Labour isn't working - Thread 27

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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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Hurrah! I turn on the BBC to find the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics. What interest anyone can have in that stupid, irrelevant mass skiing holiday, god only knows. It doesn’t even have the very modest interest of the corrupt circus of the main Olympics.

I kept seeing news reports about curling and ski jumping, FGS. 🥱

Mind you, I’ve no interest in football, so I suppose the likelihood of my being gripped by nonentities wearing skates or skis or wearing bowling shoes while waving brooms around is very low.

Denizens, this is the first time I’ve ever disagreed with you 😂😂 but I do find the figure skating fascinating and if I start watching it I can’t stop.
I do agree with you about football though.

I admire the skill of figure skaters, in the same way that I admire gymnasts. I wouldn’t watch figure skating on the telly though, except, maybe (guiltily), to see if anyone falls over.

There was a story I came across in the papers about some snowboarder or tobogganist or whatever who confessed on air to cheating on his girlfriend. Even that couldn’t hold my attention for more than a nanosecond. Just not for me. But then, as I say, sport generally isn’t. And certainly not sport done in the snow.

Got to be honest, I love the Winter Olympics.

Did any of you read the thing in the Times by Bridget Phillipson “Education system must look beyond school gates”? It is weird - it starts off making every sentence a new paragraph. It takes until paragraph 16 for there to be more than one sentence. She went to Oxford; she must know how to write. Unless someone else wrote this and she never read it.

Plus she has now said that “employers do not need to wait for long-delayed guidance on single-sex spaces before implementing the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex”. So what’s the point of the guidance then?

Without knowing the detail, it seems this is yet another of Phillipson's attacks on education - and it's definitely class warfare, no matter how she prevaricates.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15583945/Labour-class-warfare-accusation-funding-parental-income.html

https://archive.ph/cGjot Accessible link to that article.

You are correct. The article is blah. Blah. Blah. Blah. Awful actually.

No mention of extra funding from the vat on education of course. The thousands more teachers - where are they? No mention that 2/3 current funding goes on SEND in schools. No mention of how they’ll support and provide for the smarter kids. I guess we’re not allowed to say that under this gvt… We are all equal. We are all equal. We are all equal).

No mention of how current sad attempts to be inclusive can affect all of the kids and teachers terribly, meaning a lot of the time there’s no teaching at all. No mention of how there will be more sport, art, music. No practical assessments or analysis of what we have and how they will change it. Just useless blah blah blah.

Philllipson and the Labour Party of today really do make me feel sick.

Has anybody seen this quite the most appalling idea I have ever heard

Green Party says 'primary school children' should be taught to take drugs safely | News UK | Metro News

Madness! That settles it; he's insane.

‘The policy also adds children ‘starting in primary school’ should be taught how to take drugs in Personal, Social and Health Education lessons, the Daily Mail reports.
It reads: ‘The Green Party recognises that in the majority of cases the limited use of drugs for recreational purposes is not harmful and has the potential to enhance human relationships and human creativity.’ ‘

Excellent news. Hopefully people who think voting Greens is a good idea will now understand, finally, that it is not.

Why are they do high in the polls? How nutty are we as a whole?

Scary stuff.

Nutter.

Is that stuff about drugs & Greens actually true?

I know they've confirmed they are going to vote on legalisation of heroin and possibly other drugs at their conference

But this article actually says they want to make an arrangement with South American cartels! There are so many nonsense articles floating around at the moment. I'm just wondering if anyone has actually seen it on Green Party material.

Thanks for the archive link. I must subscribe to the Times!

Given the high heritability of IQ, this is interesting:

By the time these children leave school, the gap in exam results between poorer children and their peers will be half what it is now.

Where has she come up with that number from? Why not 80% Why not 20%? Does she have any basis for thinking that's even possible?

The only way to guarantee equality of outcomes beyond a certain point would be to restrict the education of children who are doing too well.

They already tried to restrict private education. Is this being extended to the "wrong" kind of children in state schools now?

"allocate billions of pounds in school funding, so teachers can better support children living in the deepest poverty" - from a total school budget of £65 billion - sounds suspiciously like means-testing education

That’s easy to do isn’t it. Just make sure no one does particularly well. How depressing.

So glad we’re nearly through with two dc already.

I was talking to a lady visiting neighbours last summer . She lives in Manchester. Her grandchildren there have tutors during the week and on a Saturday morning. There's no exception for sport, friends, etc. she said it's an ironclad rule. She is very proud of them. I wonder what she makes of her Welsh grandchildren who are very average academically by comparison.

It’s terrifying. We really need a well educated population. All this stuff will lead to decline.

I admire the skill of figure skaters, in the same way that I admire gymnasts. I wouldn’t watch figure skating on the telly though, except, maybe (guiltily), to see if anyone falls over.

In that case, you should've watched the men's final. It was an absolute fiasco - they ALL fell over - even the 'Quad God', who fell over twice and ended up coming 8th! I've never seen anything like it.

Me too! It's blissful escapism from the depressing reality of life in Britain in the wettest winter on record. Gimme snow! Gimme snowboard cross! A couple of exceptionally dull weeks at work were much improved by having that on in the background😁

I'm all about the skier-chasing dog! 🤣🤣

Peter Mandelson 'Arrested' Breaking News !

Josh Simons also being investigated by starmers ethics adviser

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xy5jepevno

Jesus. If this had been the Tories, Starmer would be jumping up and down.