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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:34 pm 
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I wouldn't say Britain doesn't need foreign languages or anything, but I can see a point that they aren't the sine qua non they are for most countries. I think they'll actually do OK, given Gove regards them as "proper subjects".

My big worry is technical education. Cable might have some sense of the need for this, but Gove has not the slightest interest. Obviously, I'm not saying someone should drop all academic subjects, but I see no reason why they shouldn't perhaps lose a language and do an extra technical subject. The school will regard anyone like that as a failure because it fucks up the ebacc percentage.

As Gove sees it, people do academic subjects, and if they're not in the top 20%, sod them.


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An open endorsement of the Far-Right in France:

French downgrade shows that Marine Le Pen's role in French public life is not just legitimate but increasingly necessary

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... ssary.html

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- kgbarrett, Bexleyheath,UK, 16/1/2012 5:19 147


And tonight we're gonna party like it's 1934.


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 Post subject: Re: RightMinds
PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:43 pm 
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What? A dose of reality not had since the Revolution?

WHAAAAATTTT?!!!

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You'd think three invasions by Germany in the last 150 years would knock a bit of sense into them...

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You can't spell the European Court of Human Rights without EU David Cameron

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Francesca has been a card-carrying Conservative since she was 15 and credits her grandmother, Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill – an extremely distant relation - with her political inspiration.


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:45 pm 
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The abuses against us by the ECHR will only continue as long as we are bound by the EU. Stop feigning anger and actually do something about it, Cameron.


Brilliant. I also hear that we'll no longer be asked to abide by the actions of the United Nations if we withdraw from the International Cricket Council, and simply removing ourselves from the Eurovision Song Contest means we would no longer be bound by NATO.

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 Post subject: Re: RightMinds
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:08 pm 
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Married to the State - who (or what) is really 'pushing' children into poverty?

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The state does many things. But I was not aware that it gave birth. The Bishops, however, in their delusion, seem to have forgotten this simplest of facts in their blame game.

It is young women, often girls, not the state, who push their babies into the world and into poverty. It is young women and girls who deliver babies into a world without a thought for how they are to be supported or brought up - other than by the state of course. Not surprising really.

Because in the lopsided 'entitlement world' of the Bishops, the Children's Society, Paddy Ashdown and Evan Davis[!], this is what they have learnt to do. No one judges. It is normal.

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But even so the real problem, the one that everyone is still skating round is the rise and rise of the lone parent family - the words we dare not speak. This is why the Bishops' attack is so shameful. They have bought into - hook, line and sinker - that unwritten rule that demands we ignore the continued costs, economic, social and psychological, of state supported single mums. Not because they have fallen on times, but because this is what they chose. Our 'would be' moral guides blind to the cost of fatherless and fragmented families that the system of benefits and subsidies has been engineered to sustain, fail to see that whatever the increasingly complex hoops the state pushes itself, mothers and their children through, this drives, not mitigates, emotional and economic poverty.

A quarter of our youngsters are now reared in single-parent (fatherless) families. Most born in the UK are born outside marriage. It doesn't work – they don't thrive - certainly not at these numbers. It's good neither for man, mother nor child. But we are still encouraging it.


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Ah right. So the number didn't come down under Labour, those arch statists.


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 Post subject: Re: RightMinds
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Set the taxpayer free, and watch the economy grow

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It is young women, often girls, not the state, who push their babies into the world and into poverty. It is young women and girls who deliver babies into a world without a thought for how they are to be supported or brought up - other than by the state of course.

Parthenogenesis must be more common than I thought.


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Messianic Trees wrote:
Set the taxpayer free, and watch the economy grow

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Nargle Fargle writes.

Oh dear god - he spends the first half of the article being reasonable, then segues into flat-rate tax. He concludes on this gem:
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If you really want to release the potential of the British people, then set them free. Let them be the drivers of economic growth achievement - they will be happy to take up the challenge, but you have to at least give them the chance.
Riiiiight. That would be all those poor people who are refusing to be millionaires because they'd have to pay some of it in tax.

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You'd think three invasions by Germany in the last 150 years would knock a bit of sense into them...


Anytime I hear someone joke about the French, I just think 'Verdun'.

Just picture someone slagging off the British Army, and then sneering at the Somme. There'd be fucking outrage from every pot-bellied history-deprived mong in the pub.

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 Post subject: Re: RightMinds
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"Pour comprendre la France, il faut comprendre Verdun"

"To understand France it is necessary to understand Verdun"

Said to me by a French historian, and very, very true.


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cycloon wrote:
bluebellnutter wrote:
You'd think three invasions by Germany in the last 150 years would knock a bit of sense into them...


Anytime I hear someone joke about the French, I just think 'Verdun'.

Just picture someone slagging off the British Army, and then sneering at the Somme. There'd be fucking outrage from every pot-bellied history-deprived mong in the pub.


I can't tell by the tone but I hope you're not accusing me of poking fun at the French, I was making a logical extension to your post.

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I didn't read it like that, quite the opposite.


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