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Old 25-04-2015, 16:15   #186
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Re: General Election 2015: Voting intentions & general discussion

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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
Ed is not in government, Dave is.

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but Dave wanted our soldiers in Syria, Ed didn't ...
But Ed initially agreed with the plan in 2011, and then commented today that he didn't believe the plan worked, and placed the blame on the Government - I was pointing out the disparity in his two statements, not making a partisan point.

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
Bit like George Osborne and the coalition criticising Labour for spending too much when he announced in 2007 that he wanted to spend more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_hfQU-4r0

Stones, glass houses. Can we perhaps try not to keep it so virulently partisan? Feel like I'm in the United States watching someone spewing bile at the 'Libruls'.

Every opposition is guilty of going along with a whole bunch of stuff that, on hindsight, was a bad idea. They also then tend to try and use said SNAFUs against the government of the day in campaigns.

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Someone I will happily abuse, however is Michael Gove.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ed...-10203085.html

I honestly don't understand the Tories' obsession with Ofsted. My wife has worked over 70 hours this week and will be doing more tomorrow. Much of it not for the benefit of the children but to be 'Ofsted ready'.

Tories used to be more liberal, Labour used to be more left-wing, now we just have varying degrees of authoritarian-right, all of which love to micro-manage things they know nothing about and all of which couldn't competently organise excessive drinking in a brewery.
Totally agree with you - my daughter gave up her PGCE 3/4s of the way through the course, as she said it was mostly admin, not teaching, and she wanted to teach kids, not be an administrator....
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