Yes, it's on pagedanesclose wrote:Don't know if this has been posted (had a quick look at yesterdays board & couldn't see anything) but apparently half of schools in UK’s biggest academy chain are officially failing their pupils
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/educa ... 04784.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
danesclose wrote:Morning all. We can rest safe in our beds - Dave is chairing another meeting of COBRA
I've decided to ignore him. Troll needs a diet.TheGrimSqueaker wrote:If I said this over on the Graun I would be modded, but I thought the trick was not to feed the trolls.
Are people adopting the Mr Creosote approach with RingPiece, trying to feed him so much that eventually he explodes? Sadly all it will do is encourage him enough to grow yet another new head.
Same here. Although he's been steering clear of me for a while, he tends not to come out of our encounters too well!StephenDolan wrote: I've decided to ignore him. Troll needs a diet.
Still the same.RobertSnozers wrote:I barely go back to the politics liveblog now, and never post, but does he still post under RustinPeace or does he have a different identity now?TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Same here. Although he's been steering clear of me for a while, he tends not to come out of our encounters too well!StephenDolan wrote: I've decided to ignore him. Troll needs a diet.
I have immense sympathy for anybody who loses a child, especially in the distressing way it happened to the Camerons. But I always get the itchy feeling that he is exploiting it now for political benefit - they don't allow photos of the other children, for example, yet the Ivan ones are used often - which to my mind is beneath contempt; I've tried very hard to give him the benefit of the doubt in the past, but can do so no longer and feel genuine sadness that he would even use this for personal gain.PorFavor wrote:Good morning.
Did anyone else see the news item yesterday evening (re the little boy, currently in Spain, with the brain tumour)? It featured David Cameron oozing sympathy\empathy for the parents since he'd had personal experience of having, and nursing, a gravely sick child. The news item (possibly on Sky - I had to beat a hasty retreat) was replete with photographs of DC cradling his son, Ivan. The whole works. It really disgusted me.
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Meanwhile, back in Clacton.........
Roger Lord has quit UKIP, resigned his council seat, and endorsed..........wait for it..........the LIBDEMS!!!!
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/politics-old ... _1_3755662" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Mr Lord, a farmer, said he would be handing his support to Liberal Democrat Gary Scott, Tendring district councillor for Alresford, who he described as a “very genuine person” for the forthcoming county council by-election.
The Liberal Democrats are due to select their Parliamentary candidate in a meeting last night in Clacton, with the winner set to be unveiled in the town on Saturday.
Mr Scott said he would not be standing in the by-election.
so he's endorsing somebody who won't even be standing in the by-election !! Does anyone know, please, if the bit in bold is what he actually said? If so, what on earth is he talking about?
Labour’s Sarah Champion asks about the abuse in Rotherham. When will the government appoint the chair to the national abuse inquiry?
Cameron says Theresa May is leading a committee of ministers. The announcement of the chair of the abuse inquiry will be made in the coming days.
The police sometimes felt these people were beyond the pale, he [David Cameron] says. That offends our sense of decency. (Andrew Sparrow, Guardian)
I took it to mean that sometimes the police thought that the girls who were being abused weren't worth their time and effort.PorFavor wrote:Does anyone know, please, if the bit in bold is what he actually said? If so, what on earth is he talking about?
Labour’s Sarah Champion asks about the abuse in Rotherham. When will the government appoint the chair to the national abuse inquiry?
Cameron says Theresa May is leading a committee of ministers. The announcement of the chair of the abuse inquiry will be made in the coming days.
The police sometimes felt these people were beyond the pale, he [David Cameron] says. That offends our sense of decency. (Andrew Sparrow, Guardian)
Completely. Lost. The. Plot. using Ofsted to do the dirty work.Education secretary expected to enforce setting in England by asking Ofsted to make it a condition of being rated outstanding
Here's the exact quote as recorded in Hansard:PorFavor wrote:Does anyone know, please, if the bit in bold is what he actually said? If so, what on earth is he talking about?
Labour’s Sarah Champion asks about the abuse in Rotherham. When will the government appoint the chair to the national abuse inquiry?
Cameron says Theresa May is leading a committee of ministers. The announcement of the chair of the abuse inquiry will be made in the coming days.
The police sometimes felt these people were beyond the pale, he [David Cameron] says. That offends our sense of decency. (Andrew Sparrow, Guardian)
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publi ... wn/89/#c89" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;But there is also a big concern that sometimes the police and other agencies ignored these people because they felt they were beyond the pale, which offends all our senses of human decency.
According to Dominic Cummings, this is coming from No 10 which makes sense as Wintour wrote the story and not Richard Adams.RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh wow.
Compulsory setting: schools face being forced to separate pupils by ability
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/03/schools-separate-pupils-ability-setting
Completely. Lost. The. Plot. using Ofsted to do the dirty work.Education secretary expected to enforce setting in England by asking Ofsted to make it a condition of being rated outstanding
Autonomy? What autonomy?
pk1 wrote: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publi ... wn/89/#c89" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Nope, PF, not a clue what he meant.
A lot of it hardly makes sense, looks as though they did their conclusions on the Euro results, which anyone with half a brain knows are different to the GE, certainly some strange Welsh inclusions there, Ynys Mon?RobertSnozers wrote:I'm a bit surprised neither of the Southampton seats are on the list. Parts of the population seem very receptive to Ukip and might fall into the 'left behind' category, e.g. former Ford plant workers (thanks Vince, you incompentent prick). Plus we have Eastleigh next door, and that's crawling with kippers.letsskiptotheleft wrote:My seat, I have just discovered is in the Top 100 of ''Ukip Friendly Labour Seats'' which rather makes a mockery of the whole list as they have no councillors, and I have yet ever to see a Ukip anywhere on my travels.
http://labourlist.org/2014/09/the-top-1 ... our-seats/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Cummings has been rather industrious this afternoon hasn't he, to give him credit he is good at choosing his moments.RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh dear...
Kevin Brennan @KevinBrennanMP · 20m
Nicky Morgan denies she's introducing compulsory setting and says people outside the House should not speculate on Twitter
but
odysseanproject
@odysseanproject
I was told by No10 and two others in Whitehall a version v close to @patrickwintour story. Some had warned internally it was mad
Car crash politics...
My constituency, Bethnal Green and Bow, must be pretty close to the the least UKIPpy.letsskiptotheleft wrote:My seat, I have just discovered is in the Top 100 of ''Ukip Friendly Labour Seats'' which rather makes a mockery of the whole list as they have no councillors, and I have yet ever to see a Ukip poster anywhere on my travels, even during the Euro's.
http://labourlist.org/2014/09/the-top-1 ... our-seats/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I live in a Con held, south eastern seat. The incumbent MP has an 11,500 majority yet appears on that Ford/Goodwin list of potential Ukip seats !letsskiptotheleft wrote:My seat, I have just discovered is in the Top 100 of ''Ukip Friendly Labour Seats'' which rather makes a mockery of the whole list as they have no councillors, and I have yet ever to see a Ukip poster anywhere on my travels, even during the Euro's.
http://labourlist.org/2014/09/the-top-1 ... our-seats/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Yes, that's certainly part of it, though Lancashire Police have prosecuted far more people successfully.RogerOThornhill wrote:
But it is the case that the police in some instances weren't able to proceed because the girls refused to either tell them who the abuser was or wouldn't give evidence against them. hard to see how the police could be blamed for that.
Exactly, Ford and Godwin are having a tidy little living at the moment through Ukip, no problem with that, there's bigger arseholes than them plying the same trade, but some it is just ridiculous.pk1 wrote:I live in a Con held, south eastern seat. The incumbent MP has an 11,500 majority yet appears on that Ford/Goodwin list of potential Ukip seats !letsskiptotheleft wrote:My seat, I have just discovered is in the Top 100 of ''Ukip Friendly Labour Seats'' which rather makes a mockery of the whole list as they have no councillors, and I have yet ever to see a Ukip poster anywhere on my travels, even during the Euro's.
http://labourlist.org/2014/09/the-top-1 ... our-seats/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There is little to say about the list other than it's crap & there is more chance of that pig learning to fly than for Ukip to take this seat.
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Somehow that typo, when discussing UKIP, seems so apt.letsskiptotheleft wrote:
Exactly, Ford and Godwin are having a tidy little living at the moment through Ukip.....
It appears to be links that havepk1 wrote:Is it just me or do the links no longer open in a separate tab ?
I'm sure I remember refitman saying he had reset it so they did.
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[URL2][/URL2]He gets better...I'm warming to him.letsskiptotheleft wrote:Cummings has been rather industrious this afternoon hasn't he, to give him credit he is good at choosing his moments.RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh dear...
Kevin Brennan @KevinBrennanMP · 20m
Nicky Morgan denies she's introducing compulsory setting and says people outside the House should not speculate on Twitter
but
odysseanproject
@odysseanproject
I was told by No10 and two others in Whitehall a version v close to @patrickwintour story. Some had warned internally it was mad
Car crash politics...
PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.
Asked about the ability of charities to campaign, he said: "We really want to try and keep charities and voluntary groups out of the realms of politics. Some 99.9% do exactly that. When they stray into the realm of politics that is not what they are about and that is not why people give them money."
In comments first reported on Civil Society, he added: "The important thing charities should be doing is sticking to their knitting and doing the best they can to promote their agenda, which should be about helping others."
Oh Christ.ohsocynical wrote:Plans unveiled for new academy in West Reading
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/plans-unveiled-new-academy-west-7713224
And here's another.
Headteacher who's never worked in a school?The proposed new Civitas Academy
The disappearance comes during a week when Government officials from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) are visiting the jail to assess conditions.
The disappearance comes during a week when Government officials from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) are visiting the jail to assess conditions.
Cardiff?!letsskiptotheleft wrote:Friend of mine, an accountant in Cardiff has been told not to go to work tomorrow, all non-emergency cases in the Heath have been cancelled, according to my niece, and mostly all schools in Newport and Cardiff are shut, due to the summit..
Now if the unions had done such a thing....