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With John Bercow attending the funeral of ex-speaker, Michael Martin, it was down to deputy, Lindsay Hoyle to handle yesterday’s PMQs and the above clip shows what a positive reception he got.
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Have you ever wondered why people hold you in such contempt? You, and Bromptonaut, and ScottP, who are apparently unable to read plain English and resort to nasty personal abuse when your errors are pointed out - well, bluntly the three of you don't add to the quality of discussion.
(And also, you keep obsessing about Brexit which is (a) boring and (b) going to happen whether we like it or not. Can't you take an interest in normal matters like AV and the importance of different pizza toppings?)
And with that, since the conversation with Mr Glenn is tedious and clearly going to be unproductive as he doesn't want to listen to anything that contradicts his views, and I have a busy day tomorrow, good night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44066711
She has learned nothing from last year's disaster.
https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/994678234284425216
Nos da.
Edit: Their merits are debateable (In the truest sense of the word), but I think they're popular - particularly amongst the sort of demographic the Conservatives are targetting.
Mrs Thatcher saw that when she was Education Secretary when she closed and merged so many and refused to undo her great work when she was PM even with stonking majorities.
Smashing the unions, creating the single market, and closing so many grammar schools were Mrs T's finest achievements.
The parents of public schoolchildren are patriots and enduring financial hardship for the greater good.
Do you not feel similar internal contradictions ?
I think if one argues against the existence of grammar schools then it is logically consistent to argue against fee paying schools. And I can't do that.
One is funded directly by the government, the other isn't it.
If I had my way I'd abolish the state sector, and give parents the money as vouchers for schools.
Let private schools do what the state cannot do.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/10/britain-apologises-for-appalling-treatment-of-abdel-hakim-belhaj
The aim should be to make private schools redundant rather than outlawed.
Honourable shout outs to Roger Hollis and Tom Driberg.
We respect democracy results in this country.
All over the world
Flying the flag for you!"
Would you restrict what food I can buy because I might choose to spend my money on expensive superfoods that are of superior nutritional content?
If they do I imagine the PLP with withdraw their support for him and it'll be game over.
Bad night for the disapora voting bloc - no Poland, Russia or Romania in the final. And the Aussies qualified again. Seems the jury is continuing to have the desired effect! It's all about the music folks.
Your complaint seems to be that private education is much better than state education. The correct response to that fear is to improve state education not ban a superior product.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6258797/brexit-theresa-may-max-fac-customs-union/
In the grammar system you are done for if you flunk at age 11.
https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/994686638189170688
Is there any foundation to this story or is it just made up - another Brexit puff powder piece?
Think again.
Personally the bigger problem I experienced was the lack of a sixth form. My secondary school wasn't set up to get you on the right path in terms of picking A-Levels.
Average p.a. cost per secondary scool pupil = £13,000 (private); £6,300 (state). Now, can anyone think of how we might bring state education up to the same standard as private?
I was knocking up in that constituency on election day. It became quite obvious quite quickly that we were not going to win that seat.
That’s 400 poor kids “being screwed” to the tune of £12m per year
But the best schools should be needs blind. The state should be willing to fund scholarships for the brightest and the best
No 10 have remembered that they're in the driving seat, as the executive.
But also that the constraints on their remaining the executive is in the hands of the largest party in the elected chamber of the commons.
Eton's own website says "During the 2015/16 academic year 273 boys (21% of the school) will receive means-tested bursaries averaging a 66% reduction in school fees, with 73 of those pupils paying no fees at all."
But those are not 'poor kids'; a 66% reduction still leaves over £13k to find p.a. (that's half the average UK salary before tax.) Even those paying no fees at all will have had to pass the common entrance exams (https://www.etoncollege.com/KSpapers.aspx) which a state primary education is not going to set you up for.
I suspect that a majority in the Commons is in favour of some sort of customs union and this "customs partnership" might be a way to get Commons approval and possibly EU approval. The Max Dev MPs are in a minority in the Commons and in Cabinet.
Mrs May future is indeed in the hands of the largest party in the elected chamber of the Commons but I think she is secure. I can't see a majority of Tory MPs preferring either Boris or Moggsy over Mrs May. Can you?
2. Do grammar schools have a negative impact on the results of the next 50% of students below the brightest 20%? Probably yes.
Does 1 outweigh 2? Well, we need to see the numbers to know the answer.
Any discussion based around feelings rather than data must be discarded.
I don't think there are the numbers for a customs union in the commons myself; there have been two votes on it already and the Govt have won both. But it is frankly irrelevant what there is a majority in the commons for, when the executive negotiates international treaties.
1. People who 'have a bad day' on 11 Plus Day are permanently disadvantaged. The statistics on the number of people who went from Secondary Moderns to University were staggeringly small.
2. The results for people in the 21 to 100th percentile are significantly worse in grammar school areas than in comprehensive areas.
Now, a big increase in the grades of the poor but bright is probably a price worth paying for a small worsening in the next 80%. But if its only a negligible increase, and the price is dramatically worse outcomes for the next 80%, then it isn't.
2 Do private schools have a negative impact on the results of the next 50% of students below the richest 5%? Probably yes.
1.and 2. are both undesirable so there is no balance to be assessed.
(The figures were from my own time so vary a bit year on year)