Westminstenders: PreGrades (Minority Report comes to the UK)

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In Aug 2020, London, DC's prototype 'PreGrades' launched from the education department stops plebs before they go to university, reducing the social mobility rate to zero percent. Social mobility is predicted using specialized mutated humans, called "Teachers", who "predict" grades by marking shit lots of course work and exams over a period of years. Would-be social climbers are knocked down in a computer algorithm which distorts reality and hits the disadvantaged hardest. Central government is on the verge of adopting the controversial program nationwide by applying it in all departments from the DWP, the Home Office, the Department of Health and the Department of Justice to predict benefit fraud, getting sick asylum seeking and crime before it occurs.

DC's vision of the future is based on excellence being genetically ingrained into the elite but he must sell this vision to the unsuspecting public in a series of public votes which rely on the idea of the 'undeserving'. Little do they know that they too will be the victims of this plan until a mysterious bug appears and only the wealthy and well connected are able to get hold of adequate PPE and they are no longer able to buy bog roll nor retire to Spain as they had previously and endless queues for pizza form near Kent.

The government is in danger of turning "probably won't vote for you, or at least not until I'm much older" to "definitely won't ever, ever, ever vote for you bastards"

As long as they turn out to vote for someone (well not the EDL or people like that) it will suit me fine. I really, really hope that this debacle helps to destroy Johnson and his cronies.

I don't vote Tory as people are aware, but do know plenty who do, and they are perfectly decent people. What Johnson and chums is doing is betraying them.

American politics going through the same thing right now. MIL has US voting rights which she does exercise. Like the rest of her family she tends to vote R, but looked pained when discussing the upcoming election. I think she hoped party would keep Trump in line but now she's seen they've sold their souls for power she's really finding it hard to justify. Suddenly the party is not what its core voters thought it was. We talked about how it is a betrayal of (for the most part) decent people like the late McCain.

Its all so unnecessary

Austerity caused shit tons of un needed pain
Covid came in sideways but should have been handled better
Brexit does not need to be the icing on the cake
Climate Change makes the lot irrelevant

as we have proved dozens of times on these threads over the years
if Johnson announced a world beating deal with the EU
that actually involved staying in the Single Market
99% of the population would log back in to Amazon prime

so why doesn't he / when will he ?

so why doesn't he / when will he ?

He hasn't yet detected the mood of the people changing, so he can't run ahead and shout "follow me", to quote Heseltine. When he senses that is the case, he will be able to stand up to his right wing.

Peregrina
But the mood will not change because people genuinely do not comprehend what customs clearance will do to the food supply chain
(and why would they TBH)

And when the food and medicine supply chain is messed up they will blame the EU for being unreasonable....

A new deal keeping us in the single market means continued free movment

I would think that a deal which involved continued free movement right now at the same point as we have all these migrant boats in the channel is an absolute non starter.

Folks here will likely say to me me that I’m conflating free movement/immigration and asylum and how I should know those things are different? Those people are right Do I know those things are different and I knowI’m conflating.

Problem is, trying to make a nuanced argument about that is not likely to fly with a group of voters who are done with nuance.

Louise
I would think that a deal which involved continued free movement right now at the same point as we have all these migrant boats in the channel is an absolute non starter.
Are you really that thick ?
The folks on boats are not covered by free movement
They are refugees
from SHIT situations created by British, American and French weapons

tatiana
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you are, perhaps, unusual in that respect?
I certainly needed the full teaching time to get my A levels.

I've contacted the HT at the school I'm a governor at. She sounds totally broken 😔🤬

"Voters who are done with nuance"

If you didn't laugh, you'd cry...

Well, when Johnson and Cronies have made sure that we get No Deal and FoM has definitely ended, who will we be able to blame for the refugees trying to get across?

I expect it will be France for not stopping them.

Nuance - a funny foreign word, which won't be understood by those who like the three word sound bites.

@Peregrina

Well, when Johnson and Cronies have made sure that we get No Deal and FoM has definitely ended, who will we be able to blame for the refugees trying to get across?

I expect it will be France for not stopping them.

France not stopping them has been the spin for a while now.

Take Back Control
Get Brexit Done
Shaft Our Children.

Funnily enough, I made the last one up. Boris said Robust, Good, Dependable. Doesn't quite have the right ring, as well as being a load of piffle and waffle from de Pfeffel. Was Cummings on holiday?

@yoikes

tatiana I'm going to go out on a limb and say you are, perhaps, unusual in that respect? I certainly needed the full teaching time to get my A levels.

I've contacted the HT at the school I'm a governor at. She sounds totally broken 😔🤬

It was only history of art, I don’t think I could have done say geography in that time.

Crammers offer 1 year courses for A levels, so I don’t think 2 years is mandatory.

I wanted to do art history!

So did I, but I didn’t want to 4 essay subjects at once. It was an afterthought.

Crammers offer 1 year courses for A levels, so I don’t think 2 years is mandatory.
Been there
done that
not like school at all
just not comparable

PMK

Couldn't do it at my (pretty crappy tbh) comp sadly

No Crammers in my neck of the woods...I think they're a mc city thing?

A plus for today: the blessed relief of rain!!
☔☺

My point is that you can cover the A level syllabus in a year. Crammers tend to offer retake, 1 year and 2 year courses side by side. I don’t think crammers are so different to other schools particularly 6th form colleges.

Very much a middle class thing, also town/city thing.

But some 6th form colleges do repeat years and resits.

Conspicuous by their absence?

Tory MP accused of rape agrees not to attend Commons next month

www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/16/labour-insists-tory-mp-accused-of-should-not-return-to-commons

I did history A level in a year (as an afterthought) in evening classes at a FE college. I can’t remember how difficult it was, but classes were only from October to May and I had a full time job as well.