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Keir and loathing in the Labour party – politicalbetting.com
Starmer faces defections pic.twitter.com/8whuJYlkds
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Wasn't expecting a First.
Anyway, I'm feeling chuffed because I've just been to the local shop and got back home 2 minutes before it started chucking it down.
for once.Plus everyone they have built their political career with turning their backs on them....
Surely being punted to the Lords by Starmer would be a better bet?
EDIT: Is there a market on Corbyn crossing the floor?
Except if BJO is anything to go by his supporters have already defected.
A combination of short sightedness (3 -12 months profit growth requirements) made cheap imported Labour a safer choice than investment in productivity improvements.
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Unless you have left the UK energy market when I wasn’t looking that isn’t relevant.
@ydoethur, your imperial colonial response highlights why we need independence. As a colony we provide the cheap electricity for The Imperial Masters and yet pay the most for it.
Especially when you can just go Indy if you have no career to think of.
Surely not Corbynites. If they are going to defect it would be to the SWP or some other fringe outfit.
I can only think that it could possibly be Blue Labourites. The sort of people who think that a person with a penis and testicles is a man. Or that Labour is the party of working people.
Wales is probably the lowest proportion of renewables of any of the home nations, but do you know what? That doesn’t matter either, because I’m talking about UK figures and that’s what matters for (to come back to my main point) the cost of electricity.
No chance of a peerage, unless they get a deal from Boris.....
All they would achieve is a kick at Starmer, in return for binning everything.... For about 2 news cycles. Then they would be forgotten.
I'm not sure what odds would make a bet on any defecting attractive in fairness.
Paul Hutcheon
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Douglas Ross making an all-out pitch to Labour voters in his Tory conference speech by referring to “working people”, “working Scotland” and “working class”.
Says: “In May’s election, more working-class Scots voted Scottish Conservatives than Labour.”
When I was at an Indendepent Day School in Nottingham:
1 - Such pupils were banned by the County Council from being in the County Youth Orchestra.
2 - Such pupils were banned from having bus passes.
3 - Non local authority bus companies were banned from transporting anyone on journeys within Nottingham City boundary.
That's how they worked out their petty politics on children.
Age 71.
May be a touch right-wing for this Tory Party.
This overeggs it. The 'Get Brexit Done' election versus "Boris" was unwinnable for Labour under any leader. The Corbyn effect was to turn the inevitable defeat into a thrashing.
https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/how-britain-voted-2019-election
Truer under Boris and May but then while they only won voters over 45 post Brexit they also won pensioners by more than Cameron
And, even if it did, it would be had, not have, being as how it is nearly two years old.
Dyslexia definitely exists and I have worked wit pupils for whom it was a crippling problem.
If they were on about pupils whose parents pay for an ed-psych to give them a dyslexia diagnosis so they can get 25% more time in exams despite being no worse at spelling than I am, then I might be a bit more sympathetic.
Are you not missing some inverted commas before the last 2 words there?
I know.
In an online column in January 2009, Stringer denied the existence of dyslexia, calling it "a cruel fiction" invented by "the education establishment" to divert blame for illiteracy from "their eclectic and incomplete methods for instruction".[5] The charities Dyslexia Action and the British Dyslexia Association criticised Stringer's claims.[6]
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/17/battle-over-dyslexia-warwickshire-staffordshire
I never understood the extra time in exams. You don’t get special treatment in the big bad world.
https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk
The crisis between Algeria and France is escalating.
France is no longer allowed to fly over Algerian territory with its military aircraft – which it was doing as part of Operation Barkhane to reach northern Mali, according to Le Figaro
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1444652595591753731
a particularly nasty affair.
A Tory activist friend got gobbed on.
That doesn’t mean that there are not a significant number of pupils who are given somewhat dubious diagnoses at the prompting of parents unwilling to accept that their offspring are perhaps not quite as bright as that think they are.
GUIL: What?
ROS: England.
GUIL: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean?
It became slightly interesting when some dull twat moved a boy who needed blue backgrounds into the same class as a girl who need yellow ones.
"A "warped" sense of spatial awareness, or an understanding of shapes, distance, or volume that seems more like guesswork than actual comprehension"
I do wonder about some of us.
But seriously, it does sound a real problem.
A strange syndrome. Luckily for her she was also sexy and funny so everyone forgave the broken glassware and crockery. I still have a stain on my living room ceiling from when she managed to cover it with mustard opening a jar. The CEILING
You make it sound like there are some pupils who deserve to be good at everything.
Disclosure: in my year 9 SATS (they’re coming back, apparently), I got an 8 in maths, a 7 in science and a 5 in English. I felt like a failure, but I certainly wasn’t going to hide behind any condition.
Hopefully will therefore be a little more civilised as fewer of them can be bothered to go to the conferences to cheer for Keir than Jezza and harass the blues
Isn't it high time someone did an audit on James Bond? Civil servant on a middle rank salary. Access to lots of secret information. "Loses" or "Destroys" vast quantities of expensive, secret equipment on a regular basis. Spends like a drunk sailor. Claims to make up the difference by wining in Casinos...
Isn't that *all* the pointers to criminal behaviour?
I'm not sure what formula the maths uses for conversions?
And BJO has said the same.
@iainjwatson
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Former
@Conservatives
cabinet minister Lord Willetts - now President of the
@resfoundation
- warns that if the government goes ahead with the #universalcredit cut 'it will own the living standards challenge'
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421513004655#f0005
Gas demand shoots up when it gets colder to a much greater extent than when the wind drops off.
Don't be a snowflake.
@MarqueeMark who said 'Fun that the loudest shouts for needing fuel are coming from London and SE England. You know, that place where they have a vast tube, railway, bus, taxi and Uber network.'
Have to call out this bollocks. As discussed the other day although this might be true for London, it is not at all true for the SE. There is no tube, nearly all train lines are to and from London for commuters and useless for anything else and buses are non existent in most places.
I haven't complained about the fuel shortage at all but to try and put that argument forward as a dig at the SE is beyond preposterous.
Good friends with senior members of secret services of countries hostile to the UK... Russia, China. One at least one occasion travelled on documents and with money provided by the Chinese secret service - while on the run from SIS!
I was wondering where that sentence was heading.
https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1444664023438569477?s=20
I think you will find that getting extra time in exams etc is reliant on that.
Petrol problems "virtually over" in Scotland, northern England, and the Midlands - but issues persist in the South East, say retailers
I would say that there are two parts to it as well: those badly affected have great difficulty in reading as the words on the page seem to move around.
Then there are those who just can’t spell very well. I don’t think of myself as dyslexic as I can and do read very quickly (I was routinely reading a book a day when I was about ten), but my spelling is not so strong. I put it down to my brain’s insistence, despite several decades of proof to the contrary, that English is spelled phonetically…
(Apparently dyslexia is much less common in languages like Spanish and Italian which actually are spelled that way).
@AaronBastani
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It’s extraordinary that a Tory PM openly states wages have stagnated for a decade (while their party was in charge) & it’s seen as s positive talking point.
Lobby journalists themselves would barely acknowledge this between 2010-17…now it’s a Tory line?!