Baxter Parp Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/child-poverty-headteachers-schools-teachers-national-education-union-neu-austerity-a8283956.html Children stuff food into their pockets and turn up to school in dirty uniforms as poverty worsens, headteachers warn Children living in poverty arrive at the school gates with 'grey skin, poor teeth, hair and nails' "And?" say Tories before trotting out the usual pish about living within our means, poverty is relative, etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 (edited) 17 hours ago, Zetterlund said: World democracy index 2017. Any surprises? I haven't looked into how this is calculated, but I thought it was interesting given recent events that Spain appears to be one of the more democratic nations in Europe. Also I wonder what makes Ireland more democratic than the UK. Most They awarded Ireland 10/10 for Political Culture & Civil Liberties while the UK was ranked 8.13 and 9.12 respectively. And according to the white paper Spain are, in football parlance, still top flight but very much in the relegation zone Quote At 8.08, Spain’s score remains just above the threshold of 8 for full democracies, having fallen significantly as a result of the national government’s attempt to stop by force Catalonia’s illegal referendum on independence on October 1st. After a unilateral declaration of independence by the regional parliament, the national government temporarily suspended Catalan home rule. Several pro-independence leaders face criminal charges and have been jailed on remand, but pro-independence parties still won a snap regional election held on December 21st. With opinion in the region deeply divided and tensions with the national government running high, the conflict is set to continue. Edited April 2, 2018 by topcat(The most tip top) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 17 hours ago, Zetterlund said: It says it's based on 60 indicators, but maybe just generally being an utter circus show of incompetence relegates you to the next shade down. "Public confidence in the government" and "Public confidence in political parties" are two of the indicators so that's probably part of it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted April 2, 2018 Author Share Posted April 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Baxter Parp said: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/child-poverty-headteachers-schools-teachers-national-education-union-neu-austerity-a8283956.html Children stuff food into their pockets and turn up to school in dirty uniforms as poverty worsens, headteachers warn Children living in poverty arrive at the school gates with 'grey skin, poor teeth, hair and nails' "And?" say Tories before trotting out the usual pish about living within our means, poverty is relative, etc. I’m sure many of the good Tory voting Christians would have included these poor people in their prayers over the Easter weekend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 It makes them feel better. And they do not have to interact with the poor. Maybe chuck a can of beans Into the food bank trolley. Sent from my SM-A320FL using Pie and Bovril mobile app 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Kind of amused by all the outraged Corbyn fans amazed that their political opponents in the right of the party, the Tory party and the tabloids are weaponising the anti-semitism stuff to 'discredit Corbyn' or whatever. I mean - isn't that literally what you should expect from your political opponents, that they'll use a bad story about you to try to discredit you? To be fair to labour most of the prominent people have been saying all the right stuff - it's mainly just been nutcases on facebook/twitter and in local CLPs etc that have seemed to not accept it and believe it's all a conspiracy. If you were being charitable you could maybe put that down to political inexperience, a lack of political education and a desire to defend their guy to the hilt - all that stuff about anti-semitism being 'the socialism of fools' etc. Of course, trawling facebook groups etc for cybernats or corbynistas saying offensive stuff isn't a great way to produce news - your hope would be that now labour have been on the receiving end of this after using it as a tactic during the independence referendum we could try to work towards a politics where we are a little bit less sensationalist about holding leaders/parties wholly responsible for everything random wackos say on social media. Of course, that's probably a pipedream. Absolutely on the last part. There’s a clear vested interest in overstating these sort of things when it’s being said from a side that threatens the status quo. There’s two ways in combatting this. 1. Working as hard as possible to weed out the cranks and bigots from the movements and 2. not resorting to those same tactics when you’re on the side of the establishment, as Labour did in the run up to 2014. Also noticed Ian Paisley, who turned out for the anti-racism rally last week, retweeted this from Katie Hopkins yesterday.You couldn’t make that up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Can Scottish police help stop violent deaths in London? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42690960 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 At least we're second best at something. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 https://theferret.scot/ferret-fact-service-fact-checking-numbers/ Ferret Fact Checking assess their first year: "The SNP had the largest percentage of True and Mostly True claims, with 75 per cent of our fact-checks on the party concluding with one of these ratings. Labour had a similar proportion of True verdicts, but around one in five of the claims we checked was either False or Mostly False. The party with the most False claims was the Conservatives, with 70 per cent of claims checked either Mostly False, False or FFS." Tories in lying shites shock (see: Strichner) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 6 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: "Public confidence in the government" and "Public confidence in political parties" are two of the indicators so that's probably part of it As an aside, I was chatting with some folk about the lack of proper statesmen-like politicians across the board. 20 years ago, all the major parties had a few that you could reasonably say you could trust to run the country, regardless of whether you agreed with their politics. Which of the current mob could you honestly describe in the same way? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Just now, Mark Connolly said: As an aside, I was chatting with some folk about the lack of proper statesmen-like politicians across the board. 20 years ago, all the major parties had a few that you could reasonably say you could trust to run the country, regardless of whether you agreed with their politics. Which of the current mob could you honestly describe in the same way? Erm Nicola sturgeon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Humza yousaf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 John Swinney 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Ireland better in everything yet we are too wee and stupid and unlike Eire we have oil. A fucking laughing stock 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 2 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said: Ireland better in everything yet we are too wee and stupid and unlike Eire we have oil. A fucking laughing stock An independent Scotland would be one of the richest countries in the world there's no doubt about it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 9 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: As an aside, I was chatting with some folk about the lack of proper statesmen-like politicians across the board. 20 years ago, all the major parties had a few that you could reasonably say you could trust to run the country, regardless of whether you agreed with their politics. Which of the current mob could you honestly describe in the same way? Most of the current generation went straight from University into political work, and can barely speak normal English. The old heavyweights had some depth of experience, Dennis Healy was Beach Master for the Anzio attack for example. but admittedly went straight into politics after the war. Labour politicians used to work their way up through Trade Union ranks before trying for a constituency, now they finish their PPE at Oxbridge, spend a couple of years at Millbank or as a HOC researcher, then off for a safe seat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 An independent Scotland would be one of the richest countries in the world there's no doubt about it. I strongly believe this yet we are shackled to a bigger country who is pulling us out of EU against our democratic will. Scotland the Brave, embarrassing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Literally could not give less of a shit over how statesmanlike someone comes across. The press give way too much leeway to people like Thatcher, Blair and Obama who oversaw quite abhorrent policies purely because they were viewed as credible heads of state or leaders. Utter bollocks. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted April 2, 2018 Author Share Posted April 2, 2018 17 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said: Ireland better in everything yet we are too wee and stupid and unlike Eire we have oil. A fucking laughing stock Everything? What about their draconian abortion laws? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Everything? What about their draconian abortion laws? I believe the 8th amendment will be repealed by popular vote end May 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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