Shadow Schools Minister Kevin Brennan had a mathematical nightmare in the Commons earlier, telling the House that three out of ten equalled 60%. Things only got worse for the Labour man, who then laughably accused his opposite number of being “not very good at maths“. It’s back to the classroom for him…
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
You seem suprised.
A Labour shadow minister that can’t do basic Math – why should we be surprised..!
The word is maths. Please piss off back to America.
It is simple arithmetic, not math, maths or mathematics.
Half the Tory MPs can’t do maths. Half the Tory MPs can’t spell and the other half are liars.
Typical Tory strategy– divide and rule!
he is obviously channelling Gordon
My aunty old is arith matic
Pronounced “maffs” these days, no doubt, by those taking the subject in the same school the ShadMin must have attended.
socialist and stupid. that’s two words usually seen together.
This is why there is a Whip system in Parliament. The idiot MP’s cannot be trusted to do division on their own.
Look, you have to keep this in perspective. When richard caborne was labour sports minister, he scored 0 out of 4 on sports questions, so this guy isn’t doing too bad.
How many Millibeans make five?
Eight?
And they wOnder why we dont trust them with the economy !
It’s a wonder Len McCluskey hasn’t made him shadow chancellor yet, Ed Balls wouldn’t be anything like as close as that.
The talent pool on the Labour benches is very shallow indeed.
Hey Big Boy! – wanna plumb my depths?
I agree. The totty is crap – look at the Eagle Munters.
The cesspool surely.
As is the gene pool
Idiocy, it’s in our DNA.
Was that the rong arnsirr then ?
8illy, you can’t even fucking spell!
I’ve always maintained that there should be a P level examination for all parliamentary candidates.
Nothing too difficult..difference between Profit and Loss, Credit and Debit, that sort of thing.
Just your average socialist moron?
what a fuckwitted monkey’s ballbag
You’re just a bigoted little girl.
https://twitter.com/IanAustinMP/status/215872044854812673
Blimey..we’ve been wrong footed. Our coverage was going to be Julian fleeing from warmongering US CIA extradition.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/9347558/From-North-Korea-to-Camden-staff-at-town-hall-told-to-address-Labour-councillor-Dear-Leader.html
nothing ever add up with this lot
I’m not surprised. The R_soles in the Commons depend upon the Innumeracy in the general population to get away with the things they do, so sometimes an innumerate twat gets a seat and makes a total fool of themselves. The Medja are just as bad, if not worse.
the grauniad is trruble at speling and newspapering and paying taxes yet we constantly lecture others.
Gordon couldn’t do his sums, so why are we suprised?
Aha, he’s been flushed out as as a very stupid man. Hansard will record his bungling for eternity!
I’d never heard of him before, now his name will be forever linked to incompetence.
Mind you I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s snapped up by Labour’s Treasury team. He’s seems so bad with numbers that he’d be a good fit with Ed Balls.
Just looked him up in Wikipedia
“He joined the National Union of Teachers in 1984 before becoming a teacher at Radyr Comprehensive School in 1985. He left the school in 1994 as Head of the Economics Department. Between 1991-2001, Brennan was a member of Cardiff Council representing the ward of Canton, Cardiff. During this time he served as Chair of the Finance Committee, Chair of the Economic Scrutiny Committee and Vice-Chair of Economic Development.”
All I can say is “Oh dear!”
This explains a lot.
Nobody remembers Gordon Brown, the history teacher. It’s almost like there is some hidden slush fund within education to give these imbeciles sinecure positions while they await a safe seat.
Also he was educated at St Alban’s RC High School in Pontypool and Pembroke College, Oxford. He graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1982, and was elected President of the Oxford Union.
The standards claimed for Oxford are fairly suspect.
PPE is not a real degree same as media studies, could be done over 18 months one night a week in local coll
How can you say “PPE is not a real degree”?
Have you seen how many of our politicians and policy makers and top civil servants have a PPE degree? So what if they’re innumerable – they run this country, they’ve made it what it is today, after taking us through so many social millstones.
Did you mean innumerate? Though I do agree they’re innumerable
I’m corrected by bloggers unseen
yet maintain a harmonic mien.
When press’d for a-mount
I’m not a deviant count;
on average I say what I mean.
You must surely have a degree in PPE yourself. I know you’re a man of letters; trouble is, all of them are French.
Seriously though – PPE plus elected President of the Oxford Union should have been enough, at his age, to be on the board of some huge multi-national earning squillions.
Instead of which he became a school teacher?
What a total fucking waste of a CV like that aged 21.
His maths let him down!
So he joined the NUT and THEN became a teacher???? That shows his priorities and mindset.
That’s Wales for you.
I think that is how Pilgrims Progress.
I thought it was usually failed teachers who became union officials perhaps he was the opposite way around.
I’m sure I don’t need to remind anyone about the type of district in which Ed Balls’ old school is located, do I?
Let’s just say that some male motorists have always driven around it very, very slowly…
Aren’t MP’s allowed to request alterations to Hansard in order to cover up their more egregious errors.
Not incompetence- ignorance!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha You just couldn’t make it up.
Oh yeah there was that other joker that tried to tell us there was a 0% increase….hahahahahahahaha
Mere deflection. No comment yet from Cameron on Tory donor Barlow and his tax avoidance? Philip Green?
Do us a favour and post links to those individuals telling smart arse, sanctimonious, cleverer-than-you, sneery, wink-to-the-lefty-audience, finger wagging ‘jokes’ about evil tax avoiders.
Talk about deflection. Ha!
Deflection?
Deduction more like. 50% is deducted under Brennan maths.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18535642
Labour leader Ed Miliband opted not to join in with criticism of Jimmy Carr’s tax arrangements, saying: “I’m not in favour of tax avoidance obviously, but I don’t think it is for politicians to lecture people about morality.”
Labour is calling on the Take That star to hand back the OBE he received in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Shadow treasury minister Catherine McKinnell said that even though he had done nothing illegal, Mr Barlow should return his OBE.
So much for Labour not lecturing people about morality. And when exactly did they stop lecturing bankers and fat cats about morality?
Gary Barlow is just as much a tax dodger as well but when has he condemned other tax dodgers? Once again Labour prove they have no concept of hypocrisy.
Labour lecturing on morality……makes a change from legislating on it.
What about the ban on foxhunting for moral reasons?
What about the thought crime of believing homosexuality to be a sin?
Presumably Carr is a Labour supporter – he always seems a typical Champagne Socialist. So Milliband can’t criticise him too much.
They keep saying Barlow is a Conservative supporter so he is fair game for Milliband to go after.
Did any of the TV channels or newspaper have a lipreader watching Cameron and Milliband talking this afternoon? Would be interested to know what was being said.
Militwat is a tax dodger, so is Chuckup.
Might be best if they kept quiet on the subject
Im sure there was talk of Ed having some sort of tax dodge concerning money left to him by his father, can somebody find out ?
Shut it, Dhimmi.
http://bit.ly/PavBsl
so which government knighted fred Goodwin for services to banking. oh yes it was labour !!
8 out of 10 cats shit in my garden.
That’s 160% – Wow
surely three out of ten (and a bit…)
None shit in mine after I put a half brick by the back door ready for instant attack if I see the little buggers heading for the Hydrangeas.
Jimmy, Green and Barlow didn’t make a living slagging off moneyed people for taking the very same tax avoidance measures ( which, despite the left’s best efforts to present them as such, aren’t illegal) they themselves were taking advantage of.
Get this into your thick socialist skull ….. IT’S THE HYPOCRISY OF IT NOT THE ACTUAL, FULLY LEGAL, TAX AVOIDANCE!
Evening, Ken. Newts doing OK?
Pretty much the same as Caroline Spelman – water fucking mess:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9261122/Keeping-the-country-short-of-water-is-now-government-and-EU-policy.html
The sooner the EU disappe*rs up it’s own fundament taking the legions of daft bureaucrats with it, the better for all.
Jo Brand is a tory?
Quayle never lived down the tomatoe
As well as the potatoe?
And he was educated in the system Michael Gove wants to reintroduce……
Failing CSE maths is no bar to a glorious career in Socialist politics.
He can mark my children’s exam papers any time he likes.
BTW does David Cameron know the price of a pint of milk yet ?
Never mind milk, does any MP know the price of a pint of beer yet, or are their bars all still subsidised by the rest of us?
I buy milk every week and I don’t know how much it costs. I need milk, I put it in the basket, that’s all there is to it.
Likewise. I buy 3 * 6 pint containers every fucking week. Not a scooby. Just stick it in the trolley and on to the next item.
About £1.80 for a 6 pint container if I had to guess.
Dont start on that childish crap again FFS.
Arithmetic isnt my strong point either
What grade GCSE did he get for Maths? A? B? C? If he’s even heard of percentages he must have got at least grade C.
Go for it Gove. Go back to “O” Level GCE type exams, and also eliminate the endless annual grade inflation farce while yo’re at it.
Tell the Libdum educacational “equal prizes for everyone” crowd and teachers to get stuffed. They’ve ruined our schools’standards. Chinese and Indian children are racing ahead of us in achievements.
Speaking of asian / oriental successes I expected more of the Westminster Hall gathering for Ang San Suu Kyi. Almost a Stanley /Dr Livingstone moment for the 2012s.
Eastern political giant meets Western political pygmies.
Where was Sally Bercow in grass skirt getting her tits out providing a sun dance to show her just how far they have come and how far we have regressed. For both politics and education Suu Kyi can do little worse than copy anything elsewhere other than what passes as academic and political brilliance that abounds today here.
An economics lecturer at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The lecturer then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on a socialist plan”.. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for euros – something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the lecturer told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that.
Remember, there IS a test coming up. Hopefully, Doug Carswells bill will succeed.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Most excellent pickled wizard , most excellent , All 5 points resonate beautifully .
I might add one of Norman Tebbits questions , no doubt based on experience
“why do socialist eutopias always end up in being police states “
It isn’t even maths…it’s basic arithmetic. Thick git!
Easy to see how labour pissed all our tax revenues away, no idea about numbers. What a bunch of cretins!
His expense claims will have been evaluated with the mathematical precision and accuracy of Big Blue, however.
More likely they will have be based primarily on the works of Edward Lear.
You are old father William the young man said
Do you think at your age it is right
To go home each night
Give yourself such a fright
Trying to get your expenses claim right.
I have a test for Mr Brennan :
Rearrange the following words : Complete Fail Epic Dickhead You
Fail Dickhead, You Complete Epic.
Do I get a prize?
Yes, you get an A* of course!
This explains the 125% voter turnout in the High Street ward during the last borough elections in Waltham Forest.
I think it all went wrong with decimalisation
Dozens of people would agree.
Yes…Bushels of them
135 … I reckon there’s chains of them lining up out there, inching their way forward (what the ell),some trying to find perches, so’s they can peck at their lunch, others in league with the Devil (call Scotland Yard) but biting their nails. I can’t fathom it.
If you don’t know what a perch is you must be up the pole.
Whew, that’s “gross.”
I actually feel sorry for Mr Gove having to bother to take a twat like that seriously.
could he consider being my new tax adviser ??
Pay your taxes tory scu….oh ..wait..he’s one of us…erm…
Cameron accuses innocent man and doesn’t condemn rich Tories
Jim admits he made an error of judgement, so hes not innocent.
But he can talk for hours on the evil tories and is up to date with all things diversity that is all that matters.
He said “three out of ten equaled 60%”
Yeah…so..? He’s right.
He was under pressure and clearly flustered. What he meant to say was 3 out of 60 is 10 percent. Then he would have got it right.
3/10 = 60%. Close enough for Shadow Government work.
It’s good enough for Coalition Pensioners too
Absolutely!
Its the same economics applied by Balls, Blair and Brown, do you womder how the banks ran rings round them. Its like something of Yes Prime Minister
More like ‘Carry on Dick‘.
It just doesn’t add up.
3 out of 10 is a resounding victory
…not if you host 8 out of 10 Cats, it isn’t.
0.1 out of 10 cats.
0.1 out of 10 fat cats.
Did someone say “cats”?
spe*kin’g ov witch, wear iz my luvlee Cat, babe?
x x x U x x x
Welsh
Chippy
Thick as pigshit
This brings back memories of the gurning idiot during the General Election campaign when he was filmed talking to a little girl, who told him she was 4 years old. Gordon proceeded to hold up six fingers, which confused the poor young thing terribly.
Gordon was probably used to seeing a couple of extra fingers waved in his general direction while he was out campaigning.
You bigot!! 6 out of 10 is 4 – so I was right! – I am always right!!
uh Oh..He’s off on one again…And who’s going to get his meds with all the GPs on strike?
Well don’t know about where you are but none of our Dr’s went on strike. Bit like that teachers strike last year that went off like a damp squib.
Oh Dear another union failure to bring this government down! Which union is going to have a go next?
Someone call?
Count the fingers on your left hand backwards, thus: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6.
Then add the 5 on the right hand…
et voila, everyone now has 11 fingers.
Good that innit. ‘Sow I got me A level sums.
I wonder why Brennan is no longer a teacher.
Those who can’t teach, shadow.
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
And those who can’t teach, teach teachers.
All round abject failures become [medical] consultants
- become Inspectors?
He didn’t have sufficient experiential diversity training.
Seems Twitter is down.
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Gordo likes me to have an outside interest. He tells me he used to like walking in the dunes. But there aren’t any round here.
Who cares? Fifteen per cent of Twitter users are chatbots, and the humans are so stultified that they don’t notice. Statistic from paper by Steven Gianvecchio, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol 19, p 1557. He also found that 85 per cent of participants in Yahoo chatrooms were bots.
I had, what seemed at first, a reasonable conversation with a yahoo groups bot called Lynda
Don’t these ‘bots’ eventually encounter each other and just end up having ‘conversations’ forever. Like that game of ‘tic-tac-toe’ in the film ‘War Games’. If they do I wonder if their ‘conversation’ eventually iterates to ’42′.
Order-order strikes again!
Neo Guido complaining of a sore throat this morning and no Doc available.
Contagious tweet?
these bludy tory toffs oodthey think they are? Ehh? In my day there were just bluddy tory toffs and me wiv no A levalls couldn’t say a bluddy word coz I was in the bar stewarding the bluddy tory toffs who never thort that the bloke oo stood there servin them was bluddy thinking I ain’t got no A LEVORLS but one day oil show yer something so shurrup bout liebore folk wot can’t do sums coz oim a lord and oi got Wimmin hangin on me evry werd ere wen’s tea time? Oim bluddy ungry!! Then oil go out lookin fer abitta fun
Did someone order 4 bargain buckets on a house of commons credit card?
Meals on Wheels as once affectionately(?) known as Muck on a Truck.
*was*
The finest labour Chancellor ever,who cured boom and bust, saved the world and termed 0% as an increase obviously had a similar maths teacher.
Why anyone with half a brain cell actually wants to vote Labour back in on the premise that they are more competent in clearing up the shite they left behind than the tories deserves locking up in a lunatic asylum.
Talking of which idiot, does anybody know if gordon came out of his kirkoddy playroom for parliament today to try for a photo op with Aung San Suu Kyi?
Yes McIdiot was there, ann san suu got 21 years house detention. Wish Mcmental had been locked up for 21 years with Blair. Wonder how long Blair would have survived without topping himself. Just imagine 21 years of non stop lectures from Mcdoom.
Poor Aung San Suu Kuyi, 21 years locked up in her own home and who does she have to meet and listen to when she gets her first taste of freedom?
Bloody Gordon Brown, Blair, Miliband and Cameron.
I bet she can’t wait to get back home and lock the front door again.
Probably why the military let her out just now – show her what can happen when touchy-feely belief in the Green religion decides policy, rather than science and sums.
Phil, you have just written tomorrow’s Graundian (taken out of context as usual)headline:…. tories deserves locking up etc.
He’ll be the product of edballs’ education policy ‘every child matters’!
Gove is a Godsend!! At long last our kids are going to be properly educated not politically indocrinated by marxist idiots!
Absolutely agree. Gove has the childs education at heart and is quite passionate about all aspects of education as well as mobility of university entrants by ensuring the increase of working class students to Russel Group universities.
I wonder how RedEd’s paymasters the unions will respond to the changes?
One out all out of course. Do try to keep up at the back
Was he taught maths by Owen Jones?
kevinbrennan reminded me terribly of aintbustingut – I don’t know why.
A Labour minister that can’t do basic maths, why should this shock you, we had a Chancellor of the Exchequer that could not count for ten years.
More lefty climate change bollocks from the BBC
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162457/BBC-forecasters-accused-driving-tourists-away-seaside-resorts-alarmist-reports-storms-floods.html
20 years ago , when the beeb got the agw bit between it’s teeth it said East Anglia was going to become a sea and then that gardens in East Anglia were going to become deserts.
Errr . Still waiting!
The BBC (and Met office) can’t forecast the weather 24 hours in advance yet they have appointed themselves gurus of climate change, what are they using now (apart from copious amounts of nose powder) a divination from the entrails of a Pigeon?.
Intrigued reading Boris’ expenses yesterday he was gifted a Sno Wovel which he declared. Explains why the BBC have taken him to task. Any apparatus that can be used for shoveling the white stuff as quickly as possible in their noses should have come their way.
They can’t forecast the weather as it happens.
‘It’s wall-to-wall sunshine for the UK’, they said, one Saturday, some months back. And there I was in Waitrose car park getting pissed wet through in a downpour.
We need more taxes to stop all this climate change!
You’re having a BBQ summer, millions of you will die from heat, we never lie
And stop drinking the water, you selfish non-Green bastards!
Don’t you know you’re destroying it and dooming us all to migrate from the M25 desert up to the oasis of Manchester?
HMRC-U Jimmy!
Educashun Educashun Educashun!
Bring back ‘O’ levels and a two tier system that deprives all of prizes??
Right! That’s it. Stop the bush waxing Giovanni. I’m putting me teeth back in!
“This is a job for rank hypocrisy, hectoring and sanctimonious, knicker wetting outrage!”
I’ll email Alan with a leader – “How dare this Tory led coalition attempt to teach children to read!! N.U.T. need to strike,strike and strike again until this dreadful decision is consigned to history{along with History}.
The BBC still don’t get it. Jimmy Carr used a tax dodge that he was on TV mocking others for using.
It’s called double standards BBC mongs.
Sky Suggesting that Cameron knew nothing about Gove’s little plan
we know the Glib Dumbs didn’t but who gives a fuck what they think
Let’s just hope Gove keeps going – he’s doing a fantastic job to right 13 years of mismanagement of our education programme.
You can’t do sums either. For 13 read 43 (going on 53) then you will be getting much nearer the truth.
Trouble with socialists is that they leave school understanding the ‘Lowest Common Denominator’ but not the ‘ Highest Common Factor’.
I’ve been told my name qualifies me to head the BBC.
Pity your name isn’t Elly Dee – the Beeb could do with a light shone on their accounts – just in case of any shight lone.
British banks to be down graded tonight at 10 o’clock
Auditors find that Spanish banks may need up to 150 Billion Euro’s
and that will be just on what they have owned up to
here we go again
for all the shit labour has got us in recently – and being forgiven that the tory party never existed before last week – what we have here is muck-racking of the lowest form
the country has gone to shit – the tories are only looking after themselves – so what do we do – have a go at a labour mp
FFS do some proper analysis of what’s happening rather than fuck about in the gutter
Proper analysis of what’s happening?
Fine, Labour destroyed the economy, pissed away every penny they could beg, borrow or print and then left a note laughing in the nation’s face.
‘There’s no money left’. Ha ha ha ha ha.
We’re two years into trying to deal with that fuckwittery.
How’s that for analysis?
Quite JGM
…and anonymouse, they f.ucked up the educashun system, set up NHS death camps in Stafford (and elswhere), allowed the Doctors and NHS Managers to loot the health budget, f.ucked up bank regulation, did eff all about the press wrongdoing that they were fully aware of, took us to an illegal war, screwed up the tax system and DID NOTHING ABOUT TAX AVOIDANCE, and elected a load of no-hopers to their shadow cabinet.
Guidoistas, feel free to add more to the list.
I think you’ve hit the nail very nicely on the head there Fish. Couldn’t have said it better!
+1
Not to mention their immigration led recruitment drive.
BBC analysis:
- Thatcher is to blame;
- the Coalition is to blame;
- white people are hideous;
- the British Empire oppressed other nations so badly that now they want to come and live here instead, where they are oppressed further;
- the wise BBC is so loved by the British people that it daren’t move to a subscription basis in case their feelings are hurt.
They also allowed unrestricted immigration to irreversibly change our towns.
They call it multi-culturalism. Problem is, there isn’t much multi and very little culture.
Plenty of fibreglass minarets appearing on buildings though.
Hasn’t Ed Millibandwagon apologised, or is going to apologise for all the immigrants that were allowed into this country over their 13 year ‘reign of terror’?
Bit late now Milliband – they’re all packed into this country now, with more rights than the rest of us.
I saw the result of all these p..a..k..i..d*..s & S*.m.*l..i..s.. being led down the main High Street today – all ?women? had head & face covered [including little girls] and all looking as if they owned the place, which, of course they do now.
Thanks Leiber, thanks very feckin much!
So that’s why the plea of guilty but pig thick stands up in court when they are accused of fiddling their expense forms.
Why don’t the Interviewers put it to the Doctors representatives that the BMA negotiators grossly out-maneuvered the Labour Government in 2008 and achieved, what they must have known at the time, to be an unsustainable settlement.
They didn’t ‘out-maneuvre’ anybody. They asked for the most outrageous figure imaginable expecting to be bargained down to a sensible figure and the Maximum Imbecile just said ‘Yes’.
The Imbecile didn’t give a fuck. He would just stand up in Parliament and brag that he was ‘investing’ an additional 40% in doctors this financial year and most folk would assume he’d employed another 40% of doctors. This was the same with all his ‘investment’. More money for the nurses. More money for every fucker.
‘I make no apologies for spending an additional 20bn quid this year on the NHS’ or some such soundbite. He didn’t give a fuck where the money was going as long as he got to brag about ‘investing’ billions more than last year. The worst thing with the doctor’s windfall payrise though was that it was so generous that a lot of ‘em just went to a three day week for the same cash. So, bizzarely, a 40% pay increase resulted in less doctors being available. Which meant that NHS bills snowballed because they had to pay locums astronomical rates to cover for these newly part-time doctors.
Utter fucking madness.
That’s true.
We laughed our arses off when they agreed to us losing £1200 a year but not having to work weekends anymore. A 2% pay cut for a 15% reduction in working hours. And the worst 15% too!
What chumps the Labour party were. We stitched them up like a Cesarian.
It wasn’t even ‘losing’ 1200 quid. If I remember rightly the average doctors wage went overnight from 65K to 95K or, if you wanted to work weekends then 100K or some figures close to that. If it was only 1200 quid difference then I’ll take your word for it. In any case the 1200 quid was just a rounding error on the massive payrise.
No wonder everybody went part-time. No wonder locum rates ballooned to a thousand quid for half a day.
Utter fucking madness.
Did nobody warn him? Did nobody tell the Imbecile what the fuck was likely to happen?
No wonder we ended up printing money.
His father’s mardy arsed Presbyterian ghost could have popped up out the floorboards, smacked him round the jowls, gave him an even thicker ear and screamed at him not to do it.
But Gordoom, being Gordoom, would have gone right ahead.
He likes the Arctic monkeys you know. They’re “very loud”. And he’s had “lots” of girlfriends. Aldridge fucking McPrior.
Once this shit has blown over (circa 2040) serious questions need to be asked about how a man like that was allowed anywhere near public office, never mind that of the Prime Minister.
Just viewing an education apologist on SKY complaining “But some children might fail”
Considering that A, B+s were as scarce as hen’s teeth in my day perhaps Gove could extend the grading list to include G to Z results to show willing.
I fear that if these reforms go ahead, employers will discriminate against applicants who results show they are not suitable for the job on offer.
Apologies. “Whose” not “who”.
All must ‘of’ prizes – n’that – nowotoimeen?
Isn’t that the whole point of exams – to sort out the wheat from the chaff?
I’m chaff.
Took me 7 goes to get masses of O and A levels , the latter in Chemistry Physics and Zoology.
If at first you don’t succeed……….
They can always find work with the labour party as education spokespeople
I’m not sure a two tier exam system is the best way forward. All that is needed to restore confidence in exams is to do what I believe was done with the old ‘O’ Levels. Ie only the top (say) 10% get an ‘A’, the next 20% get a ‘B’, the next 20% get a ‘C’ and so on…
This takes out any variations from year to year in individual exam difficulties PLUS it means the best in any one year are recognised as such. I believe that at the moment we have the situation where some exams have 50% and more getting grade ‘A’ or above. Half the exam being awarded on coursework which was marked and then resubmitted with ‘suggested improvements’ and /or done by their older siblings or their parents or down-loaded from the interweb.
Computers and spell-checks and grammar checks mean that any fucking halfwit can present as Oscar Wilde in their written coursework. It’s not until they’ve got their foot in the door that you realise they’re utter fucking plankton. But you can’t dent their misplaced self-confidence because, after all, they got an ‘A’ in everything and a degree from some rebadged third rate university that was previously an adult literacy college so they must be clever.
We have created an entire generation of idiots with worthless sheaves of paper proclaiming their brilliance and no degree-level jobs for them to go into. We have destroyed the whole notion of education as being a way ‘out’ by devaluing it to the point where they might as well give you a degree certificate with your birth certificate for all the fucking use it is.
on form today J.
The worse thing is that the plankton actually believe the hype and think they are fucking Einstein, “its just not fair, I worked soooo hard and deserve a job on 10000000000000 a year .
you say that JGM2 , but then go onto to say what you see in education .
is two tier education , better than no tears education ……… Interesting question isnt it ……..
We need as many tiers as it takes since people develop at diffferent rates. It is called streaming so the kids of roughly equal ability can all learn together at their own speed, with the very bright ones taking the hardest exams (ie O level). Plus, most people have different abiities – some are good at maths and science but can’t do languages for toffee and others shine at languages but can’t even work out the boiling point of water. These differences need to be resognised. Yet others are good with their hands and should be encouraged to learn practical subjects – carpentry, metalworking, technical draughtsmanship, engineering etc.
Just like it used to was before surely Williams and Prick Crosland got their hands on the levers.
Do me a favour….I bet this geez gets all his expenses added up to the last penny!!
It’s more likely that he makes any number of inadvertent errors. In his favour, of course.
Why do I suggest this? Well, he’s an MP isn’t he?
You are probably right, but adding up does not (usually) involve higher maths like percentages
WACIST!!!
What about his chat-up line…
‘Excuse me love, do you think this handkerchief smells of Chloroform?’
his joke?
“Psst! Little girl! Wanna come and see some puppies?”
Works most times.
He was on the BBC radio news today, complaining about the scandal of separating the ‘sheeps’ from the goats.
Most four year olds know the plural of ‘sheep’. It’s back to nursery school for him.
What does he mean separating sheep from goats?
Who are sheep? – does he mean us? and who are goats ?- is he talking about the westminster bunch, as in gordon’s ‘government of all talents?’ Well we know what came of that!
He’s welsh. He was probably talking about separating the sheeps from the blokes.
there’s jealous for you boyo
He joins Byers who thought that 7 x 8 = 54 and Estelle Morris (Education Secretary!) who didn’t know rthe difference between an adjective and an adverb.
Schools must not produce winners.
Poor Estelle, at least she had the guts to resign, but not knowing the difference between different parts of speech is not really surprising as English grammar has not been taught in schools since about 1965. When learning foreign languages, understanding the grammar is essential to get things right – so why did they stop teaching it for English? Other than to dumb down the natives obviously.
I once met a teacher of English who had never heard the word ‘parsing’.
Maybe a deliberate mistake. He is meant to be a comedian.
If I was a multi-millionaire, I’d want to minimise the amount of tax I pay by using all legal methods. So whilst I don’t have a problem in principle with what Jimmy Carr did, it’s his barefaced hypocrisy in doing sketches mocking those who use tax avoidance loopholes.
People who avoid tax are the scum of the Earth.
Still planning to make Londistan the Bacon of the Religion of Piss? – or won’t you just PISS OFF!
My wife’s libido is rather low, nothing wrong with her eyesight tho. I think she’s been to Sexsavers.
I don’t think I’ve seen my wife’s libido – where do I look?
My wife’s libido is clearly very strong, though she’s getting slightly deaf.
Together in bed, I very softly whisper to her:
‘Do you want to go to sleep, or what?’.
‘What?‘
In educational terms, the Liberal leader has become a Clegg on the equity of redemption.
Lefty twat David Aronovich on Spy Paper review telling us that having 1 million kids in school who don’t speak English as a first language (or at all) is good for us.
I bet it’s not good for the English kids who lose out because the teachers have having to explain things over and over.
But of course Aranovich probably does what his left mates fat Polly, fat Hattie and Fatty Abbott do and send their kids to a nice middle class school. No nasty foreigners there to fuck up their kids education
+ plenty
Star in a reasonably priced tax avoidence vehicle ……………
Mr Gove has envoked the wrath of the Nick Clegg , O levels …… CSEs ……… tougher exams …… . Accusing him of turning the clock back …..
I appreciate politics is often about differences and views on outcomes , but Nick seems all kind of clunky on this one , because his view seems to adovcate that education was somehow doing a good job for the last 15 yrs , and hasnt quite grasped that it has arrived at the business of group therapy level . Of course Nick may be thinking “oh heavens we dont want the austerity of challenging education for those who can ,infering a re jig of some sort of middle class franchise ” . mmmm well he may be having a trip for some “right on” spin except that in education a low standard for all to attain , does little for those who can do better from an early age which isnt so easy as to pin down to class of parents .
Indeed Nick has to answer what can be done for those children whose minds can escape such low parameters , does he not wish for children that can attain a higher level ,to have some confidence in there learning and abilities by test ?
I am quite sure that Nick has somehow not pondered , that education is more than presentation of subjects on a viewing screen , I mean Nick has to answer the more philsophical question of what is or goes wrong with a society that is constructed , of answers and information ??? Ah but then you would have to have the ability to consider if those posing the questions , should be your hidden masters and if you were free at all to be moral , when the question was never put .
(here endeth the lesson and the socialist deceptions on eutopia)
Nick has made ” A terrible error of judgement”
I’m yellow by nature – which is why I’m painted yellow, and Mr Barista says Dave must do everything I say.
So there!
Privileged lifestyle? – that’s me to a tea / tee / teat
Nick Clegg is batshit insane. GCSEs are crap. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always knows this. GCSEs were a horrendous mistake. Every poor sod born since 1980 who went through state ‘education’ was basically f*cked by GCSEs, which is why you never ever meet anyone under 40 who was state-educated and who you’d ever bother to employ.
Gove finally killed GCSEs and the LimpDims spent 10 hours having a group hug whilst they wondered what their response should be. Their response was, predictably, batshit insane.
The state-school ‘teachers’ hate the return of O-levels because there’s not one state-educated teacher under the age of 40 who could possibly pass one, let alone teach them.
Never a truer word.
Hear hear to that!
I suppose the only thing they can spout is ‘progressive’ rhetoric – sorry – bullshit!
I honestly believe that a large proportion of teachers would not achieve 80% in the GCSE subjects they teach.
They should be tested every year.
Of course I will be sending my children to a State school.
We need a bigger ‘puter.
And you would have one if I was still in charge, – or two – but why stop there? – order a dozen! No worries if they don’t work.
Anonymongs! Question Whine starting in a minute with Ken Clarke, Andy Burnham, Ruth Lea and one of the brothers, Len McCluskey who’s AKA Ed’s boss.
Dara Ó Briain (stupid fucking name I know): So now!…who can ad-lib why we shouldn’t pay any fucking taxes at all?
Due to the impact of the Eurozone crisis on the global banking system
Moody’s have downgraded three British banks.
Barclays – credit rating cut by two notches from Aa3 to A2
HSBC – rating cut by two notches from Aa2 to Aa3
Royal Bank of Scotland – one notch cut in its rating from A2 to A3
Jim Davidson on Brillo’s show after Question Whine.
Moody’s have downgraded three British banks.
Barclays – two notches from Aa3 to A2
H.S.B.C – two notches from Aa2 to Aa3
R.B.S – one notch from A2 to A3
have another go
You’re that Leiber education plonker aren’t you? Like Monika says “have another go”!
Newsnight up to their usual tricks. BBC call Gary Barlow a ‘Tory supporter’ but fail to mention Carr is a lefty Labour supporter.
Bias at the BBC? Never!
QT audience was made up of 11 plus failures. With the exception of Ken Clarke the panel was piss poor too
http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20120621-43303.html
Mario Monti says only 1 week to save the euro , so the EU meeting will be an autopsy then …….
I listend to Ang Sang Su Ki , with tremendous respect , it was perhaps one of those great speechs in history , when democracy is outlined in simple enough terms as to have the irresistable change and hope, from oppression , that we have lost as a country . I wondered what it must be like to , leave your house after 26 yrs board a plane and return to a country which you saw as an example to the world , visit its parliament only to find , its nation sticken with debt,its political bodies full of expense experts , a huge ammount of people with no employment and its well paid doctors on strike . That sort of sudden adjustment as to considering , what has become of democracy , is quite a major experience . I hope of course , that Ang Sang Su Ki can indeed welcome the sort of companies that can do good , for business in Burmah and its people . But what was perhaps the most charming , was how her value of democracy was some how correctly positioned in relation to business , it wasnt as blurred or as toxic as what seems to have happened over here and the schemes of the socialists and europhiles . Since she gained her degree at Oxford new forms of corruptions of democracy have taken place , she of course has earned the warmth and respect shown to her on her travels , it was as though I glimpsed some sort of perfection about politics , as though all the pieces of life that come under politics , could be correctly placed under her considerations .
I presume she will shake hands with people , who have no idea , what her years of being confined to her home were like , there thoughts more of the problems on ensuring they get good write ups and in some cases much darker things. Of course her perfection light , must trouble many politicians who stand near it , as there lives may have lost the desire of democracy as they battle just to stay in power or are the zealots of game theory .
I hope That Ang Sang Su ki , doesnt have a “my god what have you done , look at yourselves and what you have made your people” moment as she encounters the various flavours of government on her global travels and that she is not shaken when she sees some of the problems .
2 + 3 = 17, if you really want it to, and it is only the constraints we have placed upon our own imaginations that prevent it from doing so. We must think outside the box! Find new and daring solutions! Don’t let things like mathematical proof stand in your way! They’ve laughed at every great thinker!
“He was educated at St Alban’s Roman Catholic Comprehensive School in Pontypool”
…a fine product of the Welsh Labour education system