Thank You Tony Blair

[Brighton Breezy]

Hastings has the worst crime in Sussex for almost every category, bar I think Sexual Crimes.

It needs the money more than almost anywhere else on the South Coast.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Although I agree with your first carefully crafted statement, it's a bit harsh to condemn Gordy Boy before he has even got the job !!

As I personally pay in excess of £50k a year in income tax and my company (of which I am a Director / Shareholder) pays in the region of £400k annually in corporation tax, I feel my carefully crafted statement relating to "Gordy Boy" is quite justified! And don't get me started on Ken Livingstone whose "Congestion Charge" is costing us £100k a year for taking our vans into London.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

The Weald and Steyning Grammar School are two of the largest schools in the area, and they are both poor.

What is that based on ? News for everyone I think.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Now that was emotional, BOLLOCKS!

 

[Chicken Run]

june 27

 

[Superphil]

As far as I can work out both Weald and SGS rank at best around 50-60% measured statistics, nowhere near the top, in fact in most cases about halfway down the list. When I was at school they claimed to be in the top 10% in the country (although the measures were not as they are now).

I am not a parent, and don't have to make choices about kids schooling, but if I were, and I read the "league tables" I would choose elswhere to send my kids as these schools do not seem to be good enough now. This is a view shared by friends of mine with kids.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

The Weald is also notorious for having a drugs problem although having been a pupil at Forest Boys and knowing people who went to the Weald I would say Forest was far worse for fighting, bad behaviour and drugs.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

The Weald and Steyning Grammar School are two of the largest schools in the area, and they are both poor.
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This would seem to suggest different. Gets a Good rating from Ofsted

http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/pd...ileName=\\school\\126\\s5_126092_20061121.pdf

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

SGS is one of the best performing schools in West Sussex - which usually has a waiting list. I don't look too closely at the tables - but it had a good examination record. The drawback is sport - the school simply appears not to be interested.

 

[Superphil]

This would seem to suggest different. Gets a Good rating from Ofsted

http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/pd...ileName=\\school\\126\\s5_126092_20061121.pdf

It's a fair point, it makes you realise how tough it is for parents to choose a school for their kids, if you read all the tables that are published, both Weald and Steyning do not look that good, but the ofsted report is much more encouraging. Perhaps my initial opinion of schools in this area was formed by reading the reports published by the press. Perhaps ofsted should think about publishing a league table based on its findings.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

It's a fair point, it makes you realise how tough it is for parents to choose a school for their kids, if you read all the tables that are published, both Weald and Steyning do not look that good, but the ofsted report is much more encouraging. Perhaps my initial opinion of schools in this area was formed by reading the reports published by the press. Perhaps ofsted should think about publishing a league table based on its findings.

Not really that tough. I found that report in about 10 seconds. You'll probably find that all the top schools in the league table are all selective. Selective schools are always going to do better than non selective.

 

[Buzzer]

All this thread proves is that Tony Blair has been as divisive a PM as Thatcher.

Plus ca change.

 

[London Calling]

As I personally pay in excess of £50k a year in income tax and my company (of which I am a Director / Shareholder) pays in the region of £400k annually in corporation tax, I feel my carefully crafted statement relating to "Gordy Boy" is quite justified! And don't get me started on Ken Livingstone whose "Congestion Charge" is costing us £100k a year for taking our vans into London.

But we now have roads that are less congested, buses move as they should quickly, and reliably, bus numbers are going up - the only place in the UK.

Thanks for the £100,000 subsidy, I will appreciate that as I catch the 277 tonight.

LC

 

[H block]

He added: "I ask you to accept one thing: hand on heart, I did what I thought was right."
Blair today.................

He said he would leave Downing Street on June 27 after a new leader has been chosen.

"Ten years - I think that's long enough for me but also for the country," he said.

Referring to Iraq, he said: "I may have been wrong, that's your call.

"Believe one thing: if nothing else, I did what I thought was right for our country."



Christ thats very nearly an apology for Iraq.

 

[Simster]

The same goes for the Weald:

http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/pd...ileName=\\school\\126\\s5_126068_20060302.pdf

Across all categories, the grades are 1 (oustanding) or 2 (good).

Your argument is falling apart from where I'm sitting, Phil.

 

[Simster]

Not really that tough. I found that report in about 10 seconds. You'll probably find that all the top schools in the league table are all selective. Selective schools are always going to do better than non selective.

Me too. The first thing I did after reading Phil's Weald/Steyning rant was go straight to the ofsted site. And what do you know, he's talking bollocks.

 

[London Calling]

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How much has this war cost 2bn plus? All that money could have been spent on, well write out your wish list? 20 hospitals? Or less tax?

LC

 

[Superphil]

Not really that tough. I found that report in about 10 seconds. You'll probably find that all the top schools in the league table are all selective. Selective schools are always going to do better than non selective.

You can find that report in 10 seconds, but would you just take their word for it? A government body.

More likely you will read their reports and compare with the tables that are published by other organisations, including the press The Times, Guardian, Telegraph etc. And then it becomes really tough.

And in those tables those 2 schools do not appear to be so great.

 

[Buzzer]

Referring to Iraq, he said: "I may have been wrong, that's your call.

"Believe one thing: if nothing else, I did what I thought was right for our country."



Christ thats very nearly an apology for Iraq.

The BNP truly believe that kicking immigrants out of the UK is in the country's bestinterests. Doesn't make it right necessarily.

And to achieve what you believe is right by doing something illegally is just wrong. This is a democracy, supposedly.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

The BNP truly believe that kicking immigrants out of the UK is in the country's bestinterests. Doesn't make it right necessarily.

And to achieve what you believe is right by doing something illegally is just wrong. This is a democracy, supposedly.

Yes it is and Blair got cross-party support for that war.