John Lambies Doos Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Cults isn't that great? Open your Unionist eyes Kincy. You know that is utter nonsense. I thought you were a slavering no voter? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 8 hours ago, The_Kincardine said: One of the problems with education in Scotland is, Jordanhill aside, the the lack of excellence. Even good schools - and we could have sent our weans to either Banchory or Cults - aren't that great. The best state schools in England pish all over the best state schools in Scotland. Plus schools who prioritise rugby are always so much better in every respect. If your kids had anything about them, it wouldn't really matter tbf. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 4 hours ago, MixuFruit said: Can't work you out man. You’d have to seriously soak yourself in gin for 4 or 5 years to make any sense of him. It’s not a price worth paying. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Gordon EF said: If your kids had anything about them, it wouldn't really matter tbf. Jesus - so in addition to not actually existing, his kids are as thick as their father. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Scotch schools to blame for moron kids. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 I very much enjoyed the searing, laser-like level of analysis that the problem with Scottish education is the "lack of excellence". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 11 hours ago, The_Kincardine said: One of the problems with education in Scotland is, Jordanhill aside, the the lack of excellence. Even good schools - and we could have sent our weans to either Banchory or Cults - aren't that great. The best state schools in England pish all over the best state schools in Scotland. Plus schools who prioritise rugby are always so much better in every respect. Can you, without Googling, even name a state school in England that is, measurably and provably, better than the three Scottish schools you’ve just named? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Ad Lib said: Can you, without Googling, even name a state school in England that is, measurably and provably, better than the three Scottish schools you’ve just named? Easily. Any of the Bucks grammar schools. Edited November 22, 2020 by The_Kincardine -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Just now, The_Kincardine said: Easily. Any of the Bucks grammar schools. So that would be a “no” since you didn’t manage to actually name one. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 It is scary. And complicated by covid. From the SGC preferred opton of informal sterlingisation, the immediate future of an independent Scotland would be issuing a tonne of bonds to cover its debt share for which any Scottish central bank cannot be guarantor, therefore attracting a premium on these making it harder to meet interest payments. All while either capping growth in day to day spending or cutting it. I am not saying this can't or shouldn't be done but it's dishonest to wave it away. There's a real possibility some of the big sources of tax or even direct income will be limited in the early years by having to do asset for debt swaps in O&G, renewables. Whose jobs do you cut, whose lives do you disrupt to manage this? It wouldn’t be so much an immediate problem as a slow burning ongoing problem. Our share of UK debt would have to be refinanced as UK bonds matured and fell due. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 I'm reeling from the revelation that when you select a subsection of the population based on exam results and then compare that subsection's exam results to the general population, their exam results are better. It's out of the box thinking like this that makes me think we need to add stupidity to the Scottish educational monoculture. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 39 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: It wouldn’t be so much an immediate problem as a slow burning ongoing problem. Our share of UK debt would have to be refinanced as UK bonds matured and fell due. And the anticipation that those bonds would need to be refinanced at a higher rate of interest would also push up borrowing costs on any new debts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Interestingly I found the following headline from the Bucks Herald dated Aug 2020; Disadvantaged secondary school pupils in Buckinghamshire are more than a year behind their better-off peers, new research reveals. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 One of the problems with education in Scotland is, Jordanhill aside, the the lack of excellence. Even good schools - and we could have sent our weans to either Banchory or Cults - aren't that great. The best state schools in England pish all over the best state schools in Scotland. Plus schools who prioritise rugby are always so much better in every respect.Having taught in both England and Scotland I will say this is utter bullshit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 I missed this little bon mot. Why do you think I should have been binned? Which P&B rule(s) did I break? I know you won't give me a sensible reply but I still wanted to ask the Q.Being a bigot accusing others of being xenophobes? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar 2nd Tier Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 5 hours ago, John Lambies Doos said: 11 hours ago, Highlandmagyar 2nd Tier said: Cults isn't that great? Open your Unionist eyes Kincy. You know that is utter nonsense. I thought you were a slavering no voter? You are just a slavering idiot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 1 hour ago, SandyCromarty said: Interestingly I found the following headline from the Bucks Herald dated Aug 2020; Disadvantaged secondary school pupils in Buckinghamshire are more than a year behind their better-off peers, new research reveals. You just have to listen to any Nicola speech, and compare with any Boris speech, and then ask yourself who comes across as better educated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwullie Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 16 hours ago, Day of the Lords said: I used to know a boy from Kirrie who claimed to be related to her. He thought she was a stuck up c**t. Hard to verify as he was frequently off his fucking tits. Sound lad though. Where is Kirrie? The family moved to Symington, but there are also relatives in Ardrossan. My mum was her cousin and AFAIK she was brought up in Glasgow but was at my mums gran's and family's house in Motherwell and subsequently Wishaw a lot. Do you remember what his first name is? There was a big family fall out when I was about 10 so I don't know much about it. That side weren't talking to our side for years, up till my mum died last year. Only effect it had on my life was we got to see wheel of Fortune filmed once. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 What happens to what's left of the UK once we've left? Is it officially dissolved and everything re-written or what? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: What happens to what's left of the UK once we've left? Is it officially dissolved and everything re-written or what? Leave them to their mess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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