chrisp65 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 53 minutes ago, LondonLax said: There is surely a clear distinction to be made between Iraq, where the ‘coalition of the willing’ were directly responsible for the breakdown of the country and Syria which was more a result of the ‘Arab Spring’ being successful enough to destabilise the government there? I mean the UK is likely to have had some influence in the region but it is probable there would have been refugees fleeing from their regardless of what action the UK took. Is it more complicated than that? We’ve messed around in that region to a greater or lesser extent for 100 years with arbitrary borders to invent countries. From Saudi royal families, to striking a line between Pakistan and India, supporting and then not supporting regimes in Afghanistan, propping up the Shah or Iran, trying to decide whether to work with Gadaffi, trying to decide whether to support the Kurds. Our reaction to the birth of Israel (the political entity including minority parties), being in the room when Yemeni weddings are bombed, no plan for after Gulf Wars. I’m not saying everything is our fault. But there are a lot of very complex reasons for refugees, it would make a very hefty book, and we would have a mention on a lot of pages. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ml1dch Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 He probably heard it just as he finished saying it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post StefanAVFC Posted August 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 13, 2020 She's ****ing gross. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meregreen Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 She’s talking raw, partisan politics. It’s peoples lives we’re talking about here. What a heartless bitch she is. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Jeez, it’s in quotation marks, in The times. So she either said it, or can demand an apology and compensation. What a vile bunch of people they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Shooting down boats in the channel to own the libs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 This just isn't normal political discourse. The country has gone mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Not really sure where to put this but: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Their whole approach to this has been stupid. You can't have a system based on exams, then not have exams, then design a kludge that provides the same detail or accuracy as exams. It would have been better to just say 'this year is pass/fail' and face the reality of the situation head on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 13, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2020 34 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: Not really sure where to put this but: Not sure of the legitimacy of this. Taken from Instagram. If it’s accurate then it highlights the problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 13, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2020 This system would have **** me. I was always a bit of a crammer. I put the work in when it mattered so come the exams I was ready and got good results in return. My mock exams were nowhere near as good so if they got downgraded further I’d have been way way off 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 My niece had mock and predicted grades of AAA, she now has BBC. Her next step, her future was built on them grades. Now she doesn’t know what to do. Tories really are words removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 13, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2020 9 minutes ago, Seat68 said: My niece had mock and predicted grades of AAA, she now has BBC. Her next step, her future was built on them grades. Now she doesn’t know what to do. Tories really are words removed. I just don't understand what kind of system can take the two best indicators of a student's grade, that both say A A A, and then give them B B C How does that remotely make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 3 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: I just don't understand what kind of system can take the two best indicators of a student's grade, that both say A A A, and then give them B B C How does that remotely make sense? So many kids now not having a clue what to do. This government really do not have an ounce of humanity. Nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 13, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2020 5 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: I just don't understand what kind of system can take the two best indicators of a student's grade, that both say A A A, and then give them B B C How does that remotely make sense? On top of this, the question is why? Surely all this downgrading means grades are far lower than before. Why? What is the reasoning for that? What's wrong with students getting the grades they deserve? IF it was something like a student's mocks were BBC, and their assessed grades were AAA then I'd get it. Might be harsh for some people but some sort of downgrade could be justified. I just don't get why or how it's happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HanoiVillan Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 (edited) You'll be astonished to learn that private school pupils have done just great out of it, thanks very much Edited August 13, 2020 by HanoiVillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Not sure this is going to be workable to be honest: A-level results: Didn't get the grades you wanted? This is what to do next [...] 'Appeal Ofqual has warned that appealing against a grade will affect other students from the same school because of the rank order system. It said if one student successfully appealed against their position in the rank order it would push another student down the ranking and they would then need to be allowed to appeal. Students can ask the school to check if it made a mistake when submitting the grade or position in the rank order, and if it has then it can ask the exam board to correct it.' from: https://news.sky.com/story/as-and-a-levels-what-are-your-options-if-you-do-not-get-the-results-you-wanted-12046680 I will be pretty surprised if this system makes it to 5 o'clock this afternoon without pretty major revision. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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