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GaussianCopula posted:Your country deserves everything bad that is going to happen to you over the next decade. Hmm, looks like GC is trying to join up with the Corbynistas. Regarde Aduck posted:Who are posts like these aimed at? No one here votes Tory. Really? Why not? After all that would speed up the winnowing of the Labour Party, purging heretical doubters until it's a true vanguard party(small enough to fit all MPs into a van lol) Can't wait for June 8th and the rejoicing in the UKMT thread from the Corbynistas celebrating the success of their plan to lose as many seats as possible to "reshape" the Labour Party.
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The real lovely effect of tuition fees is how it impacts universities themselves negatively. The money from tuition gets spent on building facilities to make the place look better on campus tour days rather than improving the quality of education or the number of students per lecturer, and lecturers are discouraged from failing anyone because it would negatively impact the bottom line.
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The Insect Court posted:Can't wait for June 8th and the rejoicing in the UKMT thread from the Corbynistas celebrating the success of their plan to lose as many seats as possible to "reshape" the Labour Party. Seeing GC coming out of the closet with his accelerationist views, I’d say it’s working splendidly
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Blasmeister posted:The real lovely effect of tuition fees is how it impacts universities themselves negatively. The money from tuition gets spent on building facilities to make the place look better on campus tour days rather than improving the quality of education or the number of students per lecturer, and lecturers are discouraged from failing anyone because it would negatively impact the bottom line. Durham University has grown massively over the past twenty years, and is now so large the town really can't cope (20k students in a town with a population of 50k). The new VC wants the university to double in size over the next few years, because it brings in the cash and inflates his ego.
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I suppose you could just replace the entirety of Durham with the university and turn the cathedral into the main building or something. Funnily I've never actually been to Durham despite living just up the road from it. It looks nice when I go past it on the train though.
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May 10, 2017 20:16
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Stabbatical posted:True. But how? What could possibly work, if nothing has before now? I forget the exact date, but at some time in the Labour Party's heyday, its MPs were asked which books had most influenced them, and the runaway winner (apart from the bible) was The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. What made that book different from all other books lamenting the plight of the poor? I think it was the 'great money trick' chapter where Owen demonstrated the extraction of surplus value from labour. We need to give such simple lessons, and attack the notion of 'wealth creators' at the root.
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May 10, 2017 20:27
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OwlFancier posted:I suppose you could just replace the entirety of Durham with the university and turn the cathedral into the main building or something. The Cathedral has nothing to do, administratively speaking, with the university. The university's about 800 years younger, for a start
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May 10, 2017 20:46
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i dont think you understood the post
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The Cathedral has nothing to do, administratively speaking, with the university. The university's about 800 years younger, for a start I had assumed that already.
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May 10, 2017 20:54
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Durham University has grown massively over the past twenty years, and is now so large the town really can't cope (20k students in a town with a population of 50k). What's the evidence it can't cope
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May 10, 2017 21:18
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Labour manifesto's been leaked, apparently. E: https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/862318921604620289 Also, Jezza picked up speaker to help someone out. The replies are even criticising him for that. Praseodymi fucked around with this message at 21:21 on May 10, 2017 |
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May 10, 2017 21:18
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It's been leaked without the costing that they said would come out alongside it. Which pretty much gives the Tories the perfect opportunity to get the narrative set as "Labour can't afford this." It's good stuff though.
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grauniad: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/10/labour-party-manifesto-pledges-to-end-tuition-fees-and-nationalise-railways strategic leak to gauge reactions, or deliberate sabotage?
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May 10, 2017 21:21
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I like it
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May 10, 2017 21:22
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Praseodymi posted:Labour manifesto's been leaked, apparently. That all seemed like excellent stuff. Also who was it who was complaining about Labour not emphasizing that government investment is good for everyone? quote:In a barnstorming speech to launch his campaign this week Jeremy Corbyn said his manifesto would “transform” Britain.
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May 10, 2017 21:23
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I'd vote for it.
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May 10, 2017 21:26
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Blasmeister posted:The real lovely effect of tuition fees is how it impacts universities themselves negatively. The money from tuition gets spent on building facilities to make the place look better on campus tour days rather than improving the quality of education or the number of students per lecturer, and lecturers are discouraged from failing anyone because it would negatively impact the bottom line. Well, it certainly has an effect on how students perceive the experience. It drives a desire to provide 'customer satisfaction' which makes universities very keen to score highly in the NSS (also driven upcoming introduction of the TEF). In addition, the pressure to pass students is largely because of the increasing trend for students to make time-consuming and potentially expensive appeals against the exam boards if they should fail, having spent tens of thousands of pounds on their degree.
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May 10, 2017 21:31
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quote:But it was strongly criticised last night by a source from the right of the party who has read it in full. I'd really love to put a name to these comments. Anyone who thinks that a better funded NHS, free universites, and non-privatised transport & power are for the 'feckless poor' really should be putting their face to the statement in public. Preferably while twirling a moustache and wearing a monocle.
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May 10, 2017 21:34
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I think someone who complains about the feckless poor should be a:) expelled from the labour party and b:) shot.
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May 10, 2017 21:35
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Ah yes, special interest groups like "people who use trains" and "people who pay energy bills" 
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May 10, 2017 21:36
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OwlFancier posted:I think someone who complains about the feckless poor should be a:) expelled from the labour party and b:) shot. But enough about Simon Danczuk 
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May 10, 2017 21:38
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Isn't there a danger that if corbyn fails miserably in the election, it will discredit this ambitious manifesto?
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May 10, 2017 21:38
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hakimashou posted:Isn't there a danger that if corbyn fails miserably in the election, it will discredit this ambitious manifesto? No, the Tories ran on racism three times and eventually it worked.
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May 10, 2017 21:40
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hakimashou posted:Isn't there a danger that if corbyn fails miserably in the election, it will discredit this ambitious manifesto? haha you're already michael footing and I doubt you even know who he is without the help of wikipedia democracy doesn't credit or discredit poo poo. It's a bad system and economics isn't based on gutfeel.
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May 10, 2017 21:40
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Leaking the draft manifesto probably comes from the same person who leaks NEC meetings and all the talking points given to MPs. I doubt there is a strategy apart from 'gently caress you, Corbyn'. They really need to find out who's doing it and get rid of them.
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May 10, 2017 21:40
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Breath Ray posted:What's the evidence it can't cope Talk to Simon Henig or any other local politician; look at the house prices compared to the rest of the region (the rent is literally twice as much as three miles down the road!); look at the churning of shops in the local area, as students have very different desires to the local population and yet are only here half of the year.
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May 10, 2017 21:41
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A private security company near my parents have just posted this up.  Have we reached full distopia yet ?
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May 10, 2017 21:42
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DJT518T posted:A private security company near my parents have just posted this up. I knew someone from Yeovil and he has a conviction for a crime of violence and is barely literate.
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May 10, 2017 21:43
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hakimashou posted:I knew someone from Yeovil and he has a conviction for a crime of violence and is barely literate. Don't talk about yourself in the third person.
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May 10, 2017 21:45
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OwlFancier posted:Don't talk about yourself in the third person. That's pretty insulting to violent, illiterate criminals imo.
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TomViolence posted:That's pretty insulting to violent, illiterate criminals imo. But not Yeovillans?
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May 10, 2017 21:48
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Maybe the violent barely literate person is the one who wrote that letter. I'm the Tactical Vest's.
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May 10, 2017 21:49
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DJT518T posted:A private security company near my parents have just posted this up. I'm illuminating crime.
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May 10, 2017 21:50
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I can see one benefit of the manifesto being leaked - it prevents the finalising committee from loving with it too much. Trying to row back on a big spending pledge once it's already been announced would go down like a lead balloon.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Talk to Simon Henig or any other local politician; look at the house prices compared to the rest of the region (the rent is literally twice as much as three miles down the road!); look at the churning of shops in the local area, as students have very different desires to the local population and yet are only here half of the year. This just seems like nimbyism to me. Haven't the house prices always been higher there? Isn't it the case that all city centre accommodation costs twice as much compared to 3 miles away?
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oxford_town posted:I'm illuminating crime. I prefer my crime to be partially illuminated by a full spectrum mood lamp.
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May 10, 2017 21:55
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I think yeovil and froome have had house prices rise significantly because it's technically possible to commute to london from them on the train line if my sources are correct
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DJT518T posted:Have we reached full distopia yet ?
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LemonDrizzle posted:More like full "clueless chancers who've never heard of the tragedy of the commons or thought through their business model" in that particular case, I think. various acts over time have empowered parish councils to spend money on crime prevention - in particular, the localism act flung open the gates. the language of the ad makes me think that it's intended for people to bring up at parish meetings at the present time a real approach is to allocate funds to underfunded local police (e.g. http://www.leightonlinslade-tc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Crime-Disorder.pdf - essentially treating the county police as a auxiliary police force). at that point, there's not much of a leap to privatised auxiliary security, who might be able to provide the same sense of presence, but cheaper
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