Monday 12th December 2016

[tinyclanger2]

This called "taking the piss" - the consultation hasn't even closed yet...

They really don't learn do they.

[tinyclanger2]

P.S. the i was 20p about a year ago.

[AngryAsWell]

RIP Walter Swinburn

[AngryAsWell]

More on Rogers schools post

Grammars plan: heads tell education secretary of their 'deep opposition'
Group of 33 Kent secondary headteachers write to Justine Greening as government consultation on extending selection closes
The letter to Justine Greening, signed by 33 headteachers of Kent’s secondary non-selective schools and academies

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How are academy chain bosses going to react to their oh-so-wonderful academies effectively - in all but name - becoming Secondary Moderns ?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yep. That's the likely to do for May''s plan, I think.

Academies sound like something new, so governments could dazzle with those. Grammars are all too well known and not as popular as the press think.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Brexit: Theresa May would consider 'associate European citizenship' for British people
No 10 says it wants to 'find a way' for UK citizens to live and work in member states following the country's withdrawal from the bloc
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 69911.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Associate British citizenship for Poles too?

If not, it's a non starter. Wonder if Guy Verhofstadt is knowingly conning May.

[RogerOThornhill]

On that subject there was a bizarre exchange featuring the edu editor of the Sunday Times

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Sian Griffiths Verified account
‏@SianGriffiths6

That's just not true. I lived in catchment area of a grammar school and none of the other schools were secondary moderns @tonyparkin

[Tubby Isaacs]

Very odd.

[AngryAsWell]

On that subject there was a bizarre exchange featuring the edu editor of the Sunday Times

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Sian Griffiths Verified account
‏@SianGriffiths6

That's just not true. I lived in catchment area of a grammar school and none of the other schools were secondary moderns @tonyparkin

Love this reply:
Helen Farrell
‏@hpfarrell Helen Farrell Retweeted Simon Dudley
Buy yourself a Mars Bar. Remove the caramel. You now have a Milky Way. Comprehensives and sec mods are NOT the same.

[HindleA]

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016 ... levolence/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Suggesting changes to council tax to fund social care is cynical, calculating malevolence

[HindleA]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/reco ... -1-billion" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Recovery of overpaid benefits hits record high of £1 billion

Usual conflation of fraud and error and benefit claimant as criminal.


Underpayments at record high which rather skewers the obvious lie about giving a toss about helping people 'in hard times" and that is before you consider the purposeful and targeted "reforms" applied to the sick/disabled and carers,especially in long term situations which in their sickening warped imaginations is a choice.

[HindleA]

Coverage of the PAC inquiry into benefit sanctions

http://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/89 ... ee9a7e9244" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[HindleA]

https://www.nao.org.uk/report/crown-commercial-service/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Crown Commercial Service
It is not possible to show that the Crown Commercial Service has achieved more than departments would otherwise have achieved by buying common goods and services themselves.


“Without a sound overarching business case or a detailed implementation plan, it is not surprising that the Crown Commercial Service rapidly ran into difficulties and soon had to reset its plans. It is particularly disappointing that the Cabinet Office has not tracked net costs and benefits. Because of this, it is not possible to show that CCS has achieved more than departments would otherwise have achieved by buying common goods and services themselves.”

Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, 13 December 2016

[HindleA]

UK naive to expect easy ride in Brexit trade talks, says Lords report

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rds-report" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[HindleA]

Usual nonsense from BBC about assets and paying for social care or not.These are not taken into account for help in own home.Vast majority pay towards calculated on DLA/PIP/AA receivership if ongoing.Though element of discretion for Councils,in our case it was savings over £50,000 and paying more towards if in receipt.


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