Big assumption here that free schools are a good thing. The NUT think differently: https://www.teachers.org.uk/campaigns/freeschools I tend to agree, but also wanted to point out the total hypocrisy of the Tories pretending to be the party of decentralisation of government. Most of their policies work completely the opposite way, such as this, which takes decisions about schools away from local authorities and puts them in the hands of the Education Secretary. The whole Tory education policy has effectively done the same thing, leaving confusion, over provision of places in certain areas and under provision in others, and the local authorities to pick up the pieces within their increasingly lesser ability to do so.
The on paper concept of the "free school" is to try and literally free a school from what in the past has often been council politnik dogma. However this does not stop such schools from saying to councils that : 1. our school is going to do X% of what you do, but there is 100-X % of stuff that we are going to do that you either do not do or refuse to do (curriculum, teaching regimes etc) . 2. we will work with you to ensure that X is as large as possible, so pupils in your catchment area who come to our school at the very least are learning the same X and to the same standards as in your schools. Yet the reality is that these schools are becoming snobatoriums, for 'Mumsnet moron' parents who think ickle Joshy is too good for "state" schools, and similarly do not take pupils from across the intelligence spectrum.
Oh well, too late to reshuffle him now eh? please log in to view this image please log in to view this image The NUT? Just a bunch of armchair critics on Twitter, according to the lesser Johnson.
Oh joy, the Tories are trying to get ahead of the NHS crisis by lying through their teeth - to predictable results...
WARNING : scientist/engineer incoming ... "Conservatives spend their time supporting the NHS: We’re backing it with record funding" That may be a tautology. From what I can see, funding for the NHS may be driven solely by NICs. If that increases annually then by definition EVERY year results in "record funding" . please log in to view this image This implies any of the following : 1. Funding the NHS via current NIC take is no longer viable. Therefore NICs have to be raised and/or tax revenue (income tax etc) diverted to maintain at best a zero surplus. 2. The funding is in fact ok, and the losses are due to institutional INCOMPETENCE within the NHS (budgeting, waste, poor "value for money" from outsourced service providers etc) .
It's the standard Tory privatisation procedure. Break something, say it doesn't work, then sell it off to your mates and still receive government funding for it. Enjoy your directorships that involve about 20 minutes work a week. Laugh at the peasants.
Anyone know who these 37% are? Are they the immigrants Trump wants sent back(?) but forced under pressure to vote Trump so that they can remain in the USA?
Single issue voters and those in the Fox News, talk radio, internet propaganda bubble, for the most part. I think that the floor for the two main parties in the US is about 30% anyway, as a lot of people just get depressed by it all, switch off and vote for their "team".
Let me see if I've got the Trumpflakes' argument right... When an actress says they were sexually harassed (or worse) by Harvey Weinstein, they're attention-seeking liars looking for a payday that they never got because they have no talent and have to resort to crying wolf. Yet when any celebrity says anything bad about Trump, be it Oprah Winfrey hinting she may run in 2020 or Robert Di Niro calling Trump a ****ing idiot, they immediately attempt to dig up any links between them and Weinstein no matter how tenuous to try and claim they were complicit in Weinstein's abuse, be it bringing up Weinstein was a frequent diner at De Niro's restaurant or posting some random 20+ year old photo of Oprah with Weinstein and some actress with captions accusing her of being complicit with the abuse or even pimping girls out to him. So rather than have their cake and eat it by deciding if Weinstein is guilty or not solely dependant on who they want to hate in that particular five minute spell, instead they are grabbing the cake off the table and having full sex with it in front of a children's birthday party and failing to understand why the police are coming to drag them away.
please log in to view this image This Harvey Weinstein? "I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy.'' "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." "No doubt about it -- Jeffrey enjoys his social life." Donald Trump on convicted child molester Jeffrey Epstein. Probably best for them not to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon on that one, eh?
Let's not forget him endorsing Roy Moore...although Trump is trying to claim that he didn't. Slight problem with that...
It would be political suicide to announce means tested healthcare as a policy. But introducing it by stealth is a far easier. Force people to take out health insurance. Many will look at the state of the NHS and be very afraid of being ill or decide they can't wait indefinitely for treatment. So eventually the NHS will become a 3rd rate health service for the poor only, run by G4S, where the only beneficiaries are G4S executives and major shareholders.
So it's emerged that Virgin West Coast Mainline was selling the grand total of seventy copies of the Daily Mail per day on the entire route. At this point you'd have to be a incapable of forming any opinion that hadn't been force fed to you by the Mail, Nigel Farage or Britain First to not come to the conclusion that it's a cost-cutting measure dressed up as something else as a PR move - which is exactly what I predicted it was when the story first broke. Either way, it's still not a "ban" by any stretch of the word, given you can read the paper or access their website on any of Virgin's trains. Of course, we can always rely on the 'Kippers to get things hopelessly wrong... please log in to view this image
Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, former Secretary of State for Health and subsequently non-executive director of Bupa, scoffs at your suggestions.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...apons-policy-and-develop-more-usable-warheads No doubt like me, you've been thinking the one thing we really needed to do was loosen that nuclear weapons policy.
"The development of a low-yield warhead for a sea-launched ballistic missile is based on the belief that in any conflict with Russia on Nato’s eastern flank, the Russians would use a tactical nuclear weapon early on, to compensate for their relative weakness in conventional arms. The Russians, the argument goes, would count on US reluctance to use the massive warheads on its existing weapons, leading Washington to back down." Interesting. The Cold War thinking used to be that a large-scale conventional attack from the Soviet bloc (which at one point allegedly had a manpower ratio of 10:1) on its western flank mandated NATO having smaller damage tactical nukes to deter such an attack.
"We are going to take a strong look at our country's libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about some that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts." - The orange One So, Donald, would you like to explain the following comment you made? Closer to home, sneering ****wit Toby Young should be thankful that people were focusing on his tweets rather than the company he keeps http://londonstudent.coop/news/2018/01/10/exposed-london-eugenics-conferences-neo-nazi-links/
Waffling gargoyle who appears to have noticed his EU pension is at risk of significantly dropping Nigel Farage has popped his head above the parapet to suggest he might be open to the idea of a second EU Referendum. It's almost as if, in trying to avoid accepting the blame for the entire fiasco of his creation, he's trying to take credit with the country having an out to the whole fiasco that is still of his own creation. Speaking of racists, it's depressing to see how American white supremacists are jumping on the completely unsubstantiated rumours appearing in the reputable publication which doesn't at all look like a cesspool of race-baiting rhetoric Just News USA that The Queen had nixed plans for the Obamas to attend the impending royal wedding to vomit up yet more racist bile about the Obamas, with Michelle in particular being the target. Never, ever play Santorini. It requires a rule book and an app while also suggesting a Youtube tutorial before you even get started. No, I am not joking in the slightest.
Santorini sounds far too dedicated for a board game. Slightly missing the point, surely? There is one that encompasses your entire comment, though: please log in to view this image It's become a little too relevant, unfortunately.
