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Too Many Cuts...come join the #Frothers and have your say

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AnyFuckerForAMincePie · 07/12/2011 21:23

This is the 3rd thread in a series.

It is for people who are horrified, frustrated and downright sad at the erosion of human rights with respect to how this country is being run, just now and in the recent past

it is apolitical in nature, but of course due to many recent initiatives by the recent govt, there will be rants against our current "leaders"

please join in

I shall post the link to the old threads, our "Too Many Cuts #Frothers" blog that is attracting a lot of widespread attention and a little bit of what we are about in a moment

OP posts:

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 14:29

Thanks Hully. I'll leave it be then but do please say if it starts giving you migraines.

Snapespeare · 09/12/2011 14:06

reactivated my twitter account, so that I may froth! :)

Hullygully · 09/12/2011 14:02

I think it looks good, kate.

Knotty - did you read educ guardian on academies on Tues? Frightening the speed of conversion.

KnottyLocks · 09/12/2011 13:41

Whilst digging around for info on Academies and Free schools, I came across this little gem of a quotation from earlier this year:

Nick Clegg: ?improving social mobility is the principal goal of the coalition government?s social policy?.

That's going well then!

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 13:29

Do you think the background on the blog is ok? There's a facebook post about it. Could you all pop over and have a look please?

If it is shite I won't mind. I'm not techy or a designer

ShirleyKnot · 09/12/2011 13:04

Yep.

Why am I not surprised?

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 13:00

Retire? Not prosecuted then

ShirleyKnot · 09/12/2011 12:52

Done - and it's just been announced that Hartnett will retire - probably on a lovely fat pension.

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 12:33

essense should be essence at the end although essense feels more frothy

ShirleyKnot · 09/12/2011 12:18

Shit! OK, will edit.

Tianc · 09/12/2011 12:13

Shirl you are on fire! Completely relevant, given the cuts and massive changes are allegedly about saving public money.

Typos
§5: critisised criticised
and if one's being picky you've got enquiry in §1 and inquiry in §9.

Hullygully · 09/12/2011 11:46

Business again. Run schools like a business. The police like a business. Britain PLC.

Tianc · 09/12/2011 11:44

Head teachers will no longer need any educational qualifications at all.

Must be lots of budding Free School and Academy managers rubbing their hands at that. Now the accountant, or creationist founder, can be headteacher too. All paid for by public funds.

Closely matches the de-professionalism the police. I don't know if it got through into the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act, but Theresa May wanted senior policing positions to be open to people with no policing experience.

Hullygully · 09/12/2011 11:35

I managed to comment, Shirl

ShirleyKnot · 09/12/2011 11:19

Just got retweeted by the wife of Osita - which is fab.

The post might want checking for spelling or glaring grammatical errors - I was bashing away frothily.

Bloody technology - total PITA

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 11:17

Great work Shirl. Brilliant article and very relevant.

It's not too bad. My main stuff is backed up online but it's just a pita. At one point I just had a black screen so this is better

ShirleyKnot · 09/12/2011 11:11

OK, published it - let's ride the wave on this one.

shit Kate.

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 11:08

Fine with me Shirl.

Laptop back up and autosave's got my documents but some links I'd got for my dissertation have gone poof

TheMouseRanUpTheClock · 09/12/2011 11:06

Shirley, sounds like a great idea!

ShirleyKnot · 09/12/2011 11:01

I've written a piece about Osita Mba for the blog - it's not strictly about the cuts though, more about the sickening corruption at the HMRC

Is that OK with you lot? It might get us some traffic as the story is very current

Tianc · 09/12/2011 10:46

Gnashing of tea! I must be doing it wrong...

(but bugger about your laptop)

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 10:42

Gnashing of tea? Teeth! Teeth! Bastard autocorrect!

KateFrothers · 09/12/2011 10:38

Arf at Tianc but also

My laptop seems to have packed up. This is a DISASTER. I may not be back today due to weeping and gnashing of tea.

Tianc · 09/12/2011 10:11

So the UK's getting criticised on Al-Jazeera about the damage done to women by a ruling male elite.

And we have a bloke from Nigeria exposing possible UK govt corruption. ( to Mr Mba for dobbing in HMRC re Goldman Sachs tax-avoidance deals.)

My irony-ometer just burnt out.

AvadventKalendar · 09/12/2011 09:05

Just poking my head in, have been following you on Twitter since yesterday and trying to do my bit #ff ing, rting etc, sorry I can't do too much other than that as don't have the smarts for blog posts and suchlike - yes it's me with the medication fuzzies, not mentioning names, you'll work it out!

Keep up the good work!

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