ml1dch Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Sounds like a u-turn is imminent. Announcement at 4pm apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xann Posted August 17, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2020 (edited) Public Health England to be scrapped and the replacement to be run by Dido Harding. Dido Harding in charge of the failed track and trace, on the board of Cheltenham Races and wife of Tory MP John Penrose, who'd like the NHS to be scrapped. F***ing Tory FILTH. Edited August 17, 2020 by Xann 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Xann said: Public Health England to be scrapped and the replacement to be run by Dido Harding. Dido Harding in charge of the failed track and trace, on the board of Cheltenham Races and wife of Tory MP John Penrose, who'd like the NHS to be scrapped. F***ing Tory FILTH. She'll need to be upgraded from Baroness to Countess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Pissup, brewery etc etc Quote Ministers are set to announce this afternoon that both A-level and GCSEs students will be awarded their teacher grades in a major U-turn following this year’s results fiasco. The expected announcement, also reported by national newspaper journalists on Twitter, follows mounting pressure on the government over last week’s calculated grades that were mostly awarded based on Ofqual’s algorithm. Nearly 40 per cent of final grades were downgraded from centre assessment grades (CAGs). Scotland had already U-turned to allow teacher grades, and this morning Northern Ireland announced it would do the same for GCSEs. Education secretary Gavin Williamson had insisted on Saturday that there would be “no U-turn”. But the decision is set to be made after Ofqual chaotically pulled its guidance on appeals – leaving pupils that missed out on the grades needed to progress onto their next destination in further limbo. ://schoolsweek.co.uk/teacher-grades-to-be-awarded-in-major-government-u-turn-after-results-fiasco-reports/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Xann said: Public Health England to be scrapped and the replacement to be run by Dido Harding. Dido Harding in charge of the failed track and trace, on the board of Cheltenham Races and wife of Tory MP John Penrose, who'd like the NHS to be scrapped. F***ing Tory FILTH. As much as I dislike this blatant cronyism, and I doubt the replacement will be in our best interest, Public Health England attempted to set up contracts where PPE could only be supplied to England, leaving Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland even more short than they were. They tried to get existing suppliers to switch to sole trading partner status. So **** ‘em. They deserve to be disbanded for what they tried to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Confirmed. Wonder if anyone will resign? Haha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Is there anything this government haven't initially **** up since winning the last election? What the **** is wrong with this country, where this level of utter ineptitude doesn't seem massive drops in support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 4 minutes ago, DCJonah said: Is there anything this government haven't initially **** up since winning the last election? What the **** is wrong with this country, where this level of utter ineptitude doesn't seem massive drops in support Because the one thing they haven't moved an inch on, is hating the foreigns. And for your average Tory voter that is still the absolute bedrock of their pyramid of needs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ml1dch Posted August 17, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2020 42 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: Confirmed. Wonder if anyone will resign? Haha To be fair, it was only a U-turn because it had been predicted to be a C-turn. 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Both morally redundant and utterly incompetent. Yay, let's vote for them! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 I'm sure Williamson will not resign or be fired, but that really is an absurdity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 1 hour ago, StefanAVFC said: Confirmed. Wonder if anyone will resign? Haha They should be **** sacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Well I guess the real question is why wouldn’t he have a whip on his desk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 You have to question anyone that gets angry at this u turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 This fudge is going to solve - or at least mitigate - one problem, which is the PR disaster from last week. The nightly news will now gradually drain of hard-luck stories from overachieving kids from less fortunate backgrounds, denied a place at Oxbridge. However, what is going to replace that problem is a much bigger institutional problem, which will be less heart-rending but more damaging. Russell Group universities are now likely to go rapidly over capacity in their courses, and the unis that survive by picking students who have done badly during exams and go through clearing are going to be massively short on numbers. The chances are that the Tories will not adequately fund these unis, which may suddenly see a rapid shortfall in their accounts, and some of these institutions were in danger already. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, StefanAVFC said: Confirmed. Wonder if anyone will resign? Haha So what happens to people who have already lost their places at University based on the grades received and whose places have been offered/given to others? Do those others now lose out? Or are they going to get rid of the caps in that situation? Edit: I've just seen that they apparently have lifted the caps. So we now go to the problem highlighted by @HanoiVillan above. Edited August 17, 2020 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 (edited) 48 minutes ago, Seat68 said: You have to question anyone that gets angry at this u turn. It's not anger at this specific U turn. It's anger in the constant decision to do something absurd, initial feedback being "don't be stupid, here are all of the reasons it won't work", them doing it anyway, insisting it'll be fine and they won't back down. then U turning a few days later. again, and again, and again. The members of this cabinet must have uneven wear on their shoes from going around in circles so much. Another thing to keep in mind. Lots of courses are now full. This u turn doesn't undo the initial damage. Edited August 17, 2020 by Davkaus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 3 hours ago, chrisp65 said: As much as I dislike this blatant cronyism, and I doubt the replacement will be in our best interest, Public Health England attempted to set up contracts where PPE could only be supplied to England, leaving Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland even more short than they were. They tried to get existing suppliers to switch to sole trading partner status. So **** ‘em. They deserve to be disbanded for what they tried to do. Do you think that has anything to do with it? It's almost certainly an attempt to deflect from poor leadership from the cabinet. Shit certainly does roll downhill when it comes to these ministers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 17, 2020 Moderator Share Posted August 17, 2020 44 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: This fudge is going to solve - or at least mitigate - one problem, which is the PR disaster from last week. The nightly news will now gradually drain of hard-luck stories from overachieving kids from less fortunate backgrounds, denied a place at Oxbridge. However, what is going to replace that problem is a much bigger institutional problem, which will be less heart-rending but more damaging. Russell Group universities are now likely to go rapidly over capacity in their courses, and the unis that survive by picking students who have done badly during exams and go through clearing are going to be massively short on numbers. The chances are that the Tories will not adequately fund these unis, which may suddenly see a rapid shortfall in their accounts, and some of these institutions were in danger already. I've had this genius idea. Rebrand them as Polytechnics and push them in the direction of more vocational degrees as opposed to accademic ones. Some of them could even rebrand as teacher training colleges and be specifically for teachers to specialise in teaching. Don't know why no one thought of this before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Lifeboats Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Dominic Raab has now been re- graded to become Dominic Rbcc. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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