john07
Labour & Co-operative
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Post by john07 on Oct 18, 2024 23:40:19 GMT
This thread makes me regret that I cocked up my application to Trinity College, Oxford for PPE. Back then you needed three references for Oxford but they would actually accept two. I assumed that one reference plus the one on the UCCA form would suffice. Sadly it would not. I received a very nice personal letter from the Admissions Tutor at Trinity explaining why they could not continue with my application.
I subsequently was offered a place at Manchester, although I briefly considered deferring study and applying again the year after. In the end I took the place at Owens and got on with things. That decision did stop me having a vote in this election.
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Post by sanders on Oct 19, 2024 5:04:09 GMT
This thread makes me regret that I cocked up my application to Trinity College, Oxford for PPE. Back then you needed three references for Oxford but they would actually accept two. I assumed that one reference plus the one on the UCCA form would suffice. Sadly it would not. I received a very nice personal letter from the Admissions Tutor at Trinity explaining why they could not continue with my application. I subsequently was offered a place at Manchester, although I briefly considered deferring study and applying again the year after. In the end I took the place at Owens and got on with things. That decision did stop me having a vote in this election. If you know anyone who studied at Oxford, please ask them to support me. Thank you, sir - Maxim Parr-Reid |
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Oct 19, 2024 19:51:51 GMT
This thread makes me regret that I cocked up my application to Trinity College, Oxford for PPE. Back then you needed three references for Oxford but they would actually accept two. I assumed that one reference plus the one on the UCCA form would suffice. Sadly it would not. I received a very nice personal letter from the Admissions Tutor at Trinity explaining why they could not continue with my application. I subsequently was offered a place at Manchester, although I briefly considered deferring study and applying again the year after. In the end I took the place at Owens and got on with things. That decision did stop me having a vote in this election. If you now anyone who studied at Oxford, please ask them to support me. Thank you, sir - Maxim Parr-Reid It is quite pathetic that a candidate for such prestigious office cannot even form a coherent sentence. |
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Post by sanders on Oct 19, 2024 20:13:36 GMT
If you now anyone who studied at Oxford, please ask them to support me. Thank you, sir - Maxim Parr-Reid It is quite pathetic that a candidate for such prestigious office cannot even form a coherent sentence. Why are you surprised? I studied History, not English. |
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Post by riccimarsh on Oct 19, 2024 20:21:59 GMT
I would go for Imran Khan or - Maxine Parr myself I'd he's ineligible, very onteresting to hear a clampdown on dissident views would be a vote winner for you. Has sanders transitioned!? I thought the typo meant that Ian Huntley’s ex was running. |
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Post by riccimarsh on Oct 19, 2024 20:23:43 GMT
You can't correct a typo in a university essay or job application after the deadline, so why would changing this be allowed? It is being published and most publications are edited to remove typos. A very very big and annoying problem, at least in science, is that copy editors tend to introduce more typos than they remove. |
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Post by sanders on Oct 19, 2024 20:30:23 GMT
Let’s get a poll on here.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Oct 19, 2024 21:51:20 GMT
I don’t think a poll on here will end well for you.
Also most of us don’t really give a shit.
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Post by sanders on Oct 20, 2024 3:42:25 GMT
I don’t think a poll on here will end well for you. Also most of us don’t really give a shit. Then why post on this thread? Internal polling has been good, actually. I’m proud of my campaign. |
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Oct 20, 2024 8:05:06 GMT
Internal polling has been good, actually. I’m proud of my campaign. You were also quite confident of success in Islington a few months back and we saw how that went. You link to your twitter account, not a single one of your posts is getting any engagement and you only have 240 followers. You’re talking into an empty void. What internal polling have you commissioned or are you relying on polls on social media - if so that’s not polling. You are not remotely qualified for this role and the fact Oxford have let you and other crackpots/attention seekers stand is frankly bizarre. |
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Oct 20, 2024 8:38:03 GMT
You have to start somewhere. I’ll take no lectures. When you ran for Council, several people on here offered you advice, the main one was join a party and learn how to campaign. You’ve done the first part. Have you done anything with the Greens? There are lots of people out there (and on here) who know how to campaign. All evidence to date shows you don’t (yet) know how to. You say everyone has to start somewhere. But somewhere isn’t the Chancellorship of Oxford. Also, what are you aiming for in the end just winning an election? [/quote] You’ve established yourself as a tutor and had some luck with shares, yes well done but if this were a normal role with an interview, based on your CV/Statement/experience to date you wouldn’t even get an interview. Fairly sure the Greens wanted a second referendum. What you don’t know is that I never supported a second referendum, but anyway. They are imminently more qualified, experienced and measured than you. They have experience at the highest level of government, with an huge range of senior stakeholders and working internationally, you can’t even get an online forum to take you seriously. So? Are you suggesting as Chancellor you’ll fundraise enough to cut the debt of students? If so you might be amazed at how much that will cost. You mention in your statement that you’ve fundraised for charities, I think you’ll find a University especially Oxford require fundraising on a completely different scale to what you’ve done. Are you seriously suggesting you can secure six, seven figure sums? How can you? I’ve looked you up on LinkedIn, you’ve been a self employed tutor for five years and bar that have had short term contracts some of just a few weeks. I’m really not trying to by nasty, but you are walking right into this. During your council campaign I suggested you should stop what you were doing, clear your head and come back in a few days time. Can I suggest you do the same here? |
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Post by sanders on Oct 20, 2024 8:47:16 GMT
Not fundraise to pay it off. Lobby the government to change things. Surely you see why that matters. Maybe you went to university for free. Well I didn’t. And the system isn’t sustainable.
I’m not going anywhere. The election is on the 28th. I’m fighting to win.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Oct 20, 2024 8:56:46 GMT
I paid fees, albeit at a lower rate and cleared the last few k of my loan in covid using the ‘extra’ cash I’d saved during lockdown.
If you’re proposing to lobby the government to abolish/reduce fees and/or introduce grants, I see utterly no evidence of your ability to lobby/engage/discuss sensibly.
Regardless of fees, the Chancellor of Oxford will be involved in fundraising on a significant scale. I refer you to my earlier comments.
I’m also not going to post on this thread anymore. I don’t wish Sanders ill, but I don’t wish him well in this campaign. But in life I bear no grudge to him.
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Post by sanders on Oct 20, 2024 9:02:43 GMT
I haven't done anything for the Greens because they haven't selected me as a candidate yet. I might apply for Junction for the by-election or Highgate ward for 2026.
As for 'short placements', they're internships.
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Post by greatkingrat on Oct 20, 2024 9:27:08 GMT
I haven't done anything for the Greens because they haven't selected me as a candidate yet. I might apply for Junction for the by-election or Highgate ward for 2026. As for 'short placements', they're internships. If you are expecting to sit around doing nothing until the Green Party approach you and ask you to stand in a winnable seat, I fear you will be disappointed. |
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Post by sanders on Oct 20, 2024 9:33:10 GMT
I haven't done anything for the Greens because they haven't selected me as a candidate yet. I might apply for Junction for the by-election or Highgate ward for 2026. As for 'short placements', they're internships. If you are expecting to sit around doing nothing until the Green Party approach you and ask you to stand in a winnable seat, I fear you will be disappointed. Oh I see. That's a shame. |
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Post by johnloony on Oct 20, 2024 10:21:14 GMT
How can you? I’ve looked you up on LinkedIn, you’ve been a self employed tutor for five years and bar that have had short term contracts some of just a few weeks. I’m really not trying to by nasty, but you are walking right into this. During your council campaign I suggested you should stop what you were doing, clear your head and come back in a few days time. Can I suggest you do the same here? ”Walking right into this”: When Maxim walks into a room, everybody continues their conversations uninterrupted because nobody has even noticed that he’s there. |
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J.G.Harston
Lib Dem
Leave-voting Brexit-supporting Liberal Democrat
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Post by J.G.Harston on Oct 20, 2024 10:40:29 GMT
How can you? I’ve looked you up on LinkedIn, you’ve been a self employed tutor for five years and bar that have had short term contracts some of just a few weeks. I’m really not trying to by nasty, but you are walking right into this. During your council campaign I suggested you should stop what you were doing, clear your head and come back in a few days time. Can I suggest you do the same here? ”Walking right into this”: When Maxim walks into a room, everybody continues their conversations uninterrupted because nobody has even noticed that he’s there. Is Sanders the new occupant of the empty taxi?  |
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Post by sanders on Oct 20, 2024 17:40:43 GMT
Two likes on this tweet now, stupendous momentum. Knickers to the pessimists. We're getting a socialist chancellor.
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Sandy
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Post by Sandy on Oct 20, 2024 22:30:30 GMT
Two likes on this tweet now, stupendous momentum. Knickers to the pessimists. We're getting a socialist chancellor. For an alleged socialist you sound like Billy Bunter very frequently. |
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