Didn't the Coalition pull grants for PGCE training? I might have to check.Tubby Isaacs wrote:Absolutely.RobertSnozers wrote:They think anyone can do it.Tubby Isaacs wrote:Among other things, numbers starting teacher training are down, by 236.
So there won't be any more of that recycling failed teachers then?!
Why do governments always think there's an alternative work of teachers out there?
Apparently it's the 3rd year in a row recruitment has fallen. There is though a hilarious caveat.
Figures covered by the release did not include Teach First, nor the government’s Troops to Teachers programme.
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Words fail me.Nick Clegg secures funds to tackle fall in student voter registration
Conservatives would have preferred to spend money encouraging expats abroad to register
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... gistration
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 95196.html
Holy crap, I agree with Nick Griffin.
Didn't see that one coming, a truly stunning moment in UK foreign policy when he makes more sense than the government.
Holy crap, I agree with Nick Griffin.
Didn't see that one coming, a truly stunning moment in UK foreign policy when he makes more sense than the government.
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Jeez...numpty isn't the right word for someone like Nick Gibb - I'd call him an out-and-out liar.
The Dfe said this in response to complaints about themselves and their lackeys in the NSN going on about Ofsted grades...
Why, immediately before the quote that Hilling gave him!
It was right to sack him two years ago - he should have stayed sacked.
Wait.Julie Hilling (Bolton West) (Lab):
We are constantly told that free schools are outperforming all other maintained schools. Will the Minister comment on his own Department’s admission that not only have a very small number of free schools actually been inspected, but that the
“findings cannot be interpreted as a balanced view of the quality of education nationally”?
Mr Gibb:
Of course, many of the schools have only just opened—they have been open for only one year or two years—and not all of them have yet been inspected. However, many have been inspected, and 24% of free schools inspected have been judged outstanding. That is under the tougher framework that Ofsted now applies. The rate is higher than for schools as a whole.
The Dfe said this in response to complaints about themselves and their lackeys in the NSN going on about Ofsted grades...
And where was this?It should be noted that Ofsted operates a policy of proportionate inspection, with inspection carried out where it is likely to have most impact. For example, a school judged outstanding at its last inspection is exempt from further inspection unless risk assessment indicates a serious risk of decline. Therefore, within any one year, the sample of schools inspected by Ofsted is not representative of all schools: outstanding and good schools are under-represented, whilst those requiring improvement or inadequate are over-represented. The findings cannot be interpreted as a balanced view of the quality of education nationally
Why, immediately before the quote that Hilling gave him!
It was right to sack him two years ago - he should have stayed sacked.
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rebeccariots2 wrote:Words fail me.Nick Clegg secures funds to tackle fall in student voter registration
Conservatives would have preferred to spend money encouraging expats abroad to register
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... gistration
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Fair play to Clegg though. A Lib Dem encouraging students to register is proof that some turkeys will indeed vote for Christmas.rebeccariots2 wrote:Words fail me.Nick Clegg secures funds to tackle fall in student voter registration
Conservatives would have preferred to spend money encouraging expats abroad to register
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... gistration
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letsskiptotheleft wrote:rebeccariots2 wrote:Words fail me.Nick Clegg secures funds to tackle fall in student voter registration
Conservatives would have preferred to spend money encouraging expats abroad to register
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... gistration
Smack meet gob!
Something along those lines might make a good tweet.
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014 ... am-dudman-Rebekah Brooks promoted one of her most senior journalists on the Sun by scrawling a job description on a Post-it note, a jury has heard.
The yellow note, now 10 years old, was produced in Kingston crown court on Monday in the trial of Graham Dudman, the paper’s former managing editor.
After a brief objection by the prosecution, which had not seen the note, it was passed around the jury.
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Actually, fair play to the lady. I rather like that approach to process.Eric_WLothian wrote:http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014 ... am-dudman-Rebekah Brooks promoted one of her most senior journalists on the Sun by scrawling a job description on a Post-it note, a jury has heard.
The yellow note, now 10 years old, was produced in Kingston crown court on Monday in the trial of Graham Dudman, the paper’s former managing editor.
After a brief objection by the prosecution, which had not seen the note, it was passed around the jury.
HR departments used to be called personnel and universally known as anti personnel. So using a post-it note to bypass them is fabulous.
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How on earth did we miss this yesterday?
Confirmation of what many here have experienced.Guardian admits it will not allow readers to criticise its journalists
http://tompride.wordpress.com/
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Well quite. And not only voting for Christmas, but encouraging thousands of young voters to line up for the chance to metaphorically wring his neck.TechnicalEphemera wrote:Fair play to Clegg though. A Lib Dem encouraging students to register is proof that some turkeys will indeed vote for Christmas.rebeccariots2 wrote:Words fail me.Nick Clegg secures funds to tackle fall in student voter registration
Conservatives would have preferred to spend money encouraging expats abroad to register
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... gistration
Splendid.
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They are quite clear in their rules that you cannot abuse their journalists. Wintour has a very thin skin, Kettle rather less so.rebeccariots2 wrote:How on earth did we miss this yesterday?
Confirmation of what many here have experienced.Guardian admits it will not allow readers to criticise its journalists
http://tompride.wordpress.com/
The Guardian does tolerate quite a bit of abuse, and if you are banned use a proxy server and get another account.
Or just ignore them.
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George may have handed out a free sweeties today to a few of his career worried colleagues, but I still reckon it will take more than a by-pass to save some of their necks?
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehous ... 0-43767197" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehous ... 0-43767197" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Gov overturns Lords defeat on #judicialreview 319 to 203 Means public authority can escape legal challenge even when they behave improperly.
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He should have allocated the money at the start of the parliamentary term, so that these projects were well under way come election time. Such investment would have been a useful boost to the economy at the time and could have helped keep Labour's recovery going. Instead we have last minute promises of extra money to be spent, even though Osborne is way off balancing the books. Surely people will ask, if we can afford this investment now, when we still have most of the deficit to reduce, why couldn't we afford it 4 1/2 years ago. And they'd be right to ask, because of course we could have afforded then, as well, and could be reaping the benefits from that investment already.letsskiptotheleft wrote:George may have handed out a free sweeties today to a few of his career worried colleagues, but I still reckon it will take more than a by-pass to save some of their necks?
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehous ... 0-43767197" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Is this a new one to us ... or have Roger and Tubby already reported on this?Another Free School Fails
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... fails.html
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This makes me furious and sick. One more for Labour to do something about if they get into government .... how many of these awful things that need undoing are there now.AngryAsWell wrote:Gov overturns Lords defeat on #judicialreview 319 to 203 Means public authority can escape legal challenge even when they behave improperly.
Did any Lib Dems turn up? Last tweet I saw said that only one Lib Dem was in the chamber to debate it. I hate them with a passion I didn't think possible.
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No, don't you remember? We were like Greece on the verge of bankruptcy.Willow904 wrote:He should have allocated the money at the start of the parliamentary term, so that these projects were well under way come election time. Such investment would have been a useful boost to the economy at the time and could have helped keep Labour's recovery going. Instead we have last minute promises of extra money to be spent, even though Osborne is way off balancing the books. Surely people will ask, if we can afford this investment now, when we still have most of the deficit to reduce, why couldn't we afford it 4 1/2 years ago. And they'd be right to ask, because of course we could have afforded then, as well, and could be reaping the benefits from that investment already.letsskiptotheleft wrote:George may have handed out a free sweeties today to a few of his career worried colleagues, but I still reckon it will take more than a by-pass to save some of their necks?
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehous ... 0-43767197" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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They're some names on that marginal list that I'd really like to see the backs of ... really hoping voters aren't going to be duped and will deliver the Portillo moment.letsskiptotheleft wrote:George may have handed out a free sweeties today to a few of his career worried colleagues, but I still reckon it will take more than a by-pass to save some of their necks?
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehous ... 0-43767197" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Adam Boulton @adamboultonSKY 50m50 minutes ago London
Gordon Brown reveals he had secret surgery to save eyesight while PM
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It's not a Free School i.e. a new school but an academy which was sponsored w.e.f. 1st Jan 2013.rebeccariots2 wrote:Is this a new one to us ... or have Roger and Tubby already reported on this?Another Free School Fails
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... fails.html
The odd thing is that they have 2 schools...the other one is in Eddisbury in Cheshire. What was that I said about having trusts with schools miles from each other?
Edit - having said that free schools are new schools...it also includes ex-fee paying schools so not strictly true but everyone knows my feelings on the definitions of free schools and academies...
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And with the DfE overseeing the pair from London.RogerOThornhill wrote:It's not a Free School i.e. a new school but an academy which was sponsored w.e.f. 1st Jan 2013.rebeccariots2 wrote:Is this a new one to us ... or have Roger and Tubby already reported on this?Another Free School Fails
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... fails.html
The odd thing is that they have 2 schools...the other one is in Eddisbury in Cheshire. What was that I said about having trusts with schools miles from each other?
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In two minds about this ... because it sounds as though the practice was trying to give good information about other services available but ... that should happen as an addition to the GP service not instead of. GPs are, supposedly, the gateway to treatment - very hard to expect people to bypass them and know that they will still receive the appropriate care etc.Devon GP surgery accused of trying to deny treatments to patients
Practice in Newton Abbot forced to back down after it suggested that patients should not seek consultation for range of ailments
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014 ... s-patients
And the reasons the GP practice give in their leaflet for providing such information give the lie to Lansley, Clegg, Hunt & cos reorganisation of the health service and GPs knowing their patients best etc guff. These GPs aren't going to know some of their patients at all if they take their advice.
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Nice to see Adam revealing what a classy guy he is; would he have preferred Brown to lose his sight? Some of the response to that tweet are predictably vile.rebeccariots2 wrote:Adam Boulton @adamboultonSKY 50m50 minutes ago London
Gordon Brown reveals he had secret surgery to save eyesight while PM
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None of them will have been started by the election.rebeccariots2 wrote:They're some names on that marginal list that I'd really like to see the backs of ... really hoping voters aren't going to be duped and will deliver the Portillo moment.letsskiptotheleft wrote:George may have handed out a free sweeties today to a few of his career worried colleagues, but I still reckon it will take more than a by-pass to save some of their necks?
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehous ... 0-43767197" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Sounds like another group of children failed ... and a very angry set of parents. What happens to these kids now ...?Tubby Isaacs wrote:And with the DfE overseeing the pair from London.RogerOThornhill wrote:It's not a Free School i.e. a new school but an academy which was sponsored w.e.f. 1st Jan 2013.rebeccariots2 wrote: Is this a new one to us ... or have Roger and Tubby already reported on this?
The odd thing is that they have 2 schools...the other one is in Eddisbury in Cheshire. What was that I said about having trusts with schools miles from each other?
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Hope everything will soon become easier for you and your family, dear citizenJAcitizenJA wrote:Good-afternoon, my friends. I'm having a rough time just now; a lot is going on in my family & feelings of powerlessness aren't comfortable to accept but there's only so much anyone can do. It's hard - it's been hard for so long for too many, not just me.
I'm keeping up with news reports from the ONS, NAO, Labour policy announcements, my friends' news here & May 2015. Please keep me in your thoughts. Thank you, my friends.
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The encouragement of my friends & family give me every reason to love with my whole heart & not give way to despair. Mind you, sometimes my attention wanders - that's normal. I come back to the love again with friends & family.LadyCentauria wrote:Hope everything will soon become easier for you and your family, dear citizenJAcitizenJA wrote:Good-afternoon, my friends. I'm having a rough time just now; a lot is going on in my family & feelings of powerlessness aren't comfortable to accept but there's only so much anyone can do. It's hard - it's been hard for so long for too many, not just me.
I'm keeping up with news reports from the ONS, NAO, Labour policy announcements, my friends' news here & May 2015. Please keep me in your thoughts. Thank you, my friends.
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Best things would be for them to come directly under the Birmingham schools "Tsar"- who was a surprisingly sensible appointment by Nicky Morgan. Can't remember who though.rebeccariots2 wrote:Sounds like another group of children failed ... and a very angry set of parents. What happens to these kids now ...?Tubby Isaacs wrote:And with the DfE overseeing the pair from London.RogerOThornhill wrote: It's not a Free School i.e. a new school but an academy which was sponsored w.e.f. 1st Jan 2013.
The odd thing is that they have 2 schools...the other one is in Eddisbury in Cheshire. What was that I said about having trusts with schools miles from each other?
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No great surprise this, if it happens, you have a ''newspaper'' and a political party virtually joined at the hip, both are barking, I find it hilarious to be honest..
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/d ... gel-farage" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/d ... gel-farage" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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They deserve each other.letsskiptotheleft wrote:No great surprise this, if it happens, you have a ''newspaper'' and a political party virtually joined at the hip, both are barking, I find it hilarious to be honest..
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/d ... gel-farage" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Somehow I doubt Diana would have approved.letsskiptotheleft wrote:No great surprise this, if it happens, you have a ''newspaper'' and a political party virtually joined at the hip, both are barking, I find it hilarious to be honest..
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/d ... gel-farage" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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I can't see it's worth voting for someone because they just announced something for you. Unless the Opposition says they'll cancel it, you'll get it anyway.letsskiptotheleft wrote:George may have handed out a free sweeties today to a few of his career worried colleagues, but I still reckon it will take more than a by-pass to save some of their necks?
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehous ... 0-43767197" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
So look at other things, forget about it completely. Which party will be better for you on everything else?
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The Howard League @TheHowardLeague 11m11 minutes ago
Breaking: government defeats House of Lords amendment to prevent girls and younger children being incarcerated in new titan child prisons
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SNP are not on my Christmas card list but this is a bit much
Ukip Chairman Sparks Backlash After Comparing SNP to Nazis
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Ukip Chairman Sparks Backlash After Comparing SNP to Nazis
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Mike Hartman @MHtwafa · 5m5 minutes ago
@edlnews @nickjgriffinbnp @BullshineBilly Is Griffin allowed back in to UK after #Syria visit?
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ExaroNews @ExaroNews · 4 mins4 minutes ago
Police have files on 200 missing boys from the period. They are hunting through for clues in triple-murder probe. http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5415/ ... -into-vips" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
Police have files on 200 missing boys from the period. They are hunting through for clues in triple-murder probe. http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5415/ ... -into-vips" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
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Julian Huppert will pop up and say "we've made another progressive change".rebeccariots2 wrote:The Howard League @TheHowardLeague 11m11 minutes ago
Breaking: government defeats House of Lords amendment to prevent girls and younger children being incarcerated in new titan child prisons
Or did he vote against?
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... economy-uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A nice article on Gordon Brown.
I wouldn't venture BTL, gold and pensions have already been mentioned and I would expect it to get worse.
A nice article on Gordon Brown.
I wouldn't venture BTL, gold and pensions have already been mentioned and I would expect it to get worse.
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Local residents express their concern about the new A303 Stonehenge Tunnel:
We don't bother the outside world, we don't want it bothering us.
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Mike Tomlinson - ex HMCI.Tubby Isaacs wrote: Best things would be for them to come directly under the Birmingham schools "Tsar"- who was a surprisingly sensible appointment by Nicky Morgan. Can't remember who though.
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Ah, cheers.
This is quite funny:
This all sounds politically correct. Was Gove's reign in vain?
https://news.tes.co.uk/b/news/2014/12/0 ... gcses.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This is quite funny:
This all sounds politically correct. Was Gove's reign in vain?
https://news.tes.co.uk/b/news/2014/12/0 ... gcses.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
New history GCSEs will see pupils studying migration into Britain and the fact that it “has always been a feature” of the country, it emerged today.
News of the qualifications, developed by exam board OCR, comes with controversy over immigration at the top of the political agenda.
The board hopes that including the topic will encourage more teenagers to take history. Mike Goddard, the board’s head of history, also suggested that knowledge of previous waves of migration into the UK could also help contemporary discussion on the issue.
“The history of migration into our country doesn’t necessarily inform these debates and potentially it could do in a useful way,” he told TES.
Significant periods of immigration since Roman times will be covered in a topic included in two new history GCSEs being developed by the board for first teaching from September 2016.
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I had a go over there earlier on, most if not all are now deleted as the original posts were so vile, and they weren't from Kippers or Tories but Nats..WelshIan wrote:http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... economy-uk
A nice article on Gordon Brown.
I wouldn't venture BTL, gold and pensions have already been mentioned and I would expect it to get worse.
In certain moments, when I am not so charitable and downright nice I think I would have a perverted pleasure from the Barnett formula being scrapped and given to other regions, to give the Nats really something to squeal over, but it soon passes and tranquillity returns..
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Ha ha.
Paul Bernal @PaulbernalUK 2h2 hours ago
@julianhuppert @jane_samuels How did you vote?
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@PaulbernalUK @jane_samuels we're getting concessions to improve the bill.
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@julianhuppert @jane_samuels You mean you voted in favour…………..
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Russell Brand may be idealistic about a lot of things but these sort of YouTube postings that engage and inform (especially the young) are excellent.
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I actually think that now. Not almost. Actually.letsskiptotheleft wrote:I had a go over there earlier on, most if not all are now deleted as the original posts were so vile, and they weren't from Kippers or Tories but Nats..WelshIan wrote:http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... economy-uk
A nice article on Gordon Brown.
I wouldn't venture BTL, gold and pensions have already been mentioned and I would expect it to get worse.
In certain moments, when I am not so charitable and downright nice I think I would have a perverted pleasure from the Barnett formula being scrapped and given to other regions, to give the Nats really something to squeal over, but it soon passes and tranquillity returns..
Devolution and lots of extra money for 13 years.
Labour did nothing for Scotland.
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Re: Monday 1st December 2014
Oh dear. Tory MP claims she is being misrepresented and bullied, and then tweets this .....
You gotta love it when they switch to the patronising approach, always a sure sign f somebody confident about their position.Sarah Wollaston MP @drwollastonmp · 5m5 minutes ago
@MargoJMilne @wsjaeboo @AndyLucia @LabourLeft please do keep it coming, shows Labour's vacuous hashtag campaign for what it really is
COWER BRIEF MORTALS. HO. HO. HO.
Re: Monday 1st December 2014
Hear hear.Willow904 wrote:He should have allocated the money at the start of the parliamentary term, so that these projects were well under way come election time. Such investment would have been a useful boost to the economy at the time and could have helped keep Labour's recovery going. Instead we have last minute promises of extra money to be spent, even though Osborne is way off balancing the books. Surely people will ask, if we can afford this investment now, when we still have most of the deficit to reduce, why couldn't we afford it 4 1/2 years ago. And they'd be right to ask, because of course we could have afforded then, as well, and could be reaping the benefits from that investment already.letsskiptotheleft wrote:George may have handed out a free sweeties today to a few of his career worried colleagues, but I still reckon it will take more than a by-pass to save some of their necks?
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Look North tonight had trawled their archives to find previous ministers 'committing' to dualling the A1 north of Morpeth, I think there were 4, but that might just have been all they could find in the time available.
We should laugh, or cry, but instead will shrug cynically and believe it when we see the work start.
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Put those Greens in the debates now!Britain Elects @britainelects 4m4 minutes ago
National Opinion Poll (ComRes):
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Guardian frontpage- thousands of fake students at private colleges.