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Well, maybe Sunak and Macron are going to both be in California this summer.0
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Parliamentary.carnforth said:These are parliamentary elections not presidential ones, right? After a couple of glasses of wine I'm unable to parse the BBC article. Either my tolerance has gone down, or it's unclear.
Macron stays in office until 20271 -
...and they no doubt paid the price for that. It has zero to do with the 'populist playbook' though.Alanbrooke said:
New Labour took the existing core of the party’s working-class votes for granted because, according to Mandelson, they had ‘nowhere else to go’,Benpointer said:
I look forward to your examples of that.williamglenn said:
The odd thing is that much of what you think of as incoherent right wing populism is actually lifted straight from the New Labour policy book.Foxy said:
Is it really though? Sure Orban misbehaves, but Tusk deposed the Polish authritarians democratically, which seems to suggest that they aren't really very authoritarian at all.DecrepiterJohnL said:
What Leon and others miss in their Europe will lurch to the right thesis is that it is authoritarianism they increasingly find attractive, whether of right, left or middle. A strongman to free us from crime and vanquish our enemies and enforce bike lanes.Sean_F said:I must say, I was pleasantly surprised by Labour’s promise of 20,000 more prison places.
Reform and Farage spout incoherent right wing populism to the gullible, and I hold them in great contempt, but even I don't think them undemocratic. Indeed about the only policy I agree with them is the need to move to PR.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/05/mandelsons-return-puts-corporate-lobbying-at-the-heart-of-starmers-labour
What twaddle.williamglenn said:
- Stop and searchBenpointer said:
I look forward to your examples of that.williamglenn said:
The odd thing is that much of what you think of as incoherent right wing populism is actually lifted straight from the New Labour policy book.Foxy said:
Is it really though? Sure Orban misbehaves, but Tusk deposed the Polish authritarians democratically, which seems to suggest that they aren't really very authoritarian at all.DecrepiterJohnL said:
What Leon and others miss in their Europe will lurch to the right thesis is that it is authoritarianism they increasingly find attractive, whether of right, left or middle. A strongman to free us from crime and vanquish our enemies and enforce bike lanes.Sean_F said:I must say, I was pleasantly surprised by Labour’s promise of 20,000 more prison places.
Reform and Farage spout incoherent right wing populism to the gullible, and I hold them in great contempt, but even I don't think them undemocratic. Indeed about the only policy I agree with them is the need to move to PR.
- Benefit cuts to encourage people back into work
- Making it harder to claim aslyum because, "Once people get in... then it is very difficult to get them back."
Stop & Search powers are largely based on the Section 1 of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, Section 60 of Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, and Section 44/47A of Terrorism Act 2000. The first two were hardly New Labour laws
Benefit cuts? I thought the complaint of the right was that New Labour allowed benefit to escalate out of control.
Ditto asylum.2 -
Why?Alanbrooke said:
The brits will the french will have to go easy.DoubleCarpet said:
So you could have a 12-hour kip and still plenty of time to vote.Alanbrooke said:
French weddings pack up about 4 am and then they sleep the next day off.DoubleCarpet said:
Why not? They have most of Sunday to vote.Alanbrooke said:
What a miserable bastard.Stuartinromford said:
Bonjour.spudgfsh said:Macron has just dissolved the french Parliament! election to take place around the same time as ours
June 30th, which is commendably efficient.
Presumably it's an attempt to replay the "you really want the fash? Really?" gambit Sanchez used in Spain. Wonder how the UK and French campaigns interact?
This now means the the french side of my son's wedding on the 29th cant get smashed.0 -
Macron's President until 2027Casino_Royale said:Well, maybe Sunak and Macron are going to both be in California this summer.
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My point exactly a lot of jobs now that ask for a degree don't actually need a degree to do and filtering by degree also gets rid of people that just dont want to do one even if they could intellectually.Casino_Royale said:
I agree with you, but how do you move the balance of jobs in that direction?LostPassword said:
I don't think it's a coincidence that countries with more successful economies than Britain's have high rates of participation in tertiary education.Casino_Royale said:
Are we comparing apples with apples?darkage said:Someone posted government data on actual incomes pre and post tax. It is quite fascinating. A 50k wage puts you in the top 16% of earners, £100k in the top 4%. What this seems to demonstrate to me is that the salary expectations of graduates as envisaged by the student loan system is completely disconnected from reality. To even service the interest payments on a 70k loan you would need to be in the top 10% of earners.
How are earners defined? Do they include those on pensions, for example, or only those of working age from 16-65?
Even if the latter in any society like ours you will have vast swathes of people earning 15k-30k in all sorts of semi-skilled/services jobs so I'd expect top-end graduate jobs to be a top segment of 20%.
It does beg the question why we aim for 50% graduates, though.
I mean, Britain could continue to be a backward second-rate economy with low productivity if you really want, and deciding not to educate British children and instead importing the educated people the economy requires saves you some spending on the education budget, but it's not an approach that any other country with aspirations follows.
Why is British culture so anti-education?
I'm not sure how it works if 50% go to university but only 20% get decent graduate jobs.
The end result is you get a lot of people doing low end jobs with a ton of student debt2 -
Lewis should have retired I'm sad to say, nerves for racing seem to have gone and miles off his standard in quali.0
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Macron suddenly looks 10-15 years older. The perpetually youthful President is losing his hair and looks… burdened
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/09/eu-europe-elections-2024-results-news-updates-live-latest
He’s been a good President for France in uneasy times. But he hasn’t been the transformation he promised0 -
Yes, you can't bring forward the presidential election (except in emergency situations).carnforth said:These are parliamentary elections not presidential ones, right? After a couple of glasses of wine I'm unable to parse the BBC article. Either my tolerance has gone down, or it's unclear.
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Same here. It is unclear, bad reporting frankly.carnforth said:These are parliamentary elections not presidential ones, right? After a couple of glasses of wine I'm unable to parse the BBC article. Either my tolerance has gone down, or it's unclear.
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Beautiful painting.ohnotnow said:
I've had similar feelings about one of Munch's paintings (I've seen it titled as "Young girl on a jetty" and "Young girl at the beach") :Ghedebrav said:
The link isn’t working for me, but I know the one you mean.Cookie said:
The paintings of northern industrial landscapes are interesting, well executed, and have been adopted by us in the NW as emblems. But I don't think they're a celebration. Lowry seems to me appalled by the landscape and sees little humanity among the crowds. If this genuinely is the impression he's trying tp convey he does it very well.Ghedebrav said:
I was in the latter category until recently but have happily reappraised since. Whether he is a genuinely major artist, I’m not sure - but he was certainly much more interesting than the million prints of ‘going to the match’ might leave you thinking.Peter_the_Punter said:
I was fortunate enough to go to an exhibition of his work many years ago and was knocked out by the range, skill and profundity of his work. Anyone who just thinks of him as just a painter of northern industrial landscapes is seriously underating him.Ghedebrav said:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjllk8x353yo
Off topic. Interesting stuff on old Lowry interviews uncovered.
I’ve reappraised him recently; I’d mentally pigeonholed him as a bit tiresome and amateurish but actually there’s a lot to his work - and I feel the key to it was looking at it from the viewpoint of his having probably quite deep and chronic depression.
Beyond the factory/crowd scenes he is best known for, there is a lot of pretty weird and visionary and even near-abstract (his seascapes). Since experiencing a sustained depressive bout myself I found I could relate to his work so much more.
His studies of girls in chaste but preposterously tight/throttling dress take on a peculiar dimension when considering the absence of romance in his life.
I don’t think that naff ‘Matchstick Men’ song helped either.
As you say, though, he's a brilliant artist, and a much more rounded one than the paintings he's best known for would suggest.
This is my favoirite Lowry, showing he can do humanity too: https://www.theguardian.com/arts/pictures/image/0,,-1060329418596,00.html
His seascape here (which I snapped at the eponymous gallery in Salford Quays) is one that really struck me; I stood looking at it for ages. Something about the sea as oblivion, and oblivion itself being a release from the arduous mess of living. I don’t know whether it was me projecting onto the painting (I prefer to believe not) but it utterly held me.
Munch and Lowry are similar in some ways, both being kind of outside the main schools (with being capital-O Outsider), and having a place in popular culture that misrepresents them somewhat.1 -
You mean he looks as old as his wife?Leon said:Macron suddenly looks 10-15 years older. The perpetually youthful President is losing his hair and looks… burdened
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/09/eu-europe-elections-2024-results-news-updates-live-latest
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You've not seen the BSc in Store Replenishment Methodologies at Chipping Camden University, I take it?Pagan2 said:Nowadays a person like me would be job limited to stacking shelves in tesco's because I don't have a degree
In my time I have however got a patent to my name for a colour space algortithm I invented, I have written sat nav software that includes cars, cycles, pedestrians. I have written medical software and now work on educational software. Focussing everything on degrees now would make an 18 year old me never considered for any of that and you think thats a good thing?3 -
Interesting situation: the first round of the French legislative election is going to happen 4 days before the UK election, and the second round 3 days after.0
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Matthew Goodwin ROFL. He is a moron.0
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/apr/12/ukcrime.raceBenpointer said:
...and they no doubt paid the price for that. It has zero to do with the 'populist playbook' though.Alanbrooke said:
New Labour took the existing core of the party’s working-class votes for granted because, according to Mandelson, they had ‘nowhere else to go’,Benpointer said:
I look forward to your examples of that.williamglenn said:
The odd thing is that much of what you think of as incoherent right wing populism is actually lifted straight from the New Labour policy book.Foxy said:
Is it really though? Sure Orban misbehaves, but Tusk deposed the Polish authritarians democratically, which seems to suggest that they aren't really very authoritarian at all.DecrepiterJohnL said:
What Leon and others miss in their Europe will lurch to the right thesis is that it is authoritarianism they increasingly find attractive, whether of right, left or middle. A strongman to free us from crime and vanquish our enemies and enforce bike lanes.Sean_F said:I must say, I was pleasantly surprised by Labour’s promise of 20,000 more prison places.
Reform and Farage spout incoherent right wing populism to the gullible, and I hold them in great contempt, but even I don't think them undemocratic. Indeed about the only policy I agree with them is the need to move to PR.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/05/mandelsons-return-puts-corporate-lobbying-at-the-heart-of-starmers-labour
What twaddle.williamglenn said:
- Stop and searchBenpointer said:
I look forward to your examples of that.williamglenn said:
The odd thing is that much of what you think of as incoherent right wing populism is actually lifted straight from the New Labour policy book.Foxy said:
Is it really though? Sure Orban misbehaves, but Tusk deposed the Polish authritarians democratically, which seems to suggest that they aren't really very authoritarian at all.DecrepiterJohnL said:
What Leon and others miss in their Europe will lurch to the right thesis is that it is authoritarianism they increasingly find attractive, whether of right, left or middle. A strongman to free us from crime and vanquish our enemies and enforce bike lanes.Sean_F said:I must say, I was pleasantly surprised by Labour’s promise of 20,000 more prison places.
Reform and Farage spout incoherent right wing populism to the gullible, and I hold them in great contempt, but even I don't think them undemocratic. Indeed about the only policy I agree with them is the need to move to PR.
- Benefit cuts to encourage people back into work
- Making it harder to claim aslyum because, "Once people get in... then it is very difficult to get them back."
Stop & Search powers are largely based on the Section 1 of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, Section 60 of Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, and Section 44/47A of Terrorism Act 2000. The first two were hardly New Labour laws
Benefit cuts? I thought the complaint of the right was that New Labour allowed benefit to escalate out of control.
Ditto asylum.
Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/mar/04/socialexclusion.politics
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown will jointly unveil proposals for lone parents with children aged over 11 to seek jobs or else face potential benefit sanctions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/2738771.stm
Blair: "The only way of dealing with this is to stop the numbers coming in. Once people get in, unless you can discover what country they come from and get that country to agree to take them back, then it is very difficult to get them back."0 -
France will head in to 3 years internal bickering. Same stagflation as were heading in to.Leon said:Macron suddenly looks 10-15 years older. The perpetually youthful President is losing his hair and looks… burdened
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/09/eu-europe-elections-2024-results-news-updates-live-latest
He’s been a good President for France in uneasy times. But he hasn’t been the transformation he promised0 -
What's happened now?BatteryCorrectHorse said:Matthew Goodwin ROFL. He is a moron.
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Perhaps - but then if so many more people go on to do degrees, are you so sure you wouldn't have been one of them?Pagan2 said:Nowadays a person like me would be job limited to stacking shelves in tesco's because I don't have a degree
In my time I have however got a patent to my name for a colour space algortithm I invented, I have written sat nav software that includes cars, cycles, pedestrians. I have written medical software and now work on educational software. Focussing everything on degrees now would make an 18 year old me never considered for any of that and you think thats a good thing?
Or if you are exceptional in your field, growing up with the internet, maybe you'd already have been coding for money before the age of 18?
I'm not advocating for everyone to do degrees, but I assume even the 18 year old you was pretty clever?0 -
Ah. Of course.Benpointer said:
Macron's President until 2027Casino_Royale said:Well, maybe Sunak and Macron are going to both be in California this summer.
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Great spreadsheet resource here. All the constituencies and candidates.
https://x.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1799836148153659799?t=E4bWTooBPnpsasY4uA4XCA&s=194 -
JohnLoony morphed from quite an interesting quirky MRLP candidate to aFoxy said:
He had an exhaustive knowledge and background in Trotskyite splinter parties of the Seventies and Eighties. I think he followed a path similar to the Revolutionary Communist Party running Spiked-Online, when policy changes they change with it. Oceana has always been at war with EastAsia.SandyRentool said:
He then joined the Conservative Party.DecrepiterJohnL said:
His acolyte JohnLoony who used to post here was surprisingly well-informed about politics for someone who'd hitched his political wagon to the epitome of no-hope causes. Years of fighting local and national elections, presumably.OldKingCole said:
I miss His Lordship; none of his successors seem to have had quite the charisma.Scarpia said:
Didn't Screaming Lord Sutch, late of the MRLP, use by-elections to put on a gig locally and promote it through the freepost provided for election addresses?stodge said:- the next question is, subject to the usual laws around slander and libel and the requirement to have an imprint, are there any restrictions on what you can put in an Election Address? If you wanted to promote your company's business, could you do so?
rather boring garden-variety Tory apparatchik. It was a disappointing journey.0 -
God no, not that old. Nor as masculinePagan2 said:
You mean he looks as old as his wife?Leon said:Macron suddenly looks 10-15 years older. The perpetually youthful President is losing his hair and looks… burdened
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/09/eu-europe-elections-2024-results-news-updates-live-latest
He’s been a good President for France in uneasy times. But he hasn’t been the transformation he promised0 -
Indiana has a bit of a prior record for anti-intellectualism. In 1897 they attempted to define pi as 3.2 and sqrt(2) as 10/7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_billSeaShantyIrish2 said:
Number of decades ago, members of the Indiana legislature railed against the egghead of Indiana University for teaching "Mickey Mouse" courses and majors, for example "Uralic-Altaic studies"Cookie said:
I would guess those other countries are educating people in economically valuable subjects.LostPassword said:
I don't think it's a coincidence that countries with more successful economies than Britain's have high rates of participation in tertiary education.Casino_Royale said:
Are we comparing apples with apples?darkage said:Someone posted government data on actual incomes pre and post tax. It is quite fascinating. A 50k wage puts you in the top 16% of earners, £100k in the top 4%. What this seems to demonstrate to me is that the salary expectations of graduates as envisaged by the student loan system is completely disconnected from reality. To even service the interest payments on a 70k loan you would need to be in the top 10% of earners.
How are earners defined? Do they include those on pensions, for example, or only those of working age from 16-65?
Even if the latter in any society like ours you will have vast swathes of people earning 15k-30k in all sorts of semi-skilled/services jobs so I'd expect top-end graduate jobs to be a top segment of 20%.
It does beg the question why we aim for 50% graduates, though.
I mean, Britain could continue to be a backward second-rate economy with low productivity if you really want, and deciding not to educate British children and instead importing the educated people the economy requires saves you some spending on the education budget, but it's not an approach that any other country with aspirations follows.
Why is British culture so anti-education?
Generally British culture is reasonably pro-education as long as it is FOR something.
What the hell is a Uralic, they asked
The president of IU had to explain to the irate/skeptical/ignorant legislators that, among other things, graduates of the program were MUCH sought after by CIA and other national security agencies due to their fluency in languages spoken in the Soviet Union.
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This looks a bit desperate from macron1
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Someone's taken my job it seems. I did this in 2015. Except mine was slightly better because I had the names of the candidates in the spreadsheet without having to click on a link.Foxy said:Great spreadsheet resource here. All the constituencies and candidates.
https://x.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1799836148153659799?t=E4bWTooBPnpsasY4uA4XCA&s=19
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Klul21t3kREO3Mv-LOUEUpEtQkYHZ2P4Dxc8q5EWUWY/edit?gid=0#gid=02 -
I think it shows balls. Not being afraid of the electorate, etc. I wish our politicians were a bit more like that.Leon said:This looks a bit desperate from macron
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Macron will be at the Olympics this summer.Casino_Royale said:Well, maybe Sunak and Macron are going to both be in California this summer.
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No-one can do it better than you.Andy_JS said:
Someone's taken my job it seems. I did this in 2015.Foxy said:Great spreadsheet resource here. All the constituencies and candidates.
https://x.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1799836148153659799?t=E4bWTooBPnpsasY4uA4XCA&s=191 -
To give an example my old job, we were on the top floor different company below usBenpointer said:
You've not seen the BSc in Store Replenishment Methodologies at Chipping Camden University, I take it?Pagan2 said:Nowadays a person like me would be job limited to stacking shelves in tesco's because I don't have a degree
In my time I have however got a patent to my name for a colour space algortithm I invented, I have written sat nav software that includes cars, cycles, pedestrians. I have written medical software and now work on educational software. Focussing everything on degrees now would make an 18 year old me never considered for any of that and you think thats a good thing?
I was writing medical software no degree.
Their company ( chatted to a number in the outside smoking area) required a degree to work there, their job was calling people and then typing details into an online form....rinse repeat. They had 50 k student debt for that
Do you think that job needs a degree even though the insurance company wouldn't bother interviewing unless you had one? Mainly because more degrees than jobs that require one2 -
A degree shouldn't be seen as simply a passport for a job. Having a highly educated population, regardless of job, should be seen as a good thing.Pagan2 said:
To give an example my old job, we were on the top floor different company below usBenpointer said:
You've not seen the BSc in Store Replenishment Methodologies at Chipping Camden University, I take it?Pagan2 said:Nowadays a person like me would be job limited to stacking shelves in tesco's because I don't have a degree
In my time I have however got a patent to my name for a colour space algortithm I invented, I have written sat nav software that includes cars, cycles, pedestrians. I have written medical software and now work on educational software. Focussing everything on degrees now would make an 18 year old me never considered for any of that and you think thats a good thing?
I was writing medical software no degree.
Their company ( chatted to a number in the outside smoking area) required a degree to work there, their job was calling people and then typing details into an online form....rinse repeat. They had 50 k student debt for that
Do you think that job needs a degree even though the insurance company wouldn't bother interviewing unless you had one? Mainly because more degrees than jobs that require one7 -
For rather obvious historical reasons, absolutely not.williamglenn said:
Is it not a category error to call any democratic politician a fascist/falangist/nazi given that the one thing they had in common was opposition to multi-party democracy?TimS said:
The far right is going to have its day in the sun, though lack of internal coordination between the parties makes its administrative impact rather limited.williamglenn said:The AfD got 43% in Saxony with the SPD below 5%
https://x.com/tilojung/status/1799858314052084142
The other thing that stops them uniting into a powerful bloc is that different versions of them believe different things.
Put simply, there are truly nasty neo-nazis in suits, like the AfD and Sweden democrats, the successors to Hitler and Mussolini, and there are dozens of essentially Falangist parties, the successors to Franco. The current iteration of the RN in France, the PiS in Poland and Meloni in Italy are Falangists. At worst. Arguably just 19th century style authoritarians.
The AfD are the scariest. Worse than Trump, though less powerful.
The other divide is pro-Putinists vs the rest. Another where PiS and Meloni are on one side.
History tends to repeat itself and what happens on a small scale in the UK first (reformation and religious conflict, anti-royalist revolution, the rise of socialism) then manifests itself in a vastly more bloody way in Central Europe next. We did Brexit back in 2016, so they are due.0 -
Makes me feel sad for the rest.. etc.Casino_Royale said:
No-one can do it better than you.Andy_JS said:
Someone's taken my job it seems. I did this in 2015.Foxy said:Great spreadsheet resource here. All the constituencies and candidates.
https://x.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1799836148153659799?t=E4bWTooBPnpsasY4uA4XCA&s=192 -
Meloni has been in power for a while now. When do you expect her to ban political parties and establish a dictatorship? Do you think this is her goal?TimS said:
For rather obvious historical reasons, absolutely not.williamglenn said:
Is it not a category error to call any democratic politician a fascist/falangist/nazi given that the one thing they had in common was opposition to multi-party democracy?TimS said:
The far right is going to have its day in the sun, though lack of internal coordination between the parties makes its administrative impact rather limited.williamglenn said:The AfD got 43% in Saxony with the SPD below 5%
https://x.com/tilojung/status/1799858314052084142
The other thing that stops them uniting into a powerful bloc is that different versions of them believe different things.
Put simply, there are truly nasty neo-nazis in suits, like the AfD and Sweden democrats, the successors to Hitler and Mussolini, and there are dozens of essentially Falangist parties, the successors to Franco. The current iteration of the RN in France, the PiS in Poland and Meloni in Italy are Falangists. At worst. Arguably just 19th century style authoritarians.
The AfD are the scariest. Worse than Trump, though less powerful.
The other divide is pro-Putinists vs the rest. Another where PiS and Meloni are on one side.
History tends to repeat itself and what happens on a small scale in the UK first (reformation and religious conflict, anti-royalist revolution, the rise of socialism) then manifests itself in a vastly more bloody way in Central Europe next. We did Brexit back in 2016, so they are due.0 -
Yeah, reality fucked up my joke.DecrepiterJohnL said:
Macron will be at the Olympics this summer.Casino_Royale said:Well, maybe Sunak and Macron are going to both be in California this summer.
For a second there I almost even said they'd drown their sorrows together in a giant lash, forgetting that Rishi doesn't drink.1 -
Would show balls if it was him facing the electorate. Dissolving a National Assembly that is already against you 250-330 isn't that brave.Gallowgate said:
I think it shows balls. Not being afraid of the electorate, etc. I wish our politicians were a bit more like that.Leon said:This looks a bit desperate from macron
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Macron is working to undermine the pro-EU faction in the Labour party by giving France a far-right Prime Minister.1
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saw Munch's Madonna last week in Hamburg
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A degree shouldn't be seen as simply a passport for a job. Having a highly educated population, regardless of job, should be seen as a good thing.Gallowgate said:
I didnt claim a highly educated population is a bad thing. What I am saying is a bad thing is that there are many using it as a gatekeeper to winnow out people that can do the job because they chose not to go into student debt or in my case for personal reasons couldnt goto uni even though accepted in the free education days0 -
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes aloneCasino_Royale said:
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.Heathener said:
Oh you tease. Come on, spill the beans.Casino_Royale said:I just got an email from David Cameron.
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Perhaps he should take it up. A brandy to steady his nerves is just what this doctor would recommend.Casino_Royale said:
Yeah, reality fucked up my joke.DecrepiterJohnL said:
Macron will be at the Olympics this summer.Casino_Royale said:Well, maybe Sunak and Macron are going to both be in California this summer.
For a second there I almost even said they'd drown their sorrows together in a giant lash, forgetting that Rishi doesn't drink.0 -
Knives out for Richard Holden0
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Well Rishi just called an election, so you could by the same token say he has balls. Whereas Farage only has one (the other is in a concert hall in South Ken).Gallowgate said:
I think it shows balls. Not being afraid of the electorate, etc. I wish our politicians were a bit more like that.Leon said:This looks a bit desperate from macron
Macron is, though, several orders of magnitude better looking than anyone in our entire House of Commons. So he gets to do silly things.0 -
Bit of a weird set up where someone who is elected separately to the legislature has the power to dissolve it.DM_Andy said:
Would show balls if it was him facing the electorate. Dissolving a National Assembly that is already against you 250-330 isn't that brave.Gallowgate said:
I think it shows balls. Not being afraid of the electorate, etc. I wish our politicians were a bit more like that.Leon said:This looks a bit desperate from macron
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The EU referendum spreadsheet. Perfection. I bought an iPad with that, among other things.Casino_Royale said:
No-one can do it better than you.Andy_JS said:
Someone's taken my job it seems. I did this in 2015.Foxy said:Great spreadsheet resource here. All the constituencies and candidates.
https://x.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1799836148153659799?t=E4bWTooBPnpsasY4uA4XCA&s=19
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Lolwilliamglenn said:Macron is working to undermine the pro-EU faction in the Labour party by giving France a far-right Prime Minister.
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Well the French President is like an elected King aren't they?tlg86 said:
Bit of a weird set up where someone who is elected separately to the legislature has the power to dissolve it.DM_Andy said:
Would show balls if it was him facing the electorate. Dissolving a National Assembly that is already against you 250-330 isn't that brave.Gallowgate said:
I think it shows balls. Not being afraid of the electorate, etc. I wish our politicians were a bit more like that.Leon said:This looks a bit desperate from macron
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Unsurprisingly. He is utterly useless and duplicitous.BatteryCorrectHorse said:Knives out for Richard Holden
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I didnt claim a highly educated population is a bad thing. What I am saying is a bad thing is that there are many using it as a gatekeeper to winnow out people that can do the job because they chose not to go into student debt or in my case for personal reasons couldnt goto uni even though accepted in the free education daysPagan2 said:
A degree shouldn't be seen as simply a passport for a job. Having a highly educated population, regardless of job, should be seen as a good thing.Gallowgate said:
That is a problem for employers to resolve. If they are missing out on talent then they will lose out.
It isn't the fault of the students or universities. When there is only one game in town you have to play it.0 -
Oooh my Munch post has disappeared. That’s a bit off.
I carefully reduced all my little piccies into one place and screenshot them into 1, yes just 1, picture and put them up here. They weren’t 5 miniature photos. Just 1 photo screenshot. And that was my first photo of the day.
Boo
Anyway I was saying how wonderful the Munch collection is at the National museum of Oslo and it’s worth going there before you go to the new Munch museum.
@rcs1000 ? Unless I hit cancel by mistake?!1 -
Macron has some balls. Gutsy, potentially clever, move. He clearly saw this result coming, and having problems getting anything through the legislature anyway, has basically said to the French people “back me or get THAT”.
Could blow up badly of course, but if EU Parliament results were predictive of subsequent domestic Parliament elections the Tories would have won neither 2015 nor 2019.1 -
@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.0
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Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?Mexicanpete said:
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes aloneCasino_Royale said:
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.Heathener said:
Oh you tease. Come on, spill the beans.Casino_Royale said:I just got an email from David Cameron.
Hmm.0 -
They could still both win.Casino_Royale said:
Yeah, reality fucked up my joke.DecrepiterJohnL said:
Macron will be at the Olympics this summer.Casino_Royale said:Well, maybe Sunak and Macron are going to both be in California this summer.
For a second there I almost even said they'd drown their sorrows together in a giant lash, forgetting that Rishi doesn't drink.1 -
That is a problem for employers to resolve. If they are missing out on talent then they will lose out.Foxy said:
I didnt claim a highly educated population is a bad thing. What I am saying is a bad thing is that there are many using it as a gatekeeper to winnow out people that can do the job because they chose not to go into student debt or in my case for personal reasons couldnt goto uni even though accepted in the free education daysPagan2 said:
A degree shouldn't be seen as simply a passport for a job. Having a highly educated population, regardless of job, should be seen as a good thing.Gallowgate said:
It isn't the fault of the students or universities. When there is only one game in town you have to play it.
Why would employers solve it, its not hurting them. The people it is hurting is people like me when I first went to work who instead of having my choices they are now condemned forever to crap jobs because they refused the debt0 -
I hadn't spotted this gem from Basildon and Billericay:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ggn7g466goThe statement, attributed to Richard Moore, the chairman of the Basildon and Billericay Conservative Association, said: "It didn’t take long for Richard to convince us that he was the only man for the job."1 -
Ah, I just did the Munch museum - which was very good. I also did the Nobel Peace Centre museum, which was also good.Heathener said:Oooh my Munch post has disappeared. That’s a bit off.
I carefully reduced all my little piccies into one place and screenshot them into 1, yes just 1, picture and put them up here. They weren’t 5 miniature photos. Just 1 photo screenshot. And that was my first photo of the day.
Boo
Anyway I was saying how wonderful the Munch collection is at the National museum of Oslo and it’s worth going there before you go to the new Munch museum.1 -
What is their incentive to do so?Gallowgate said:@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
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Is it? UK universities have a remarkable showing among the top ones worldwide, and unlike in so many fields, institutions outside London, especially north England and Scotland, are outstanding. Good one in Cambridge too.LostPassword said:
I don't think it's a coincidence that countries with more successful economies than Britain's have high rates of participation in tertiary education.Casino_Royale said:
Are we comparing apples with apples?darkage said:Someone posted government data on actual incomes pre and post tax. It is quite fascinating. A 50k wage puts you in the top 16% of earners, £100k in the top 4%. What this seems to demonstrate to me is that the salary expectations of graduates as envisaged by the student loan system is completely disconnected from reality. To even service the interest payments on a 70k loan you would need to be in the top 10% of earners.
How are earners defined? Do they include those on pensions, for example, or only those of working age from 16-65?
Even if the latter in any society like ours you will have vast swathes of people earning 15k-30k in all sorts of semi-skilled/services jobs so I'd expect top-end graduate jobs to be a top segment of 20%.
It does beg the question why we aim for 50% graduates, though.
I mean, Britain could continue to be a backward second-rate economy with low productivity if you really want, and deciding not to educate British children and instead importing the educated people the economy requires saves you some spending on the education budget, but it's not an approach that any other country with aspirations follows.
Why is British culture so anti-education?
Of course there is also a huge, raucous mass of people who affect to hate learning of every sort; I know loads of them and live in just such a place. Many of them have fabulous expertise in practical and useful skills which they don't think of as education or learning at all. That's part of the class system we didn't make but are all born into.0 -
And when they are elected, they think they have the right to interfere when they shouldn't.Gallowgate said:
Well the French President is like an elected King aren't they?tlg86 said:
Bit of a weird set up where someone who is elected separately to the legislature has the power to dissolve it.DM_Andy said:
Would show balls if it was him facing the electorate. Dissolving a National Assembly that is already against you 250-330 isn't that brave.Gallowgate said:
I think it shows balls. Not being afraid of the electorate, etc. I wish our politicians were a bit more like that.Leon said:This looks a bit desperate from macron
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They should open a Munch Museum in Munich. Just because they could call it Munich Munch. Which is snappy.Heathener said:Oooh my Munch post has disappeared. That’s a bit off.
I carefully reduced all my little piccies into one place and screenshot them into 1, yes just 1, picture and put them up here. They weren’t 5 miniature photos. Just 1 photo screenshot. And that was my first photo of the day.
Boo
Anyway I was saying how wonderful the Munch collection is at the National museum of Oslo and it’s worth going there before you go to the new Munch museum.0 -
Auf Deutsch it is better still: Munchen Munch.DougSeal said:
They should open a Munch Museum in Munich. Just because they could call it Munich Munch. Which is snappy.Heathener said:Oooh my Munch post has disappeared. That’s a bit off.
I carefully reduced all my little piccies into one place and screenshot them into 1, yes just 1, picture and put them up here. They weren’t 5 miniature photos. Just 1 photo screenshot. And that was my first photo of the day.
Boo
Anyway I was saying how wonderful the Munch collection is at the National museum of Oslo and it’s worth going there before you go to the new Munch museum.6 -
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.Foxy said:
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?Mexicanpete said:
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes aloneCasino_Royale said:
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.Heathener said:
Oh you tease. Come on, spill the beans.Casino_Royale said:I just got an email from David Cameron.
Hmm.0 -
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.Pagan2 said:
What is their incentive to do so?Gallowgate said:@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
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It’s an arrangement de Gaulle demanded of the constitution of the Fifth Republic. It’s designed that way deliberately.tlg86 said:
And when they are elected, they think they have the right to interfere when they shouldn't.Gallowgate said:
Well the French President is like an elected King aren't they?tlg86 said:
Bit of a weird set up where someone who is elected separately to the legislature has the power to dissolve it.DM_Andy said:
Would show balls if it was him facing the electorate. Dissolving a National Assembly that is already against you 250-330 isn't that brave.Gallowgate said:
I think it shows balls. Not being afraid of the electorate, etc. I wish our politicians were a bit more like that.Leon said:This looks a bit desperate from macron
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With a cafe:Foxy said:
Auf Deutsch it is better still: Munchen Munch.DougSeal said:
They should open a Munch Museum in Munich. Just because they could call it Munich Munch. Which is snappy.Heathener said:Oooh my Munch post has disappeared. That’s a bit off.
I carefully reduced all my little piccies into one place and screenshot them into 1, yes just 1, picture and put them up here. They weren’t 5 miniature photos. Just 1 photo screenshot. And that was my first photo of the day.
Boo
Anyway I was saying how wonderful the Munch collection is at the National museum of Oslo and it’s worth going there before you go to the new Munch museum.
Munchen Munch Munchies.
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PB Pungent Pendant Alert: Münchner Munch.Foxy said:
Auf Deutsch it is better still: Munchen Munch.DougSeal said:
They should open a Munch Museum in Munich. Just because they could call it Munich Munch. Which is snappy.Heathener said:Oooh my Munch post has disappeared. That’s a bit off.
I carefully reduced all my little piccies into one place and screenshot them into 1, yes just 1, picture and put them up here. They weren’t 5 miniature photos. Just 1 photo screenshot. And that was my first photo of the day.
Boo
Anyway I was saying how wonderful the Munch collection is at the National museum of Oslo and it’s worth going there before you go to the new Munch museum.1 -
Oslo should combine the Munch collection at the National Museum with the Munch museum's collection then they could have a Monster Munch Museum.Heathener said:Oooh my Munch post has disappeared. That’s a bit off.
I carefully reduced all my little piccies into one place and screenshot them into 1, yes just 1, picture and put them up here. They weren’t 5 miniature photos. Just 1 photo screenshot. And that was my first photo of the day.
Boo
Anyway I was saying how wonderful the Munch collection is at the National museum of Oslo and it’s worth going there before you go to the new Munch museum.
@rcs1000 ? Unless I hit cancel by mistake?!10 -
I've said this before a couple of times - he was my brilliant constituency MP until one day he suddenly wasn't and it became apparent it was all either a scam or something he was prepared to sacrifice for personal ambition.Luckyguy1983 said:
It seems from that that Richard Holden has left Twitter.Scott_xP said:How could the Tories up their game since D-Day?
Give an interview so bad their press officer has to step in...
https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1799859124047593566
It brings me pleasure to watch him squirm.1 -
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.Foxy said:
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.Pagan2 said:
What is their incentive to do so?Gallowgate said:@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree0 -
Went to Conhome to survey the wreckage, but they have an excellent piece by Harry Phibbs:It’s true that Labour has tended to do worse when pushing extreme socialist policies. But have the Conservatives won electoral advantage by shifting to the middle? Margaret Thatcher was not noted for abandoning Conservative principles for the cause of consensus and triangulation. Her predecessor, Edward Heath, was more keen on pursuing the “centre ground” – with bland appeals to “moderation” and for support from “men of goodwill”. The Conservatives lost three out of the four General Elections fought under his leadership.
https://conservativehome.com/2024/06/09/conservatives-should-seek-the-common-ground-not-the-centre-ground/0 -
After the Councillor Nelson stuff yesterday, the Tory candidate for Southend East and Rochford decided to post about coconuts.
https://x.com/Otto_English/status/1799856905478619239
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You really have this view of the Tories as being a Machiavellian election winning machine don’t you? There’s plenty of evidence that the ex-pat vote won’t go Tory.Mexicanpete said:
I do fear the other parties have missed a trick. Perhaps this is the plan Sunak keeps telling us about.Foxy said:
Though usually just 100 000 or so actually vote, don't they?Mexicanpete said:
All 3.5 million of them. The Tories could win a very decent majority on the ex pat Tory votes aloneCasino_Royale said:
It was a video aimed at Conservatives Abroad for voting in the GE, which I presume can be linked to his role as foreign secretary.Heathener said:
Oh you tease. Come on, spill the beans.Casino_Royale said:I just got an email from David Cameron.
Hmm.
The last person to carp so incessantly on TV about his ‘plan’ was Baldrick.1 -
I wouldn't use education as a gate-keeping exercise, no, and different people will learn better in different ways, and so there can be multiple pathways to the same end.Pagan2 said:Nowadays a person like me would be job limited to stacking shelves in tesco's because I don't have a degree
In my time I have however got a patent to my name for a colour space algortithm I invented, I have written sat nav software that includes cars, cycles, pedestrians. I have written medical software and now work on educational software. Focussing everything on degrees now would make an 18 year old me never considered for any of that and you think thats a good thing?
But, still, more education (assuming done right) generally produces a better educated workforce, which is generally a more productive workforce, which is generally a wealthier country.
Yet a lot of people are suspicious of it in Britain.0 -
Social media masterclass this time round from the Blues.DM_Andy said:After the Councillor Nelson stuff yesterday, the Tory candidate for Southend East and Rochford decided to post about coconuts.
https://x.com/Otto_English/status/17998569054786192390 -
It's not easy to convince them, but that is what you need to do, not punish the young for playing the only game in town.Pagan2 said:
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.Foxy said:
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.Pagan2 said:
What is their incentive to do so?Gallowgate said:@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree0 -
I am not disputing education is generally a good thing, hell I wish I had more.LostPassword said:
I wouldn't use education as a gate-keeping exercise, no, and different people will learn better in different ways, and so there can be multiple pathways to the same end.Pagan2 said:Nowadays a person like me would be job limited to stacking shelves in tesco's because I don't have a degree
In my time I have however got a patent to my name for a colour space algortithm I invented, I have written sat nav software that includes cars, cycles, pedestrians. I have written medical software and now work on educational software. Focussing everything on degrees now would make an 18 year old me never considered for any of that and you think thats a good thing?
But, still, more education (assuming done right) generally produces a better educated workforce, which is generally a more productive workforce, which is generally a wealthier country.
Yet a lot of people are suspicious of it in Britain.
Sadly though it has now become a gatekeeper for jobs, no longer do they ask can you do the job but can you do the job and have a degree for far too many jobs1 -
Everybody should leave Richard Holden alone. Assuming he wins his seat, it's more than sufficient punishment to know that he will, presumably, be obliged to have a home in Basildon or Billericay. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.0
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You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here.Pagan2 said:
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.Foxy said:
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.Pagan2 said:
What is their incentive to do so?Gallowgate said:@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's.
On as little as less than £23k.0 -
Don't people realise @Mexicanpete is a piss taking satirist par excellence?3
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Where am I advocating punishing the young, if anything I am arguing we shouldn't punish them by making them get a degree just to get a job that doesn't need one in the first pointFoxy said:
It's not easy to convince them, but that is what you need to do, not punish the young for playing the only game in town.Pagan2 said:
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.Foxy said:
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.Pagan2 said:
What is their incentive to do so?Gallowgate said:@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree0 -
Good evening
I do not pretend to understand who is who in European elections but seems the right are making gains, especially in Germany and France, and Macron has called an unexpected election
I expect Farage to be all over this and it is not helpful to those worried about the right and his part in the UK
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No context needed.BatteryCorrectHorse said:Matthew Goodwin ROFL. He is a moron.
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I realised that long agodixiedean said:Don't people realise @Mexicanpete is a piss taking satirist par excellence?
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And, similar to the Tate in Liverpool, a subsidiary.biggles said:
With a cafe:Foxy said:
Auf Deutsch it is better still: Munchen Munch.DougSeal said:
They should open a Munch Museum in Munich. Just because they could call it Munich Munch. Which is snappy.Heathener said:Oooh my Munch post has disappeared. That’s a bit off.
I carefully reduced all my little piccies into one place and screenshot them into 1, yes just 1, picture and put them up here. They weren’t 5 miniature photos. Just 1 photo screenshot. And that was my first photo of the day.
Boo
Anyway I was saying how wonderful the Munch collection is at the National museum of Oslo and it’s worth going there before you go to the new Munch museum.
Munchen Munch Munchies.
Munchen Moenchengladbach Munch Munchies.2 -
On this occasion I am genuinely fearful. I read articles back in 1992 explaining that the Tory vote was bolstered in handy constituencies by South African voters (not ANC voters). I have subsequently been unable to locate such evidence.dixiedean said:Don't people realise @Mexicanpete is a piss taking satirist par excellence?
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I hope they have a Munch museum in Münster, just saying.SeaShantyIrish2 said:
PB Pungent Pendant Alert: Münchner Munch.Foxy said:
Auf Deutsch it is better still: Munchen Munch.DougSeal said:
They should open a Munch Museum in Munich. Just because they could call it Munich Munch. Which is snappy.Heathener said:Oooh my Munch post has disappeared. That’s a bit off.
I carefully reduced all my little piccies into one place and screenshot them into 1, yes just 1, picture and put them up here. They weren’t 5 miniature photos. Just 1 photo screenshot. And that was my first photo of the day.
Boo
Anyway I was saying how wonderful the Munch collection is at the National museum of Oslo and it’s worth going there before you go to the new Munch museum.1 -
Time to start avoiding artificial sweeteners.
Xylitol is prothrombotic and associated with cardiovascular risk
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae244/7683453
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Though possibly a job where a higher level of education is relevant. Be clear here I am not saying degrees are necessarily worthless. I am merely saying there seems to be a lot of jobs that were quite happily done properly by people with o levels or a levels alone that suddenly require a degree and a load of student debtdixiedean said:
You'll be delighted to hear the Public Sector is leading the way here.Pagan2 said:
How do you prove that to them when most companies that aren't advertising min wage jobs are...must have a degree in the advert.Foxy said:
If they are missing out on cheap talent, that cannot easily go elsewhere then it isn't good business.Pagan2 said:
What is their incentive to do so?Gallowgate said:@Pagan2 quotes are borked but fair enough. I agree. However it is up to companies to rein in and reform their own HR departments.
Hell I have applied for jobs in software engineering and been told that despite 30 years experience I am not qualified because no degree
Due to the shortage of teachers, classes are increasingly being covered (and increasingly permanently led) by non-graduate HLTA's.
On as little as less than £23k.4 -
He might just doss down in the back of a Cortina.Northern_Al said:Everybody should leave Richard Holden alone. Assuming he wins his seat, it's more than sufficient punishment to know that he will, presumably, be obliged to have a home in Basildon or Billericay. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
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What possessed him to actually write that down? And then the "you misunderstood me" defence... I'd expect more subtlety from primary school kids.DM_Andy said:After the Councillor Nelson stuff yesterday, the Tory candidate for Southend East and Rochford decided to post about coconuts.
https://x.com/Otto_English/status/17998569054786192390 -
Pete is one of my favourite posters and a good friend of mine on this board. He's a supportive chap.dixiedean said:Don't people realise @Mexicanpete is a piss taking satirist par excellence?
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I do not understand why people obsess about him to be honestkle4 said:
No context needed.BatteryCorrectHorse said:Matthew Goodwin ROFL. He is a moron.
He is a commentator from the right as far as I understand, but I do not read anything he publishes just the same as I ignore the hard left0 -
Good.Big_G_NorthWales said:
I realised that long agodixiedean said:Don't people realise @Mexicanpete is a piss taking satirist par excellence?
I'm glad it's not just me. He really is great at it, isn't he? I often read his posts, and my hackles getup. Then I see the author and have a wry chuckle to myself.1 -
Oh yes. I've been enjoying his persona for quite some time.dixiedean said:Don't people realise @Mexicanpete is a piss taking satirist par excellence?
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There's me thinking he was a Hispanic specialist in soil improvement.dixiedean said:Don't people realise @Mexicanpete is a piss taking satirist par excellence?
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Well I'd guess that it's partly the problem with British companies not investing. I've also said in the past that I think there's a problem with technical tertiary education not being as prestigious as academic tertiary education in Britain. So we might be encouraging people to get the wrong sort of education to some extent, or the wrong people.Casino_Royale said:
I agree with you, but how do you move the balance of jobs in that direction?LostPassword said:
I don't think it's a coincidence that countries with more successful economies than Britain's have high rates of participation in tertiary education.Casino_Royale said:
Are we comparing apples with apples?darkage said:Someone posted government data on actual incomes pre and post tax. It is quite fascinating. A 50k wage puts you in the top 16% of earners, £100k in the top 4%. What this seems to demonstrate to me is that the salary expectations of graduates as envisaged by the student loan system is completely disconnected from reality. To even service the interest payments on a 70k loan you would need to be in the top 10% of earners.
How are earners defined? Do they include those on pensions, for example, or only those of working age from 16-65?
Even if the latter in any society like ours you will have vast swathes of people earning 15k-30k in all sorts of semi-skilled/services jobs so I'd expect top-end graduate jobs to be a top segment of 20%.
It does beg the question why we aim for 50% graduates, though.
I mean, Britain could continue to be a backward second-rate economy with low productivity if you really want, and deciding not to educate British children and instead importing the educated people the economy requires saves you some spending on the education budget, but it's not an approach that any other country with aspirations follows.
Why is British culture so anti-education?
I'm not sure how it works if 50% go to university but only 20% get decent graduate jobs.
Also, in Ireland, if you had large numbers of graduates not finding work at the right level for their qualifications, they'd go and find work in Australia/Canada/US/Britain/etc that paid better and they were qualified for. I know Britain has a larger population than Ireland, and so there are more graduates looking for work, but why aren't they finding work in other Anglophone countries?0 -
Everyone seems to want to be the feck outta government by early July.
What's coming?
I'm suspicious0 -
Is that for real?!? Utterly appalling if true. The candidate must surely be publicly disowned by the Tories?DM_Andy said:After the Councillor Nelson stuff yesterday, the Tory candidate for Southend East and Rochford decided to post about coconuts.
https://x.com/Otto_English/status/17998569054786192391
