. Damn them. Not cancelling the direct debit, that said.
Except of course these are political decisions being made by the EU, not legal ones.
Let Poland and Hungary leave then, if they think it's that important.
Hadn't seen that but it is consistent with what I was saying. Deeply depressing that May is still talking to that idiot Timothy, if it is true. It would certainly explain the incompetence.
It is the biggest open secret in Westminster that she's still taking advice from the gruesome twosome that are Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.
I suspect that will be used if and when Mrs May gets no confidenced later on this year.
Scotlands NHS figures are worst recorded with large increase in those not seen in the four hour target.Poor figures and Sturgeon has apologised.
Add in the failure of Wales NHS it is clear that the NHS throughout the UK needs a cross party working group to formulate plans on health and social care and funding for the next 10 years as Jeremy Hunt alluded to earlier in the week
Last month, BBC analysis of NHS data showed that fewer patients in Scotland were waiting longer than four hours in A&E than they did in 2012/3 in contrast to England where the number had more than doubled. It found England had a 155% rise in long waits between 2012/3 and this year, up to 2.5 million a year
Raab is new Housing minister. Gotta get that one right and fast.
Given the stated focus of this government is "housing, housing, housing" that could be a big platform. He will need to drive through major change - further tinkering won't work any more.
Just to be clear, May leaving cabinet ministers in place is evidence she doesn't have any power, and May sacking people like Greening is evidence she lacks the skills of "compromise and flexibility"?
I'm not especially a fan of May, but it's very clear most of this board will interpret anything she does in a negative light. They start from the conclusion what she has done is wrong, and then work backwards to interpret the facts to fit that appropriately. Even if such a thought process contradicts the logic of the previous day.
She announced that she was going to have a major reshuffle, hints were dropped from no 10 allover the place about Hunt, Johnson, Fox and many others, being sacked, removed and moved - Just like the 2017 GE, this reshuffle was called unnecessarily, major theatrics were planned, announcements prepared and pop! the fireworks not only didn't explode in triumph, but just blew smoke into her face, again....
Hadn't seen that but it is consistent with what I was saying. Deeply depressing that May is still talking to that idiot Timothy, if it is true. It would certainly explain the incompetence.
It is the biggest open secret in Westminster that she's still taking advice from the gruesome twosome that are Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.
I suspect that will be used if and when Mrs May gets no confidenced later on this year.
You have to wonder why she is doing that...
Does she think they served her well during the election ?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZLJpMOxS4
Goes beyond education though - the fetishisation of being "working class" that Labour encourage is a major barrier.
What's her majority again?
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2018
The UK has 4 in the top 10, 6 in the top 25, 9 in the top 50 and 16 in the top 100 worldwide.
Or this one, where the UK has 12 in the top 100:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2018/world-ranking#!/page/3/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats
Only braindead ideologues would want to upend this type of success.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/shanghai-ranking-academic-ranking-world-universities-2016-results-announced
What is amazing is the number of US universities in the top 50.
https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/950649393841090560?ref_src=twcamp^share|twsrc^m5|twgr^email|twcon^7046|twterm^1
If you want an equal share of the good stuff but not an equal share of the bad, you don't want equality, you want preference and privilege.
The proportion of prisoners from ethnic minorities significantly exceeds the percentage they comprise of the general population. This is often decried as indicative of racism of some variety in the justice system. A higher proportion (and therefore more disproportionate percentage) of doctors comes from ethnic minorities. Nobody claims that's due to anti-white discrimination.
You have to look at both ends of the scale. You can't complain you're not getting enough cake if you refuse to ever work in the kitchen.
As an aside, above average male representation at the top and bottom ends actually fits in with an interesting theory that men are just more variable than women (ie more likely to be both awful and fantastic) because of evolution, specifically men are less likely to leave offspring but have a chance of a genetic jackpot. That's why, the theory goes, prisons and Darwin Awards are full of men, but so are the ranks of geniuses.
Add in the failure of Wales NHS it is clear that the NHS throughout the UK needs a cross party working group to formulate plans on health and social care and funding for the next 10 years as Jeremy Hunt alluded to earlier in the week
Stand by, the "digital" team is on the case...
https://twitter.com/cgwomt/status/950685808427765760
https://twitter.com/thattimwalker/status/950336098022109184
@SkyNewsBreak: Justice Secretary David Gauke will issue a ministerial statement about the transparency of the Parole Board and the support offered to victims following the release of convicted rapist John Worboys
Of course, nothing matches the all-time Gold Standard Shambles of Corbyn's shadow cabinet reshuffle before the election.
Presumably he does not bother with what Corbyn says, or anti-Semitism, or McDonnell's economic plans. Or, of course, the democratic wishes of the British people. The argument that the collapse of parts of the EU into illiberal, undemocratic nationalism is a reason for staying in does not suggest much in the way of rationality either.
https://twitter.com/johnrentoul/status/950690857593733120
Two fantastic political ideas, if only they were done right.
The Scottish government has been progressing with health & social care integration for several years now. I'm sure they'd be happy to advise Jeremy in that area.
I also dare say people feel a lot safer walking the streets of Warsaw or Budapest these days than many parts of Brussels. And they want to keep it that way! Perhaps Verhofstadt ought to be worried about the freedom and Rights of many of his own people living in the sort of poorer areas he never visits to walk the streets safely at night?
As the Irish, French and Dutch know the EU only likes democracy when the people vote the right way. If they don't they are ignored or asked to keep voting until they vote the right way.
Henry VIII was simply the most evil man ever to rule this country.
George Osborne is a genius.
That's the sort of line you'd expect from well me.
On research, the extra cash in the system means that the dance department at the University of Brighton can hire a Nobel Prize winner. Research excellence is more spread out than people think.
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He was worse than Gordon Brown when it came to the nation's finances.
There was also Svein Forkbeard (King of England in 1014) who liked hanging men up by their testicles.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Witold Waszczykowski - dismissed
Minister of Defence, Antoni Macierewicz - dismissed
Minister of Environment, Jan Szyszko - dismissed
Minister of Health, Konstanty Radziwiłł - dismissed
I said at the weekend that an attempt to have a significant reshuffle could be fatal for Mrs May. She simply does not have the power to make these kinds of decisions and is there on the tolerance of many different sections of her party, any one of which is larger than her majority.
The Brexit negotiations are undoubtedly a complicating factor forcing people to hold their hands at the moment but the end has been brought closer by this farce. Her political incompetence is extraordinary for someone who held such senior office for so long before becoming PM.
From this morning's Red Box email.
It had been briefed that Justine Greening's hold on the role of education secretary was in doubt, but after other ministers had refused to budge, she did the same. Unlike the others, Theresa May deployed her renowned skills of compromise, flexibility and guile, and sacked her.
The PM had wanted to shift Greening to work and pensions, claiming she could continue her work on improving social mobility. This might have worked if the reshuffle had been the big wide-ranging affair we had been led by No 10 to expect.
Instead, Greening dug her heels in, laid out her achievements at education and more she wanted to do. May made clear it was a "take or leave it" offer. Greening left it. The job went to Damian Hinds, who is well liked, and good to see a straight white man finally get a break.
So the first openly gay woman in cabinet and the first state-educated education secretary returns to the backbenches: because what the prime minister really needs is another Remainer with a grievance. Greening has made clear she will be "representing" her community, which happened to vote something like 70 per cent in favour of Remain. A rebel is born.
Friends insist she had done a "bloody good job" in education and did not want to be just shunted around Whitehall. They also suspect the hand of Nick Timothy, May's former chief of staff, who has used a number of articles to single out Greening for criticism. There were whispers of Greening getting "too close" to teaching unions (perhaps no bad thing when only 8 per cent of teachers voted Tory last year) and speaking up too much in cabinet.
"A number of people who have been disloyal and ineffective have been allowed to stay in their roles," one senior Tory MP told me last night. "Why is Justine the only one to go? Because the PM has Nick Timothy whispering in her ear."
Mr. Eagles, John was better with finances but also a serial traitor, extortionist, failure in war and personally cruel.
Mr. Eagles (2), well, *we* here don't forget that. Others do. And the EU forgets that too.
The Hungarian government is lacking any kind of coherent opposition. In the meantime, it controls the media with a grip that Silvio Berlusconi would have envied: Viktor Orban boasts of leading an illiberal democracy. He's half right. He will be re-elected later this year, probably with the two thirds majority required to alter the constitution. Two years after the event, Brexiters still have a meltdown about a factual document about the EU referendum that the government issued in advance. But they are entirely comfortable supporting governments with a vice-like grip on the local media.
Any independent voices are to be stifled. So George Soros, who founded the Central European University following the fall of Communism, is a favourite bogeyman (curiously, he's hated by closet racist kippers and Trump supporters too - he must be doing something right). The government has tried to close the university down.
And Viktor Orban's family is unaccountably wealthy: the Hungarians have the word "stroman" which I think is directly lifted from the English words "straw man", which is much used for Viktor's friends who have acquired a remarkable amount of property for his family. This, more than anything else, seems to be motivating his policies.
So young people move away, seeing better prospects elsewhere. Hungary offers the prospect of what Britain may well turn into post-Brexit - a population fearful of outsiders whose brightest and best seek their fortunes abroad.
Defence and Foreign Secretaries sacked along with Health, Environment and Infrastructure Ministers.
Amongst the nobility there was generally more mercy than might be supposed in the early Middle Ages. It's why John killing his own nephew was so shocking. His grandson, Prince Edward (later Edward I) slew a huge number of men of note at the Battle of... Evesham (I think) which was harsh by standards of the day but successfully ended the Montfort rebellion.
I'm not especially a fan of May, but it's very clear most of this board will interpret anything she does in a negative light. They start from the conclusion what she has done is wrong, and then work backwards to interpret the facts to fit that appropriately. Even if such a thought process contradicts the logic of the previous day.
But them's was the rules back then. No space or longevity for any shrinking violet, as subsequent monarchs found out.
I think she should have sacked Boris and otherwise shuffled a few junior posts/promoted a few.
Maybe Steve Baker or Hunt to FCO.
It would have looked strong, the press would have seen it as very decisive, no one could argue it wasn’t deserved on merit, she’d have made friends abroad with it.
Boris will plot regardless whether inside or out probably - but I suspect it’s too soon for him to challenge - no MP can seriously think he has enough of a grasp on details to deliver Brexit.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/book-the-last-english-king-by-julian-rathbone-little-brown-pounds-1699-1288459.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/08/fca_mifid_gold_plating_bans_byod/
I suspect that will be used if and when Mrs May gets no confidenced later on this year.
It found England had a 155% rise in long waits between 2012/3 and this year, up to 2.5 million a year
Starts/completes at c.200,000 plus 20,000 or so conversions.
Does she think they served her well during the election ?