Think the thread went off on a tangent there.
So May eh? She’s been jet setting about the last few days.
As a woman I know that sometimes you get swept off your feet on foreign lands.
Of course sometimes you overlook some of their little quirks as you think you can change/tame them and it will all be alright.
I am not sure what I am witnessing in these times.
And people were saying how bad 2016 was… it’s got nothing 2017.
She definitely skins Dalmation puppies to make coats to go with her leather trousers.
May refused to condemn Trump’s executive order for a couple of days and only now releases a statement saying it’s not what we would do.
So I’m left with two memories of her first visit with Trump.
One, she needed his patronising help to walk down a slope in (presumably) expensive, kitten-healed shoes.
Two, for nearly two days she allowed Trump to portray her silence and refusal to condemn as tacit approval for his executive order banning immigration from 7 Muslim countries.
Weak.
Not weak in the sense of not being prepared to take personal criticism
Weak in the sense that anyone who does not instantly condemn the blunt instrument of banning decent human beings from legitimately travelling to the US, based only on the majority belief system in their country of origin, is as much of a cunt as the cunt wielding the blunt instrument.
And all of this to stop Islamic fundamentalism.
Yeah, because this executive order is going reduce the size of the target that those IS sociopaths have painted on US maps.
Right?
Is it fuck.
It’ll do the opposite, and I honestly wonder if he knows that, and that that is the reason he’s done it.
And if I’m right, May is now complicit.
Downing Street reported that it was Trump that grabbed her hand as he has a fear of stairs and they were walking down a ramp. This tallys with other reports I’ve read about him and stairs. Unfortunate moment for May, but as symbolic an image you might find.
I agree with all you say (beyond the kitten heels jibe), but I do think she is in a bloody tricky position. Brexit and trade deals on the one hand, and the need to partner this utter raving loonitic. Even the Queen is going to have to kiss his arse. We are so vulnerable right now it’s unbelieveable. Thanks Cameron. Thanks Brexit voters. What a clusterfuck.
Quite amusing really that three times in briefings before May’s visit, they spelt her name wrong. Leaving out the H, calling her Teresa May. Who apparently is a famous porn star over there. Perhaps The Donald thought that was who he was meeting!
Ironically, Teresa the porn star probably wouldn’t have bent over as quickly as Theresa the PM did!
Now that I’ve finished messing about with the site, I finally get to post on it.
What a spectacle, eh? Our Prime Minister trotting off to beg favours from the would-be torturer in chief. Apparently, he still thinks it a bob on way to get info from a suspected terrorist, but his military bod does not. Can’t see any problems with that. It’s not like he can fire people on a whim.
Oops.
Yeah, can’t disagree with this.
It’s unfortunate in the same way Corbyn was snapped break-dancing at Remembrance Day, ie. It doesn’t mean Jack shit.
We don’t need nurses do we? I suppose we can always recruit from abroad…
nursing-degree-applications-slump-after-nhs-bursaries-abolished
So academies have always been a very decisive decision, but I do have a first hand success story.
My local infant/junior school, Pyrcroft Grange was in special measures as recently as 2012, and up to 2014 was one of the worst performing schools in the area.
It was taken over by the Bourne Trust, which spent money doing up the school, and trying to turn it around.
Last week it had its first OFSTED since 2012, and was given an Outstanding rating, and last year’s results were so good that it is now rated as the best state school in Surrey, and the second best state school in the country in the “Real School Guide”.
I know there aren’t always success stories, but I think that in the right hands Trusts and Academies have the know-how and local knowledge to make it work.
He sounds like a keeper! Surprised he’s not moved to the purple party.
Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint
I know there aren’t always success stories, but I think that in the right hands Trusts and Academies have the know-how and local knowledge to make it work.
My nipper goes to Upper Shirley High, formerly Bellemoor, and since becoming an Academy school, it’s much better, achieving a good OFSTED and is very much involved in the local community. The Head seems quite a driven guy and the teaching staff are generally excellent. Despite being knocked back in the abandoned BSF programme, they continue to thrive and should be proud of their achievements.
He must have got used to people looking at him by now, especially with that hair.
I was talking to a woman who I see quite often walking her dog…she works in Intensive Care at The General. It’s a fantastic facility and the staff dedicated and well trained…but a lot of them are staff recruited from all over the world.
There are quite a few…over a dozen that come from Portugal…again dedicated and well trained…lovely people but they are only here for the short-term. They take up their posts because there is a top-heavy age demographic in Portugal that is blocking career development…they come here to improve their skills until the blockage dissipates as the older staff retire…then they return to take up senior positions at home.
The obvious problem is…when they go…not enought trained local people to take their place and we’re in a position again where the NHS has to recruit from abroad with the thorny old problem of varying language skills in facilities that require precise understanding of the language.
Of course there are many overseas medical staff who speak very good English…but it’s a matter of degree. It’s a situation that need to encourage school leavers into nursing as a skilled vocation as it was when I was at school.
Originally posted by @Bearsy
Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
Trump has a fear of stairs
hahaha omg srs
Trumps biggest nightmare…
A Muslim girl on a ladder.
She’s not holding on. Trump would say that proves Muslims are unstable.
How fucking mad is the world getting?
And what’s in that rucksack? Ask questions later I reckon.
Up a ladder and she’s not even building a fucking wall.
So then, is this the kind of thing people wanted? Step in the right direction at least.
So are they getting rid of this?
http://m.insidehousing.co.uk/7014084.article?mobilesite=enabled
Where the councils will have to sell high value council housing so that the money goes to the starter homes.
