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The Queen's Speech - Newsnight would like to know what we think of it

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JustineMumsnet · 18/11/2009 10:15

Good morning Mumsnetters,
Newsnight's Michael Crick is coming to visit and wants to know about what we all think of the government's plans as to be revealed (but of course already heavily trailed) in the Queen's Speech Today.

Here's a helpful summary from the BBC.

So what are your thoughts please?

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MadameDefarge · 18/11/2009 16:42

It is rather marvellous,Lenin, and I have to say that with hindsight it is probably a really good thing that the official relationship with a certain paper came to nought.

LeninGrotto · 18/11/2009 16:40

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MadameDefarge · 18/11/2009 16:37

deadworm, do you also take it to the ambassador's receptions?

Deadworm · 18/11/2009 16:37

"Mr Disaffected Voter, with these random swearwords and crossings out you are really spoiling us."

MadameDefarge · 18/11/2009 16:36

...and not make it tidy it's bedroom because it's "tired".

Deadworm · 18/11/2009 16:36

give it Ferrero Rocher

notwavingjustironing · 18/11/2009 16:35

let it play Call of Duty when it really should be doing homework.

JuanMoreTime · 18/11/2009 16:32

oh yes
serve it alcopops at family dos.

arf

MadameDefarge · 18/11/2009 16:31

...let it stay up late on a school night and eat biscuits in bed....

JuanMoreTime · 18/11/2009 16:26

"buy" it things

i dont think Butts come into it. At least only in the tory party.

baboom tish

JuanMoreTime · 18/11/2009 16:25

as long as i dont have to go into the jungle.
I have NO MEMORY of havign voted for anyone - altho' in these 'ere parts the current guy has been in since they signed the magna carta so it makes no difference.

Maybe i'll be disaffected and spoil my paper - take it ona day trip, but it things you know,

JuanMoreTime · 18/11/2009 16:24

and sentencer
i know
i can be a test tube voter.

MadameDefarge · 18/11/2009 16:19

We need to get Max Clifford to thrash out the best newspaper deal for her....

scarletlilybug · 18/11/2009 16:18

Thanks, policywonk. Got it now.

policywonk · 18/11/2009 16:18

A swing-voting MN-posting teacher... there'll be camera crews on your doorstep by tomorrow morning Juan.

MadameDefarge · 18/11/2009 16:18

Teaching true stuff? Nah, my credo is Never Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story...

I mean, it did me no harm...according to my history A level,absolutely nothing happened outside Europe during the Middle Ages, but heaven's what did happen was stirring stuff!

And I even got told that there was some old Beardy bloke who could see me even when I was on the loo. Very creepy.

scarletlilybug · 18/11/2009 16:17

Well, you could argue that the state educating all children according to a nationally agreed curriculum is a bit Stalinist...

Cannot agreee that educational standards have improved in the last 20 or so years. It's not all about money - its about educational orthodoxy and the celebration of mediocrity.

JuanMoreTime · 18/11/2009 16:15

i not only dont know who I am voting for i cant remember who i voted for in the past.

manfrom · 18/11/2009 16:13

I'll be voting for the party that introduced "gulags for slags" during their leader's party conference speech. That must be the tories, right? Oh, err....

onebatmother · 18/11/2009 16:12

you wanna sort out working from home Juan

JuanMoreTime · 18/11/2009 16:11

we narrolwy escaped an academy recently.

SOME OF US CANT get mn at work and a good thing too imo

policywonk · 18/11/2009 16:11

Teaching true stuff? How un-thrusting.

Stoats for GOATs was about how all GB's government of all the talents (GOATS) bods have gone to the Lords (hence stoat = ermine ) Basically was tremendously laboured joke.

WilfSell · 18/11/2009 16:11

Some of us chuffing work in between and alongside MN, Juan.

onebatmother · 18/11/2009 16:10

removes nerf bullet from eye socket

WilfSell · 18/11/2009 16:09

Well, and some grammar schools are run by voluntary weirdo organisations too.

But it's all a bit, um, medieval isn't it? Like dying of bubonic plague, we kind of know how to do things better now...

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