UK: The Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson years - problematic + infected + broke the law + electoral poison + sneks + not very good + OVER (funny)

My hometown's MP voted to keep him and he didn't even give her a half-decent job. What a BOTTOM FEEDER.
 
That Tory MP's unhinged breakdown on Newsnight over the BBC's coverage of Johnson was SOMETHING.

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I’m AGOG that despite the results he still found the sheer nerve to try and convince us that it was decisive

CUNT

He really does see us all as lowly morons who’ll hang on whatever he says

Someone needs to read him the RECEIPTS from tonight!
 
“What the media… wanted to focus on for a very long time”

The passive aggressiveness on display. He thinks he’s a VICTIM. No rationale for the media coming after him. He’s done nothing wrong. Taking him away from his duties.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK


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Nice Book of Stats™ entry from the BBC... :eyes:

And so the game of expectation management is under way: Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Brexit Opportunities Minister, insisted to me that a win by just a single vote, 180 MPs in favour of him carrying on, 179 against, would be a win and enough for him to continue.
So too did Mr Lewis and Mrs Braverman.

Quite a change of tune from when Mr Rees-Mogg was trying to oust Theresa May, and reckoned her victory in a confidence vote where around a third of her colleagues failed to back her was a "terrible result".
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The new-ish STOP FUCKING HATE editor is so unabashedly pro-Boris that half their front pages are barely coherent anymore. Rolling out the tired "coalition of chaos" trope for the third time when it barely worked the previous times is desperate stuff.

Having said that, BJ is secure after this. Only a no confidence vote would have done for him, and the positive result is purely grist to his mill, and that of his supine cabinet.
 
Until the pandemic court case, until the local elections, until Sue Gray... I've heard it all before.

Nothing that would unseat a normal politician does for him, because he just brazens it out and has an army of otherwise unemployable ministers who will step into the fray for him. The inevitably terrible by election results will be the same. The only thing that will remove him is losing a General Election.
 
The dim-as-fuck cabal he has assembled around him are going to be tough to crack. It might have to be a GE right enough.

Bah.
 
FUCK OFF


Working class students should celebrate making “smaller steps” in life rather than fixating on going to Oxford or Cambridge, the government’s social mobility tsar will say.

Katharine Bibalsingh, the chair of the Social Mobility Commission, will warn in a speech on Thursday that society needs to stop obsessing with “rags to riches” stories and rather focus on smaller successes on the social mobility ladder.

We want to move away from the notion that social mobility should just be about the ‘long’ upward mobility from the bottom to the top - the person who is born into a family in social housing and becomes a banker or CEO,” she will say at the Policy Exchange thinktank.

Ms Bibalsingh, who is the headmistress of Michael Community School in west London, is expected to say that too often success is defined by a caretaker’s daughter going to Oxbridge or becoming a top surgeon. Instead a “broader view of social mobility” should be promoted “sometimes in smaller steps”, she will add.

“If a child of parents who were long-term unemployed, or who never worked, gets a good job in their local area, isn’t that a success worth celebrating. Would we really say that it doesn’t count as social mobility because they are not a doctor or lawyer,” Ms Bibalsingh will say.
 
So we have a social mobility czar who is anti social mobility?

Who cares if you get straight As in your A levels, Candice? You don't want to apply to Oxbridge - wouldn't you like a job as a receptionist? Wouldn't your dole scum parents be proud?
 
Complete disgusting rheotoric.

These people should be giving guidance on education, they should be getting guidance from a mental institute on not being heartless self-interested twits.
 
lolly said:
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Working class students should celebrate making “smaller steps” in life rather than fixating on going to Oxford or Cambridge, the government’s social mobility tsar will say.

Katharine Bibalsingh, the chair of the Social Mobility Commission, will warn in a speech on Thursday that society needs to stop obsessing with “rags to riches” stories and rather focus on smaller successes on the social mobility ladder.

We want to move away from the notion that social mobility should just be about the ‘long’ upward mobility from the bottom to the top - the person who is born into a family in social housing and becomes a banker or CEO,” she will say at the Policy Exchange thinktank.

Ms Bibalsingh, who is the headmistress of Michael Community School in west London, is expected to say that too often success is defined by a caretaker’s daughter going to Oxbridge or becoming a top surgeon. Instead a “broader view of social mobility” should be promoted “sometimes in smaller steps”, she will add.

“If a child of parents who were long-term unemployed, or who never worked, gets a good job in their local area, isn’t that a success worth celebrating. Would we really say that it doesn’t count as social mobility because they are not a doctor or lawyer,” Ms Bibalsingh will say.
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Is she just getting ahead of everyone discovering the kids at her school who aren't allowed to SOCIALISE or THINK TOO LOUDLY are actually woefully unprepared for the real world?
 
It essentially is the equivalent of winning the lottery but being told you should sell your ticket to a billionaire for £20.
 
also what happened to letting kids have dreams and aspirations of going on to greater things.

"Sorry little Jimmy, you may have incredible knowledge and grades in biology, as well as an outstanding work ethic that could be well on your path to becoming a great scientist or doctor, who when applied, finds the cure to a longing occurring disease. BUT YOU KNOW, THE LOCAL HOSPITAL IS IN NEED OF A MEDICAL SUPPLY TRANSPORT DRIVER and you know, it's basically the same thing".
 
It really is unspeakably rage-inducing. Oxford and Cambridge are EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, not TOFF CLUBS. We all know they already favour kids from privileged backgrounds, but to come out and say THAT'S FINE, THAT'S HOW IT SHOULD BE... Unbelievable.
 
I'm not keen on this person and for somebody who is, I think, an actual working headteacher, she doesn't appear to do much of it. She's social mobility head because she is precisely the sort of polemicist this government likes.
 
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I'm not keen on this person and for somebody who is, I think, an actual working headteacher, she doesn't appear to do much of it. She's social mobility head because she is precisely the sort polemicist this government likes.
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it wouldn't surprise me if it was someone who worked as a higher-up for a corporation and sees youngsters simply as peons "that have a set role and purpose". :evil:
 
Even by Tory standards, that is disgraceful. The person who is in charge of encouraging social mobility is instead telling poor children that maybe they shouldn't bother. That if someone's parents are long term unemployed, then all they can expect from life is to hold down a minimum wage job. That if they work hard and don't complain and vote Tory like their betters tell them, then, maybe, one day, their children's children might be able to manage a leisure centre. We actually need a revolution just to put people like this against the wall.
 
I really am seething. When I think of a child I'm aware of who is predicted 4 As in her A levels, despite (please believe me) the roughest start in life (still ongoing) and going to an OFSTED failing state school. What a fucking remarkable young woman she is. What amazing potential she has that she is thriving despite that.

The best universities should be fucking biting her hand off to get her in, not soaking up Eton wankers.

KNOW YOUR PLACE
 
I did skim through it but some "highlights" from this lady's Wikipedia page:

"Katharine Birbalsingh


She graduated from the University of Oxford after reading French and philosophy at New College, Oxford.

[...]


Birbalsingh is a supporter of the traditional teaching methods described in E. D. Hirsch's The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them (1999). She writes that the book "opened [her] eyes" to what was wrong in schools, and argues that education should be about teaching children knowledge, not learning skills.

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Birbalsingh came to national prominence in October 2010 after criticising the British education system at that year's Conservative Party conference, and speaking in support of the party's education policies.[16] Referring to a "culture of excuses, of low standards ... a sea of bureaucracy ... [and] the chaos of our classrooms",[22] Birbalsingh told the conference: "My experience of teaching for over a decade in five different schools has convinced me beyond a shadow of a doubt that the system is broken, because it keeps poor children poor."

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Birbalsingh was criticized for comments she made in April 2022 regarding young women not pursuing physics, stating that girls "dislike hard maths".

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Birbalsingh is opposed to teaching children about white privilege in schools and subjecting staff or pupils to unconscious bias training, arguing that such measures encourage racial segregation over constructively solving racism and distract from the true meaning of education.[50][51] She has also maintained that using the term white privilege is unhelpful to ethnic minority students as it creates an exaggerated perception that they are perpetually oppressed by the political establishment and diminishes incentives to work hard. "

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It's all because they are entirely failing at social mobility because they don't really care. They've decided that it will be quite hard to stop failing when they mainly want to give the Oxbridge places to thick poshos whose father once played soggy biscuit with the vice-chancellor, and so instead they're going to redefine success.
 
They have done nothing, absolutely nothing for social mobility - it is sliding backwards if anything (as the wealth divide itself grows). It's kind of laughable that she suggests our dreams should be smaller, when even those apparent small dreams are unrealisable for many.
 
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