PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

I thought he’d gone in his box with that big paedo ring case collapse; guess nothing lasts forever...

fucking embarrassing cunt should be in his box of shame for at least another 6 months after that travesty. Yeah let's work with an odious pro-austerity slimeball who has ruled out working with the Labour leadership but not the tories.

"no time for tribalism" lol such delusional nonsense.

Not Dave, surely? ;-)

LOOL that’s what I get for thinking your post was mistakenly entered on the Guardian thread, Calz.

A designer friend of mine invited Tom Watson to her show at London Collections: MEN maybe five years ago when he weighed a zillion stone and he did turn up. I don’t think she’s as big a fan of his as she was then (she likes Corbyn).

I preferred him when he was on course for a heart attack or type 2 diabetes. but bent pols like him can always find a reason to live or even 500000 reasons to live when the old bank balance is checked and their owner has payed them again.

people attacking the tribalism of politics might need to read a history book or two or just admit they are just servants of evil plutocrats who occasionally put a few hundred grand in their banks, the worthless fucking garbage.

https://i.imgur.com/Wo95cl4.jpg

tbf the young Tom Watson was a handsome young lad.

have you seen this calz?

This is shameful exploitation by Asda, and shows that we must strengthen employment rights to redistribute power from bosses to workers.

Asda should get round the table with the GMB union and listen to the hardworking staff who make the business a success. https://t.co/abaMXuWoVP

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) August 13, 2019

I was talking to an arsehole friend of mine that works for ASDA about it! His response was it's the only contract I ever got offered when I started working for them *cold dead eyes* so fuck 'em. He's being a dishonest twat because he was promoted to a salaried position from a delivery driver and only knew how really shitty that zero hours contract was up to last xmas and had only endured these conditions for a short period with that few month bump you get with redundancy pay swelling your bank. same as it ever was :(

yeah + it's low income working women who are getting the worst of it ... again.

but I'm sure Caroline's prog-fem death squad are losing so much sleep!

That is one thing Labour need to be hitting hard: Austerity is basically anti-feminism in action for millions of women, despite some very chippy looking birds in the tories/lib dems/greens calmly talking a load of blather as they normally do.

Campaigners and unions have warned that ever higher train fares risk driving passengers off the railway, as a fresh increase of about 2.9% is expected to be confirmed on Wednesday and after a decade when fares have risen at double the rate of wages.

The fare rise, to take effect in January but dictated by the July inflation figure that will be published by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday, will add more than £100 to many annual season tickets.

It will mean that the overall cost of train travel has gone up by 46% since 2009, while wages have only grown by 23%, according to TUC analysis of ONS figures.

As the man repeatedly screaming at the top of his voice when all trains from Cannon Street were cancelled one evening a while back said "YOU FOOLS, YOU'RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO JEREMY CORBYN'S HANDS!". I'd have thought, as much as tax cuts, commuter-belt train fare would be something to easily shore Tory support in some of those wavering bits outside London.

This is potentially good:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/aug/13/labour-wants-universities-to-offer-places-after-exam-results

In other train news, Virgin has lost the West Coast Mainline to Trenitalia:

http://maps.dft.gov.uk/west-coast/

Sure to go down well with the Mail.

I’d bet on Southern Rail being a big part of the reason Amber Rudd nearly lost her seat in 2017.

could be - her latest circular was about trying to get better rail services to London (although that's Southeastern Rail not Southern tbf)

Does anyone know enough about these things to know how workable that universities proposal is from an administrative point of view?

I don't think it's crazy. As with any new model it take some coordination (timetable jiggling/quicker a-level marking?) and require more staff, but lots of bigger unis are creating vast new integrated admin systems and cutting staff atm which is no less disruptive.

There doesn't seem to be any detail in the proposal so it's hard to judge but (from dim academic admin memory) it would require the academic year to be re-structured such that exams were a bit earlier. I can't see any reason it would be impossible and it seems to me it might well be much more efficient: a lot of work goes into predicting grades and so on.

Seems like a sensible idea to me, on the face of it. Rayner was on the radio this morning saying admission happens post-results in other countries but I wouldn't know about that.

xp I'm not sure it would require more staff hours but it would change the time of year when those hours are needed to run the system.

It happens in Ireland. Takes a bit of scrambling to find accommodation is the only thing.

Also they manage elsewhere (though my understanding* is that the Guardian's note that this is "England's unusual status" would be news in at least Scotland and Wales)

*with of course the proviso that you are all a bunch of savages

American universities offer in April and admission is based on grades, extracurricular activities, and standardised (ACT or SAT) test scores. Some institutions also want ACH test scores (these are subject-based and the closest thing America has to A Level). My old high school offers IB - International Baccalaureate - too. But you are judged on information already held or gathered when you apply in the autumn. Sometimes a college/uni will revoke an offer if your grades nosedive in the final semester of senior year, or make an offer contingent on maintaining GPA.

In France admissions are determined before the bac.

Scotland, Wales and NI all work on actual grades, not predicted ones.

Actually that might just be Scotland.

University of Edinburgh thinks otherwise?

https://www.ed.ac.uk/science-engineering/studying/undergraduate/applying/predicted-grades

That will be for applicants outside of Scotland aiui. Scottish students already have their grades when they apply.

Chris Williamson sues Labour over his suspension from party https://t.co/5DjbWfeQsa

— The Guardian (@guardian) August 13, 2019

🙄🙄🙄

See you in court, wanker.

Was almost inevitable and shows why strict adherence to policy is essential.

but ffs he's like one of them stubborn verrucas that keep coming back. fuck policy! just take the pertinacious muppet around the back and shoot him... after a big mac last meal.

if he didn't have so many dickhead acolytes on twitter wishing him well he'd have probably given up by now and gone back to being the corporate billy no mark he was before the fake trot conversion.

Matthew Collings still stanning for him, wtf is right with some of these people? Not exactly celebs but boosting such an obvious oxygen thief as CW just seems so at odds with the apparent intelligence some of these people display at times.

When I attended uni in Scotland I got accepted on predicted grades.

Johnson just used the word "collaboration" to describe anti No Deal efforts

Just highlighting his predilection for Latinate terms.

Although he looks up to the Athenian Pericles rather than, say, Caligula, whom he resembles far more.

his cabinet looks like a "conspiracy" of dunces.

Or a stultifera navis.

In other news, more people dying.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-deaths-homelessness-housing-rough-sleeping-a9055671.html

“This government is committed to ensuring everyone has a safe place to live. Councils are responsible for helping people at risk of being homeless so they can get the safety and support they need.”

seriously wish death upon these craven fucks.

Do we have a Latinate term for this, pom? xp

Ah, full Galloway. What kind of hat should he wear?

Marcus Ball rip:

Right decision from courts. Voters decide what to believe when they vote.

Doesn’t mean supervisory bodies should have no powers over propaganda - but jury deploying criminal law was always a hopeless course https://t.co/MeHw5WGD3v

— Simon Cox (@SimonFRCox) August 14, 2019

Do we have a Latinate term for this, pom? xp

'Austerity' stems from the Greek and is thus consistent with Johnson's self-proclaimed Periclean lineage.

A cursory search also led me to this post on reddit's Ask Historians, which I found quite interesting:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/67jm3s/were_there_homeless_people_in_ancient_rome/

xp
at least led by donkies and EU supergirl have some final product from all the money they scrounge off eejits + fules!

xp That is interesting, ta!

Pom - thank you for your service

Nihil est.