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Post by Arthur Figgis on Oct 8, 2015 20:08:00 GMT
I wonder if anyone has done a study. When I worked for Devon CC, I heard all the time that church schools were better but the evidence contradicted that. Admittedly, it depends on what you're looking for, I don't particularly value the expressive arts for example. Maybe people like the moral ethos. In my experience kids who have been to papist schools tend to have superior social skills and interact much better with their elders. The priests are good at interacting with them from an early age...  |
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Post by john07 on Oct 9, 2015 0:25:58 GMT
I wonder if anyone has done a study. When I worked for Devon CC, I heard all the time that church schools were better but the evidence contradicted that. Admittedly, it depends on what you're looking for, I don't particularly value the expressive arts for example. Maybe people like the moral ethos. People like selection but can't bear to admit it. Many like the concept of selection. But when it is introduced and their children fail the test they are apt to turn against it dramatically. This was demonstrated when the Conservatives won control of Tameside around 1975 on a platform of bringing back grammar schools. They did make a complete balls-up of the process but for every winner there were three or four losers in the selection process. The Conservatives were promptly kicked out of office and haven't had a sniff since. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 13, 2015 13:18:46 GMT
It's goodbye, so long, farewell to the concept of a UKIP majority council - another UKIP councillor on Thanet has defected to the Democratic Independent Group, and the council now has no overall majority. UKIP likely to stay in control in practice. The new defector is Jeff Elenor (Margate Central ward). He's also a Kent County Councillor for Margate West division but appears still to be in the UKIP group there (don't know if anyone knows a UKIP Kent County Councillor who can confirm?). www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/ukip-loses-thanet-council-majority-44673/ |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2015 23:26:20 GMT
It's goodbye, so long, farewell to the concept of a UKIP majority council - another UKIP councillor on Thanet has defected to the Democratic Independent Group, and the council now has no overall majority. UKIP likely to stay in control in practice. The new defector is Jeff Elenor (Margate Central ward). He's also a Kent County Councillor for Margate West division but appears still to be in the UKIP group there (don't know if anyone knows a UKIP Kent County Councillor who can confirm?). www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/ukip-loses-thanet-council-majority-44673/We will miss the complete shambles that is ukip when they are gone. |
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Post by Dan on Oct 14, 2015 8:22:43 GMT
The Conservatives have lost overall control of Rugby Borough Council following the resignation of the whip by David Ellis (Wolston & the Lawfords). He was opposed to the council continuing discussions over whether to join the proposed West Midlands Combined Authority. He's choosing to sit as an Independent rather than as a member of the Independent Group (mostly likely because of the historical grudge between the Rugby Conservatives and the husband and wife team who make up the Independent Group following their own defection from the Conservatives). Balance on the council is now: Conservative - 21 Labour - 9 Liberal Democrat - 8 Independent Group - 2 Independent - 1 Independent Socialist - 1 source |
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Post by marksenior on Oct 14, 2015 11:09:13 GMT
Mary Clark , Conservative councillor for Old Malden ward on Kingston LBC to Independent
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2015 20:42:48 GMT
Mary Clark , Conservative councillor for Old Malden ward on Kingston LBC to The question is why we allow 70+ booliaks to stand for council in the first place. |
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Post by carlton43 on Oct 14, 2015 20:59:55 GMT
Mary Clark , Conservative councillor for Old Malden ward on Kingston LBC to The question is why we allow 70+ booliaks to stand for council in the first place. Ageist Stalinist phrasemaker! |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 14, 2015 21:36:41 GMT
Mary Clark , Conservative councillor for Old Malden ward on Kingston LBC to The question is why we allow 70+ booliaks to stand for council in the first place. Top marks to the bloke who used the word "snidey". |
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Post by maxque on Oct 15, 2015 4:37:46 GMT
Top marks to the bloke who used the word "snidey". Especially as she is a FORMER councillor who stepped down in 2014. |
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Post by marksenior on Oct 15, 2015 7:00:15 GMT
Top marks to the bloke who used the word "snidey". Especially as she is a FORMER councillor who stepped down in 2014. No she is a current councillor but a former councillor for St James ward who stepped down in 2010 and returned in 2014 for Old Malden ward |
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Post by maxque on Oct 15, 2015 7:33:45 GMT
Especially as she is a FORMER councillor who stepped down in 2014. No she is a current councillor but a former councillor for St James ward who stepped down in 2010 and returned in 2014 for Old Malden ward Well, I should read dates better. |
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 31, 2015 10:42:09 GMT
UKIP in Thanet lose another councillor as Emma Dawson (Cliftonville) goes over to the Conservatives.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 31, 2015 11:24:15 GMT
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Post by tim on Nov 1, 2015 23:23:30 GMT
Exactly my reaction when I read that post Pete |
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Post by CHILTERNS on Nov 2, 2015 20:15:35 GMT
Defection in Aylesbury Vale District Council: Cllr Julie Ward - Ward: Oakfield and Bierton defects from Lib Dem to the Conservatives.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 3, 2015 13:49:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2015 13:55:31 GMT
Unsurprising. He hasn't been in the Greens or the SNP yet (or the Pirates), so he needs to move on if he wants the full set. Then presumably NI calls.... Bit late for PSP though ...  |
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Post by carlton43 on Nov 3, 2015 14:03:11 GMT
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