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shmmeee

shmmeee

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Ian1779 said:
But the biggest failing of Labour in allowing the Tories that extra 1% is not realising that it almost exclusively came from the ‘red wall’ - Labour ignored what their voter base wanted, and their membership didn't and still doesn’t reflect the same demographic.
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I’d agree. The Brexit policy was awful and should never have gone ahead. I just don’t think at that point Corbyn had the political capital to pull it off as it requires trust from both sides. He had that in 2017, but his personal rating took a nosedive between 17 and 19
 
clint van damme

clint van damme

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shmmeee said:
Because he didn’t appear to back a foreign power publicly in the middle of a geopolitical crisis basically.

Standing up and saying “Maybe we should let the Russians tell us what happened” is far more damning than vague rumours about Johnson’s partying.

It’s about patriotism as always with Corbyn, played into existing prejudices.
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They're not rumours.
No problem with people criticising Corbyn on the issue it's just frustrating that others don't get the same scrutiny
 
Ian1779

Ian1779

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shmmeee said:
I’d agree. The Brexit policy was awful and should never have gone ahead. I just don’t think at that point Corbyn had the political capital to pull it off as it requires trust from both sides. He had that in 2017, but his personal rating took a nosedive between 17 and 19
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I agree - he failed to come out fighting on the AS issue which was hugely inflated so it could be used as political capital, and allowed a narrative to take hold - then compounded by the Brexit intransigence.
 
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shmmeee said:
I’d agree. The Brexit policy was awful and should never have gone ahead. I just don’t think at that point Corbyn had the political capital to pull it off as it requires trust from both sides. He had that in 2017, but his personal rating took a nosedive between 17 and 19
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(I'm scared of turning this into the other thread, that shall remain nameless).

The Brexit policy was awful because it alienated leavers, remainers, and everybody in between as it tried to please everybody.

Had Lib Dems not panicked and lurched into a revoke at all costs, they'd have probably made more inroads, as their initial policy was pitched about right to get concerned floaters.

What they should have all done, of course, is resolved it before an election - be that a referendum, a soft Brexit, revoking, a hard Brexit. Then the election could have been fought on actual policy.

Anyway, we are where we are. I wonder how many people are feeling like @skybluesam66 atm... although with a large majority, it doesn't really matter how any of us feel now. The only threat is to Johnson himself if the Tories feel he's expendable, the threat is not to the government.

It would be nice if we had some of the more competent Tories (yes, there are some!) allowed a role in cabinet however, regardless of ideological difference.
 
Ian1779

Ian1779

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shmmeee said:
It’s about patriotism as always with Corbyn, played into existing prejudices.
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I really hate the patriotism argument in general - right wing nutters love to exploit that narrative to do and say some pretty horrible things.
 
shmmeee

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clint van damme said:
They're not rumours.
No problem with people criticising Corbyn on the issue it's just frustrating that others don't get the same scrutiny
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They are to most people. They certainly weren’t Johnson’s publicly stated position like Corbyns support of the Russians was.
 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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I really hate the patriotism argument in general - right wing nutters love to exploit that narrative to do and say some pretty horrible things.
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It matters though. Same as being tough on crime and benefits cheats. These are things our voters care about as much as the middle class lefty types like us care about education policy or climate change. They’re the door fee for governing in this country.

And anyway, I do like my country, I am proud of it generally (not so much the last year or two).

Imagine having a manager with the Clinton Morrison “it’s Cov innit” attitude and how you’d feel. You want someone that, cringe as the phrase is “believes in Britain” and Corbyn never came across that he did. This goes double when we’re about to “strike out on our own”
 
Ian1779

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shmmeee said:
It matters though. Same as being tough on crime and benefits cheats. These are things our voters care about as much as the middle class lefty types like us care about education policy or climate change. They’re the door fee for governing in this country.

And anyway, I do like my country, I am proud of it generally (not so much the last year or two).

Imagine having a manager with the Clinton Morrison “it’s Cov innit” attitude and how you’d feel. You want someone that, cringe as the phrase is “believes in Britain” and Corbyn never came across that he did. This goes double when we’re about to “strike out on our own”
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It does matter I know, I just find it sickening to see it exploited.
 
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Surely they could have set socially distanced exams? This year will be in no way comparable to any other year. I obviously sympathise with those who had their fate unfairly decided by an algorithm but the best way to mitigate against this was to postpone the exams. Its going to be mayhem for universities, is unfair on next year's cohort; and unfair on those whose teachers awarded grades in line with their ability. I don't think this year's cohort are whatever percentage cleverer at all levels than last year. So the only way to mitigate against this would surely to look at this year in isolation, because kids from the next cohort risk losing out.
 
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Ian1779 said:
Wouldn’t have happened under Theresa
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I did say (having learned from the past!) be careful what you wish for, when she was under threat.

tbf the same goes with Johnson. Compared to Raab or Patel, he's a shining beacon of respectability, and Sunak has about as much political integrity as him. Johnson might be as good as it gets!
 
clint van damme

clint van damme

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shmmeee said:
They are to most people. They certainly weren’t Johnson’s publicly stated position like Corbyns support of the Russians was.
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which sort of proves my point. I know it's always been this way but it would be great if people tried thinking for themselves and doing a bit of research for one, it's really frustrating.
 
fernandopartridge

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Walsgrave said:
Surely they could have set socially distanced exams? This year will be in no way comparable to any other year. I obviously sympathise with those who had their fate unfairly decided by an algorithm but the best way to mitigate against this was to postpone the exams. Its going to be mayhem for universities, is unfair on next year's cohort; and unfair on those whose teachers awarded grades in line with their ability. I don't think this year's cohort are whatever percentage cleverer at all levels than last year. So the only way to mitigate against this would surely to look at this year in isolation, because kids from the next cohort risk losing out.
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Nobody misses out because a conditional offer is fulfiled.

At least they've made a u-turn, the car salesman must be dispatched from being SoS and given something a bit more in keeping with his intellect
 
Grendel

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clint van damme said:
to be fair that's preferable to them digging their heels in.
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Well teachers have proved collectively they were incapable of actually examining impartially so not really
 
clint van damme

clint van damme

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Nobody misses out because a conditional offer is fulfiled.

At least they've made a u-turn, the car salesman must be dispatched from being SoS and given something a bit more in keeping with his intellect
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as someone who is currently updating his less than impressive CV at least mine doesn't have a 'sacked for treason' on it!
 
Ian1779

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Walsgrave said:
Surely they could have set socially distanced exams? This year will be in no way comparable to any other year. I obviously sympathise with those who had their fate unfairly decided by an algorithm but the best way to mitigate against this was to postpone the exams. Its going to be mayhem for universities, is unfair on next year's cohort; and unfair on those whose teachers awarded grades in line with their ability. I don't think this year's cohort are whatever percentage cleverer at all levels than last year. So the only way to mitigate against this would surely to look at this year in isolation, because kids from the next cohort risk losing out.
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What should have happened is that Ofqual/OFSTED/HMI should have been in schools ratifying and cross analysing these submissions months ago. A lot of schools have done a huge amount of quality assurance on these grades to make them as fair as possible. No doubt some schools will have taken advantage of this - but this could also have been mitigated at the start by OFSTED coming out and telling schools to expect their submissions to be analysed and be expected to be able to justify to an inspection team.
 
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Walsgrave

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fernandopartridge said:
Nobody misses out because a conditional offer is fulfiled.

At least they've made a u-turn, the car salesman must be dispatched from being SoS and given something a bit more in keeping with his intellect
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I'm on about universities where so few actually miss their grades that they won't have places.

With the awarding of predicted grades, virtually all offers will be met. Most universities give out far more offers than they have places. So we'll end up with a situation where the top universities all have to give places to people that have made an offer to and no one will go to the lower ranked institutions. The universities wont be able to cope logistically!

Moreover, there will be a large number of students who will 'take a punt' at going for a better university next year, and they'll be competing with those who have to take exams next year.
 
Grendel

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Ian1779 said:
What should have happened is that Ofqual/OFSTED/HMI should have been in schools ratifying and cross analysing these submissions months ago. A lot of schools have done a huge amount of quality assurance on these grades to make them as fair as possible. No doubt some schools will have taken advantage of this - but this could also have been mitigated at the start by OFSTED coming out and telling schools to expect their submissions to be analysed and be expected to be able to justify to an inspection team.
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Yes that I actually agree with now its a case of want a A well its yours
 
Ian1779

Ian1779

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Grendel said:
Yes that I actually agree with now its a case of want a A well its yours
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When I did ours for Maths I believed that OFSTED would want to come and see justification for what we awarded. I would actually welcome this especially if we were to end up having to do something similar for the next cohort.
 
Ian1779

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Grendel said:
So were the teacher upgrades
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It would be interesting to find out where these were. Did some schools get wind of the fact the algorithm wouldn’t be applied to small cohorts? If they did then this would explain how the bigger cohorts got graded down so substantially to fit in the normal distribution of grades.
 
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Walsgrave said:
I'm on about universities where so few actually miss their grades that they won't have places.

With the awarding of predicted grades, virtually all offers will be met. Most universities give out far more offers than they have places. So we'll end up with a situation where the top universities all have to give places to people that have made an offer to and no one will go to the lower ranked institutions. The universities wont be able to cope logistically!

Moreover, there will be a large number of students who will 'take a punt' at going for a better university next year, and they'll be competing with those who have to take exams next year.
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I think there will be enough capacity given there will likely be a dearth of overseas students .
Not as lucrative though.
 
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wingy said:
I think there will be enough capacity given there will likely be a dearth of overseas students .
Not as lucrative though.
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Enough capacity in the aggregate (across all universities) but it creates a huge problem for the top universities where we suddenly have a situation in which everyone who was given an offer has qualified to get in. So then the question of how we allocate these students across the universities, which will be mayhem.
 
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wingy

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Walsgrave said:
Enough capacity in the aggregate (across all universities) but it creates a huge problem for the top universities where we suddenly have a situation in which everyone who was given an offer has qualified to get in. So then the question of how we allocate these students across the universities, which will be mayhem.
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Yes good point.
I'm just glad it should maintain that industry(which it undoubtedly is) and the jobs and salaries of those within it.
Should help bolster the economy locally.
 
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