Trump Thread

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I'm not comfortable with Boris being PM at this point, a couple of years ago I would have shrugged and moved on - now I'm not really very happy.

Having said that, I'm not especially worried about Boris himself so much as the likes of Jacob Reese-Mogg.

The "Brexit Brigade" is not in charge of the education system, the Conservative Government is. I suffered through the National Curriculum in the early 2000's, it taught me I was bad at languages. The idea of Academies is quite clearly a means of establishing a sort of pseudo-Grammar system instead of an actual Grammar System.

Something needs to be done with our education system, it has been deteriorating for decades.

[Pannonian]

I'm not comfortable with Boris being PM at this point, a couple of years ago I would have shrugged and moved on - now I'm not really very happy.

Having said that, I'm not especially worried about Boris himself so much as the likes of Jacob Reese-Mogg.

The "Brexit Brigade" is not in charge of the education system, the Conservative Government is. I suffered through the National Curriculum in the early 2000's, it taught me I was bad at languages. The idea of Academies is quite clearly a means of establishing a sort of pseudo-Grammar system instead of an actual Grammar System.

Something needs to be done with our education system, it has been deteriorating for decades.

IA's education goes back way before New Labour and Cameron's Tories, and his recent posts are an illustration of the deterioration of democratic debate. "You lost, get over it." "The MPs (also traitors) will get what's coming to them." "Nigel Farage represents everything that I support, except when you show him to be a hypocrite, when I'll excuse myself by saying that I don't need to support everything he says." Politicians are allowed to lie as much as they like and their supporters will excuse them everything, as what matters is that their side won and the opposition lost. Where is the accountability?

I believe that governments do not succeed by winning elections. Once they win an election, they are given a go at government, but they're expected to be held accountable for their promises, and they have to continue to present the argument for how what they are doing is good for the country. "Because we won" is not a good enough argument. Am I being unreasonable?