General Election
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holywell farmer
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If win lotto I build him a huge satelliteDoes anyone know if any of the manifestos say anything about rural broadband services?
@Gator might like to know...
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holywell farmer
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Yes
spin cycle
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i love following politics and elections.....but this one seems extremely dull IMO....tories making pledges but we all know they won't keep them if it doesn't suit....corbyn's not gotta chance....lib dems are
.....snp will loose seats but still demand indyref 2....the greens will hold brighton..... thats about it for election 17?
.....snp will loose seats but still demand indyref 2....the greens will hold brighton..... thats about it for election 17?
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I agree.Its going to be the most boring ever.We need a Prescott right hook,or a biggotted woman moment to liven things up abit.Might aswell give May her 100 seat majority now,then pack up and go to the pub.i love following politics and elections.....but this one seems extremely dull IMO....tories making pledges but we all know they won't keep them if it doesn't suit....corbyn's not gotta chance....lib dems are
spin cycle
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i thought mays fox hunting vote promise might liven things up....but that story disapeared
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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Where ?
In her head
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- Northumberland
48% of us did not vote for brexit.But you guys have never had an opportunity to elect a president before. Now your time has come. President May will be your first. Did you think that when you voted for Brexit you were voting also for a republic?
kfpben
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- Mid Hampshire
Do you reckon there are any farmers that vote will Labour? Plenty of Tories, Nationalists, a few Lib Dems but Corbyn's Labour? I genuinely don't think I have ever met a Labour voting farmer either when I was on the road selling across the South or in my various seasonal jobs over the years from Dorset to Hampshire, Wiltshire, Fife and Angus.
I would never go looking for political talk but even when I spent three years selling to farmers you can usually pick up their persuasion pretty quickly.
I would never go looking for political talk but even when I spent three years selling to farmers you can usually pick up their persuasion pretty quickly.
Hindsight
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- Lincolnshire
Well, Grammar Schools, now Fox Hunting - what next capital punishment. Looks as though the Tories took last Junes result to mean the country wanted truly to return to some golden panacea of 1955.
Old McDonald
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But you guys have never had an opportunity to elect a president before. Now your time has come. President May will be your first. Did you think that when you voted for Brexit you were voting also for a republic?
Your usual unfounded balderdash.
It must really eat into you having so much hatred for the UK. I know you have previously denied that this is so, but it shows in almost every post you make.
Old McDonald
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I went to a grammar school as did many thousands of other pitmen's sons. In my class of about 35 there were two on free school meals (because their widowed mother's were deemed not to be able to afford to pay); at least two more without a father; several whose father was in a lowly paid job; three whose father was a teacher; one with his own business - a fish and chip shop, and one whose father was a retired pit electrician. The rest I do not know, or cannot remember. We were all there because we had passed an examination at the age of 10-11, not because we were from a privileged background.
I simply cannot understand the objection to grammar schools. Neither of my brothers went there, and it would have been wrong, because they were both more practically minded and suited to practical jobs. I was not - words and numbers being my best way to earn a crust until I acquired enough to nuy my way into farming.
Forcing everybody into the same school irrespective of academic ability is not fair on the kids, and not fair on the teachers. It is as daft as Bliar's notion of 50% going to University. What is the point? There are not enough suitable jobs if half the people have a degree.
Well I don't personally agree with the Grammar School revival, and though the ban on fox-hunting was irresponsibly sudden, with a certain viciousness to it, I think fox-hunting has had it's day and the ban won't be reversed. But capital punishment - for those that torture their victims, not a bad idea.
Old McDonald
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Why not?
I don't think one should force children, at such a young age, into two separate streams at such a young age, withone stream's gifts undervalued. Comprehensive schools allow more freedom of movement between subjects and between different levels within those subjects.
It's not the streaming per se, but the irrevocable nature of the streaming under the old system and the way it shaped - and damaged - the life chances of those who failed the eleven plus.
It's not the streaming per se, but the irrevocable nature of the streaming under the old system and the way it shaped - and damaged - the life chances of those who failed the eleven plus.