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You could reasonably argue that some senior politicians may have gravitated toward the Leave side - however there were 2 factors that stopped them from doing this. 1. Being associated with Boris, Farage and Gove 2. the immigration card being pulled so early and turning it into a campaign of...

It's harder for Labour to be fair - biggest proportion of remainers but committed to honouring will of the people. It makes you wonder if Umanna would have put his motion in place if Corbyn had offered him a Shadow Cabinet job last week....

Are you sure you called the right number?

Some are - and we had the situation with the Trojan Horse schools not too long ago. I would say that more now are not affiliated to a particular religion, but it was always a good way to get hands on some land previously - which was a problem in itself - hence them being put in office blocks in...

I think the relevance of the media and their influence is dying right before our eyes... every time they stumble from 1 farce to another they must be losing voters in their droves.

National curriculum - not really.. OFSTED yes but it can be anywhere between 1-3 years before a full judgement is made in some cases.. plenty of time to waste a fuck load of money and mess up a kids education. As shmmeee said - an awful lot fail pretty early on because of poor financial management.

At this stage I think it's jobs for the boys in terms of those salaries and consultancy fees... but how long till we see 'Virgin Schools' popping up somewhere....

Put it much better than I did.

It's not on the defensive but you make it sound like problem is much bigger than it actually is - that may not have been your intention. A bit like the 'health tourism' scandal that turned out to be less than 0.1% of NHS spend. I would say there are far more pressing issues in terms of tax...

Not many schools are now left under council control as most have converted to academies. A free school is a school controlled by no-one. Technically they answer directly to the DFE but pretty much they have no accountability day to day. It can in theory be set up an opened by anyone (you don't...

I think if she stays in power that long Labour will have an outright majority on their own.

The 'a lot that claim all sorts' you refer to is probably less than 0.1% of all those from outside of the UK that come here to work. Yet if you read it in some papers they make it sound like it's 50% No wonder there is so much intolerance in our society.

The main issue in schools are that the funding has not increased at the rate at which everything else has. Give you an example over pensions and NI contributions that the school as an employer has to pay. Both have gone up in the last 12/18 months and the funding has not been increased to cover...

Deflector shields set to maximum Captain...

So the government block another amendment - this time on lifting the public sector pay cap for NHS and emergency services. Who will be the first lackey on here to defend it?

Shame the editor of the Sun at the time isn't up for slander and character defamation of the 96 victims and everyone else that was there that day.

Give them the tools to do so and they will........

My Daughter is 8 - she doesn't have a phone as yet, but some of her friends do already. She's not having one until she gets to secondary school and she has accepted it... for now. It's hard enough as it is now and she only has a tablet for playing games and watching You Tube videos.. but I've...

What do they expect from Head teachers if you shaft them and their schools??

Your me, myself and I argument is the very reason why you look up to the Tories so fondly. I'll continue to teach the kids that there is a better world out there... not the one the 'establishment' say they should be grateful to have. I suggest if you really mean what you say then you should...