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Probably the biggest question over Joe Biden’s WH2020 bid and his greatest vulnerability is his age. If he does win on November 3rd he will be 78 years old on the day of inauguration on January 20th next year.
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First ... yet again!0
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A result as valid as a Russian election...peter_from_putney said:First ... yet again!
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Scott - do try not to take it so personally.Scott_xP said:
A result as valid as a Russian election...peter_from_putney said:First ... yet again!
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I’m sure actuaries will be on hand to calculate the life expectancies of a sedentary overweight 74 year old versus an active slim 78 year old.....
Interesting analysis:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18639121.opinion-mark-smith-leaked-snp-email-shows-nicola-sturgeon-well/0 -
Blimey, its quiet on here this morning. Is everyone really back at proper work?
As for Biden he managed to look fairly sprightly for a man of his age but it is still a completely ridiculous age to be seeking a job as tough and demanding as POTUS. You just need to look at how the average President ages through their term, even no drama Obama, and apply that to Biden. The only sensible conclusion is that his VP will be the next POTUS after him without the need for an election.2 -
Early next month is a significant birthday for my wife. I was wanting us to go away to mark it with a spa type weekend which she likes. Because of Sturgeon's ineptitude and indifference we cannot spend that money in Scotland because hotels cannot have their pools open until the 15th. So approximately £1000 is lost to the Scottish economy as we travel south of the border. Its a small indicator of the damage being done and the jobs put at risk.CarlottaVance said:I’m sure actuaries will be on hand to calculate the life expectancies of a sedentary overweight 74 year old versus an active slim 78 year old.....
Interesting analysis:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18639121.opinion-mark-smith-leaked-snp-email-shows-nicola-sturgeon-well/
And as for her comments that she was minded to protest about the way the SQA had handled the exams fiasco....0 -
That was quite a quick and funny reply in the circumstances to the follow up.0
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Morning all.0
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R4 Today 8.10 slot is all about OFQAL and the coming storm. At least OFQAL have published their methodology before they publish their results...0
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I enjoyed the typo in the header. One can only speculate, but I wonder what exactly Joe was peddling on his bike. Viagra?0
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Daily Mail putting the boot in as well:CarlottaVance said:R4 Today 8.10 slot is all about OFQAL and the coming storm. At least OFQAL have published their methodology before they publish their results...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8609899/Thousands-level-pupils-face-race-against-time-win-appeals.html
Not Johnson's greatest supporters, of course, but if they are hostile, a number of backbenchers will be calculating their next steps.1 -
Here's an answer:CarlottaVance said:R4 Today 8.10 slot is all about OFQAL and the coming storm. At least OFQAL have published their methodology before they publish their results...
Let there be appeals but for every appeal successfully upgraded there has to be someone downgraded in return.0 -
Himself, of course.Northern_Al said:I enjoyed the typo in the header. One can only speculate, but I wonder what exactly Joe was peddling on his bike. Viagra?
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He was a travelling peddler.Northern_Al said:I enjoyed the typo in the header. One can only speculate, but I wonder what exactly Joe was peddling on his bike. Viagra?
Amusing though that he was talking about running mates while cycling.
At least he wasn't jogging (as I recall, that didn't end well for Jimmy Carter).0 -
Thinking back to all the school, uni and professional exams I've ever taken.
Sometimes I got good results, sometimes very good and sometimes not so good.
But the only surprising results were always on the side of being better than I had expected.
And when I got bad results the person to blame was myself, sometimes but only sometimes that blame could be shared with crap teachers.0 -
On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Prof Russell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and a member of Sage, said “reopening schools is one of the least risky things we can do”.0
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Has anyone else noticed that Viagra adverts have dominated the Test Match commercial breaks?Nigelb said:
Himself, of course.Northern_Al said:I enjoyed the typo in the header. One can only speculate, but I wonder what exactly Joe was peddling on his bike. Viagra?
Woakes and Buttler, in addition to forcing me to eat a vandalised pizza, also ruined a lovely joke I had prepared that if you want massive cock-ups all you need to do is watch England try to bat.0 -
F1: Hamilton's 1.13 for the title on Betfair.
I'm disinclined to sink money into relatively long term bets at odds that short, but that does look a bit long.
Verstappen's 6.5 to win in Spain with Ladbrokes. Trying to decide whether to back that. It'll be hot, but slower so maybe the tyre wear won't be a problem for Mercedes. The agony of choice.0 -
Probably a reflection of which companies still have some money to s***k up the wall on advertising.ydoethur said:
Has anyone else noticed that Viagra adverts have dominated the Test Match commercial breaks?Nigelb said:
Himself, of course.Northern_Al said:I enjoyed the typo in the header. One can only speculate, but I wonder what exactly Joe was peddling on his bike. Viagra?
Woakes and Buttler, in addition to forcing me to eat a vandalised pizza, also ruined a lovely joke I had prepared that if you want massive cock-ups all you need to do is watch England try to bat.1 -
Just keep him away from vicious rabbits.ydoethur said:
He was a travelling peddler.Northern_Al said:I enjoyed the typo in the header. One can only speculate, but I wonder what exactly Joe was peddling on his bike. Viagra?
Amusing though that he was talking about running mates while cycling.
At least he wasn't jogging (as I recall, that didn't end well for Jimmy Carter).0 -
Though England were standing tall at the end...ydoethur said:
Has anyone else noticed that Viagra adverts have dominated the Test Match commercial breaks?Nigelb said:
Himself, of course.Northern_Al said:I enjoyed the typo in the header. One can only speculate, but I wonder what exactly Joe was peddling on his bike. Viagra?
Woakes and Buttler, in addition to forcing me to eat a vandalised pizza, also ruined a lovely joke I had prepared that if you want massive cock-ups all you need to do is watch England try to bat.1 -
The new normal in Hong Kong.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/10/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-over-alleged-foreign-collusion1 -
I once got a Year 12 student to narrate the details of the rabbit incident.Nigelb said:
Just keep him away from vicious rabbits.ydoethur said:
He was a travelling peddler.Northern_Al said:I enjoyed the typo in the header. One can only speculate, but I wonder what exactly Joe was peddling on his bike. Viagra?
Amusing though that he was talking about running mates while cycling.
At least he wasn't jogging (as I recall, that didn't end well for Jimmy Carter).
She couldn't get to the finish because she was laughing so much.
So were the rest of them!0 -
Belarus ain't looking great either.Nigelb said:0 -
Would be dismissed as fake news today, I suspect.ydoethur said:
I once got a Year 12 student to narrate the details of the rabbit incident.Nigelb said:
Just keep him away from vicious rabbits.ydoethur said:
He was a travelling peddler.Northern_Al said:I enjoyed the typo in the header. One can only speculate, but I wonder what exactly Joe was peddling on his bike. Viagra?
Amusing though that he was talking about running mates while cycling.
At least he wasn't jogging (as I recall, that didn't end well for Jimmy Carter).
She couldn't get to the finish because she was laughing so much.
So were the rest of them!0 -
I wonder what the Hong Kong Courts’ conviction rate is and how it compares with Mainland China (99%+)Nigelb said:
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The CCP are nearly completely victorious. Its depressing how successful the regime is.Nigelb said:0 -
IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
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Under the new imposition people can be arrested in HK and tried in Mainland China I believe.CarlottaVance said:
I wonder what the Hong Kong Courts’ conviction rate is and how it compares with Mainland China (99%+)Nigelb said:
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It is worth pointing out that on almost every major education issue of the last seven years, and especially in the three years he has chaired the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon has made an absolutely right call.
I know there have been questions about his judgement in other fields, but his judgement on education has been impeccable.
Here's what he had to say on the substitute assessment system last month.
We are unconvinced that safeguards—such as additional guidance and practical recommendations—put in place by Ofqual will be sufficient to protect against bias and inaccuracy in calculated grades.
https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/1834/documents/17976/default/
It's worth noting, in that report, he criticises OFQUAL and quotes the Royal Statistical Society, saying that OFQUAL were concealing key parts of their methodology.
And here's what he's saying today.
'Our select committee report predicted a potential Wild West system which favours the well-heeled and the sharp-elbowed, and doesn’t appear fair.'
In a sense, whatever happens on results day is now secondary, because this process has already failed. Nobody will have confidence in the results because it has become apparent that the process was flawed, chaotic and ill-conceived.2 -
Oh no. The real irony of the rabbit story was that Carter's own team put it out.Nigelb said:
Would be dismissed as fake news today, I suspect.ydoethur said:
I once got a Year 12 student to narrate the details of the rabbit incident.Nigelb said:
Just keep him away from vicious rabbits.ydoethur said:
He was a travelling peddler.Northern_Al said:I enjoyed the typo in the header. One can only speculate, but I wonder what exactly Joe was peddling on his bike. Viagra?
Amusing though that he was talking about running mates while cycling.
At least he wasn't jogging (as I recall, that didn't end well for Jimmy Carter).
She couldn't get to the finish because she was laughing so much.
So were the rest of them!
Why they thought that a smart idea remains a mystery.0 -
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=211 -
I'm not sure about "proper" work but this is my first full week of work since the beginning of June. And having collected the family from the airport at half one this morning its going to be a good week to be drinking coffee...DavidL said:Blimey, its quiet on here this morning. Is everyone really back at proper work?
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Just coffee?RochdalePioneers said:
I'm not sure about "proper" work but this is my first full week of work since the beginning of June. And having collected the family from the airport at half one this morning its going to be a good week to be drinking coffee...DavidL said:Blimey, its quiet on here this morning. Is everyone really back at proper work?
Looks like you picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.1 -
If only that was the case on Thursday when the reason for your bad result may well be a crap teacher who has fired a year ago due to bad results in 2019...another_richard said:Thinking back to all the school, uni and professional exams I've ever taken.
Sometimes I got good results, sometimes very good and sometimes not so good.
But the only surprising results were always on the side of being better than I had expected.
And when I got bad results the person to blame was myself, sometimes but only sometimes that blame could be shared with crap teachers.0 -
I don't think a teacher would ever be fired solely for bad results. They tend to go on to a career in OFSTED instead.eek said:
If only that was the case on Thursday when the reason for your bad result may well be a crap teacher who has fired a year ago due to bad results in 2019...another_richard said:Thinking back to all the school, uni and professional exams I've ever taken.
Sometimes I got good results, sometimes very good and sometimes not so good.
But the only surprising results were always on the side of being better than I had expected.
And when I got bad results the person to blame was myself, sometimes but only sometimes that blame could be shared with crap teachers.0 -
OFQUAL surely?ydoethur said:
I don't think a teacher would ever be fired solely for bad results. They tend to go on to a career in OFSTED instead.eek said:
If only that was the case on Thursday when the reason for your bad result may well be a crap teacher who has fired a year ago due to bad results in 2019...another_richard said:Thinking back to all the school, uni and professional exams I've ever taken.
Sometimes I got good results, sometimes very good and sometimes not so good.
But the only surprising results were always on the side of being better than I had expected.
And when I got bad results the person to blame was myself, sometimes but only sometimes that blame could be shared with crap teachers.0 -
Ofqual don't hire teachers AFAIK.eek said:
OFQUAL surely?ydoethur said:
I don't think a teacher would ever be fired solely for bad results. They tend to go on to a career in OFSTED instead.eek said:
If only that was the case on Thursday when the reason for your bad result may well be a crap teacher who has fired a year ago due to bad results in 2019...another_richard said:Thinking back to all the school, uni and professional exams I've ever taken.
Sometimes I got good results, sometimes very good and sometimes not so good.
But the only surprising results were always on the side of being better than I had expected.
And when I got bad results the person to blame was myself, sometimes but only sometimes that blame could be shared with crap teachers.0 -
Anthony Lester QC has died. Helped write the Equal Pay Act all those years ago.
I worked with him. Liked him too.1 -
Just googled Halfon.ydoethur said:It is worth pointing out that on almost every major education issue of the last seven years, and especially in the three years he has chaired the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon has made an absolutely right call.
I know there have been questions about his judgement in other fields, but his judgement on education has been impeccable.
Here's what he had to say on the substitute assessment system last month.
We are unconvinced that safeguards—such as additional guidance and practical recommendations—put in place by Ofqual will be sufficient to protect against bias and inaccuracy in calculated grades.
https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/1834/documents/17976/default/
It's worth noting, in that report, he criticises OFQUAL and quotes the Royal Statistical Society, saying that OFQUAL were concealing key parts of their methodology.
And here's what he's saying today.
'Our select committee report predicted a potential Wild West system which favours the well-heeled and the sharp-elbowed, and doesn’t appear fair.'
In a sense, whatever happens on results day is now secondary, because this process has already failed. Nobody will have confidence in the results because it has become apparent that the process was flawed, chaotic and ill-conceived.
Now there's an "interesting" career path.0 -
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Three in our office today. Nice to see the good folk of Yorkshire showing total disregard for the bollocks coming out of government.
Higher take-up on the other side of the Pennines for some reason. Around 20 of them have gone in.0 -
Future academic studies of the spread of Coronavirus in England might name this the "Cummings Effect"...
https://twitter.com/ailsa_henderson/status/12927151375063818240 -
And just how many jobs will be lost by not returning to the officeSandyRentool said:Three in our office today. Nice to see the good folk of Yorkshire showing total disregard for the bollocks coming out of government.
Higher take-up on the other side of the Pennines for some reason. Around 20 of them have gone in.0 -
Interestingly the comments aren't particularly sympatheticScott_xP said:
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Or perhaps a small sample of pupils should take the exams now and have their results compared to those predicted.another_richard said:
Here's an answer:CarlottaVance said:R4 Today 8.10 slot is all about OFQAL and the coming storm. At least OFQAL have published their methodology before they publish their results...
Let there be appeals but for every appeal successfully upgraded there has to be someone downgraded in return.
That might lead to some interesting findings.
Alternatively we could save a lot of time and money by giving out 99% A grades (leaving the 1% B for Eton etc whose pupils will do well in any case).
After all how many people would chose an honest grade over a higher grade ?
So the maximum number would be happy.
Until in a few years they discovered that their grades and the self-regard that sometimes comes with it are not always viewed similarly by the rest of the world.0 -
Jobs in catering and transport do you mean?Big_G_NorthWales said:
And just how many jobs will be lost by not returning to the officeSandyRentool said:Three in our office today. Nice to see the good folk of Yorkshire showing total disregard for the bollocks coming out of government.
Higher take-up on the other side of the Pennines for some reason. Around 20 of them have gone in.0 -
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.0 -
Across the spectrumGallowgate said:
Jobs in catering and transport do you mean?Big_G_NorthWales said:
And just how many jobs will be lost by not returning to the officeSandyRentool said:Three in our office today. Nice to see the good folk of Yorkshire showing total disregard for the bollocks coming out of government.
Higher take-up on the other side of the Pennines for some reason. Around 20 of them have gone in.0 -
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.1 -
Biden on his bike draws attention to his age as a negative. As does his dodgy facelift.
Where's the confidence in his age and experience? In his achievements? He's not facing a younger, green opponent, but he's facing someone very inexperienced politically, which his years of experience contrast favourably with. I would be trying to sell him as a slick operator - a professional. No school like the old school. Instead they seem to be dubiously trying to reclaim lost vigour.1 -
For anybody interested, I think this is an interesting and excellent piece on the demise of the USA. Scary, but I found it pretty hard to argue with most of it.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/0 -
Let me guess: Woke-ists saying Scotland good / England bad, Canada good / USA bad, New Zealand good / Australia bad. How original and predictable.Scott_xP said:Future academic studies of the spread of Coronavirus in England might name this the "Cummings Effect"...
https://twitter.com/ailsa_henderson/status/12927151375063818241 -
You seem to have this back to frontBig_G_NorthWales said:
Across the spectrumGallowgate said:
Jobs in catering and transport do you mean?Big_G_NorthWales said:
And just how many jobs will be lost by not returning to the officeSandyRentool said:Three in our office today. Nice to see the good folk of Yorkshire showing total disregard for the bollocks coming out of government.
Higher take-up on the other side of the Pennines for some reason. Around 20 of them have gone in.
People are not there to support businesses, businesses are there to support people both in terms of services and jobs. If the business isn't where it needs to be then the business should move to people not the other way round. Cafe's etc will still be in the same demand just where they need to be has altered1 -
His immediate elevation to the HoL would mean the joy is all too brief.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.0 -
IDS isn't Boris's brother as well, is he? That might explain a lot.Mexicanpete said:
His immediate elevation to the HoL would mean the joy is all too brief.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.0 -
A glib piece written by someone who I doubt has ventured deeper into China than the buffet breakfast cart of the Shanghai Mandarin Oriental.Northern_Al said:For anybody interested, I think this is an interesting and excellent piece on the demise of the USA. Scary, but I found it pretty hard to argue with most of it.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/0 -
Only 26% of teachers have confidence in OFQUAL's methods.
And that was before this story broke.
https://www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-just-26-teachers-see-level-and-gcse-grading-fair0 -
RAF flying up & down at 450’ over the Straits of Dover:
Though since it’s our side, not sure what good it can do. The solution lies in catching and prosecuting the people smugglers in France.
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Get a small number of pupils for each school to sit the actual exam. They should be willing volunteers who are chosen by the school. The small number should mean their exams can be held safely. Then a benchmarking exercise can be transparently conducted which isolates a "school effect" and a "prelims/mock exam effect". The result would hold for each candidate that took the exam. Each candidate who did not sit the exam would be given a provisional result combining these effects. The main point of the exercise is to be a filter for university/college entrance. As university and college places will have become more easily available with the absence of large numbers of foreign students this year, the entry conditions would be more lenient across the board and this year's unfortunate cohort less penalised for something outwith their control.another_richard said:
Here's an answer:CarlottaVance said:R4 Today 8.10 slot is all about OFQAL and the coming storm. At least OFQAL have published their methodology before they publish their results...
Let there be appeals but for every appeal successfully upgraded there has to be someone downgraded in return.
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It is not that simple. If hundreds of people come to work in one office block, that means hundreds of people will want to eat lunch or drink coffee at the same time in the same place. If these same people are working from home, they will be scattered over a much wider area, and many of them will have their own coffee and cheese toastie-making facilities at home, so the critical mass of caffeine-starved customers needed to support Starbucks is never achieved.Pagan2 said:
You seem to have this back to frontBig_G_NorthWales said:
Across the spectrumGallowgate said:
Jobs in catering and transport do you mean?Big_G_NorthWales said:
And just how many jobs will be lost by not returning to the officeSandyRentool said:Three in our office today. Nice to see the good folk of Yorkshire showing total disregard for the bollocks coming out of government.
Higher take-up on the other side of the Pennines for some reason. Around 20 of them have gone in.
People are not there to support businesses, businesses are there to support people both in terms of services and jobs. If the business isn't where it needs to be then the business should move to people not the other way round. Cafe's etc will still be in the same demand just where they need to be has altered1 -
I am hoping for in excess of 60 of Johnson's siblings to be elevated to the HoL in his resignation honours request, sometime after May 2nd, 2024.DecrepiterJohnL said:
IDS isn't Boris's brother as well, is he? That might explain a lot.Mexicanpete said:
His immediate elevation to the HoL would mean the joy is all too brief.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.0 -
Or just get the schools to submit some evidence in support of their gradings.geoffw said:
Get a small number of pupils for each school to sit the actual exam. They should be willing volunteers who are chosen by the school. The small number should mean their exams can be held safely. Then a benchmarking exercise can be transparently conducted which isolates a "school effect" and a "prelims/mock exam effect". The result would hold for each candidate that took the exam. Each candidate who did not sit the exam would be given a provisional result combining these effects. The main point of the exercise is to be a filter for university/college entrance. As university and college places will have become more easily available with the absence of large numbers of foreign students this year, the entry conditions would be more lenient across the board and this year's unfortunate cohort less penalised for something outwith their control.another_richard said:
Here's an answer:CarlottaVance said:R4 Today 8.10 slot is all about OFQAL and the coming storm. At least OFQAL have published their methodology before they publish their results...
Let there be appeals but for every appeal successfully upgraded there has to be someone downgraded in return.
Which would have been the solution of a fairly bright ten year old but was apparently beyond the combined wit of OFQUAL and the exam boards.0 -
Biden is probably the least intellectual Democratic nominee for president since LBJ but stunts like this do show he has more of the common touch than Hillary and the likes of Kerry and Gore had0
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Not since they introduced their new technology personalising the adverts to the user......ydoethur said:
Has anyone else noticed that Viagra adverts have dominated the Test Match commercial breaks?Nigelb said:
Himself, of course.Northern_Al said:I enjoyed the typo in the header. One can only speculate, but I wonder what exactly Joe was peddling on his bike. Viagra?
Woakes and Buttler, in addition to forcing me to eat a vandalised pizza, also ruined a lovely joke I had prepared that if you want massive cock-ups all you need to do is watch England try to bat.0 -
Time for the HOL to be abolishedMexicanpete said:
His immediate elevation to the HoL would mean the joy is all too brief.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.0 -
Very likely IDS will be retiring in 2024.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.1 -
It's Boris's sister I feel sorry for. Why hasn't Rachel been made a lady lord? She gave Boris his first job as a writer by commissioning him to write a chapter in The Oxford Myth (btw speaking of myths is it true friends of Boris snapped up every copy they could find when he became Prime Minister?).Mexicanpete said:
I am hoping for in excess of 60 of Johnson's siblings to be elevated to the HoL in his resignation honours request, sometime after May 2nd, 2024.DecrepiterJohnL said:
IDS isn't Boris's brother as well, is he? That might explain a lot.Mexicanpete said:
His immediate elevation to the HoL would mean the joy is all too brief.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.0 -
Most probably.justin124 said:
Very likely IDS will be retiring in 2024.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.0 -
Jumping before he is pushed. The weasel won't even allow us the satisfaction of seeing him humiliated a la Portillo.justin124 said:
Very likely IDS will be retiring in 2024.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.
So go straight to the HoL, and take the £200 as he passed Go!0 -
Which while true is not a valid reason to make everyone trek an hour each way into the office to support a cafe. Working from home as I am now I actually goto a cafe at lunch time to stretch my legs and get out the house and I now have 50£ extra in my pocket each week to spend there. Something I never did at the office so its swings and roundabouts you gain some you lose some.DecrepiterJohnL said:
It is not that simple. If hundreds of people come to work in one office block, that means hundreds of people will want to eat lunch or drink coffee at the same time in the same place. If these same people are working from home, they will be scattered over a much wider area, and many of them will have their own coffee and cheese toastie-making facilities at home, so the critical mass of caffeine-starved customers needed to support Starbucks is never achieved.Pagan2 said:
You seem to have this back to frontBig_G_NorthWales said:
Across the spectrumGallowgate said:
Jobs in catering and transport do you mean?Big_G_NorthWales said:
And just how many jobs will be lost by not returning to the officeSandyRentool said:Three in our office today. Nice to see the good folk of Yorkshire showing total disregard for the bollocks coming out of government.
Higher take-up on the other side of the Pennines for some reason. Around 20 of them have gone in.
People are not there to support businesses, businesses are there to support people both in terms of services and jobs. If the business isn't where it needs to be then the business should move to people not the other way round. Cafe's etc will still be in the same demand just where they need to be has altered
Arguing people should do something unnecessary just so others have jobs which are only there because of those people doing the unnecessary thing is to my mind asking people to dig holes so you others have jobs filling them in
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Do you think Trump should put him down as a maybe?Northern_Al said:For anybody interested, I think this is an interesting and excellent piece on the demise of the USA. Scary, but I found it pretty hard to argue with most of it.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/
Its well enough written but hopelessly partisan.0 -
Whilst that is true, reality will be more complex. In many commuting villages it might be the marginal difference between the last pub standing being viable or closing, so rather than just coffee it would provide food and drink throughout the day to the village as well as being an important social hub. Less travel is also better for mental health and the environment.DecrepiterJohnL said:
It is not that simple. If hundreds of people come to work in one office block, that means hundreds of people will want to eat lunch or drink coffee at the same time in the same place. If these same people are working from home, they will be scattered over a much wider area, and many of them will have their own coffee and cheese toastie-making facilities at home, so the critical mass of caffeine-starved customers needed to support Starbucks is never achieved.Pagan2 said:
You seem to have this back to frontBig_G_NorthWales said:
Across the spectrumGallowgate said:
Jobs in catering and transport do you mean?Big_G_NorthWales said:
And just how many jobs will be lost by not returning to the officeSandyRentool said:Three in our office today. Nice to see the good folk of Yorkshire showing total disregard for the bollocks coming out of government.
Higher take-up on the other side of the Pennines for some reason. Around 20 of them have gone in.
People are not there to support businesses, businesses are there to support people both in terms of services and jobs. If the business isn't where it needs to be then the business should move to people not the other way round. Cafe's etc will still be in the same demand just where they need to be has altered
People are pretty adaptable and there is good and bad from most changes.0 -
What can Boris offer his friends and family with no HoL. Do you really want to watch more celebrity TV gameshows stuffed with Johnson family and friends?Big_G_NorthWales said:
Time for the HOL to be abolishedMexicanpete said:
His immediate elevation to the HoL would mean the joy is all too brief.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.0 -
The solution really lies in eliminating the pull factor, and making it clear that whether or not you get here, sadly you won't get in.CarlottaVance said:RAF flying up & down at 450’ over the Straits of Dover:
Though since it’s our side, not sure what good it can do. The solution lies in catching and prosecuting the people smugglers in France.
As I mentioned previously, our asylum processing centres should be overseas. I would suggest one in India, one in Africa, and one in Asia. These are easier for genuine asylum seekers to get to, and present no draw for non-genuine ones.0 -
The starting point for me is that I never watch gameshows and have no interest in celebrities whatsoverMexicanpete said:
What can Boris offer his friends and family with no HoL. Do you really want to watch more celebrity TV gameshows stuffed with Johnson family and friends?Big_G_NorthWales said:
Time for the HOL to be abolishedMexicanpete said:
His immediate elevation to the HoL would mean the joy is all too brief.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.2 -
I think it is £300 a dayMexicanpete said:
Jumping before he is pushed. The weasel won't even allow us the satisfaction of seeing him humiliated a la Portillo.justin124 said:
Very likely IDS will be retiring in 2024.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.
So go straight to the HoL, and take the £200 as he passed Go!1 -
Great piece, thanks for the linkNorthern_Al said:For anybody interested, I think this is an interesting and excellent piece on the demise of the USA. Scary, but I found it pretty hard to argue with most of it.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/0 -
Robert Halfon is a brilliant MP both on the Education Select Committee and in Harlow which he has turned from a marginal Blair won in 1997, 2001 and 2005 to a pretty safe Tory seat no longer even in the top 150 Labour target seatsydoethur said:It is worth pointing out that on almost every major education issue of the last seven years, and especially in the three years he has chaired the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon has made an absolutely right call.
I know there have been questions about his judgement in other fields, but his judgement on education has been impeccable.
Here's what he had to say on the substitute assessment system last month.
We are unconvinced that safeguards—such as additional guidance and practical recommendations—put in place by Ofqual will be sufficient to protect against bias and inaccuracy in calculated grades.
https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/1834/documents/17976/default/
It's worth noting, in that report, he criticises OFQUAL and quotes the Royal Statistical Society, saying that OFQUAL were concealing key parts of their methodology.
And here's what he's saying today.
'Our select committee report predicted a potential Wild West system which favours the well-heeled and the sharp-elbowed, and doesn’t appear fair.'
In a sense, whatever happens on results day is now secondary, because this process has already failed. Nobody will have confidence in the results because it has become apparent that the process was flawed, chaotic and ill-conceived.0 -
I'm at a loss as to how Covid in Scotland has been handled any better or worse than in the rest of the UKAndy_JS said:
Let me guess: Woke-ists saying Scotland good / England bad, Canada good / USA bad, New Zealand good / Australia bad. How original and predictable.Scott_xP said:Future academic studies of the spread of Coronavirus in England might name this the "Cummings Effect"...
https://twitter.com/ailsa_henderson/status/1292715137506381824
I mean their care home scandal is worse as one of the owners had to ship people in from England to manage the home during the outbreak,0 -
IDS will be 70 in 2024 and yes he will likely retire but that is to be expectedMexicanpete said:
Jumping before he is pushed. The weasel won't even allow us the satisfaction of seeing him humiliated a la Portillo.justin124 said:
Very likely IDS will be retiring in 2024.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.
So go straight to the HoL, and take the £200 as he passed Go!0 -
What about the people who work there? And the makers of fancy dress costumes?Big_G_NorthWales said:
Time for the HOL to be abolishedMexicanpete said:
His immediate elevation to the HoL would mean the joy is all too brief.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.0 -
A retired rear admiral on Sky this morning said they should be quarantined on one of the many cruise ships available, processed and where applicable allowed into the UK and where not, refused entry and returned to the first country that they arrived from that is safeLuckyguy1983 said:
The solution really lies in eliminating the pull factor, and making it clear that whether or not you get here, sadly you won't get in.CarlottaVance said:RAF flying up & down at 450’ over the Straits of Dover:
Though since it’s our side, not sure what good it can do. The solution lies in catching and prosecuting the people smugglers in France.
As I mentioned previously, our asylum processing centres should be overseas. I would suggest one in India, one in Africa, and one in Asia. These are easier for genuine asylum seekers to get to, and present no draw for non-genuine ones.0 -
April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water, audience shouting with laughter when he sank.CarlottaVance said:RAF flying up & down at 450’ over the Straits of Dover:
Though since it’s our side, not sure what good it can do. The solution lies in catching and prosecuting the people smugglers in France.0 -
It hasn'teek said:
I'm at a loss as to how Covid in Scotland has been handled any better or worse than in the rest of the UKAndy_JS said:
Let me guess: Woke-ists saying Scotland good / England bad, Canada good / USA bad, New Zealand good / Australia bad. How original and predictable.Scott_xP said:Future academic studies of the spread of Coronavirus in England might name this the "Cummings Effect"...
https://twitter.com/ailsa_henderson/status/1292715137506381824
I mean their care home scandal is worse as one of the owners had to ship people in from England to manage the home during the outbreak,0 -
The Daily Mail doesn't help.Luckyguy1983 said:
The solution really lies in eliminating the pull factor, and making it clear that whether or not you get here, sadly you won't get in.CarlottaVance said:RAF flying up & down at 450’ over the Straits of Dover:
Though since it’s our side, not sure what good it can do. The solution lies in catching and prosecuting the people smugglers in France.
As I mentioned previously, our asylum processing centres should be overseas. I would suggest one in India, one in Africa, and one in Asia. These are easier for genuine asylum seekers to get to, and present no draw for non-genuine ones.
I mean, if you're in the shoes of someone migrating across the continent and you pick up a paper saying "Anyone getting to the UK gets to stay and gets given free money," as per loads of their headlines, where would you head for?0 -
Can I refer everyone back to the squeezed middle and cost of living crisis? So many things in this country cost £lots for no apparent reason - and a working culture that essentially heavily taxes people for the basics isn't sustainable. I've thought for a long time that the coffee explosion was unsustainable. People won't be able to afford the daft money the coffee shacks demand for coffee and a snack without taking the money out of another part of the economy. That so many coffee shacks have been surged up in such a short space of time is not a reason to sustain that part of the economy because jobs. What jobs did the people do before working for the 409th local branch of CoffeeShak? And in what businesses did their customers spend their money?DecrepiterJohnL said:
It is not that simple. If hundreds of people come to work in one office block, that means hundreds of people will want to eat lunch or drink coffee at the same time in the same place. If these same people are working from home, they will be scattered over a much wider area, and many of them will have their own coffee and cheese toastie-making facilities at home, so the critical mass of caffeine-starved customers needed to support Starbucks is never achieved.Pagan2 said:
You seem to have this back to frontBig_G_NorthWales said:
Across the spectrumGallowgate said:
Jobs in catering and transport do you mean?Big_G_NorthWales said:
And just how many jobs will be lost by not returning to the officeSandyRentool said:Three in our office today. Nice to see the good folk of Yorkshire showing total disregard for the bollocks coming out of government.
Higher take-up on the other side of the Pennines for some reason. Around 20 of them have gone in.
People are not there to support businesses, businesses are there to support people both in terms of services and jobs. If the business isn't where it needs to be then the business should move to people not the other way round. Cafe's etc will still be in the same demand just where they need to be has altered
Covid is a massive rapid realignment of the economy. It's already been brutal and its going to get much worse - the imbalance and instability was already there waiting for the black swan event to tip it over the edge. And very quickly we will see rapid change in the next piece of unsustainable lunacy - an army of zero hour workers scuttling around our towns making multiple repeat deliveries in diesel vans. Most of us have done a lot more direct to consumer shopping and we all need to stop.1 -
There is no justification for the HOLnichomar said:
What about the people who work there? And the makers of fancy dress costumes?Big_G_NorthWales said:
Time for the HOL to be abolishedMexicanpete said:
His immediate elevation to the HoL would mean the joy is all too brief.Big_G_NorthWales said:
IDS losing his seat would be very pleasing and as for HYUFDs comments I cannot waitMexicanpete said:
Not long to have to suffer IDS. Chingford goes red in 2024.Nigelb said:
Another of Brexit’s negatives - we again have to pay attention to his maunderings.williamglenn said:IDS says we should be ready to “reject the WA”:
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.0 -
The people trying to no confidence Starmer in his own constituency are literally batshit insane.
I think it’s time to call bullshit and kick them all out.2 -
What?!CorrectHorseBattery said:The people trying to no confidence Starmer in his own constituency are literally batshit insane.
I think it’s time to call bullshit and kick them all out.
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Did cases rise after the Cummings news story broke or something?Scott_xP said:Future academic studies of the spread of Coronavirus in England might name this the "Cummings Effect"...
https://twitter.com/ailsa_henderson/status/12927151375063818240 -
That seems ok as a stop gap solution.Big_G_NorthWales said:
A retired rear admiral on Sky this morning said they should be quarantined on one of the many cruise ships available, processed and where applicable allowed into the UK and where not, refused entry and returned to the first country that they arrived from that is safeLuckyguy1983 said:
The solution really lies in eliminating the pull factor, and making it clear that whether or not you get here, sadly you won't get in.CarlottaVance said:RAF flying up & down at 450’ over the Straits of Dover:
Though since it’s our side, not sure what good it can do. The solution lies in catching and prosecuting the people smugglers in France.
As I mentioned previously, our asylum processing centres should be overseas. I would suggest one in India, one in Africa, and one in Asia. These are easier for genuine asylum seekers to get to, and present no draw for non-genuine ones.
That's daft. These people aren't getting their info from the DM.Andy_Cooke said:
The Daily Mail doesn't help.Luckyguy1983 said:
The solution really lies in eliminating the pull factor, and making it clear that whether or not you get here, sadly you won't get in.CarlottaVance said:RAF flying up & down at 450’ over the Straits of Dover:
Though since it’s our side, not sure what good it can do. The solution lies in catching and prosecuting the people smugglers in France.
As I mentioned previously, our asylum processing centres should be overseas. I would suggest one in India, one in Africa, and one in Asia. These are easier for genuine asylum seekers to get to, and present no draw for non-genuine ones.
I mean, if you're in the shoes of someone migrating across the continent and you pick up a paper saying "Anyone getting to the UK gets to stay and gets given free money," as per loads of their headlines, where would you head for?0 -
