Suella Braverman - sacked as Home Secretary (p394)

It seems a bit monomaniacal - I'm great, you're rubbish, and all we needed to do was exclude ourselves from international treaties and bodies.

It's going to gain very little support for her in the country, and it will be held up if she's ever in charge - or a backer of anyone else.
Think it’s setting out Reclaim/Reform/UKIP policies too though.
 
Yes, born in Gorton and growing up in a council house I am a leading member of the landed aristocracy.

You make the mistake of thinking all working-class people think like you do. Here's a hint. They don't. Some of us worked hard to get out of the bottom of the pool, while others chose not to do so but to blame others instead. I once came across a chap (also from Gorton) who thought that anyone who advanced themselves in any way was a sell-out. Yes, really. That man existed.

If you can't compete with people for whom English is a second or third language, you have to look at yourself. It isn't all a conspiracy against the honest white proletariat. There's plenty of opportunity in this country for anyone who is prepared to get their arse in gear. It just involves a bit of effort. I didn't have an uncle who was a director of a merchant bank. I didn't have a network of useful contacts from Eton. But I didn't sit around blaming foreigners for my woes. And there's nothing special about me. Plenty born with less have got a lot, lot further than I ever will.

By the way, I still regard myself as working-class. I was born into it, and all I have was won by selling my labour. So I am working-class and always will be.
I think your success is down to the teachers in Gorton; the very best of the profession (now don’t go and fucking ruin this by saying you got a scholarship at Bede’s)!
 
I think your success is down to the teachers in Gorton; the very best of the profession (now don’t go and fucking ruin this by saying you got a scholarship at Bede’s)!
Did you teach you kids about fractions and the imperial weight system? ;-)

Seriously, good teachers in less advantaged areas are like gold dust. A definite vocation, but a vital cog of our country.
 
Did you teach you kids about fractions and the imperial weight system? ;-)

Seriously, good teachers in less advantaged areas are like gold dust. A definite vocation, but a vital cog of our country.
I still teach in Gorton. Done 21 years in Ancoats, Wythenshawe and Gorton.
Taught plenty of fractions ; imperial to metric, metric to imperial.
And was definitely pissed as the proverbial pudding when supervising the Year 6 SATs the day after Serge did his thing.
Still can’t get my head around:
1/3 = 33.33333
2/3 = 66.66666
And you know what comes next!!
 
I still teach in Gorton. Done 21 years in Ancoats, Wythenshawe and Gorton.
Taught plenty of fractions ; imperial to metric, metric to imperial.
And was definitely pissed as the proverbial pudding when supervising the Year 6 SATs the day after Serge did his thing.
Still can’t get my head around:
1/3 = 33.33333
2/3 = 66.66666
And you know what comes next!!

Good teachers worth their weight mate, 21 years is a considerable effort fair play to you.
 

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