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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%

  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%
  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
Uber_Hoop said:
I don’t understand the Left’s (and, it would seem, the ****ing Tories) opposition to Grammar Schools, or some modern equivalent. Whilst I get the arguments about different kids developing at different speeds, so reticence at selection at aged eleven, it surely can’t be beyond the intelligence of your average Minister to drum up a system that recognises this too.

There has to be selection by ability, and this has to happen at a reasonably young age in order to fast track those with the greatest potential and to produce the leaders, entrepreneurs and captains of industry of the future.

If we don’t invest in the sharpish then what’s the point?

Give me selection by ability over selection by wealth any day. And we do have selection by wealth right now, where those families wealthy enough to live in the right school catchments get their kids the better education.

How do the bright kids in poorer areas access the same? Right now, these kids are probably forced into substandard schools in poorer areas where their progress is stymied by the **** culture in the classrooms.
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Back in the 60s there were Grammars and Comprehensives. Both had classes streamed on ability so the cleverest kids learned at a rate commensurate with their ability, the average at theirs and the lesser at theirs. It seems patently obvious that that would be the easiest and most successful way to educate. Unfortunately those who know best decided mixed ability classes were the way forward and Grammars were abolished and from then on education in this country went down the pan.

My wife worked in schools for over 30 years and has seen guidance handed down from the DfE or whatever they now call themselves constantly change over the years to the point at which they literally contradict themselves on educational methods in class. I have many friends who are in or were in the teaching profession and they are as split on the way forward as the idiots who have ruined education in this country. Constant changing and the spectre of Ofsted inspections has driven many out of teaching altogether. Sadly, we now have many young adults who have poor 3Rs skills and have been let down by a system that has been tinkered to death...
 
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whats the uks interest rate at the moment
here its dropped to 1% with more drops expected

European banks fear no escape from negative rates
18 Sep, 2019 6:26pm
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Mario Draghi's final act as ECB president was to cut interest rates to minus 0.5 per cent. Photo / AP
Financial Times
By: Stephen Morris, Olaf Storbeck and Martin Arnold
No one wins in the rabbit-hole world of negative interest rates
The region's banks were left disappointed by Mario Draghi's last major act as ECB president, in which he last week cut its key deposit rate to minus 0.5 per cent, while also unveiling a new tiering system designed to shield a portion of the deposits lenders keep at the ECB from negative rates.
However, the relief provided by tiering will barely offset the
 
West WindsR said:
You post seriously dumb stuff and get aggressive on a football messageboard regularly and I mock it lightheartedly rather than reply in kind. If that’s arrogant then I guess I’m arrogant.

I should add I’m sure you’re lovely. Politics doesn’t bring out the best in many of us.
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arrogance is good and as an arrogant Cnut myself I can state Turkish is also extremely arrogant. Tip if it’s that bad in anyone street ... move
 
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There's going to be such fun next week when the Supreme Court rules against Johnson. Be prepared for hysterical claims that the judges are 'TRAITORS!' from the Mail and the Express and ****er Tories saying that 'whilst I wouldn't say that, you can understand how some might'. Everyone knows that Johnson is an inveterate liar, but for him be found to have lied to the Queen will be difficult for Cummings to work around. Still, **** it, we'll just do whatever the **** we want - including breaking the law - in the name of DEMOCKRACEE.
 
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Stroller said:
There's going to be such fun next week when the Supreme Court rules against Johnson. Be prepared for hysterical claims that the judges are 'TRAITORS!' from the Mail and the Express and ****er Tories saying that 'whilst I wouldn't say that, you can understand how some might'. Everyone knows that Johnson is an inveterate liar, but for him be found to have lied to the Queen will be difficult for Cummings to work around. Still, **** it, we'll just do whatever the **** we want - including breaking the law - in the name of DEMOCKRACEE.
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Wait until it’s revealed one of them buys brie rather than cheddar.
 
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Stroller said:
There's going to be such fun next week when the Supreme Court rules against Johnson. Be prepared for hysterical claims that the judges are 'TRAITORS!' from the Mail and the Express and ****er Tories saying that 'whilst I wouldn't say that, you can understand how some might'. Everyone knows that Johnson is an inveterate liar, but for him be found to have lied to the Queen will be difficult for Cummings to work around. Still, **** it, we'll just do whatever the **** we want - including breaking the law - in the name of DEMOCKRACEE.
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Good article by Hitchens P today on the Supreme Court process. Supreme Court introduced by our old friend Anthony Blair when the constitution largely functioned OK without it for 100s of years. Given there's no documented constitutional rules governing what's actually happened here, any ruling by the Supreme Court is only their opinion. Other opinions are available.

I kinda agree with that.

Seems daft to me that we'd have a court sitting above parliament when it's the latter that's supposed to pass things into law. If there's then a body sitting above parliament telling parliament what's lawful and what's not, then what's the bloody point of the parliamentary process?

I know that answer before you write it because I'm psychic.
 
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Stroller said:
Oslo has impeccable judgment. It's a bit like the inverse of Col (wherever he is) liking posts by Goldie and Uber, who are always wrong of course.
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I'll take that about judgement thanks, tho I don't always agree with you, not about Corbyn's "sensible deal with the customs union", where I fear he is bottling on the single market. But I like reading all posts on this thread that are basically saying bollox to Brexit, bollox to Boris and bollox to shutting down the Countries main democratitic institution.
Staines R's said:
Come the day that I see a post by Stroller or Bracknell that ISN'T liked by Oslo.......then the world truly is coming to an end :)
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Well it must be nigh then, there have been many from them I havent liked, but with 4 wins on the trot I'm liking a lot at the moment, even you and Goldie when you are sticking to the footy.
 
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Turkish" Premier" Hoops said:
Oh , just move, ok smartass, you going to pay, contribute from you ivory ****ing tower in the land of cheese eating surrender monkeys, no didn’t think so, so thanks for your input.
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Why is there a suggestion that I may contribute financially to you moving out from seems to be a social meltdown ... would that be my responsibility? I only suggested you move you can’t be trapped ?

Another slice of Roquefort Clyde? Oh he’s gone again
 
DT’s Socks said:
Why is there a suggestion that I may contribute financially to you moving out from seems to be a social meltdown ... would that be my responsibility? I only suggested you move you can’t be trapped ?

Another slice of Roquefort Clyde? Oh he’s gone again
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ubers going to be in france looking for someone to spend some time with during the match on saturday dt
are you free
 
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dear oh dear oh dear


Academics see red over ‘safe space’ traffic-light badges at Roehampton University meeting
Scholars at a transgender conference were asked to wear lanyards to show whether they felt able to cope with conversation
Sian Griffiths and Ewan Somerville
September 22 2019, 12:01am, The Sunday Times
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A red badge meant: ‘I do not wish to speak with other delegates’MARTIN BARRAUD
They were certainly not the conventional name badges that people sometimes wear at parties.
Academics attending a conference at a British university wore badges which followed a “traffic-light communication system” to ensure it was a “safe” space for transgender and other non-binary attendees.
If you chose a green badge, it meant: “I wish to speak with other delegates and welcome you to approach.” A yellow badge meant: “I will approach you if I wish to speak.” A red badge took an even more hostile approach to networking — “I do not wish to speak with other delegates.”
Delegates attending the one-day academic conference at Roehampton University in southwest London, entitled Thinking Beyond: Transversal Transfeminisms, could choose which coloured name lanyard they wanted to wear.
Scholars…
 
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DT’s Socks said:
Why is there a suggestion that I may contribute financially to you moving out from seems to be a social meltdown ... would that be my responsibility? I only suggested you move you can’t be trapped ?

Another slice of Roquefort Clyde? Oh he’s gone again
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Don’t like Roquefort Pierre, do you by any chance have a nice Camembert !!
It’s not easy to move just like that, we rent privately and there is a severe shortage of housing fit for disabled ie bungalows as my wife now struggles with stairs and landlords don’t like you fitting stair lifts etc.
Not all of us have multiple homes like you old chap.
 
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kiwiqpr said:
dear oh dear oh dear


Academics see red over ‘safe space’ traffic-light badges at Roehampton University meeting
Scholars at a transgender conference were asked to wear lanyards to show whether they felt able to cope with conversation
Sian Griffiths and Ewan Somerville
September 22 2019, 12:01am, The Sunday Times
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A red badge meant: ‘I do not wish to speak with other delegates’MARTIN BARRAUD
They were certainly not the conventional name badges that people sometimes wear at parties.
Academics attending a conference at a British university wore badges which followed a “traffic-light communication system” to ensure it was a “safe” space for transgender and other non-binary attendees.
If you chose a green badge, it meant: “I wish to speak with other delegates and welcome you to approach.” A yellow badge meant: “I will approach you if I wish to speak.” A red badge took an even more hostile approach to networking — “I do not wish to speak with other delegates.”
Delegates attending the one-day academic conference at Roehampton University in southwest London, entitled Thinking Beyond: Transversal Transfeminisms, could choose which coloured name lanyard they wanted to wear.
Scholars…
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They should have a black one with the words 'F*ck off, you're all barking snowflakes'...
 
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