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Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.0 -
If the CPS had reached the decision that they were going to charge him, shouldn't the voters be able to weigh that in their choice?TudorRose said:
The CPS were placed awfully for their decision-making in the timing of this election. I think they've handled that awful position very well.0 -
It's social media that will spread the story, the media will not risk having it thrown out because of prejudicial reporting.0
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Anyway, there's apparently going to be a landslide in this* election:
https://twitter.com/AntonLaGuardia/status/870576163432923136
*"this election" not being the UK's.0 -
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* * WARNING * * Generalisation follows * * WARNING * *Morris_Dancer said:Mrs C, there can be weird things between genders in education. I remember being very surprised at university when a small group (me and about six others, they were all female) ended up having most of the group deferring to me. Given I'm quiet, it was perplexing, and the only difference was that I possessed manly stubble.
Similarly, during a seminar we were split into small groups. I was with two girls (one a good friend, the other a stranger). They gassed a lot about the subject, but when it came time to talk about our collective view to the rest, they suddenly became mute and I had to do it.
Gender dynamics is a funny thing. All I can say is that generally speaking, women argue over who should take charge in a group by trying to get someone else to do it. Men argue over who should take charge in a group by putting a case why they themselves should do it. With those two dynamics in play you can see why a group of women with one bloke results in the behaviour you describe.
On a slight tangent, we tend to be more unguarded in single sex groups. Get a bunch of men (or women) and listen to the conversation. Then add one member of the opposite sex and the conversation and body language changes.0 -
It has happened before. Sweden, Austria and Portugal all moved from EFTA to the EU and remained part of the EEA. There is absolutely no reason legally why the UK could not move the other way.FF43 said:
Precisely, the EEA is a bilateral agreement between a consortium consisting of the EU and named member states and a set of named EFTA members. The respective obligations of the EU and the member states towards the consortium's side of the agreement is determined by the treaties between the EU and the member state. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems a massive stretch to assume the UK could participate in the EEA while not a member of the EU and without amending the EEA treaty.Richard_Tyndall said:
Nope because the only way that could happen is if the EEA treaty itself lapsed for all members. The UK is not a signatory via the EU but in its own right.
For the same reason the separate Le Touquet treaty between France and the UK does not lapse at Brexit.0 -
Fairly tenuous. Let's be honest only 2% of the country know who Nick Timothy is anyway.TheScreamingEagles said:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/16/pms-chief-of-staff-embroiled-in-south-thanet-election-spending-rowBrom said:Only positive for May is it all happened under Cameron's watch. I don't think it will be helpful with regards solidifying the purple to blue switchers.
Thanet is Cameron's mess and another one he won't be around to clear up.0 -
This is still the most likely reason for the Prime Minister to have called the election, unless she knew in advance how the CPS would proceed. Since she has yet to tell us precisely what is her plan for Brexit, it is hard to take seriously the notion she was desperate to get a mandate for it.wills66 said:
Comparing the charging of a candidate and two officials with dramatic allegations levelled directly at the Democratic Presidential candidate is a bit of an over reaction.williamglenn said:
And now we have our Comey moment.Slackbladder said:
urgh, great timing.Scott_P said:@rowenamason: Wow. Tory MP Craig Mackinlay, his agent and CCHQ official charged with election offences
I'm sure it'll make headlines and seem like a major event (awaiting the twitter storm now) but it's hardly the "15 evil tory mps going to prison" event that the far lefties were loudly proclaiming, a few weeks ago, as the entire reason for May calling the election in the first place.
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Max
It was also compulsory in my school, even though I went to a secular state comp. I walked the exam, got a grade A, having done sod all work, one of only two As I got a GCSE. They say the mind of a confirmed godless atheist is pure.0 -
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The only compulsory GCSE subjects are maths, English and science. It's compulsory to study RE but not compulsory to take a GCSE in it. MFL (e.g. French) was compulsory for a while a few years ago, but is no longer. http://www.careerpilot.org.uk/info/your-choices-at-14/gcses-compulsory-and-optional/#link1MaxPB said:
RE was compulsory at my school because it was CofE. Can't imagine why it would be otherwise, it's completely pointless. They put it on Friday afternoon which meant everyone bunked.Richard_Tyndall said:
My daughter is just sitting her GCSEs and RE was indeed compulsory.ydoethur said:
Again, as somebody who has been head of RS I do not recognise this description of it. In both schools where I have taught it it has been compulsory to GCSE and covers at least five religions plus major ethical and theological issues.AlsoIndigo said:
And yet chatting with my son's 16 year old girlfriend the other day, a supposed high flyer at the top of their year, she has no idea where the Pacific Ocean is, further talking showed similar glaring holes in fairly basic factual knowledge. While they seems have have a lot of experience of a range of cultural matters in the way you describe, the number of hard facts in which they are in posession seems woeful.rkrkrk said:Surely young people are exposed to a far wider range of culture than ever before?
They watch cartoons from Japan, TV shows from America, play video games against people from all around the world... They are far more likely to have been abroad, met someone from a different religion etc...
They might have met someone from a different religion, but they now learn almost nothing about different religions. In my day we did several years of RE, which was to all intents a course in comparitive theology, and explored in some depth the teachings of most of the world major religions, that appears to have all but disappeared because a white english woman teaching people about Islam or Buddism appears to be too controversial.
I can qualify that however by saying in the LEA school I worked in (and didn't teach it) although it had two specialist teachers who were very good takeup beyond year 9 was low. It's not considered 'fashionable' by the children. The problem may be less that it's badly taught than that they simply tune it out?
From what I understand the compulsories are
Maths
English (Only one unlike my day when it was Language and Lit)
RE
Foreign Language
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a) They’d still have lost much of Scotland andbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.
b) He wouldn’t have been on Strictly. Or be Chair of Norwich City.0 -
Thinking more on this, I suppose theoretically the UK could implement the EEA protocols and insist on Liechtenstein etc reciprocating, but it wouldn't be able to force the EU or any of its member states to reciprocate because the UK isn't "contracted to" the EU and members under the EEA.FF43 said:
Precisely, the EEA is a bilateral agreement between a consortium consisting of the EU and named member states and a set of named EFTA members. The respective obligations of the EU and the member states towards the consortium's side of the agreement is determined by the treaties between the EU and the member state. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems a massive stretch to assume the UK could participate in the EEA while not a member of the EU and without amending the EEA treaty.Richard_Tyndall said:
Nope because the only way that could happen is if the EEA treaty itself lapsed for all members. The UK is not a signatory via the EU but in its own right.
For the same reason the separate Le Touquet treaty between France and the UK does not lapse at Brexit.0 -
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.0 -
This is very plausible but the fact he would be quizzed very hard on his relationship with the PM (even if he gave a dead-bad answer, it would still be the headlines) is another reason. I think he was potentially a great asset on the campaign - he publicly projects quite a calming "steady at the helm" figure, rather like Darling did - but I don't think his appearances would now be able to drive the desired narrative. (I wonder if he'd been here, there and everywhere at the forefront of the campaign, whether the tax and PM/CoE relationship questions might have petered out after a while and he could have started fronting the issues as desired ... the fewer appearances he makes, the more they become a valuable and limited opportunities for journalists to ask uncomfortable questions.)DecrepitJohnL said:
The Conservatives have an uncosted manifesto, have dropped the pledge not to raise taxes, and just a few weeks ago tried and failed to raise NI. I'd imagine CCHQ is anxious to avoid the Chancellor being asked what taxes will be raised and by how much.Brom said:
Does anyone know the reason why? I assume it's largely due to the NI u-turn, but given the healthy polling leads after the event I wonder if it's something more personal, such as a leak or briefing against TM.AlastairMeeks said:What is apparent is that the relationship between Theresa May and Philip Hammond has broken down. He's been invisible in this election campaign.
She could have done with his input, frankly.0 -
I think there may be a difference between what is legally compulsory and what an individual school requires. Grandson 2 is at a Kent (i.e. old-fashioned) Grammar School.Dadge said:
The only compulsory GCSE subjects are maths, English and science. It's compulsory to study RE but not compulsory to take a GCSE in it. MFL (e.g. French) was compulsory for a while a few years ago, but is no longer. http://www.careerpilot.org.uk/info/your-choices-at-14/gcses-compulsory-and-optional/#link1MaxPB said:
RE was compulsory at my school because it was CofE. Can't imagine why it would be otherwise, it's completely pointless. They put it on Friday afternoon which meant everyone bunked.Richard_Tyndall said:
My daughter is just sitting her GCSEs and RE was indeed compulsory.ydoethur said:
Again, as somebody who has been head of RS I do not recognise this description of it. In both schools where I have taught it it has been compulsory to GCSE and covers at least five religions plus major ethical and theological issues.AlsoIndigo said:
And yet chatting with my son's 16 year old girlfriend the other day, a supposed high flyer at the top of their year, she has no idea where the Pacific Ocean is, further talking showed similar glaring holes in fairly basic factual knowledge. While they seems have have a lot of experience of a range of cultural matters in the way you describe, the number of hard facts in which they are in posession seems woeful.rkrkrk said:Surely young people are exposed to a far wider range of culture than ever before?
They watch cartoons from Japan, TV shows from America, play video games against people from all around the world... They are far more likely to have been abroad, met someone from a different religion etc...
They might have met someone from a different religion, but they now learn almost nothing about different religions. In my day we did several years of RE, which was to all intents a course in comparitive theology, and explored in some depth the teachings of most of the world major religions, that appears to have all but disappeared because a white english woman teaching people about Islam or Buddism appears to be too controversial.
I can qualify that however by saying in the LEA school I worked in (and didn't teach it) although it had two specialist teachers who were very good takeup beyond year 9 was low. It's not considered 'fashionable' by the children. The problem may be less that it's badly taught than that they simply tune it out?
From what I understand the compulsories are
Maths
English (Only one unlike my day when it was Language and Lit)
RE
Foreign Language
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If onlyEICIPM said:SURPRISE!!!!!!!
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On your first point, I would disagree. If a man is innocent until proved guilty then the voters should have nothing to weigh in their decision until that guilt is proven.AlastairMeeks said:
If the CPS had reached the decision that they were going to charge him, shouldn't the voters be able to weigh that in their choice?TudorRose said:
The CPS were placed awfully for their decision-making in the timing of this election. I think they've handled that awful position very well.0 -
If I got to play God/Gove with the curriculum:
More of:
Basic statistics, probability, creative writing, financial education, genre fiction, philosophy,
Less:
Shakespeare, logarithms, geometry, reading plays, plants in biology, traditional sports, Romans and Ancient Egyptians.
Compulsory reading hour once a week where kids choose what they want to read.
All essays in exams to have word limits.
That was a fun rant anyway. Totally subjective!
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Strange, nothing is going right for the Conservatives. This could now be a loss for them, indeed can Mcinley actually be a legitimate candidate, he can be on the ballot paper but very difficult to support him. I have a funny feeling there may be a weekend poll with Labour ahead. The London polling suggests a move to the left there which could bring the South West seats of Twickenham etc into play as well as Con/Lab marginals. Trouble easy once you are on a slide in an election it gains momentum. Canada last year, incredible shift of opinion in the last 5 days. There they publish polls identifying who Leaners are leaning to, which tends to show what is likely to happen. Could do with a bit of that here.
A Cons minority government would suit me, probably mean an end to the gung ho anti Europe business. Led by Boris, who of course would find a reason to justify staying in the EU?0 -
they did when Blair was in charge, you know, when Labour last won an election.bigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.0 -
What May has answered a question?EICIPM said:SURPRISE!!!!!!!
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meanwhile a bid to oust let McCluskey for bullying and intimidation during the unite election process
Fresh bid to oust Unite union boss Len McCluskey
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Mrs C, interesting comment on leadership (although I absolutely wasn't seeking it in either instance). I agree on single-sex honesty.
It was also interesting to learn just how bitchy and backstabbing women can be, whilst far more polite in person.
Edited extra bit: anyway, must be off.0 -
So the CPS have spoken. Not sure it would matter if things were strong and stable. But they are wobbling anyway.
I hope he lives up to the hopes that have let to his victories to date. I have no idea if he will be able to even partly, but even with the opposition he faced, he has had an incredibly impressive year.AlastairMeeks said:Anyway, there's apparently going to be a landslide in this* election:
https://twitter.com/AntonLaGuardia/status/870576163432923136
*"this election" not being the UK's.0 -
Con lead was down to 3 with one poll. It is therefore entirely possible there will be one with Lab ahead.0
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France have got themselves a FAR better leader than the ridiculous pygmy choice we have in this election. Note to May - this is how you take a big lead and utterly crush it.AlastairMeeks said:Anyway, there's apparently going to be a landslide in this* election:
https://twitter.com/AntonLaGuardia/status/870576163432923136
*"this election" not being the UK's.0 -
I think the moderator may be making a site comment on this subject soontheakes said:Strange, nothing is going right for the Conservatives. This could now be a loss for them, indeed can Mcinley actually be a legitimate candidate, he can be on the ballot paper but very difficult to support him. I have a funny feeling there may be a weekend poll with Labour ahead. The London polling suggests a move to the left there which could bring the South West seats of Twickenham etc into play as well as Con/Lab marginals. Trouble easy once you are on a slide in an election it gains momentum. Canada last year, incredible shift of opinion in the last 5 days. There they publish polls identifying who Leaners are leaning to, which tends to show what is likely to happen. Could do with a bit of that here.
A Cons minority government would suit me, probably mean an end to the gung ho anti Europe business. Led by Boris, who of course would find a reason to justify staying in the EU?0 -
I would agree, unless there was a timetable on the decision - I'm a little confused, as it had been said previously by some that the deadline to charge was before the election date, but now apparently some are saying it could have waited.TudorRose said:
On your first point, I would disagree. If a man is innocent until proved guilty then the voters should have nothing to weigh in their decision until that guilt is proven.AlastairMeeks said:
If the CPS had reached the decision that they were going to charge him, shouldn't the voters be able to weigh that in their choice?TudorRose said:
The CPS were placed awfully for their decision-making in the timing of this election. I think they've handled that awful position very well.0 -
The treaty was amended to include those countries in the contracting party.Richard_Tyndall said:
It has happened before. Sweden, Austria and Portugal all moved from EFTA to the EU and remained part of the EEA. There is absolutely no reason legally why the UK could not move the other way.FF43 said:
Precisely, the EEA is a bilateral agreement between a consortium consisting of the EU and named member states and a set of named EFTA members. The respective obligations of the EU and the member states towards the consortium's side of the agreement is determined by the treaties between the EU and the member state. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems a massive stretch to assume the UK could participate in the EEA while not a member of the EU and without amending the EEA treaty.Richard_Tyndall said:
Nope because the only way that could happen is if the EEA treaty itself lapsed for all members. The UK is not a signatory via the EU but in its own right.
For the same reason the separate Le Touquet treaty between France and the UK does not lapse at Brexit.0 -
The trouble for anyone seeking or predicting an electoral impact is that the story cannot be reported beyond the announcement of charges. The less politically aware won't see exposure that makes it a thing. Social media it will just be one of hundreds of freneticly linked stories.0
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If she was in a head to head with Farage I think she would be 65:35 ahead. But she isn't.Pulpstar said:
France have got themselves a FAR better leader than the ridiculous pygmy choice we have in this election. Note to May - this is how you take a big lead and utterly crush it.AlastairMeeks said:Anyway, there's apparently going to be a landslide in this* election:
https://twitter.com/AntonLaGuardia/status/870576163432923136
*"this election" not being the UK's.
Would Macron have beaten Melenchon 65:35?0 -
This might be like the Sarah Wollaston defection to Remain story, that ran for a good 36 hours prior to the EU ref vote.AlastairMeeks said:If 20 MPs had been charged, the CPS's decision might have affected the election directly. I expect that one MP being charged will not do so and instead its effects will be indirect: taking away oxygen from other stories today and preventing the Conservatives re-establishing any kind of momentum.
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Eh, maybe. If things were going great, maybe, but online it might get more traction now things are not going great. Though I do think it could almost have played better if the other option had been taken - lot more freedom to complain and insinuate.dyedwoolie said:The trouble for anyone seeking or predicting an electoral impact is that the story cannot be reported beyond the announcement of charges. The less politically aware won't see exposure that makes it a thing. Social media it will just be one of hundreds of freneticly linked stories.
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In spite of never having gone past O level maths I have used logs and geometry at almost ever stage of my working life in one form or another. I certainly wouldn't want to see them downgraded.rkrkrk said:If I got to play God/Gove with the curriculum:
More of:
Basic statistics, probability, creative writing, financial education, genre fiction, philosophy,
Less:
Shakespeare, logarithms, geometry, reading plays, plants in biology, traditional sports, Romans and Ancient Egyptians.
Compulsory reading hour once a week where kids choose what they want to read.
All essays in exams to have word limits.
That was a fun rant anyway. Totally subjective!
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The legislative elections are against all other parties I believe. This projection is a remarkable performance from a standing start.tlg86 said:
If she was in a head to head with Farage I think she would be 65:35 ahead. But she isn't.Pulpstar said:
France have got themselves a FAR better leader than the ridiculous pygmy choice we have in this election. Note to May - this is how you take a big lead and utterly crush it.AlastairMeeks said:Anyway, there's apparently going to be a landslide in this* election:
https://twitter.com/AntonLaGuardia/status/870576163432923136
*"this election" not being the UK's.
Would Macron have beaten Melenchon 65:35?0 -
Having been away and not really following the corbasm / Tory faultering closely, the Tory campaign seems bizzare...Bizzare as in there isn't one, willing to allow corbyn to pronounce all his uncosted give away without a tax bombshell in sight.
It is neither the worst campaign in history or Messina / crosby know something the pollsters don't.0 -
The Conservatives are bloody lucky the media haven't made hay of this.AlastairMeeks said:What is apparent is that the relationship between Theresa May and Philip Hammond has broken down. He's been invisible in this election campaign.
She could have done with his input, frankly.0 -
The opposition is split, it's not May's fault that the Left is coalescing around Labour.Pulpstar said:
The legislative elections are against all other parties I believe. This projection is a remarkable performance from a standing start.tlg86 said:
If she was in a head to head with Farage I think she would be 65:35 ahead. But she isn't.Pulpstar said:
France have got themselves a FAR better leader than the ridiculous pygmy choice we have in this election. Note to May - this is how you take a big lead and utterly crush it.AlastairMeeks said:Anyway, there's apparently going to be a landslide in this* election:
https://twitter.com/AntonLaGuardia/status/870576163432923136
*"this election" not being the UK's.
Would Macron have beaten Melenchon 65:35?0 -
Again missing the point that unless it leaves the EEA/EFTA bloc and so is in breach of the treaty, the UK cannot be thrown out of the EEA. It is an international treaty which the UK is an independent signatory to.FF43 said:
Thinking more on this, I suppose theoretically the UK could implement the EEA protocols and insist on Liechtenstein etc reciprocating, but it wouldn't be able to force the EU or any of its member states to reciprocate because the UK isn't "contracted to" the EU and members under the EEA.FF43 said:
Precisely, the EEA is a bilateral agreement between a consortium consisting of the EU and named member states and a set of named EFTA members. The respective obligations of the EU and the member states towards the consortium's side of the agreement is determined by the treaties between the EU and the member state. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems a massive stretch to assume the UK could participate in the EEA while not a member of the EU and without amending the EEA treaty.Richard_Tyndall said:
Nope because the only way that could happen is if the EEA treaty itself lapsed for all members. The UK is not a signatory via the EU but in its own right.
For the same reason the separate Le Touquet treaty between France and the UK does not lapse at Brexit.0 -
what surprises me is how little scrutiny that the Labour Party manifesto has received when it is just a promise box of spending spending spending to bribe the voters telling them what they want to hear and completely ignoring the problem of the deficit and Britains astronomical debts and the bankruptcy that would ensue if it were to be implemented . In the end it will be the poor that would suffer most from their manifesto when unemployment hits 5 million and inflation rates go through the roof - yet the Tories and the media have not even attempted to dissemble labours crank pot manifesto ,they are giving Corbyn a free ridebigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.0 -
They've been terrible at establishing that after the very first week. Truly terrible, as they assumed anyone hearing Corbyn would not like him. Either they will be right in the end and the polls are all nonsense (even the ones with big Tory leads are down on those leads, albeit the share is not hugely down), or the campaign chiefs should get fired, and Crosby's no messiah.AlastairMeeks said:If 20 MPs had been charged, the CPS's decision might have affected the election directly. I expect that one MP being charged will not do so and instead its effects will be indirect: taking away oxygen from other stories today and preventing the Conservatives re-establishing any kind of momentum.
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It didn't hurt labour in 2005 with Blair and brown. They had an ice cream and nobody believed the story.that ended well.Casino_Royale said:
The Conservatives are bloody lucky the media haven't made hay of this.AlastairMeeks said:What is apparent is that the relationship between Theresa May and Philip Hammond has broken down. He's been invisible in this election campaign.
She could have done with his input, frankly.0 -
Justin Greening was awful on Womans hour..i actually thought little Timmy was better...0
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What do you do/did you do that needs logarithms and geometry?Richard_Tyndall said:
In spite of never having gone past O level maths I have used logs and geometry at almost ever stage of my working life in one form or another. I certainly wouldn't want to see them downgraded.rkrkrk said:If I got to play God/Gove with the curriculum:
More of:
Basic statistics, probability, creative writing, financial education, genre fiction, philosophy,
Less:
Shakespeare, logarithms, geometry, reading plays, plants in biology, traditional sports, Romans and Ancient Egyptians.
Compulsory reading hour once a week where kids choose what they want to read.
All essays in exams to have word limits.
That was a fun rant anyway. Totally subjective!0 -
From the Lib Dem forum:
**CPS Announce charges against Craig Mackinlay**
The Strict Liability Rule means that anything said in relation to the charges, even on social media, that could be seen to prejudice a trial is contempt of court.
The moderating team in this group will monitor any posts in relation to CPS action. Any posts which we believe could be prejudicial or defamatory, we will remove without notice. We may also close commenting on other posts.
Please also consider the guidance above when posting in other groups and in public, including retweeting or sharing others' posts.
That will apply here to.0 -
I'm in Ystrad Mynach (Caerphilly constitutency).NickPalmer said:
I have a good friend in Croydon Central, normally a LibDem voter and genuinely undecided, who is utterly besieged by Labour and Tory leaflets, canvassers and phone calls - she says she's never seen anything like it. Unlike some she enjoys it - she feels properly wooed. She'd still like to vote LibDem really, she dislikes the Tories over Brexit but really likes her Tory MP, she feels Labour offers hope and the Tories offer gloom. I have no idea how she'll decide.Sir_Geoff said:Is anyone else is a marginal surprised by the low level of ground activity? I'm within Dewsbury, albeit one of the Conservative leaning wards (that has been passed between Dewsbury and Wakefield). I've had the mailshot from both Lab and Cons, and one hand delivered leaflet each. No door knocking. Nothing at all from the minor parties. Fewer posters around than previous years. I'm led to believe Lab are concentrating their efforts on their core wards, and that the rise in membership over the last couple of years hasn't translated fully into feet on the ground.
A similar story from what I see / hear in other nearby constituencies I visit: Wakefield, Halifax, Colne Valley, Calder Valley (although in the latter, the usual Liberal posters are reduced, and the legacy of hallucinogenic drug use in Hebden Bridge was evident in concentrated pockets of Corbymania).
I've received no mail from any party. I've seen nobody campaigning. I have seen a few Labour window stickers.
It is a safe seat and Wayne David (Lab) will get in unhindered, so there's nothing to see here, move along.0 -
And yet it is the Conservative manifesto which is uncosted. You might not like Labour's assumptions or even its arithmetic but at least they are there.kjohnw said:
what surprises me is how little scrutiny that the Labour Party manifesto has received when it is just a promise box of spending spending spending to bribe the voters telling them what they want to hear and completely ignoring the problem of the deficit and Britains astronomical debts and the bankruptcy that would ensue if it were to be implemented . In the end it will be the poor that would suffer most from their manifesto when unemployment hits 5 million and inflation rates go through the roof - yet the Tories and the media have not even attempted to dissemble labours crank pot manifesto ,they are giving Corbyn a free ridebigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.0 -
I am not sure anybody really believed 25 point leads. When it came down to 14-15 that seems more likely, but now we are talking 3-8...Either it is polling disaster mkII or may / crosby / messina have run the worst campaign in history.kle4 said:
They've been terrible at establishing that after the very first week. Truly terrible, as they assumed anyone hearing Corbyn would not like him. Either they will be right in the end and the polls are all nonsense (even the ones with big Tory leads are down on those leads, albeit the share is not hugely down), or the campaign chiefs should get fired, and Crosby's no messiah.AlastairMeeks said:If 20 MPs had been charged, the CPS's decision might have affected the election directly. I expect that one MP being charged will not do so and instead its effects will be indirect: taking away oxygen from other stories today and preventing the Conservatives re-establishing any kind of momentum.
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I'm very familiar with the A* - G GCSE Maths curriculum (now being phased out), and I can assure you that logarithms are not mentioned, whereas statistics and probability figure quite prominently.rkrkrk said:If I got to play God/Gove with the curriculum:
More of:
Basic statistics, probability, creative writing, financial education, genre fiction, philosophy,
Less:
Shakespeare, logarithms, geometry, reading plays, plants in biology, traditional sports, Romans and Ancient Egyptians.
Compulsory reading hour once a week where kids choose what they want to read.
All essays in exams to have word limits.
That was a fun rant anyway. Totally subjective!0 -
Here's what amazes me. For no doubt perfectly understandable reasons, the triumvirate (Jezza, McD, and Diane) dislike, disagree with the premise of, have opposed the actions of, and have put themselves at odds with the British State both in the past and perhaps, or rather, most likely currently also.
That the country should now be considering voting these people in to run it is just unfathomable.0 -
If that is true, then it's deeply depressing, as it seems to me that Hammond is the best cabinet minister by far.Casino_Royale said:
The Conservatives are bloody lucky the media haven't made hay of this.AlastairMeeks said:What is apparent is that the relationship between Theresa May and Philip Hammond has broken down. He's been invisible in this election campaign.
She could have done with his input, frankly.
If May is going to replace him as Chancellor, (assuming she is still PM), then she is an idiot!0 -
It really was breathtaking arrogance not to cost their proposals. Wouldn't have been that hard.DecrepitJohnL said:
And yet it is the Conservative manifesto which is uncosted. You might not like Labour's assumptions or even its arithmetic but at least they are there.kjohnw said:
what surprises me is how little scrutiny that the Labour Party manifesto has received when it is just a promise box of spending spending spending to bribe the voters telling them what they want to hear and completely ignoring the problem of the deficit and Britains astronomical debts and the bankruptcy that would ensue if it were to be implemented . In the end it will be the poor that would suffer most from their manifesto when unemployment hits 5 million and inflation rates go through the roof - yet the Tories and the media have not even attempted to dissemble labours crank pot manifesto ,they are giving Corbyn a free ridebigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.0 -
That is precisely my thoughts. I cannot understand why Theresa May or Hammond haven't shredded labour on their anti business, anti aspiration, high tax, high borrowing, inheritance tax and Land tax proposals.kjohnw said:
what surprises me is how little scrutiny that the Labour Party manifesto has received when it is just a promise box of spending spending spending to bribe the voters telling them what they want to hear and completely ignoring the problem of the deficit and Britains astronomical debts and the bankruptcy that would ensue if it were to be implemented . In the end it will be the poor that would suffer most from their manifesto when unemployment hits 5 million and inflation rates go through the roof - yet the Tories and the media have not even attempted to dissemble labours crank pot manifesto ,they are giving Corbyn a free ridebigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.
The team behind TM need to be sacked after this fiasco and I am disappointed in how the campaign has been fought
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Of the young corbyn fans on my social media there is a brilliant bit of double think going on...Brexit is terrible, we need to be in the EU for trade and business will leave, then the next retweet / Facebook like, putting corporation tax up massively won't have businesses leaving because they have nowhere else to go....0
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It might be uncosted but then the Conservatives hardly have a reputation for spraying money around, either in office over the last seven years, or in the nature of the manifesto launch. Labour, by contrast, does have a reputational and credibility issue there.DecrepitJohnL said:
And yet it is the Conservative manifesto which is uncosted. You might not like Labour's assumptions or even its arithmetic but at least they are there.kjohnw said:
what surprises me is how little scrutiny that the Labour Party manifesto has received when it is just a promise box of spending spending spending to bribe the voters telling them what they want to hear and completely ignoring the problem of the deficit and Britains astronomical debts and the bankruptcy that would ensue if it were to be implemented . In the end it will be the poor that would suffer most from their manifesto when unemployment hits 5 million and inflation rates go through the roof - yet the Tories and the media have not even attempted to dissemble labours crank pot manifesto ,they are giving Corbyn a free ridebigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.0 -
This is a point which I wish I had made more of in my thread about YouGov vs ICM, and while Philip Cowley is commenting only on London, it seems to be of general applicability:
https://twitter.com/philipjcowley/status/8705814734552883210 -
The Tories are too polite. They were under Cameron and they are now. Bunch of wusses when it comes to going on the offensive.Big_G_NorthWales said:
That is precisely my thoughts. I cannot understand why Theresa May or Hammond haven't shredded labour on their anti business, anti aspiration, high tax, high borrowing, inheritance tax and Land tax proposals.kjohnw said:
what surprises me is how little scrutiny that the Labour Party manifesto has received when it is just a promise box of spending spending spending to bribe the voters telling them what they want to hear and completely ignoring the problem of the deficit and Britains astronomical debts and the bankruptcy that would ensue if it were to be implemented . In the end it will be the poor that would suffer most from their manifesto when unemployment hits 5 million and inflation rates go through the roof - yet the Tories and the media have not even attempted to dissemble labours crank pot manifesto ,they are giving Corbyn a free ridebigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.
The team behind TM need to be sacked after this fiasco and I am disappointed in how the campaign has been fought
They should employ SeanT as their attack dog.0 -
Re Climate Change and Paris Accord
Macron says:
"MAKE OUR PLANET GREAT AGAIN"
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Ah okay. Things have changed since the 2000s.FeersumEnjineeya said:
I'm very familiar with the A* - G GCSE Maths curriculum (now being phased out), and I can assure you that logarithms are not mentioned, whereas statistics and probability figure quite prominently.rkrkrk said:If I got to play God/Gove with the curriculum:
More of:
Basic statistics, probability, creative writing, financial education, genre fiction, philosophy,
Less:
Shakespeare, logarithms, geometry, reading plays, plants in biology, traditional sports, Romans and Ancient Egyptians.
Compulsory reading hour once a week where kids choose what they want to read.
All essays in exams to have word limits.
That was a fun rant anyway. Totally subjective!
That claim about our MPs not knowing chance of two heads in a row was horrifying to me.
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Or, more succinctly:Pulpstar said:From the Lib Dem forum:
**CPS Announce charges against Craig Mackinlay**
The Strict Liability Rule means that anything said in relation to the charges, even on social media, that could be seen to prejudice a trial is contempt of court.
The moderating team in this group will monitor any posts in relation to CPS action. Any posts which we believe could be prejudicial or defamatory, we will remove without notice. We may also close commenting on other posts.
Please also consider the guidance above when posting in other groups and in public, including retweeting or sharing others' posts.
That will apply here to.
https://twitter.com/MartinBelam/status/8705799036699566080 -
Has this been mentioned - UKIP tried to stand in Wrexham:
http://www.wrexham.com/news/ukip-tried-to-stand-in-wrexham-fresh-forms-submitted-minutes-before-deadline-132282.html
Stitch-up or screw-up? How many other UKIP no-shows are similar?
Or just another Cardiff politico who thinks they can easily drive to Wrexham between breakfast and lunch?0 -
The treaty was amended by moving their names from the EFTA side to the EU side. That was it.FF43 said:
The treaty was amended to include those countries in the contracting party.Richard_Tyndall said:
It has happened before. Sweden, Austria and Portugal all moved from EFTA to the EU and remained part of the EEA. There is absolutely no reason legally why the UK could not move the other way.FF43 said:
Precisely, the EEA is a bilateral agreement between a consortium consisting of the EU and named member states and a set of named EFTA members. The respective obligations of the EU and the member states towards the consortium's side of the agreement is determined by the treaties between the EU and the member state. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems a massive stretch to assume the UK could participate in the EEA while not a member of the EU and without amending the EEA treaty.Richard_Tyndall said:
Nope because the only way that could happen is if the EEA treaty itself lapsed for all members. The UK is not a signatory via the EU but in its own right.
For the same reason the separate Le Touquet treaty between France and the UK does not lapse at Brexit.
There are levels of amendment to treaties and such minor amendments are done without a formal vote. A country cannot be forced out of a treaty unless it is in breach. This is all covered under the 1969 Convention. The only alternative is for the whole EEA treaty to collapse.0 -
How can do you any real maths without knowledge of logarithms?FeersumEnjineeya said:
I'm very familiar with the A* - G GCSE Maths curriculum (now being phased out), and I can assure you that logarithms are not mentioned, whereas statistics and probability figure quite prominently.rkrkrk said:If I got to play God/Gove with the curriculum:
More of:
Basic statistics, probability, creative writing, financial education, genre fiction, philosophy,
Less:
Shakespeare, logarithms, geometry, reading plays, plants in biology, traditional sports, Romans and Ancient Egyptians.
Compulsory reading hour once a week where kids choose what they want to read.
All essays in exams to have word limits.
That was a fun rant anyway. Totally subjective!0 -
#1 Most Read in the BBC News websitePulpstar said:From the Lib Dem forum:
**CPS Announce charges against Craig Mackinlay**
The Strict Liability Rule means that anything said in relation to the charges, even on social media, that could be seen to prejudice a trial is contempt of court.
The moderating team in this group will monitor any posts in relation to CPS action. Any posts which we believe could be prejudicial or defamatory, we will remove without notice. We may also close commenting on other posts.
Please also consider the guidance above when posting in other groups and in public, including retweeting or sharing others' posts.
That will apply here to.0 -
Neil Hamilton has apparently stated that he is yet to visit the constituency in which he is standing during this campaign. UKIP clearly aren't taking this election too seriously in many places.Restharrow said:Has this been mentioned - UKIP tried to stand in Wrexham:
http://www.wrexham.com/news/ukip-tried-to-stand-in-wrexham-fresh-forms-submitted-minutes-before-deadline-132282.html
Stitch-up or screw-up. How many other UKIP no-shows are similar.
Or just another Cardiff politico who thinks they can easily drive to Wrexham between breakfast and lunch?0 -
@reactionlife: The odds of PM BoJo being in No 10 by July 1 have dropped from 100/1 to 25/1 in recent days. https://twitter.com/ladpolitics/status/8705808049084375050
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Whilst I was aways confident that the vast bulk of the expenses charges against MPs would be thrown out, I always caveated it with an expectation that the courts might be invited to have a look at what went on in Thanet.
One close advisor to Theresa May facing charges, another hung by his bollocks from Traitor's Gate over the Manifesto - she might be feeling somewhat short of advisors. Fear not, the pb.com Collective are always here to offer helpful suggestions, Prime Minister.....0 -
The 20-point leads were right at the time; the local election results are entirely consistent with that level of support.FrancisUrquhart said:
I am not sure anybody really believed 25 point leads. When it came down to 14-15 that seems more likely, but now we are talking 3-8...Either it is polling disaster mkII or may / crosby / messina have run the worst campaign in history.kle4 said:
They've been terrible at establishing that after the very first week. Truly terrible, as they assumed anyone hearing Corbyn would not like him. Either they will be right in the end and the polls are all nonsense (even the ones with big Tory leads are down on those leads, albeit the share is not hugely down), or the campaign chiefs should get fired, and Crosby's no messiah.AlastairMeeks said:If 20 MPs had been charged, the CPS's decision might have affected the election directly. I expect that one MP being charged will not do so and instead its effects will be indirect: taking away oxygen from other stories today and preventing the Conservatives re-establishing any kind of momentum.
But it's not the campaign strategists who've failed; the decline in the polls is down to those inside Number 10 (as well as Corbyn campaigning reasonably effectively and the Labour moderates keeping their traps shut - though both follow naturally from the Tory errors).0 -
May does not let Hammond out on his own.Big_G_NorthWales said:
That is precisely my thoughts. I cannot understand why Theresa May or Hammond haven't shredded labour on their anti business, anti aspiration, high tax, high borrowing, inheritance tax and Land tax proposals.kjohnw said:
what surprises me is how little scrutiny that the Labour Party manifesto has received when it is just a promise box of spending spending spending to bribe the voters telling them what they want to hear and completely ignoring the problem of the deficit and Britains astronomical debts and the bankruptcy that would ensue if it were to be implemented . In the end it will be the poor that would suffer most from their manifesto when unemployment hits 5 million and inflation rates go through the roof - yet the Tories and the media have not even attempted to dissemble labours crank pot manifesto ,they are giving Corbyn a free ridebigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.
The team behind TM need to be sacked after this fiasco and I am disappointed in how the campaign has been fought
May is ultra control freak. Which is good in a crisis situation but not otherwise.0 -
It is very newsworthy. Of course, it is only 1 candidate out of 650 (or rather 630ish).surbiton said:
#1 Most Read in the BBC News websitePulpstar said:From the Lib Dem forum:
**CPS Announce charges against Craig Mackinlay**
The Strict Liability Rule means that anything said in relation to the charges, even on social media, that could be seen to prejudice a trial is contempt of court.
The moderating team in this group will monitor any posts in relation to CPS action. Any posts which we believe could be prejudicial or defamatory, we will remove without notice. We may also close commenting on other posts.
Please also consider the guidance above when posting in other groups and in public, including retweeting or sharing others' posts.
That will apply here to.0 -
Google "Hannah's sweets" for an example of the probability questions that a good GCSE maths student is expected to be capable of tacking.rkrkrk said:
Ah okay. Things have changed since the 2000s.FeersumEnjineeya said:
I'm very familiar with the A* - G GCSE Maths curriculum (now being phased out), and I can assure you that logarithms are not mentioned, whereas statistics and probability figure quite prominently.rkrkrk said:If I got to play God/Gove with the curriculum:
More of:
Basic statistics, probability, creative writing, financial education, genre fiction, philosophy,
Less:
Shakespeare, logarithms, geometry, reading plays, plants in biology, traditional sports, Romans and Ancient Egyptians.
Compulsory reading hour once a week where kids choose what they want to read.
All essays in exams to have word limits.
That was a fun rant anyway. Totally subjective!
That claim about our MPs not knowing chance of two heads in a row was horrifying to me.0 -
And yet people are blaming her adviser for the manifesto, oddly.David_Evershed said:
May does not let Hammond out on his own.Big_G_NorthWales said:
That is precisely my thoughts. I cannot understand why Theresa May or Hammond haven't shredded labour on their anti business, anti aspiration, high tax, high borrowing, inheritance tax and Land tax proposals.kjohnw said:
what surprises me is how little scrutiny that the Labour Party manifesto has received when it is just a promise box of spending spending spending to bribe the voters telling them what they want to hear and completely ignoring the problem of the deficit and Britains astronomical debts and the bankruptcy that would ensue if it were to be implemented . In the end it will be the poor that would suffer most from their manifesto when unemployment hits 5 million and inflation rates go through the roof - yet the Tories and the media have not even attempted to dissemble labours crank pot manifesto ,they are giving Corbyn a free ridebigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.
The team behind TM need to be sacked after this fiasco and I am disappointed in how the campaign has been fought
May is ultra control freak.0 -
Conservatives may not have a reputation for spraying money around but the last seven years' evidence says otherwise. Most government borrowing ever.david_herdson said:
It might be uncosted but then the Conservatives hardly have a reputation for spraying money around, either in office over the last seven years, or in the nature of the manifesto launch. Labour, by contrast, does have a reputational and credibility issue there.DecrepitJohnL said:
And yet it is the Conservative manifesto which is uncosted. You might not like Labour's assumptions or even its arithmetic but at least they are there.kjohnw said:
what surprises me is how little scrutiny that the Labour Party manifesto has received when it is just a promise box of spending spending spending to bribe the voters telling them what they want to hear and completely ignoring the problem of the deficit and Britains astronomical debts and the bankruptcy that would ensue if it were to be implemented . In the end it will be the poor that would suffer most from their manifesto when unemployment hits 5 million and inflation rates go through the roof - yet the Tories and the media have not even attempted to dissemble labours crank pot manifesto ,they are giving Corbyn a free ridebigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.
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I am in equally safe Maidenhead but have had a leaflet from Con, 1 from UKIP and 2 from the LDsFenster said:
I'm in Ystrad Mynach (Caerphilly constitutency).NickPalmer said:
I have a good friend in Croydon Central, normally a LibDem voter and genuinely undecided, who is utterly besieged by Labour and Tory leaflets, canvassers and phone calls - she says she's never seen anything like it. Unlike some she enjoys it - she feels properly wooed. She'd still like to vote LibDem really, she dislikes the Tories over Brexit but really likes her Tory MP, she feels Labour offers hope and the Tories offer gloom. I have no idea how she'll decide.Sir_Geoff said:Is anyone else is a marginal surprised by the low level of ground activity? I'm within Dewsbury, albeit one of the Conservative leaning wards (that has been passed between Dewsbury and Wakefield). I've had the mailshot from both Lab and Cons, and one hand delivered leaflet each. No door knocking. Nothing at all from the minor parties. Fewer posters around than previous years. I'm led to believe Lab are concentrating their efforts on their core wards, and that the rise in membership over the last couple of years hasn't translated fully into feet on the ground.
A similar story from what I see / hear in other nearby constituencies I visit: Wakefield, Halifax, Colne Valley, Calder Valley (although in the latter, the usual Liberal posters are reduced, and the legacy of hallucinogenic drug use in Hebden Bridge was evident in concentrated pockets of Corbymania).
I've received no mail from any party. I've seen nobody campaigning. I have seen a few Labour window stickers.
It is a safe seat and Wayne David (Lab) will get in unhindered, so there's nothing to see here, move along.0 -
Which real maths did you have in mind?FrancisUrquhart said:
How can do you any real maths without knowledge of logarithms?FeersumEnjineeya said:
I'm very familiar with the A* - G GCSE Maths curriculum (now being phased out), and I can assure you that logarithms are not mentioned, whereas statistics and probability figure quite prominently.rkrkrk said:If I got to play God/Gove with the curriculum:
More of:
Basic statistics, probability, creative writing, financial education, genre fiction, philosophy,
Less:
Shakespeare, logarithms, geometry, reading plays, plants in biology, traditional sports, Romans and Ancient Egyptians.
Compulsory reading hour once a week where kids choose what they want to read.
All essays in exams to have word limits.
That was a fun rant anyway. Totally subjective!0 -
Well done Crick.0
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Outside Thanet it won't swing many votes.kle4 said:
It is very newsworthy. Of course, it is only 1 candidate out of 650 (or rather 630ish).surbiton said:
#1 Most Read in the BBC News websitePulpstar said:From the Lib Dem forum:
**CPS Announce charges against Craig Mackinlay**
The Strict Liability Rule means that anything said in relation to the charges, even on social media, that could be seen to prejudice a trial is contempt of court.
The moderating team in this group will monitor any posts in relation to CPS action. Any posts which we believe could be prejudicial or defamatory, we will remove without notice. We may also close commenting on other posts.
Please also consider the guidance above when posting in other groups and in public, including retweeting or sharing others' posts.
That will apply here to.
In court July 4, expect to hear nothing about this in the media after today.0 -
llef said:
If that is true, then it's deeply depressing, as it seems to me that Hammond is the best cabinet minister by far.Casino_Royale said:
The Conservatives are bloody lucky the media haven't made hay of this.AlastairMeeks said:What is apparent is that the relationship between Theresa May and Philip Hammond has broken down. He's been invisible in this election campaign.
She could have done with his input, frankly.
If May is going to replace him as Chancellor, (assuming she is still PM), then she is an idiot!
Hammond is dire.. it is his kind of hope-free budget carried forward into the manifesto which has got the Tories into this state. Just an extra billion quid or so would have stopped e.g. the Tory problem with school funding cuts which is going to cost with parents.llef said:
If that is true, then it's deeply depressing, as it seems to me that Hammond is the best cabinet minister by far.Casino_Royale said:
The Conservatives are bloody lucky the media haven't made hay of this.AlastairMeeks said:What is apparent is that the relationship between Theresa May and Philip Hammond has broken down. He's been invisible in this election campaign.
She could have done with his input, frankly.
If May is going to replace him as Chancellor, (assuming she is still PM), then she is an idiot!0 -
My flat is in a block which is the last in the constituency. So far I've had leaflets from Labour and the Lib Dems for the correct constituency and the Greens, the Workers' Revolutionary Party and the Christian People's Alliance for the wrong constituency.0
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She has chosen to listen to only a few advisers and not consult colleagues. Like Blair - no Cabinet governance.kle4 said:
And yet people are blaming her adviser for the manifesto, oddly.David_Evershed said:
May does not let Hammond out on his own.Big_G_NorthWales said:
That is precisely my thoughts. I cannot understand why Theresa May or Hammond haven't shredded labour on their anti business, anti aspiration, high tax, high borrowing, inheritance tax and Land tax proposals.kjohnw said:
what surprises me is how little scrutiny that the Labour Party manifesto has received when it is just a promise box of spending spending spending to bribe the voters telling them what they want to hear and completely ignoring the problem of the deficit and Britains astronomical debts and the bankruptcy that would ensue if it were to be implemented . In the end it will be the poor that would suffer most from their manifesto when unemployment hits 5 million and inflation rates go through the roof - yet the Tories and the media have not even attempted to dissemble labours crank pot manifesto ,they are giving Corbyn a free ridebigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.
The team behind TM need to be sacked after this fiasco and I am disappointed in how the campaign has been fought
May is ultra control freak.0 -
Well right now today it is Reservoir Geomechanics - calculating stress fields and rock failures, things called Mohr-Coulomb failure envelopes. It is a basic part of (part of) my job of which I am doing a refresher course through Stanford University.rkrkrk said:
What do you do/did you do that needs logarithms and geometry?Richard_Tyndall said:
In spite of never having gone past O level maths I have used logs and geometry at almost ever stage of my working life in one form or another. I certainly wouldn't want to see them downgraded.rkrkrk said:If I got to play God/Gove with the curriculum:
More of:
Basic statistics, probability, creative writing, financial education, genre fiction, philosophy,
Less:
Shakespeare, logarithms, geometry, reading plays, plants in biology, traditional sports, Romans and Ancient Egyptians.
Compulsory reading hour once a week where kids choose what they want to read.
All essays in exams to have word limits.
That was a fun rant anyway. Totally subjective!
But even a basic thing like setting out a grid for a field survey uses geometry.0 -
I'm quite happy to serve as Theresa May's Chief of Staff.MarqueeMark said:Whilst I was aways confident that the vast bulk of the expenses charges against MPs would be thrown out, I always caveated it with an expectation that the courts might be invited to have a look at what went on in Thanet.
One close advisor to Theresa May facing charges, another hung by his bollocks from Traitor's Gate over the Manifesto - she might be feeling somewhat short of advisors. Fear not, the pb.com Collective are always here to offer helpful suggestions, Prime Minister.....0 -
Given Labour have been cutting into the Tory lead on good and bad days for them, then if the Tories cannot create any momentum as seems likely, heading into the weekend, then expect it to be trimmed back further now.
Labour to 40 in a poll? Believe that figure is going to happen in the election or not, we've almost had it in the polls already, so the chance has to be high.0 -
Workers' Revolutionary Party it is then.AlastairMeeks said:My flat is in a block which is the last in the constituency. So far I've had leaflets from Labour and the Lib Dems for the correct constituency and the Greens, the Workers' Revolutionary Party and the Christian People's Alliance for the wrong constituency.
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I find it sad that history and geography are either/ors. And geography seems to have pretty much disappeared from many GCSE students timetable.Richard_Tyndall said:
Hmm. Looking at that list it may be I have misunderstood how the choices were made by my daughter. Although we certainly don't have a core science GCSE and she is doing the three separates.eek said:
If only that was the case with my twins
They have
Maths
English (both)
RE
Foreign Language
Core science (2 GCSES)
Geography or History
And just 2 options - one of which gives you separate sciences
One is doing Separate Sciences and Computer Science the other Computer Science and Music.
Its worth noting that the GCSE computer science course is brand new for next year and virtually identical to the existing A-level course - I'm very impressed by the practical side of it - the background side isn't that great.
She is doing
Maths
English
RE
Foreign Language
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
History
Economics
Music ( I forgot this one in the previous list)
So 10 in total and she has 2 or 3 exams in each I believe. She is doing a total of 26 exams.
Our strong and stable prime minister and our future head of state are noted geography graduates, as was the ever-popular General Pinochet. Add in the late Saint Teresa of Calcutta for the perfect dinner party.0 -
How appalling is it that the bloody French have managed to get a better leader than ANY of our choices on offer.
It's making me green with envy looking at that kantar seat projection.0 -
She can only hear 'Convince George to stand for parliament again and make him chancellor' so many times before she'd sack you.TheScreamingEagles said:
I'm quite happy to serve as Theresa May's Chief of Staff.MarqueeMark said:Whilst I was aways confident that the vast bulk of the expenses charges against MPs would be thrown out, I always caveated it with an expectation that the courts might be invited to have a look at what went on in Thanet.
One close advisor to Theresa May facing charges, another hung by his bollocks from Traitor's Gate over the Manifesto - she might be feeling somewhat short of advisors. Fear not, the pb.com Collective are always here to offer helpful suggestions, Prime Minister.....0 -
Sadly, due to a local church closure I no longer have the oddity of my polling place being outside of my constituency.
It does mean my polling place is outside of my Council ward at the locals though.0 -
Let's take for instance one of the most fundamental principles of science and maths, the gaussian distribution. If you don't know what logs and exponentials are and how to do calculus of functions which involve them you are pretty buggered.FeersumEnjineeya said:
Which real maths did you have in mind?FrancisUrquhart said:
How can do you any real maths without knowledge of logarithms?FeersumEnjineeya said:
I'm very familiar with the A* - G GCSE Maths curriculum (now being phased out), and I can assure you that logarithms are not mentioned, whereas statistics and probability figure quite prominently.rkrkrk said:If I got to play God/Gove with the curriculum:
More of:
Basic statistics, probability, creative writing, financial education, genre fiction, philosophy,
Less:
Shakespeare, logarithms, geometry, reading plays, plants in biology, traditional sports, Romans and Ancient Egyptians.
Compulsory reading hour once a week where kids choose what they want to read.
All essays in exams to have word limits.
That was a fun rant anyway. Totally subjective!
Most real probability based problems involve looking for things like max log likelihood.
Etc etc etc0 -
I'd expect the trial of Craig Mackinlay to take place towards the end of the year/start of next year.0
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does anyone know what time the Lord Ashcroft polling analysis out?0
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Anything involving the exponential function i.e. calculus, probability would be a struggle? Not so much left.. you wouldn't get too advanced with the algebraic structures side of things either.FeersumEnjineeya said:
Which real maths did you have in mind?FrancisUrquhart said:
How can do you any real maths without knowledge of logarithms?FeersumEnjineeya said:
I'm very familiar with the A* - G GCSE Maths curriculum (now being phased out), and I can assure you that logarithms are not mentioned, whereas statistics and probability figure quite prominently.rkrkrk said:If I got to play God/Gove with the curriculum:
More of:
Basic statistics, probability, creative writing, financial education, genre fiction, philosophy,
Less:
Shakespeare, logarithms, geometry, reading plays, plants in biology, traditional sports, Romans and Ancient Egyptians.
Compulsory reading hour once a week where kids choose what they want to read.
All essays in exams to have word limits.
That was a fun rant anyway. Totally subjective!0 -
But Farage won't.ThomasNashe said:UKIP might win a seat after all?
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Yes, because he's strong and stable, definitely not prone to u-turns. No siree!Fenster said:
The Tories are too polite. They were under Cameron and they are now. Bunch of wusses when it comes to going on the offensive.Big_G_NorthWales said:
That is precisely my thoughts. I cannot understand why Theresa May or Hammond haven't shredded labour on their anti business, anti aspiration, high tax, high borrowing, inheritance tax and Land tax proposals.kjohnw said:
what surprises me is how little scrutiny that the Labour Party manifesto has received when it is just a promise box of spending spending spending to bribe the voters telling them what they want to hear and completely ignoring the problem of the deficit and Britains astronomical debts and the bankruptcy that would ensue if it were to be implemented . In the end it will be the poor that would suffer most from their manifesto when unemployment hits 5 million and inflation rates go through the roof - yet the Tories and the media have not even attempted to dissemble labours crank pot manifesto ,they are giving Corbyn a free ridebigjohnowls said:
Yeh because Lab voters love Tory lite ManifestosbobajobPB said:Richard T
Sam
Strange to think, but if Ed Balls was leader, Labour would waltz home with a majority of 30-50.
The team behind TM need to be sacked after this fiasco and I am disappointed in how the campaign has been fought
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Can we please have an outbreak of Foot and Mouth - just a teensy weensy one, in which just three cows have to perish - but enough to stop the General Election and restart it again in a month. When the Tories have booted their entire campaign team up the arse and gone full metal jacket on Labour's complete bollocks of an economic policy?
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I don't know that it is appalling - what Macron has achieved so far is amazing (and if he can deliver, outstanding), and I'd not expect an amazing leader among a group of 6-7 anyway, though I'd like it. Amazing leaders don't come along every election.Pulpstar said:How appalling is it that the bloody French have managed to get a better leader than ANY of our choices on offer.
It's making me green with envy looking at that kantar seat projection.0
