Lettuce Liz then Tetchy Rish! and the battle to replace him

[leedswolf]

He's definitely not racist, just literally hangs golliwogs from his bar because he's sentimentally attached to them, wears Britain First teeshirts because it was convenient, and shares "white lives matter" stuff on Facebook accidentally

He's also a follower/supporter of Turkey's Grey Wolves...

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1646626492057628672

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

She needs firing into the sun at the best of times.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

She needs firing into the sun at the best of times.

Didn't realise initially it was Boris's ex.

Scromit.

 

[leedswolf]

She's batshit fucking mental.

How on earth to people listen to her speak and then think "we should pay her money to speak to us"

Source - leeds for Europe

She’d been invited to speak to the very well known and very right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank, presumably as a little lunchtime treat for overworked staff in need of a bit of respite from their main job of trying to discredit all of the multiple criminal investigations into their hero Donald Trump.

They’re not stupid, over at the Heritage Foundation. Entirely malignant, yes, but not stupid. They’ll know that their best chance of getting Trump re-elected next year is to convince a few million wavering Americans that he’s actually not as stupid and deranged as they think he is. And given that he is very stupid, and very deranged, they know that won’t be an easy job. But what better way to do it – a stroke of actual genius! – than to lay on a speech by the only person in public life who is self-evidently even stupider and even more deranged than he is?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1647524761474351104

Good job it wasn't Ed Balls being interviewed...

 

[leedswolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1647524761474351104

Good job it wasn't Ed Balls being interviewed...

Or Geoffery Cox for that matter.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Maths to 18. Prick.

 

[Tredman]

It is rather weird how people glory in not being able to do simple maths - almost like its a badge of honour. This isn't the answer though.

 

[sycophantia]

If people need more help with basic maths at 12-18, then that's fine. If it's aimed at making people do higher maths then it's completely pointless and a waste of time/resources unless said people are going into a career requiring that level.

 

[Del Woppio]

My reading of it is that he wants people to have better levels of basic numeracy, which is something I wholeheartedly agree with. But if the education system hasn't been able to help somebody achieve that after ten years of schooling, then tacking an extra 2 years' worth of teaching at the end of it isn't the silver bullet. There's clearly systematic issues with the delivery of the learning, or the ability to adapt to different learning styles etc, which will ultimately just completely come down to funding schools properly and reducing class sizes in certain lessons

 

[Dire Wolf]

My reading of it is that he wants people to have better levels of basic numeracy, which is something I wholeheartedly agree with. But if the education system hasn't been able to help somebody achieve that after ten years of schooling, then tacking an extra 2 years' worth of teaching at the end of it isn't the silver bullet. There's clearly systematic issues with the delivery of the learning, or the ability to adapt to different learning styles etc, which will ultimately just completely come down to funding schools properly and reducing class sizes in certain lessons

And allowing teachers the time to teach the subject at the pace suited to the child, rather than forcing teachers into teaching to a test (at primary school). Plus not pressurising schools with a fear of failure and the threat of (an unfit for purpose) Ofsted should an insufficient percentage of a cohort not achieve the right grade.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

My reading of it is that he wants people to have better levels of basic numeracy, which is something I wholeheartedly agree with. But if the education system hasn't been able to help somebody achieve that after ten years of schooling, then tacking an extra 2 years' worth of teaching at the end of it isn't the silver bullet. There's clearly systematic issues with the delivery of the learning, or the ability to adapt to different learning styles etc, which will ultimately just completely come down to funding schools properly and reducing class sizes in certain lessons

All of this

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

And allowing teachers the time to teach the subject at the pace suited to the child, rather than forcing teachers into teaching to a test (at primary school). Plus not pressurising schools with a fear of failure and the threat of (an unfit for purpose) Ofsted should an insufficient percentage of a cohort not achieve the right grade.

And then baste it in huge amounts of this

 

[lemonjelly]

so massive investment in schools/education incoming then, to fund this new proposal?
Akin to dels post, the key to developing numeracy, is early in the persons life. Develop that confidence and understanding, ideally prior to the age of 10.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

well I think we all know that is pie in the sky under the current shit show. Doesn’t stop us pointing out what is rightly needed though

 

[Del Woppio]

Sunak blames the strikes for him not hitting the waiting list targets he promised.

"I do remain hopeful, but of course industrial action makes makes these things more challenging, but we’re pushing hard to meet that target"

Pay offer rejected - 19th of July
Strike ballot opens - 6th of October
Strike voted for - 9th of November
Pledges made - 4th of January

If only you'd have had some sort of advance notice of strikes before you made your nonsensical pledges, eh?

 

[leedswolf]

BREAKING: Parliament Standards Watchdog to investigate Rishi Sunak over possible failure to declare an interest

 

[Del Woppio]

He's written to say it has been declared, so you'd imagine that that is correct. The fact that his wife will directly benefit from the fact that agencies like Koru Kids will get significant income growth from the way the scheme is administered will be neither here nor there unfortunately

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Rishi Sunak to propose maths for all pupils up to age 18

PM to set out plan to enhance numeracy for pupils in England in first policy speech of 2023

www.theguardian.com

This doesn't work, dickhead. For a number of reasons.

1) A C+ GCSE pass will give you a decent level of numeracy, and that is what you are after. If you must target the teaching and exams more down that road (rather than say, a lot of trigonometry, which I know we did and I basically haven't used in the intervening 25 years) then do so

2) People have a natural plateau with maths, I'm not *that* thick and glancing at mates' A-Level stuff in the late 90s...I wouldn't have had a clue. Miles over my head. I'm just not geared to understand that kind of stuff, let alone make it have a purpose in the real world

3) What if a 16-17 year old doesn't want to do maths any more, how are you going to make them try. They're stubborn buggers, you know

4) So you chuck this pointless extra two years in there - anyone who wants to do Maths can and does - equals less time to dedicate to subjects you actually are good at and want to do

5) For a decade now we have not had as many Maths teachers as targeted, and the numbers aren't getting better, to put it lightly, so who's in charge of the massively expanded classes

That's what I said in January...

Absolutely none of those points have been addressed (I'm fairly sure there are plenty of other sensible objections too), he's just repeating himself.

Tell you what you could do? Between 16 and 18 have a class specialised with dealing with real life finance, so household budgeting, how interest rates and inflation work, what kind of bills will you have to deal with that are simply unavoidable, etc etc etc. The kind of stuff that I daresay none of us were ever actually taught formally and just had to sort of pick up as we went along. That would be useful.