Liz Truss - the first 100 days....
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PaulB
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Truss and others keep referring to global problems, to try to deflect from the disaster of their own making. No-one seems to want to remind them that they consistently blamed Brown for what happened in 2008, in spite of the fact that others - Obama, for example - give him more credit than any other leader for solving what was a genuinely global problem.
She was probably elected as leader because her name resonated with the treatment required for a ruptured country.
She was probably elected as leader because her name resonated with the treatment required for a ruptured country.
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PASS THE MIND BLEACH.....
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Rusty Nails
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At least she can never again pretend that she is like Maggie and does not do u-turns.
A couple of weeks in, her first real political move, and she has trashed any any of the qualities of judgement and firmness some foolish people who were persuaded to vote for her thought she had.
A couple of weeks in, her first real political move, and she has trashed any any of the qualities of judgement and firmness some foolish people who were persuaded to vote for her thought she had.
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She's toast isn't she....will she last past Xmas ?
Salty seadog
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She could never claim that anyway. Switched from lib dems to tories, switched from opposition to the Royal family to fill support, switched from being an ardent remainder to a staunch leaver.
I think this tells you what we are dealing with.
icowden
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It's lucky they appointed Andrea Jenkyns as she has a lot of knowledge about higher education having trained at Greggs and Miss UK before actually bothering with qualifications in her late 30s at the Open University.
winjim
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I may be misinterpreting your post so would you mind clarifying it please?
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icowden
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Sure. Miss Jenkyns left school at 16 to work at Greggs. AT 18 she was entered into Miss UK. Little is known of her life between 18 and her late 30s when she decided to get a degree in Economics and a further degree in International Relations through the Open University. She seems to have had varied employment as a peripatetic music tutor, and an executive with a management training company. She only went into Politics 13 years ago.
However as Minister for Education, she has no experience or knowledge of education from A-Level upwards having not studied A-Levels nor attended university or any other higher education establishment. It also says something that she is deputy chair or the ERG (perhaps indicative of her lack of training in the ability to research and deduce outcomes?).
Apparently her experience of Higher Education (other than Open University correspondence course) is being paid £25k for 8 hours work per week by the University of Bolton to head up “the National Centre for Higher Education Policy”. This think tank doesn't seem to actually exist on the University Web Site and has no web presence. She said it was launching in 2020 but never did. She is recruiting for a research assistant via the same think tank and has received donations from the University Vice Chancellor but it remains unclear what she is actually being paid for.
https://www.researchprofessionalnew...litician-earns-25k-from-university-of-bolton/
deptfordmarmoset
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Daily Mail, not quite owning a U-turn on Truss by attributing it to MPs.
winjim
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Thanks. There's a lot to criticise Jenkyns for and there are legitimate concerns about her suitability for government and her role within it. However, there is nothing wrong with having worked in catering and retail, nor with having entered a beauty pageant.
I have issues with the way the OU is delivering its courses recently, mostly forced upon them by funding issues related to tuition fees IMO, but it is a legitimate university providing accredited degrees recognised by professional bodies. In fact it could be argued that someone who has made a choice to enter higher education later in life has given it more consideration than someone who followed a default path through college, 'A' levels and into a more traditional university.
I'd rather customer service and OU than Eton and Oxford in terms of life experience anyway.
icowden
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Whilst I agree with you, I'd prefer someone in charge of Higher and Further Education to actually know about it. Just like a Justice Secretary should have worked in law (for example).
