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Though I'm worried that I may fail the hetero test in story 17
@Tim
'Here's the laughable Tobe forecasting great success for the head teacher with no qualifications'
No qualifications,just a graduate from London University whose completing her postgraduate PGCE,after yesterday's OECD report on Labour's car crash education and Tristram Twit's response,does anyone take Labour seriously?.
'Before joining Future Annaliese worked on education reform and the curriculum at CIVITAS, the Institute for the Study of Civil Society. Annaliese studied English at Queen Mary, University of London, and has experience of working in primary schools through the Wandsworth SCITT. Annaliese advised the current government on the review of the primary National Curriculum'
Or perhaps he is a normal guy who has things happen in his life which beat posting on pb.com. Probably.
There was no major rants against Brown.
It was so toned down.
The migrant slaveworkers exposed in last week's Sunday Times magazine is worth an inclusion.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10367759/Alex-Salmond-spent-20000-keeping-secret-non-existent-EU-legal-advice.html
Old Labour was primary syphilis.
New Labour was seconary syphilis.
Now Ed M promises the tertiary and terminal phase of the pathology .
I do wonder that they are too subtle for most people.
Depeche Mode were once a boy band - they were still in their teens when they released Just Can't Get Enough in 1981.
It maybe something to do with the recent server upgrade.
TSEofPB @TSEofPB 4s
For all you teachers out there.
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The again, I was hoping for a Lib-Con Coalition with around 80 LD MPs or so, so my perspectives on things may be a little skewed.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/oeep9dl
Particularly if since the economy is picking up a bit, and despite the need for lots more austerity (a lot more than we are currently 'getting' perhaps), the public may feel we can afford to not be so immediately harsh in cutting things in Welfare?
And part of the explanation is that Cameron would disagree with your blog today because he doesn't see anything wrong with the Blair years.
Cameron wanted to be 'Heir to Blair'.
While John Major was accused of wanting to recreate 1950s England, Cameron wants to recreate the Britain of summer 2007.
The US is suspending a large part of the $1.3bn (£810m) in aid it gives to Egypt's military.
The delivery of large-scale military systems as well as cash assistance to the Egyptian government would be withheld, said the state department.
Any coincidence in the timing?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24470121
'It's possible to read something AND be bored by it, Sean. Witness the infernal tedium visited on PBers every morning by Plato, for example.'
Or the daily whine about marginal tax rates?
http://politicalscrapbook.net/2013/10/eric-pickles-eats-six-curries-in-one-session/
I confess, I don't really know if my local Tories were really against it, as the NoToAV leaflet I received was essentially just a picture of Nick Clegg, but it'd be fun to see them try to argue in favour after that.
We'd need something like Australia, where IIRC the partys send round instructions to voters on which order to vote for candidates to ensure they don't screw it up?
Increasing nanny state
Increasing 'political corectness'
Increasing surveillance state
Attempts to boost house prices
Running a chumocracy
Fake austerity
Lying about 'paying down debt'
Done nothing about immigration
Done nothing about English democratic deficit
Obsession with giving money to every foreigner he meets
Cultural cringe to Obama
Policy making dependent upon Notting Hill dinner party fashionable thought
Pointless NHS reorganisation
Increasing student debt
Disasterous energy policy
Complete waste of money of HS2
Continued waste of lives and money in Afghanistan
Attempt to support Al Qaeda in Syria
The under 25 benefit nastiness
Tolerance of 'the subject we cannot name'
The list could be added to if I really thought about it.
They have the same destination as Labour the only differences is how long and in what manner they get there.
Ted Heath winning in 1974 is the equivalent of Cameron winning in 2015.
I don't particularly fear a Labour government (though I think getting back in so easily after one term, after a stretch of 13 years in power, will do their attitude little good), and I no longer have much faith in this Cameron government which has proven disappointingly incompetent in many ways, but even at a glance I'd still put many of those as either not a problem as far as I'm concerned, something both parties support/are doing nothing about so it's not a Cameron problem but a mainstream party problem (eg surveillance state - and since only the top 2 parties will run a government of some stripe, it makes things no better or worse by not voting for either of them in protest on that sort of issue), minor twaddle (Chumocracy, Notting Hill, cultural cringe, lying about paying down debt - oh my, politician is intentionally misleading? Wouldn't ever see Clegg, Miliband or Farage do that I'm sure!), absurd generalisations (Al Qaeda/Syria - there's issues around that whole affair, but the very fact the situation is so complex makes equating Cameron's view as being so direct as you imply quite insulting), inevitable in one form or another/minor issue (student debt/ foreign aid respectively) or simply not that bad.
One thing Labour cannot attack is fake austerity, because they have yelled to the hills how damaging austerity has been, so while it is hard to make the 'cut hard in the wrong place, or too fast' argument, making the claim there's been no real austerity, truth or not, goes against their entire strategem to date and so has zero impact (the Tories are probably seeing a similar thing now, having pushed a narrative of 'Weak Miliband' but now trying to say he's 'dangerous Miliband'). The LDs are similarly prevented, and while UKIP or others can make that argument, since the only alternative governing parties support the same position or even less austerity, attacking Cameron for it is pointless as the others would be even worse from that arguing point.
Also, I don't even know what the 'subject we cannot name' is, so apparently you're right about them not naming it!
HS2, Energy policy, Afghanistan and Surveillance are all big failures for me too, but of the governing parties I see little positive difference that would give me confidence, so I find it hard to get angry at Cameron about them.
Night all.
A failure to elect a Conservative majority government in 2015 will be just like going back to the start of the 1970s, a collective failure to address the three key issues of the day: the public finances, education and welfare. In fact it would be even worse, given that we have actually made huge progress on all three. To actually go backwards would be even worse than the 1970s, when all they were doing was putting off the reckoning, not running away from progress already made.
There was a very good comment on Sean's article today:
misterman, Today 09:21 AM
Mr Thomas
Good piece.
It's a measure of the effectiveness of the present Government that barely more than three years after taking over the socialists' mess many people appear simply to have forgotten how disastrous the previous thirteen years were.
In fact I suspect you and Avery probably were.
But that's an interesting quote.
Why hasn't Cameron been constantly pointing out the failures of Labour ? Why didn't Cameron point out the failures of Labour while he was Opposition leader ?
BECAUSE HE DIDN'T THINK THEY WERE FAILURES.
CAMERON WANTED TO BE 'HEIR TO BLAIR'.
And I'm sorry RN you can't accuse the past of 'putting off the reckoning' and then defend this government's economic and energy policies.
Hence most people thinking the debt is being paid off.
Which will make it so much harder for this country to adjust when we do have to start living within our means.
That Cameron is willing to lie for party gain at the cost of damage to the country is contemptible.
Does that make him any different to the other party leaders ? Probably not. But that only means that the others are equally contemptible.
"My view on football - going to a new country when ur an adult, & because u can get a passport u play 4 that national team - I disagree"
He's picking more up on the bizarre fact that Manuel Almunia is eligible for England rather than Froome/Farah/Strauss who all have British ancestry or came here as kids.
No one is saying Farah etc should not represent Britain or England, but to move to a country as a career move then swap nationalities is ridiculous.
Imagine if a load of journeymen English League 1 footballers went and lived in India and got picked for the national team ahead of indians, how would that go down?
Wilshere is 100% right in my book.
the worst example I can think of is the crazy ODI between England and Ireland last month, when England's Boyd Rankin dismissed Ireland's Ed Joyce, having dismissed him years earlier when playing for Ireland against Joyce's England.
how can that possibly be allowed to happen?
Well he can choose to play for either Serbia, Kosovo, Belgium or Albania but he DEFINITELY shouldn't be eligible for England.
Why should it be different if you are an adult @JackWilshere ? Shouldn't naturalized immigrants have the same employment rights? @KP24'
Seriously - Playing for a country is about EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ??!! No - That is about being eligible to play for a club or w/e.
Bonkers.
"I want to get into government as soon as possible to bring in that price freeze."
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/lights-will-stay-on-says-miliband-29648339.html
Best PM:
DC: 37(+2)
EdM: 23(-3)
NC:6(+1)
DK: 35(+1)
best PM by Labour VI:
EdM: 66%
Labour 2010:
EdM: 55%
Westminster scuppers Scottish police pension deal
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/westminster-scuppers-scottish-police-pension-deal-1-3134246
http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/william-hague-s-800-christmas-card-bill-revealed-1-3133970
Lib Dem (2010 Lib Dem)
Cameron: 22 (23)
Miliband: 10 (21)
Cameron Best PM lead:
M: +11
F: +15
Do you want a lender of last resort or not?
Dunfermline – Labour's PFI/PPP legacy condemned by SNP
http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-politics/8159-dunfermline-labours-pfippp-legacy-condemned-by-snp
Whatever else he believes in, it is not open government!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24465979