Weird Granny Slater
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Captain Haddock wrote:I can't quite recall, but I'm sure this Oath of Loyalty idea has been seen somewhere before ..
I would recommend this to any adults confused by the subject:
And this to yourself:
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock
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Thanks. Read this a while ago. Must have had a faulty copy.
Non of it actually worked other than Chapter 3.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Captain Haddock wrote:
Meanwhile let's keep pumping out the usual counter-factual crap rather than the truth that we are actually not doing too bad at all!
Income inequality at 30yr low
3+ Million more jobs - 3/4 full time
UK Economy up 15.8%
Deficit cut 2/3
Tax cut for 31m people
Record NHS funding
2m more good/outstanding school places
etc
etc
Ok. I think you ought to reveal your sources for each of those. Can you also put those in real terms i.e. per capita rather than as a de-contextualised value please.
I note that you have not mentioned National Insurance. Have there been any issues since the Tories and their entryist partners have been in office?
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Oh Captain, my Captain: firstly, 1.8 million is 200,000 short of 2 million. (Your rounding is laissez-faire at best.) Secondly, how is that the so many pupils are in improving schools when so many teachers have left the profession and there is a huge recruitment issue? Might it be, I humbly suggest, that the OfSTED criteria has loosened quite considerably? After all the OfSTED inspection criteria has worn many different clothes within its quango lifetime.
Source:
http://risetrust.org.uk/pdfs/Review_Ofsted.pdf After Woodhead’s departure, Ofsted adopted a more collaborative approach to schools and encouraged them to evaluate their own performance.
• The coalition government elected in 2010 is simplifying and toughening inspection. Arguments continue over Ofsted’s accuracy and fairness, particularly towards schools in deprived areas, and its effectiveness in improving schools.
Need I remind you that the current chief inspector of OfSTED, Amanda Spielman, has never taught? She also believes that 18% is a suitable pass mark for this year's GCSE maths exam. (Source:
https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/ofsted-uncertain-about-outstanding-ratings-and-nine-other-things) Surely it is not very surprising that employers complain that the education system doesn't provide them with the skilled, adaptable, employable young adults they require.
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Reginald Barrington
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Your Right Rev Bishop of? It really is time you started doing your own research rather than demanding it of others, here's a clue "Google"
Arte et Marte
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Reginald Barrington wrote:Your Right Rev Bishop of? It really is time you started doing your own research rather than demanding it of others, here's a clue "Google"
If anyone claims a fact they ought to provide evidence to substantiate it. I don't consider that unreasonable, especially in a climate of half-truths, lies, fake news, misdirection, smoke and mirrors.
...and in response to my bishopric, you'll find me in Pedantry.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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There's a lot of fakery about. And that's a fact.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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The Bishop wrote:Oh Captain, my Captain: firstly, 1.8 million is 200,000 short of 2 million. (Your rounding is laissez-faire at best.)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I gave figure to 1 sig fig.
According to Government figures however number (to 2 sig figs) is 100,000 more than you claim?
Please take up with CCHQ if you don't agree.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Captain Haddock wrote:
Please take up with CCHQ if you don't agree.
I suggest you reload the above link and read the comments posted.
If my facts are straight, oh captain, my captain, you have a background in education yourself. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) Have you heard from your state school colleagues on this matter? Have you had data and/or opinion from your union on fair funding and OfSTED frameworks?
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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To be fair, all Labourites are only interested in purging Tories and pseudo-Tories from their seats. Nothing personal, purely ideological.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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I am surprised that a London rag owned by a Russian billionaire and edited by a Tory ex-Chancellor and old Bullingdonian is a little bare in its truth cupboard.
So, in the interests of balance:
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-fdcb-Labour-selections-could-derail-Haringeys-sell-out-regeneration-plans#.WiB8qOvfWrW
More on Haringey Labour Party (take-a-leaf-out-of-the-Tories'-book branch) and their attempts at social cleansing here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/haringey-council-social-housing-hdv-not-a-momentum-coup-a8083066.html 'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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First they came for the Local Councillors and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Local Councillor etc.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Captain Haddock wrote:First they came for the Local Councillors and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Local Councillor etc.
First they came for the Tories and I did not speak out because I realised they had presided over the persecution of the most vulnerable through austerity; they had stuffed our health services; they had ensured that the next generation were worse off than the previous; they had riped the heart out of education and signed over taxpayer's land and money to the unproven private sector through the academy system; they had failed to close the aggressive offshore/panama/paradise tax 'criminals'; they had failed to discover the magic money tree until they lost their majority and then only used to buy DUP MPs...
Second, they came for the Lib Dems as they also ensured that the Tories could do all of the above.
I can't believe that you thought citing Niemoller was a fitting idea, Capt.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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The Bishop wrote:Nothing personal, purely ideological.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Nothing personal, purely ideological.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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? You've lost me there ?
The Cabinet Office said there was no indication in them that the prime minister or any officials know about the allegations of sexual abuse and paedophilia against Savile - which emerged in full after his death in 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23355531
Your point is?
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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Same point as this one, just in the interests of fairness!
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Arte et Marte
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Just riffing on a theme, Captain.
Indeed RB, our good leaders are utterly shameless in the depths they will plumb to bend us to the will of their rancid ideologies, and are repeatedly less than circumspect about who they use as popularisers who, in their turn, are most likely using our leaders more than they may know.
As for the photograph of the summary execution of a Viet Cong fighter by the chief of police of the USA-installed South Vietnamese government, what’s that supposed to tell us? That these are our hard right government’s plans to deal with Jeremy Corbyn?
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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So it goes
(Kurt Vonnegut)
Top Corbyn ally last night >> -
"The cops can f**k off" -
Abolish prisons -
Open borders -
Deal with violent crime "without engaging the police" -
"Hard left" can "seize most of London" -
@stellacreasy is "sh*t" -
'I've been advising Corbyn's team...'
says man in a frock!
https://order-order.com/2017/12/01/top-corbyn-ally-last-night-cops-can-fk-off-abolish-prisons-stella-is-sht/"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
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