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IN my opinion, the idea of grammar schools, for providing selective education available to everyone, is a good idea. The problem being that grammar schools are too easy to use simply segregate children into ones worth spending time on and those you do not. Although this is probably influenced by the fact my mum pulled me out of my mediocre state school after two years to go to a selective private one instead (which I did enjoy more, and do better at). It just wish others wouldn't have to pay £14,000 per year to get that kind of education.
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I would guess it's simple to be able to remind yourself however poo poo you think your life is, someone else has it much worse. Its why I read E/N at least.
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Jun 20, 2014 14:09
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Darth Walrus posted:Remind me, I know why they're not raising interest rates (because then everyone's mortgages will go up and the housing bubble will go pop), but how are low interest rates hurting us in the meantime? It encourages borrowing by providing cheap debt for spending, which is one of the reasons it was slashed so low in the first place, to encourage spending. Since cheap debt is what got us into this mess in the first place, long-term low interest rates simply lead to a repeat of 2008.
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Jun 27, 2014 13:27
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Alecto posted:
In both the 1987 and the 1992 elections, the Tories won more votes than they had the previous election (13,012,316 in 1983, 13,790,935 in 1987, 14,093,007 in 1992) So incumbent tory goverments have won more votes in the next election before, and in 1992 during the beginning of a recovering from a recession that was in their previous term.
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Jun 29, 2014 10:08
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Alecto posted:In both of those cases they got a smaller share of the vote than the previous election though, which is what really matters. And the 1992 election is too a-typical to draw any conclusions from because the PM changed part way through the parliament. The economy's been 'recovered' for quite some time now as well, and it still hasn't led to a noticeable, sustained Con-Lab swing. Yes, it's possible for the Conservatives to still be the largest party in 2015, but it's really, really unlikely. The advantage that Labour have with the boundaries cannot be emphasised enough. I'm not saying that the Tories will win the next election (In my mind the question is will Labour get enough seats on their own to form a goverrment or not), but that incumbant goverment overall votes always goes down, which is what was claimed.
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Jun 29, 2014 14:29
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