As much as I hate to fight his corner, I don’t think we should really be pulling people up for things they said as children, especially four(?) decades ago.
Children are idiots. Teenagers especially.
Farage has plenty of nasty friends, nasty ideas and nasty actions to focus on, I’m worried that all this kind of thing will do is distract from that stuff.
I like to think there are still some good Labour MPs. They just need to be liberated from the New Labour guys who have been parasitically sustaining themselves on the goodwill people still had towards the old party.
Labour can then go back to protecting people’s rights instead of arguing that they have too many, and New Labour can do whatever it is a spineless morally-amorphous knee-jerk-policy-making vote-chasing group of self-important posh-boys want to do, now unshackled from such legacy burdens as principles and ethics.
But, realistically, they won’t split. New Labour can only exist because of the masses of people who vote Labour because they’ve always voted Labour. Lose the name, they lose the votes.
I think by coalition they mean the “broad church” within Labour - the left-wingers and right-wingers.
An actual coalition with another party is impossible under Labour’s own rules - party members are not allowed to endorse another party under any circumstances.
I honestly think that instead of trying to hold it all together the only thing that can save Labour is a schism. Remove the New Labour bods like you’d extract an aggressive tumour, and let them fend for themselves as a separate party. Labour gets back to its roots as a championing the working man, without all the Machiavellian nonsense from the New Labour side.
As long as Robbie Gibb is there, the BBC will never regain any of the trust it has lost over the past decade. The guy would never have been allowed near the board by a government with any shred of propriety, but unfortunately for us the Tories inserted him onto it like Palatine putting Anakin Skywalker onto the Jedi Council.
You stopped reading after the first few words again? Makes sense.
I don’t know where they’re sitting, but I know I don’t like it.
Touche.
I stand by what I said though. If you don’t see the merits in getting a first-class degree in and of itself, then it doesn’t surprise me that you jumped to assumptions despite all the information you needed being laid out in front of you.
I wouldn’t be shocked to find that you’re also the kind of person who also uses the phrase “Mickey Mouse Degree”.
I manage a software team. My degrees are both in computery stuff. The single best developer I’ve had on my team, however, had a degree in fine art.
Degrees are not simply about learning facts, they’re about learning analysis and evaluation, and then creating something with a degree of rigour far above A-level standard.
So back to your original question, there are tons of actual skills acquired on a marketing degree. The fact she got a first means that she’s really good at them too.
I assumed Lee is a male?
Ah, so you completely stopped reading after the first few words? Makes sense.
Heterodexteral
I really hope this doesn’t happen.
Not because I don’t think he’ll be any good as PM, but because he’s already brilliant as Mayor of Manchester. It sounds absurd, but Andy Burnham has made so many improvements to the quality of life for us Manchester folk, I don’t want to entertain the thought of losing him.