Parliamentary debate
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 07:02
Good to see the governance of our nation is in such sound hands http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18798782
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Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 12:56
I see the horrible Liam Fox is sitting behind her grinning away (shudders).
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 13:02
God it's so embarrassing, loads of toffs that sound pissed, gets beamed around the world and probably gets watched as comedy.
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 13:19
Those latest Spitting Image puppets are too realistic 
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.Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 13:20
Apparently the House of Lords is cult viewing in the USA, even though being live it happens in the middle of their night-time!
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 18:16
Perhaps people with sleep problems find it relaxing to watch others asleep.RenewableCandy wrote:Apparently the House of Lords is cult viewing in the USA, even though being live it happens in the middle of their night-time!
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 20:49
She didn't do it willingly! -- if you look at the video you can see they got the heavy dudes to wrench her left arm to make her ask the question. 
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 23:02
So any one know what a University Technical College is? (I think that was the subject of the Honourable Member for Newton Abbot's question.) Apparently one can attend from the age of 14, which strikes me as a new twist to grade inflation when associated with the word 'university'.
Posted: 13 Jul 2012, 06:31
Dont want to sound like a snob, but it makes my blood boil when terms are distorted for political gain.
university
university
technical collegeAn institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities constituting a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.
Both are valuable insituitions but serve different purposes.an institution for further education that provides courses in technology, art, secretarial skills, agriculture, etc. Sometimes (informal) shortened to tech
Posted: 13 Jul 2012, 13:37
What's a "University Technical College"? Is it, like, a Polytechnic??
Posted: 13 Jul 2012, 21:34
No. That's the thing. It's a school for 14 to 19 year-olds with a techie spin to it.
Posted: 14 Jul 2012, 08:36
Sounds like a secondary modern school for slightly older young adultsbiffvernon wrote:No. That's the thing. It's a school for 14 to 19 year-olds with a techie spin to it.
