Yawn.

You’re just repeating yourself now without an ounce of evidence for your own petulant shrieking. You said the same thing yesterday and were found just as wanting.

“Bigot” LOL

Have you fallen on your head? What on earth are you shrieking about?

I’ve provided plenty of evidence of the Cameron and Davis feud. But then it’s hardly a secret except for some reason you seem to know nothing about it. Or you just know nothing. Plenty of other tories know all about it.

Back yourself up with some facts next time and you won’t look quite so hysterical and eccentric.

But who gives a sh*t..  only a dork is any way interested..

Even Dodd knows all about the feud. Says it all.  ;^)

I know I’m in a tiny minority on here with that view.  We shall see soon enough!

I find it really helpful for my own betting positions to set out my reasoning in writing.  I may or may not be right, but at least I get the chance to see what underpins my preconceptions.

Calm down dear.

If you actually looked at the article Henry G Mason wrote, under which you are now commenting, it’s all about David Davis and how he might have fared as a conservative leader. So I’m afraid it doesn’t matter whatsoever what you think about anyone commenting on Davis because it is most definitely relevant. Your yelps of indignation are not and never are.

Like I said.. get a life..anything is better than what you are spending your time on..Davis and Cameron disagreeing is completely irrelevant to almost anyone in the UK today..

This is a fair point. The original idea behind the education [policy was to create grammars secondary moderns and technical schools.

Not many technicals were built in the end and ‘selection was supposed to send kids to the right school to suit them and their prospects.

The world has changed and the needs for this sort of selection have gone and the assumptions behind such an idea are probably now discredited.

Mr Manson throws in grammars as a red herring, he is quite transparent.

The present education policy of simply producing good (so called ‘free’) schools which respond to the needs and questions of parents and simply do the job of education is more than suitable.  To get bogged down in grammars is to play Labour’s game.
Streaming within so called comprehensives and ensuring good teaching, stretching everybody to do the best of their abilities are issues to be concerned with.

There are lots of flavours of ‘comprehensive’ school all over the world which attract various levels of controversy. Some in germany involve a form selection, and tories should not get bogged down in dissecting the word, rather ridding the system of the lack of drive and purpose in its operation. Not to mention the corruption in its measurement.

Well, I do not see that it sets a good precedent to allow someone to walk out of the shadow cabinet walk out on conservative policy and indeed walk out of parliament on a totally manufactured basis and then let them walk back in again.

Davis’ actions were pointless and self serving and make a complete mockery of any pretence to cabinet and party unity.

Being a ‘teacher’, especially a good one, rather than an ‘innovator’ is no great disgrace.

If people are gifted then we should honour them and urge them to make the most of their gifts. 
In the world of sports we seem able and want to to that (witness the SPOTY). Equally in the world of sports we tend to condemn the gifted who do not make the most, or indeed waste) of their talents – I would quote George Best.

However this seems not to be the case where labour are concerned when it comes to education.  Labour seem jealous of the gifted and determined to bring everyone down to a lowest common denominator.
No doubt you lefties will decry my comments but frankly my experience of the world and your policies demonstrate the opposite.

 Labour seem jealous of the gifted and determined to bring everyone down to a lowest common denominator.

When in England I recall all the ‘oxbridge has more public school than state school folksl’ claims, and ‘there are more judges from public schools than state schools’ cries.

The follow up is inevitably some way to make universities etc take more state school folks at the expense of private school folks, regardless of exam and interview results.

If the private sector does give a better education than the state does, then surely the way forward is to identify why this is, and to improve the state sector, probably be getting help from public schools, not to deliberately hobble the private sector, thus lowering the level for everyone.

It is in nobody’s interest for the country to have an under-performing state education sector, and in everyone’s interest for it to be much better and competing with the private sector.

- and I don’t think this is primarily a budgetary problem

Could it be that the fields where the cows were grazing were only bombed by accident, and there was no bombing campaign designed to destroy leather production?

Voting has started for the 2011 PB poster of the year

I think you will find a lot of margins in business are 100%.  Certainly in construction payment times are 28 days and in other areas 14.  51 days seems enormously generous to me. Fatuous conclusions being drawn everywhere.

Mr Manson should by the way note that in the second round of the leadership election Cameron got 90 votes, Davis 57 and Fox 42.

With the primaries over and in a vote of the entire membership Cameron won by 2 to 1.

More evidence of the endless insidious propagandising by Labour

Yes – given the inevitable pressures of dramatisation and melodrama and conflict it does a good job.  I would still like to know where all the leather overcoats came from.  Even the well equipped Americans never got those.

What was ‘quite interesting’ is that Barry Jones who played the mad anti nuclear professor in Seven Days To Noon, played a conventional nuclear professor in this film – 15 years later.

I think if DaveM did use fraudulent social background to get into University then it should deprive him of the right to hold high elected office – certainly in the Labour Party where it is an act of faith to legislate against the privileged.
I believe the claim came in a comment in an Independent article.  The telegraph says ‘Ed beat David with his A Level grades (AABB versus BBBD)’

The claim about DaveM sneaking into Oxfod is widely repeated elsewhere – if true its disgraceful way for a labour politician to behave – let alone a marxist.  But with Labour its not untypical – take Harman and Mr Dromney on all woman short lists.