Melanie Philips

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:19 pm

From MORI

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Nearly nine in ten (88%) adults across the United Kingdom say they trust doctors to tell the truth, according to a new nation-wide poll carried out by Ipsos MORI for the British Medical Association, making doctors the most trusted profession measured. Politicians, however, remain the least trusted profession measured, with just one in seven people (14%) saying they trust politicians in general to tell the truth; just one person in six, 17%, say they trust government ministers. To make matters worse for politicians at all levels, more people say they trust journalists (19%) and bankers (29%) than politicians.

The second most trusted profession measured are teachers - 81% say they trust teachers to tell the truth - putting them in a strong place to carry out their threat of resisting the Coalition Government’s pensions proposals. Teachers are only seven points behind doctors and ahead of any other of the professions which have been tested by the research firm since 1983.

So:
Doctors - 88%
Teachers - 81%
Bankers - 29%
Journalists - 19%
Politicians - 14%

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Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7342

I find it worrying that Govt ministers score higher than politicians in general.

It's interesting to see how many of the Mail's Bete Noires have risen in trustworthiness in the last decade (eg Trade union officials, civil servants).
Perhaps the drip backfires when it comes from an untrusted source.
I really hope people are smart enough to have figured that out...

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:31 pm

"Lefty unelected judges who wouldn't let criminals off if they lived in less posh areas" do rather well too (75%).

Almost 4 times as many as the people who think they should be running criminal justice.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7342

Not to mention scientists, who are turning your daughters into robo-sluts with vaccines (on their days off from inventing global warming and infernal windfarms).

Something like a fourfold advantage over the scribblers who denounce their work - for money.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:39 pm

Business leaders don't do very well.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2844

Wow, Mr Gove! Back to the future!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1ySZUcXI2

Needless to say, Mel is a fan:

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With these proposals, Gove is attacking the very belly of the beast. My goodness, he’s now going to have a fight on his hands. I just hope the Prime Minister really is behind him.

There is one further thing he needs to do, however, which David Cameron won’t yet allow -- reintroduce academic selection.

Academic selection is a non controversial feature of European education systems where standards are so much higher. One of the cardinal mistakes of Britain’s post-war education policy was to look to America and its comprehensive schools as the model. But in America, education standards are also going through the floor. Britain should have looked instead, - on education at least - to Europe.

Back to the fifties? We should be so lucky.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:42 pm

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Academic selection is a non controversial feature of European education systems where standards are so much higher.

I love the way she can write something like this- which is amusingly disproved by the first example you come to in Gove's beloved league tables- Finland. Anyway, isn't Mel a "plunging down league tables" type? What system did we have when we were higher up, then?

You see a hint of Gove's possible purpose in the position it puts Cameron in.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7342

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Business leaders don't do very well.

They should try spouting less self serving bollocks - as if they give a shit about being trusted.

National Anglia · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:30 am

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Britain should have looked instead, - on education at least - to Europe.

Ha ha ha, I love that panicky little parenthesis, when she realises she's written something that isn't crawling up the arse of America, and actually approves methods from Godless Marxist Eurabia.

:lol:

satnav · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:44 am

If Gove really needs Cameron's backing to get these reforms implemented perhaps he should have briefed the Prime Minister in advance about these plans instead of leaking them to a friendly newspaper while Cameron was thousands of miles away in Mexico.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:19 pm

National Anglia wrote:

Quote:

Britain should have looked instead, - on education at least - to Europe.

Ha ha ha, I love that panicky little parenthesis, when she realises she's written something that isn't crawling up the arse of America, and actually approves methods from Godless Marxist Eurabia.

:lol:

It gets better. Her beloved Israel is "ranked" 41st out of 65 in PISA. Probably down to a lack of religion and too much black culture.

Big Rob · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:39 am

Is this the moment Cameron starts to pull Britain out of the mire – and proves he’s got a spine?

I suppose it is at the other end of the spectrum but the Nazis who went for the final solution 'had a spine' too.

From the point of view of being too cowardly to stop being a cunt to please other people, rather than having the balls to state things that go against popular view, then I suppose this is 'having a spine'.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7342

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

National Anglia wrote:

Quote:

Britain should have looked instead, - on education at least - to Europe.

Ha ha ha, I love that panicky little parenthesis, when she realises she's written something that isn't crawling up the arse of America, and actually approves methods from Godless Marxist Eurabia.

:lol:

It gets better. Her beloved Israel is "ranked" 41st out of 65 in PISA. Probably down to a lack of religion and too much black culture.

Apparently Ashkelon was great until they airlifted those Ethiopians in...

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2844

Is this the moment Cameron starts to pull Britain out of the mire – and proves he’s got a spine?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1ymscMhQT

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:15 am

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