The Conservative Party

[johnnytapia]

Tell the BBC

Students march in London protest

Thousands of students have marched through London to protest against the rising costs of university and further education.

www.bbc.co.uk

Global climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead climate crisis protest – as it happened

Millions of people from Sydney to Manila, Dhaka to London and New York are marching for urgent action on climate breakdown

www.theguardian.com

Journalism has taken a hit with standards like teaching apparently.

Ha ha ha. Brilliant. I’d put away the shovel if I were you.

 

[mexico1970]

100% it is needed. The desire belongs to the students, ergo, possessive apostrophe is required.

This is NOT a grammar competition and it wasn't needed, I would even wager that nearly all if not all posters don't use it.

You're upset I get that, but if it makes you feel any better mark every post on the board.

 

[Scottyboi]

Lmao

 

[bluenova]

More than likely. But he's decidedly left of the spectrum on the issue of privatisation.

I have no idea if he is, but the way these things work is that they don't choose which argument to make.

It looks to me like 'competitive debating', and if the argument is that "privatisation was good for the country", one team has to argue that it was, and their opponents argue that it wasn't. They don't get to choose to argue the side they agree with.

There is then a vote at the end, where the audience, or judges, decide who made the best/cleverest argument (irrespective of whether they agree with it).

 

[remember arthur mann]

Off at a tangent on forced privatisation. We already know the shambles being made of the NHS and the loss of lives to enforce a dogma. My own example of recent, in September I had a visit to my NHS dentist, it was for a simple filling, he raised his concern when he discovered decay. He told me it would feel uncomfortable but would settle over the weekend, it didn't, it was very painful and uncomfortable. I was due to go away on the Wednesday but managed to see one of his colleagues on Monday. He completely bottled it, wouldn't do any work on it and definitely not extract it due to me going abroad, citing the chance of infection. I used antibiotics to see me over the fortnight which thankfully worked. On return my dentist referred me to another surgery, in turn passed me onto NMGH. That was three plus months ago. I've just called back to the surgery and enquired about the next step, seeing as I feel like someone has just slugged me with a bat. Apparently the hospital waiting list runs at two years and I'm also informed emergency services have been removed. Thus being forced to go private.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Seems apt. They look like they could be students.

 

[Vic]

This is NOT a grammar competition and it wasn't needed, I would even wager that nearly all if not all posters don't use it.

You're upset I get that, but if it makes you feel any better mark every post on the board.

Just those where someone posts about standards of teaching compared to times past, but doesn't know how to use an apostrophe.

 

[mexico1970]

Just those where someone posts about standards of teaching compared to times past, but doesn't know how to use an apostrophe.

What has my grammar got to do with the point that was made? Nobody uses an apostrophe in this context on this board, someone got pissy because they didn't like some words that hurt their feelings.

And here you are, kicking kitty litter about like there's no tomorrow.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

 

[I'm With Stupid]

By the look of it, it's a debating society event, where the debaters are simply given a side and asked to make a case.

He probably already is a Tory.

Not everyone who's posh is a ****.

Is that apostrophe right, everyone?