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May 5th – the 16th anniversary of the last time Labour won a general election – politicalbetting.com
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'To Kill a Mockingbird,' Other Books Banned From California Schools Over Racism Concerns
https://www.newsweek.com/kill-mockingbird-other-books-banned-california-schools-over-racism-concerns-1547241
The Gold Standard for Scottish polling reports tomorrow.
Imagine the fanbois' hubris.
Re the recommended cessation of advanced maths classes for gifted students, am I right in thinking we have never had these sorts of classes in Britain, at least not in state schools?
There's a long history of challenges to TKAM stretching right back to the early 1960s when it was published. The N word is used 48 times according to Wiki, so I can appreciate that it's a challenging book to teach today.
But it's not cancelled. You can still buy a copy on Amazon. I'd recommend it, it's a great book.
Not under Starmer though. and I can't see under who else in the current PLP.
Or maybe that the Wokefinder General had rounded you all up and locked you into the previous thread,
The complicity in not investigating the death of Mr Ewell is as wrong as any other act in the book.
I have similar disquiet about the ending of "Of Mice and Men" complicity in murder, but justified by the author as justice served, when it is the opposite.
However a Conservative leader could *lose* an election against Starmer.
There's a difference I think.
Sure, you’ll still be able to buy it on Amazon. Taught widely in US schools? No
And yes, I have read it. And the sequel.
Starmer can get LAB back into a 1992 position particularly if LAB come back in Scotland, which can happen if we have an independence referendum which Sturgeon loses and then people turn against SNP.
Another 1 pointer
I have voted Lib Dems in more elections than I have Labour.
JEEZZZ!
He needs someone effective in the Shad Chancellor post ffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W_npyI7Xsw
Are you a centrist are some kind of far left accelerationist? or maybe a Tory?
I mean lumbering Labour with a completely unelectable leader seems like madness from anything but a left wing accelerationist or right wing pro Tory point of view?!
CON: 40% (+4)
LAB: 39% (+1)
LDEM: 6% (-3)
GRN: 4% (-3)
REFUK: 3% (-1)
As a former student of economics I struggle not to see hard times ahead. However, there are plenty of jobs available now the Eastern Europeans have returned home, but do we have the workforce that wants to work hard and for not very much? The government will promote entrepreneurship, but how many barbers shops can any one high street sustain?
If I am wrong and the economy runs along nicely on cheap borrowing and house price inflation, the Conservative Party are in for as long as they want.
We merely had a text book which had a double page on each author. A bit of a bio and a couple of extracts.
Math on the other hand...well that was three separate courses. Calculus, algebra, and arithmetic and statistics.
I struggled. Even with an A at O Level taken a year early.
Then there was French. My B at O Level was a long way behind. And my accent was, well...A bit too French.
Re-post.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/04/internal-polling-suggests-labour-heading-for-defeat-in-hartlepool-byelection?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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The mood among some Labour figures in Hartlepool was “pretty desperate”, sources said. Internal data from six weeks of campaigning shows that just over 40% of previous party supporters have said they will vote for the party again this week. The figure is what is known as a “promise rate” – who people say they will vote for – and is based on the canvassing of more than 10,000 people in the town, most of whom have recently voted Labour.
We haven’t got the small donors that Corbyn brought and haven’t got the big donors that [Tony] Blair had. We’re trapped between the two worlds.”
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So the Labour leadership from the right of the party got rid of the people that supplied the bulk of the votes, the money and the canvassing power. They did all this in exchange for some head rubs from the media who will support the Conservatives anyway and some head rubs from loyal Conservative voters who will support the Conservatives anyway.
Either, they are completely electorally incompetent.
Or
They are happy for Labour to fail as long as Labour fails whilst being led by a centrist.
If anyone who used to say the leader needs to go so the government actually have some opposition for the good of the country they would say so now unless it was just a different kind of cynical excuse for Conservatives to replace Corbyn with an easier opponent.
https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/1389661841949855748
But...but... Tony said we'd be 20 points ahead, we just had to insult and kick out most of the people who actually vote for us and then everyone who doesn't vote for us would see how amazing Labour are and vote for us.
Failing to realise the left are some of the only sympathetic idiots stupid enough to give Labour their vote.
@kle4 NP for earlier, I sometimes like to use f you as a term of endearment so I assumed we were becoming friends, so in that spirit f you too
Goodnight...
Our village book club read a cracking crime thriller last month - Way Beyond a Lie by Harry Fisher.
One of our members recommended it based on a friend of a friend's recommendation, etc... ...but that friend knew the author, so we were able to get him to join the bookclub meeting, which in current times is necessarily by zoom. It was very enlightening having the author with us.
Anyway, this guy struggled for over 4 years to find an agent (never mind a publisher) before eventually self-publishing on Amazon (for which he gets 29p of the £8.99 price per copy).
But the thing is the book is actually really good - great plot, good characters, good pace, and would make a great film or TV series.
Makes you wonder how some of the utter crap that does get published makes it through to print.
The happy ending is that his next book Six Six Six is being published properly in the autumn.
(Just to confirm I have no connection to the author - I just liked his book and admired his determination to persevere with it.)
Same goes for governors. Even legislatures have limited power in this regard.
In USA, local school boards with a few exceptions are run (sometimes into the ground!) by independently elected officials, in a system that is generally separated from the rest of local government. Almost always on a non-partisan basis though rarely without some political input.
https://youtu.be/0bHrrZdFRPk
Not sure why the outrage about this particular book being dropped by some schools. If you keep the same books as set texts forever you risk atrophy.
Like, I had a choice between Eyre and Flies - but I'd find it odd if I went back to my old school and found that was still the case now.
The Tory heartland is now the Midlands it seems, which had the highest Leave vote of any UK region in 2016 and has a high rate of home ownership, the South East had a Leave vote below the English average however.
Remain voting and rent majority London has swung even further to Labour it seems
Get rid of Starmer, we need Long-Bailey or Burgon to fly McCluskey's red flag, that'll do the trick. Good luck with that.
It opened my eyes to the corrosive evil of racism, that's enough for me.
Btw. We both left Wigan to graduate High School in N America. How cool is that? We can't be many!
Am now confused
‘Nicola Sturgeon here confirming that if she doesn't get a Section 30 order from the UK Government, then there will be no wildcat independence referendum.
It could not be clearer.
#BBCLeadersDebate’
https://twitter.com/agentp22/status/1389702832098398209?s=21
I might suggest Harold Shipman but even he probably has a better reputation at this point and he is probably more charismatic.
Yes even as a now long dead person he is far more charismatic than the current leader of the Labour party.
LONG time ago. 😞
Frankly - although I am a unionist - maybe we should get on with the referendum. SNP will lose and the question will disappear. Just like Quebec post 1995.
More seriously, is this Big Fish paying attention to her polling data? And setting up Boris as a semi-permanent boogie man, as long as he is the Prime Minister / Gatekeeper of Union?
I am sorry if your feelings were hurt, as the saying goes, if you ain't big enough to take it then don't dish it out... I mean something like that anyway.
If the reaction to enthusiastic young people joining Labour is to label them all trots because it suits your political purposes then acting hurt when you get called Tories in response is not only completely hypocritical but beyond the sensitivity levels any grown adult should display.
Strike when the iron is hot. And don't when it's not.
But at a guess nationalised broadband isn't mentioned?
I haven't ever personally promoted by own manifesto but I liked parts of the Labour one... not sure it really counts as favouring the manifesto set out in the works of Leon Trotsky but maybe those lazy so and so's at head office merely did some copy paste move and there was the Labour manifesto.
I am extremely interested in Trotsky's approach of first respecting the Brexit referendum and then proposing a second referendum, an interesting couple of chapters no doubt.
I simply can't reconcile national polling with local polling, unless the Tory SE support has evaporated.
Nearby Bluefield (WV & VA) used to be famous back in the day, for an ice cream parlor that gave out free ice cream when the summertime temperature broke 90F or thereabouts. Was really advertising the fact that, in the dog days of summer, Bluefield had some of the cooler weather in the general area.
In actual reality Trot numbers (people who actually are Trots) were in the low thousands and the majority of those had no interest in joining Labour whilst Labour was joining by hundreds of thousands of people, even calling 1% of them Trots was incorrect.
If they had just said I don't like them and think they are bad people that would be perfectly accurate but they didn't, these are the same people who are upset at being called Tories.
Probably because a fair few that were called Tories actually later joined the Tories or called for a vote for the Tories. The truth hurts.