General Election 2024....
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deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
We can sort this out with a game of tampons v razors.
AndyRM
Elder Goth
Who's gonna be shirts and who's skins? Could get messy.
multitool
Guest
I can't stop watching this. What makes it funnier is that it's Nazir Afzal posting it:
https://x.com/nazirafzal/status/1794845545099677987
https://x.com/nazirafzal/status/1794845545099677987
deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
Would May pole dancing be preferable?
bobzmyunkle
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cookiemonster
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bobzmyunkle
Senior Member
I quit liked this - the need to urgently review security after 14 years of Tory incompetence.
https://x.com/LBC/status/1794980367348232634
https://x.com/LBC/status/1794980367348232634
BoldonLad
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Looks as if we are going to get more of the "my father was a toolmaker" crap:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69063295
This a line which can back fire, IMHO
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69063295
This a line which can back fire, IMHO
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multitool
Guest
Looks as if we are going to get more of the "my father was a toolmaker" crap:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69063295
This a line which can back fire, IMHO
Yes, let's fixate on that, rather than the substantive messages in his speech.
monkers
Legendary Member
During election campaigns, my own preference has always been to emphasize the positives and ignore negative campaigning.
But I seem to have lost the ability to bite my tongue, something which came easily before retirement.
Accordingly, I make the following of the Tory campaign policy set. To me it seems as if Sunak is saying, ''all available accommodation is taken up by immigrants at great cost to the state, we must overspend our budgets by sending them all to Rwanda; then and only then can we overspend some more by making an additional 30 000 teenagers homeless. This will be good for them.''
Instead, the money could be spent on safe routes for asylum seekers, a triage system for initial assessment, a rapid returns system for those who are economic migrants, and a second stage assessment for others within four weeks. I wouldn't be against Rwanda places for those who volunteer to take places with financial and other support for a couple of years to transition to a new life there.
As far as the new National Service plan is concerned. I say forget it, and if there is money available, give it to the FE colleges who are failing learners due to shortage of resource. The funding mechanism is a 'lag model' which is designed to reduce the ability of colleges to offer places.
I left school at the age of 16, went to college for one year full-time. After this I became an apprentice technician, attending college for a further three years on day release - nine in the morning until nine in the evening. We sat two written exams, technology, science & maths, and one additional exam of engineering drawing producing actual drawings from specs.
I later spent many years working as a lecturer in FE. I have witnessed terrible decline in the service, caused by government interference and micro-control, decline in pay and working conditions for lecturers., and great reduction of resource.
FE colleges are the places that skills and underpinning knowledge can be learned at craft level (the how) and at technician level (the why).
A so-called full-time college is in reality, two days per week. It used to be thirty hours per week and now colleges struggle with resources to provide fifteen.
As a country, in the midst of skill shortages, we need to fund our future, not with gimmickry, but with commitment for well-planned well-resourced, well-resourced long-term systems, of which the country and learners can take pride.
But I seem to have lost the ability to bite my tongue, something which came easily before retirement.
Accordingly, I make the following of the Tory campaign policy set. To me it seems as if Sunak is saying, ''all available accommodation is taken up by immigrants at great cost to the state, we must overspend our budgets by sending them all to Rwanda; then and only then can we overspend some more by making an additional 30 000 teenagers homeless. This will be good for them.''
Instead, the money could be spent on safe routes for asylum seekers, a triage system for initial assessment, a rapid returns system for those who are economic migrants, and a second stage assessment for others within four weeks. I wouldn't be against Rwanda places for those who volunteer to take places with financial and other support for a couple of years to transition to a new life there.
As far as the new National Service plan is concerned. I say forget it, and if there is money available, give it to the FE colleges who are failing learners due to shortage of resource. The funding mechanism is a 'lag model' which is designed to reduce the ability of colleges to offer places.
I left school at the age of 16, went to college for one year full-time. After this I became an apprentice technician, attending college for a further three years on day release - nine in the morning until nine in the evening. We sat two written exams, technology, science & maths, and one additional exam of engineering drawing producing actual drawings from specs.
I later spent many years working as a lecturer in FE. I have witnessed terrible decline in the service, caused by government interference and micro-control, decline in pay and working conditions for lecturers., and great reduction of resource.
FE colleges are the places that skills and underpinning knowledge can be learned at craft level (the how) and at technician level (the why).
A so-called full-time college is in reality, two days per week. It used to be thirty hours per week and now colleges struggle with resources to provide fifteen.
As a country, in the midst of skill shortages, we need to fund our future, not with gimmickry, but with commitment for well-planned well-resourced, well-resourced long-term systems, of which the country and learners can take pride.
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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- South Tyneside
No doubt the intellectual giants in the population, like your good self, will do exactly that, but, for a significant proportion of the population, there is no way they are going to listen to or read his speech(es). Playing what personally I would call the "Hovis card" is a ready source of ridicule.
You are bit touchy (tetchy even) about old Kier, are you related?
