The Conservative Party

[halfmist]

Bit precious aren't you. Are you proud of being a tedious bore who talks about money all the time?

We are all precious even you to me. There you are it’s quite easy to be polite. I wouldn’t expect you to look back at my previous posts and waste your valuable time but I think you will find the time money is mentioned it’s usually in response to a question.about it.

 

[west didsblue]

No problem. There are enough on here who to follow me close enough, being in a bit of a minority on the politics thread. I have even had some asking where do I live. I am looking forward to that Didsbury chap east or west, left or right not sure where he is from,going on a quiz show with Halfmist as his specialist subject.
I am genuinely flattered he took the trouble seeing as I am such a non entity, to go back and read my past posts.

Don’t be so hard on yourself.
Posters like you are actually quite memorable. The combination of smug self satisfaction, delusions of superiority, boastfulness and disdain for anyone who struggles to make a living makes you almost unique on here. You could be Boris Johnson’s lost twin without the outward superficial charm.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

We are all precious even you to me. There you are it’s quite easy to be polite. I wouldn’t expect you to look back at my previous posts and waste your valuable time but I think you will find the time money is mentioned it’s usually in response to a question.about it.

I find you to be quite a pathetic character to be honest, like the kids at school who boasted endlessly about things to impress people but in trying so hard to do so came across as desperate.

 

[halfmist]

I find you to be quite a pathetic character to be honest, like the kids at school who boasted endlessly about things to impress people but in trying so hard to do so came across as desperate.

I take it you don’t work for the Police as a profiler. Just curious as to why I would be desperate. Desperate for what , to get a like on the politics thread.?

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

If you recall post the Toxteth riots she was urged by some in her cabinet to oversee the managed decline of Liverpool - and they destroyed steel in the north too

That’s about right for Thatcher unemployment was the cause it began in London then Toxteth and Moss Side, heavy industry, the docks had been decimated by her. The only people that mattered to her was the money men it’s still the same the North gets nothing

 

[Vic]

I think it had two "benefits" from the current governments perspective: one venal as you point out but the other one more ideological. In effect if you get to a critical mass of academies in a particular area you essentially kill the LEA or at least make it increasingly irrelevant and it's role significantly smaller, so you get to dismantle the state that you despise so much and better still you get to you get to remove local autonomy and continue to centralise power.

That's the bit that distresses me the most, kids educations being chucked under the bus in pursuit of policies which have bugger all to do with education. Blair wasn't the originator as Thatcher had thought up CTCs earlier, but new labour thought they were being clever and their cack-handed implementation allowed subsequent tory governments to absolutely take the piss.

LAs still have the responsibility for school improvement - but no powers to deal with underperforming academies. And can't open new LA schools so have to rely on academy trusts wanting to open schools, so the number of children not getting first choice of schools is up, and some children getting places a long way from home.

 

[halfmist]

Don’t be so hard on yourself.
Posters like you are actually quite memorable. The combination of smug self satisfaction, delusions of superiority, boastfulness and disdain for anyone who struggles to make a living makes you almost unique on here. You could be Boris Johnson’s lost twin without the outward superficial charm.

You see you can say nice things when you make the effort. I would have thought with that biography Norman Tebbit . I can’t be arsed looking back, there are so many Didsbury’s on here was it you I asked for just 1 example of where I had mocked the unfortunate. As you said I did it constantly it should be easy for you to provide just one example surely

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I take it you don’t work for the Police as a profiler. Just curious as to why I would be desperate. Desperate for what , to get a like on the politics thread.?

It’s baffling, but yet here you still are posting pages and pages of blowing smoke up your own arse. I doubt the kids at school knew who they were trying to impress by the end either.

I have a friend that does this kind of tedious talk about money as a young adult but he's a black African born kid adopted as a toddler by rich white snobs so obviously has an inbuilt need to over do it, not sure you have an excuse.

 

[threespires]

LAs still have the responsibility for school improvement - but no powers to deal with underperforming academies. And can't open new LA schools so have to rely on academy trusts wanting to open schools, so the number of children not getting first choice of schools is up, and some children getting places a long way from home.

Re. that first point it's adjacent to another feature of recent governments, privatise the profit but socialise the risk, leave a small rump of the state to deal with the shit you don't want to deal with. Letting 'the market' deal with everything doesn't include being accountable for and cleaning up it's own mess. Back to schools, I have never found anyone who has been able to give me a sound educational rationale for those reforms, because there isn't one it has nothing to do with educating our children. The matra around 'choice' is utterly laughable.

 

[west didsblue]

You see you can say nice things when you make the effort. I would have thought with that biography Norman Tebbit . I can’t be arsed looking back, there are so many Didsbury’s on here was it you I asked for just 1 example of where I had mocked the unfortunate. As you said I did it constantly it should be easy for you to provide just one example surely

No problem if you prefer to be compared to Norman Tebbit rather than Boris Johnson. Neither is a particularly good look.