John Major's a big cricket fan.
Theresa May's Conservatives
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats
Paul Nuttall's UKIP
2 people's Greens
Nicholas Durgeon's Scottish Nationalists
Satan's Sinn Fein
Dr Ian Paisley's DUP
Some other bunch of nonces
I'm foreign, but I wish I were an Englishman
John Major's a big cricket fan.
I got Wilson with football.Originally Posted by Manc
Can’t believe the papers seem to be implying that the peerage system doesn’t seem to be on the up and up. Devastated.
How has a high level Tory been arrested for rape and not had their name leaked.
The internet detectives speculate that he chose a 'misleading' police station to appear at making it harder to deduce his identity.
The pictures of Matt Hancock playing football that have resurfaced on Twitter are fucking excellent.
It's good to know there's something he's worse at than being health secretary.
Has he been forced against his will to take part?
To be fair, politicians never look right playing sport.
The guy on the left looks alright.
He's a journalist.
The reason politicians are politicians is that they were shit at, and hated, sport at school. I only gained this wisdom recently, but it explains so much.
Shhh.
Isn't that Gordon Ramsay?
Not with that chin.
I thought war day was in November? What’s this?
75th anniversary of VJ Day.
What’s the J?
Jet from Gladiators
Then I approve.
Japan. You get a week building up to it when all of the stupid articles about the nuclear attacks re-surface, but then the feel-good stories about Indians filter through and we come back round.
The American Indians you massacred or the Asian Indians you massacred?
The Asian Indians who fought for Britain against Japan. Then again, that just brings up the wartime famine stuff, so there is something for everyone with a grievance.
Ah I’m only pulling the piss. You’re alright.
I swear I just saw a "Teachers are qualified. Your not #resigngavin" sign on the news just now covering the protests today
What'sthe big hoo-har, surely there aren't thousands of university spots going unfilled as a result of the algorithm so is this just the usual clearing lot wanting to cry a bit for a handout and have their BLM moment?
I mean, the way it's been done I would 100% have lost my place at medical school because nobody at my school got grades remotely close to mine the previous year meaning I'd have been heavily downgraded.
It sounds like Universities are trying their best to give people second chances to retain their place on their course but it's shambolic from the government.
It is a mess but what's the alternative? Give everyone the highest grades? Universities (and other institutions) really ought to just stand by their offers, regardless of grades, as much as possible, then none of it really matters.
Teachers predicted grades should be used. It's insanely unfair that an individual student gets downgraded just because of what school they go to.
Like I said, I would have been heavily downgraded because of the 6th form I went to, but if I had chosen to go to the one 10 minutes up the road I wouldn't have been. It's a total nonsense.
Did they get any mocks in before Covid?
It's not a nonsense, it's statistics
My initial thought was that teachers should probably be trusted with their predictions, but wouldn't that have ended up with something like a 38% increase in top grades this year as compared to last?
Everyone should get a massive A for asterisk grade and have their university offers, or whatever else, honoured as these 'results' are obviously not something you should be basing anything on.
More often than not those are the same thing.It's not a nonsense, it's statistics
Does it matter? Much fairer than denying places to kids who deserve them because they live in the wrong post code.
They should have just kept the schools open, so lol at any teachers moaning.
It wasn't teachers' decision to close schools. Not sure why the government closing schools means teachers shouldn't be upset that their students are treated unfairly by the same government who closed the schools.
They could have made more of an effort to get them open again, but they were all pissing and moaning and having too much fun on holiday (and they will still be doing it in September). And now they have the gall to act like they've all been hoyed under the bus together.
It's pointless engaging you on this because you literally don't have the first clue what you're talking about.
Is your missus a teacher, RL?
The whole 'goes to an academy, passes; doesn't go to an academy, fails' is complete and utter bullshit from the government, but it's stiil amusing seeing all the "omg are ellie hasnt stopped cryin. gunna appeal asap as pos' on social media.
I'm a twit
Yes, but a primary school teacher.
If it's any consolation, I was at Bradfield College today (absolutely archetypal thicko public school) and the resident raspberry shorts-wearing geography teacher was braying salt tears at how much his A level kids had been marked down, all against the backdrop of Victorian architecture and perfectly-manicured grounds that no one has been using since March.
His fault for being in a historically thick school, I guess. Respect the algorithm, mate.
Every time I visit a public school it makes me want to vote Labour and abolish them.
The country is finished. The only thing in its favour is that everywhere else is worse.
One of the kids holding a comparison of their GCSE grades cracked me up. As a lad that smashed his English GCSE's then completely buggered his English Lit A level, it brought back some good memories.
I don't know why they just couldn't sit the exams.
Because they would all have died of respiratory failure.
Or complained they had no time to revise.
Schools were closed, they had plenty of time to revise.
I'm not blaming the kids for this btw, it should have been down to the government and teachers to sort it out, but the former are a shambles and the latter don't appear to want to be leaders in this crisis.
It won't be the last time a shitty biased algorithm is used to make shitty biased results. It's another disgrace of many and I'm not surprised Lewis falls on the side of team Cummings.
They have no power to be leaders.
Is there a comprehensive list anywhere of things the government have got right (rofl) and things they've mishandled so far this year?
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