The Fifty Seventh Republic - the joy of bank holiday marking

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I have a year 12 Bob who doesn't give a shiny shit that's he going to fail. He sits gormlessly in class taking no notes, does no homework and makes no bones of the fact that he really doesn't care.
He got a 6 at gcse because that was his target and seems to think he'll be given free a levels too.

😮 noble!!!!!!

I can’t cope with DD telling me that she wants a Barclays account because they do good deals for teens.

Barclays!!!!

I don’t know how young you have to be to not know about what Barclays meant to left wingers, certainly in the 80s......

@JanFebAnyMonth

I don’t know how young you have to be to not know about what Barclays meant to left wingers, certainly in the 80s......

42. That's how old I am (today) and I don't know the significance of Barclay's. I was under 10 in the 80s so it passed me by.

The boy I am talking about is lovely : that's the problem. Truly delightful. But honestly verging on illiterate.

I'll be honest and say I don't know/can't remember anything about Barclays... but that could be Scottish upbringing possibly.

Happy Birthday, MsAwesome!! 🎂🥂🎉

O yes, happy Birthday, young un!

Here is a cheering news story for your day!

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reaction-as-far-right-bigot-jayda-fransen-wins-just-46-votes-in-glasgow-southside-268630/

Do listen to the little clip.

Yeah, same age as MsAwesome, no idea about Barclays. My parents bank with them so I know they can't be cool.

Have PM'd you Jan, I think you're on the app?

Happy birthday, MrsAD
In 43 questions' time, I'll have a gin for you

Where I was, the fact that it was possible, in some cases, that someone with EAL could rock up, have a couple of hours’ tuition, and pass functional English and Maths exams with good marks, was seen as proof that all such learners could do so, regardless of the fact that the successful ones had been educated to degree level or above in their home country, were good at Maths and spoke and wrote English better than many of our domestic learners. It’s hard to describe how soul destroying it is to try to teach someone at Level 2 when their grasp of English is minimal and whatever maths they were taught in their home country in no way aligns with the UK curriculum.

Which is seen as proof that we should accept all grade 6s.

My post above was in response to this comment.

Heartening clip, piggy, good to hear racists fail badly, surrounded by laughter.

I was also pleased to see Laurence Fox lost his deposit.

Happy birthday MrsAD.

Here’s an explanation which happens to neatly lead into an article tying in with today’s mention of Israel too:
www.banktrack.org/blog/as_human_rights_watch_calls_apartheid_in_israel_barclays_again_has_questions_to_answer

TLDR -
To a generation that grew up in the 1980s and especially in the UK, the name “Barclays” is associated with stubborn support for Apartheid South Africa.

I like hearing racists fail. It brings me joy. So thanks for that.

I'm having a brilliant birthday. I've not done any work, and I've spent a delightful hour playing with puppies, and choosing one to be our family pet my birthday present. He's a gorgeous, squishy, , fox red lab and I adore him already. I'm collecting him the day we break up for half term

Happy Birthday MsAwesome I'm 45 and didn't know/remember Barclays supported Apartheid.

I remember to hate Nestle though.

Oh, I thought it was SA. Coming back to me now.

Yup Nestlé 😠

Jayda Fransen is set to have a very tense meeting with her 50 friends and family after she secured just 46 votes in the Glasgow Southside

I hated Barclays because I saw how awfully friends who banked with them as students were treated from the moment of graduation. I don't know if I just slipped through the net with Lloyds but I got switched to an interest free graduate overdraft larger than my student one which I somehow still had years after graduating when they seemed to realise their mistake and write telling me they were reducing my overdraft limit. I had paid it all off by then anyway. I seem to remember Natwest and Barclays were the worst.

It seems that they pulled out of supporting Botha et al in 1986, the year I became a student, so tbf I’m only just old enough to remember the marches and student boycotts!

Lovely boy (now man) working as a tutor at my school with his Oxford law degree is determined only to work for an ethical law firm. It is taking him quite some time to find one.

I once nearly fainted from dehydration in Egypt trying to find a shop whose fridge wasn't full of Nestle water. I hadn't even seen it being sold before and suddenly it was everywhere.

Noble is very cheeky to you Jan.

And I've just nearly fainted reading how much pocket money some mn'ers give their young teens! Some of them have more 'fun money' to spend each month than I have left after rent and bills.

@TheHoneyBadger

And I've just nearly fainted reading how much pocket money some mn'ers give their young teens! Some of them have more 'fun money' to spend each month than I have left after rent and bills.

Those threads always amazed me too when dd1 was a teenager. She gets that sort of money from me now, as my contribution to supporting her through uni, but we only top it up to the amount she'd get as maximum student loan. Dd2 thinks she's really lucky to get her £20 a month, and I'm happy to stick with that for another year or so.