The EU debate - Part III

Record number of teachers ousted - but campaigners say it's a "drop in the ocean" of incompetency
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/record-number-teachers-ousted-campaigners-9055602

"Former Chief Inspector of Schools Sir Chris Woodhead, who died last year, estimated there were around 15,000 incompetent teachers

A record number of teachers are being booted out, with 68 barred in the last six months.

But the Campaign for Real Education warns the toll represents “a drop in an ocean” of bad teachers.

At least 438 have been ousted by the National College for Teaching and Leadership since 2012, an average eight a month. In 2011, just 33 were axed.

Reasons for the latest 68 dismissals include having sex with students, attacking parents, being drunk, fraud and falsifying exam results.

In the past month, a Sussex woman teacher has been banned for life for trying to kiss a pupil’s mother and touch her breasts during a drunken visit to her home.

A 47-year-old teacher in Hartlepool was barred for posing as a boy on Skype to send messages to girls boasting about his private parts.

The campaign’s Chris McGovern told the Sunday People : “General incompetence is finally being acted on but parents should be less concerned about the increasing prohibition orders than by the number of unfit teachers still in the classroom.

“The former Chief Inspector of Schools Sir Chris Woodhead , who died last year, estimated that there were around 15,000 incompetent teachers.”

The Education Department said: “Where teachers are guilty of professional misconduct we have tightened guidelines so it is easier to keep them out.” "

 

A fund manager 'talking his book'

Very interesting!...

 

And this rubbish has what to do with Brexit?....

 

Madness! As Polish lorry driver is jailed for killing a family while on his mobile, we catch SEVENTEEN foreign truckers using their phones at 50mph. The law MUST be toughened
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ruckers-using-phones-50mph-law-toughened.html

 

I think he's finally gone completely dolally!....

 

Make the punishment fit this lethal crime
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...COMMENT-Make-punishment-fit-lethal-crime.html

"As it happens, the chilling photographs on our front page, showing foreign lorry drivers using mobile phones while travelling at speed, were taken yesterday on the M20 – the day after HGV driver Tomasz Kroker was jailed for wiping out a mother and three children while he was doing the same.
But they could have been taken any day, on any motorway, to illustrate the terrifying scale of this menace to lives.
How deeply disturbing, therefore, that figures last week show the number of drivers prosecuted for this killer offence is falling, because police can’t be bothered to enforce a law so routinely broken.

In September, ministers announced plans to double the punishment for using phones at the wheel from three points to six, with on-the-spot fines to rise from £100 to £200. This is clearly not enough.
How many more lives must be lost before police act – and politicians make the punishment fit the lethal crime?
The Leveson legacy
Much has changed since Lord Justice Leveson published the first part of his report on newspapers’ conduct and ethics, ordered after the phone-hacking scandal.
The paper that brought it about, the News of the World, is no more. Some 2,500 other publications, including the Mail, have joined an independent watchdog, IPSO, which runs the toughest Press regulatory regime in the free world.
Meanwhile, some £43.7million has been spent on criminal investigations of reporters and their contacts with police and officials – including £20million on Operation Elveden, in which none of the 34 journalists arrested was found guilty.

In light of all this (not to mention the growth of unregulated online media), Culture Secretary Karen Bradley is clearly right to call a public consultation before deciding on whether to activate a pernicious law which would threaten the survival of many struggling newspapers.
This is Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, which would force publications outside state media control (i.e. the vast majority) to pay the legal costs of anyone who sues – win or lose!
More surreal still, the only regulator so far approved by the state – though it has been rejected by all mainstream media – is financed mostly by degenerate former F1 tycoon Max Mosley, still smarting from the Press exposure of his penchant for German-themed S & M orgies.
Can this insult to decency really be what Leveson envisaged?

Indeed, Mrs Bradley is also wise to consult before agreeing to Leveson 2, which is to examine relations between journalists, police and public officials.
Confirming everything this paper has argued, an LSE study finds that post-Leveson curbs have damaged these unique links, giving police too much power to control information, ‘with serious implications for democracy’.
Yes, Britain’s least scrupulous newspapers behaved wickedly in the past. But let nobody forget that the public’s right to know is the rock on which all our other liberties depend.
A vote of dishonour
What a tawdry day for the Commons, when 159 Tories joined 42 others in electing Keith Vaz to the committee overseeing the Justice Department.
Having survived scandal after scandal, this is the man who eight weeks ago had to quit the Home Affairs Committee after consorting with drug-taking rent-boys.
Tories claim parliamentary practice obliged them to back Labour’s nominee for an all-party committee.
But this is a matter of common decency. In closing ranks behind such a sleaze-merchant, the political class has dragged the good name of the Commons even further into disrepute."

 

Sorry going to be controversial here, is 900,000 that unbelievable? I'm not sure what constitutes disability benefit, but I think we can all agree that there are plenty of people who know how to play the system. My wife is a pharmacist and she will tell you that 75% of the people put a cross in the box for non-payment. Neither the pharmacy or authorities have the time to investigate these claims individually, so people are continuing to do it, until caught. If other forms of disability benefits are this easy to circumvent, then are the numbers could be realistic.

 

Yep....
However, it is really a pet hate of mine. People on phones whilst driving (and no Pete it's not aimed at Polish lorry drivers). I think stiffer penalties should be handed out. I know this is going to be seen as sexist, but generally I see more women than men on there bloody phones whilst driving.

 

Still biting I see

 

Still,biting I see...

 

Quack!

 

OINK

 

I never knew there were that many scousers.

 

Place your bets on how many times NSIS will bite today

I say 17 times.

 

I see the sjw fascists are still stifling debate on here.

 

Mentally unstable accountant spams internet with right wing gibberish; www.dailynazi.co.uk

"What's the daft **** banging on about now?", MPs ask.

 

Inflation to rise to 4% in 2017.

Pound to drop another 5%.

All part of the cunning plan.

I'm off to buy some more euros

 

They try, but nobody is listening to them, except Teaboy

 

His ratio of abusive posts to ones with a meaningful topical content will be 17:0.