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Raab's knowledge of France and things French is appalling isn't it? At least they didn't make him Foreign Sec......what?...... they did?............Jesus Wept

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France DID go on amber-plus because of Covid beta variant in Island

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab openly admitted France was added to amber-plus list because of the prevalence of the strain 'in the Reunion bit of France' - which is an island in the Indian Ocean.
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bluethrunthru said:
Raab's knowledge of France and things French is appalling isn't it? At least they didn't make him Foreign Sec......what?...... they did?............Jesus Wept

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France DID go on amber-plus because of Covid beta variant in Island

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab openly admitted France was added to amber-plus list because of the prevalence of the strain 'in the Reunion bit of France' - which is an island in the Indian Ocean.
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Well it is part of France. A good question to ask though, is whether it has been treated differently than the Azores and Madeira Islands and mainland Portugal (when cases were high)?
 
Fode N The Hole said:
Well it is part of France. A good question to ask though, is whether it has been treated differently than the Azores and Madeira Islands and mainland Portugal (when cases were high)?
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Given it was a shock to him that Dover/Calais was so important to British trade I wouldn't ask our Foreign Secretary anything about anywhere "forrin"
 
bluethrunthru said:
Patel's latest fetish fix exposed

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Migrant women and babies held in shocking conditions, MPs find

A group of MPs describes scenes at a Dover asylum unit as "wholly inappropriate" and a Covid risk.
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It's another Brexit Bonus, isn't it? We seem to have more people coming to the UK to claim asylum. Is it because we are now extra attractive as "global Britain"? Or because we gave up the EU agreement that we could send people to other EU countries they'd passed through? (Not that that was particularly fair to the EU countries nearest Africa and the Middle East.) So more people are coming now that we can't "send them back".
 
Vic said:
It's another Brexit Bonus, isn't it? We seem to have more people coming to the UK to claim asylum. Is it because we are now extra attractive as "global Britain"? Or because we gave up the EU agreement that we could send people to other EU countries they'd passed through? (Not that that was particularly fair to the EU countries nearest Africa and the Middle East.) So more people are coming now that we can't "send them back".
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Nope, we can’t send them back but we can put them in prison.
 
Tories want to put learning Latin back on the school curriculum.

Talk about living in the past.
 
mat said:
Tories want to put learning Latin back on the school curriculum.

Talk about living in the past.
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I did Latin and it has been useful as there is a lot of it underlying in the English language. It teaches grammar well too. When I took up German, there are a lot of similarities in how sentences are made up etc.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
I did Latin and it has been useful as there is a lot of it underlying in the English language. It teaches grammar well too. When I took up German, there are a lot of similarities in how sentences are made up etc.
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personally I'd say nutrition, cooking and budgeting would be a better use of teachers time
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
I did Latin and it has been useful as there is a lot of it underlying in the English language. It teaches grammar well too. When I took up German, there are a lot of similarities in how sentences are made up etc.
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That's the benefits I didn't know of. Explains the Tory on the radio saying the plan is to give children "A feel for the classics" However. We need kids learning the business languages as well. Arabic, mandarin etc.

I've traveled to so called impoverished countries and they are teaching their kids 4 or 5 languages with the idea being they'll be better placed to compete in the world as a economic benefit.
 
mat said:
That's the benefits I didn't know of. Explains the Tory on the radio saying the plan is to give children "A feel for the classics" However. We need kids learning the business languages as well. Arabic, mandarin etc.

I've traveled to so called impoverished countries and they are teaching their kids 4 or 5 languages with the idea being they'll be better placed to compete in the world as a economic benefit.
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We definitely should encourage learning as many languages as possible.
 
bluethrunthru said:
personally I'd say nutrition, cooking and budgeting would be a better use of teachers time
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Always said stuff like this should be taught.

Financial planning would help kids avoid piling debt on on their early adult years. Then again the Tories wouldn't like them to be money savvy. Give them too much credit and be in hoc for life seems to be their plan.
 
bluethrunthru said:
personally I'd say nutrition, cooking and budgeting would be a better use of teachers time
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I wasn’t suggesting 5 days of Latin a week! In fact I wasn’t suggesting it should be a priority, merely saying what benefits it has served me.

Seems at the moment that they need to stick to basic literacy, maths and home economics, looking at the state of things.
 
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Alan Harper's Tash said:
We definitely should encourage learning as many languages as possible.
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My ex wife is a polyglot. Talking to her and others they love learning new languages. She tried explaining the building blocks of grammar to me saying that's the key to learning any language.

Also make it fun. When she was teaching she would use TV programs and pop songs playlists in the languages she was teaching.


Back on topic.

Tory Bastards.
 
mat said:
My ex wife is a polyglot. Talking to her and others they love learning new languages. She tried explaining the building blocks of grammar to me saying that's the key to learning any language.

Also make it fun. When she was teaching she would use TV programs and pop songs playlists in the languages she was teaching.


Back on topic.

Tory Bastards.
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Make it fun? Weally?

Conjugate the verb in the following sentence.

He ranks the highest in Rome.
 
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