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To be fair I cannot begrudge the passion of some Brexiteers - I have to salute them for pursuing what they want. But boy, sometimes its like telling someone that the ceiling reads 'milk' and they actually look up - gullible as hell!

I have been asleep and it was very pleasant thank you. The Conservatives need a bill to pass that agreement through Parliament - fat chance of that happening whatever slim majority they may get. People do not seem to realise that, in the utopian world where we leave the EU on 31 January, we...

No details of how the withdrawal agreement will be negotiated/its terms in the Conservative manifesto. Far from getting Brexit done (which mind you they have been promising since 2016), we will have more of the same dithering - they will not be able to negotiate an amicable agreement with the EU...

No but at school there were a lot of them. It was sickening to watch at times, even though of course most teenagers find them entertaining. What I did not like was the fact that these were people with often troubled lives at home. When I do a google search of some of the trouble makers at...

It was intended to be half PFI and half conventional government funding, and there have been problems with some of the PFI funded schools which had either been completed before or were in fact given the go ahead. Tony Blair's Labour government was guilty of accelerating the use of PFI...

I think the effect is amplified by the presence of social media. They used to go there and BBM (Blackberry Messenger) each other when I was in school, now they have top of the range iPhones and whatnot. I actually used to question - how do these parents let them get away with it - how, for...

Yep that's the big difference relative to a few years ago when there were no weapons used but the usual kids in their LA trainers, shamballas and Pauls' boutique jackets and Obey snapbacks, all hanging out in Mcdonalds' courtesy of their mates' purchase of a McFlurry. The staff cannot kick them...

Year 9 town rats alternating between McDonalds and KFC second floor

I know that the public finances were not in the best of positions back in 2010, but one of the most fucked up things to ever happen was the scrapping of the Building Schools for the Future programme. It was a total cop-out to the commitment on the part of the government to invest in making...

Don't forgot that people of all parties (i.e. including Labour) did not vote for that reason, so the lack of turnout on the part of some voters last time does not necessarily imply anything about the direction in which they will go this time. If anything, the greater incentive to vote this time...

Are you this kid? :happy:

It was said in jest but I do believe that they must prioritise other factors such as the economy above the party's stance on race. So for someone like Sajid Javid, self-made and considered to have done well from a poor background, I can understand why the party's offerings on e.g. Brexit may...

Ethnic minorities who vote Conservative must be going through some kind of heretical thinking!

The benefits of private education are not captured purely in the fee numbers (which, mind you , are shocking - the minimum average spend per pupil in the private sector, of £11k per annm, more than doubles that of the state sector - and if we level that up to the very elite schools, where fees...

This would only be possible if the SNP gain a majority at Holyrood in 2021 - a doubtful proposition, especially in the hypothetical event that Labour get into power and engineer a soft Brexit/second referendum which resultsi n a Remain vote.

Put it this way; if private schools did not bestow an unfair advantage on those who attend them, parents would not be willing to pay for them. I suggest that you read David Kynaston and Francis Green's recent seminal book on the matter to educate yourself about it. For the record, they both...

Yep I agree that Corbyn's refusal to personally come down on one side of the Brexit debate may be holding back many voters, and it could backfire in the sense that they may lose more from Remainers than the number of Leavers clung onto. Let's just see if they can turn it around with three weeks...

It should not be a surprise - if a party pledges to redistribute the billions swirling around the corporate world, the representative of that world will not take lightly to it. However, it is a price worth paying - or at least a priori Jeremy Corbyn is confident enough to put the support of the...

What I believe is that Labour's Brexit policy holds out for the possibility of a Brexit (however hard/soft) such that that it will cling onto at least some Leave voters; while simultaneously ramp up its attempts to convince pure Remainers that they are the only party who can realistically keep...

The most objective correspondent at the moment is probably Emily Maitlis. No particular bias (or if she does have one, then she does a very good job of disguising it), and very interrogating of anyone she interviews. None of the clickbaitism typical of Julie Etchingham