General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

Carrot Flower King said:
Durham School (our local private school, which the likes of Dominic Cummings and Alexander Armstrong attended) used to offer an extra year post-A-level for tutoring to get bairns into Oxbridge in the days of Oxbridge running their own entrance exams over the top of the (then) UCCA system, whereas those from the state grammar schools had to just get on with it.
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My state Grammar school did that; I can't remember if it was a full year or just a term or two. They might have stopped by the time I got to the sixth form (not that I was likely to have made use of the service).
 
zooterkin said:
Is there anyone here who didn't go to Grammar School? :D
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Yes, me. Even though it was still called Beauchamp Grammar School at the time it was a comprehensive. The most famous pupil to have been there was John Deacon, bassist with Queen. He lived round the corner from me.
 
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catsmate said:
Both.
CBs for junior, we parted company then and the school's gates fell down.
Then coed community school.
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Totally coincedental I suspect.

I spent my whole secondary schooling in the Brothers, though was lucky the only one left was retired and basicly puttering around the school eccentrically. You might lose the odd lunch break to cutting up wood for the poor of Tipp Town, but that was it.
 
Norman Alexander said:
No, Darren. It's because you're a ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ ◊◊◊◊.
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Exactly what I told him.

Well, to be accurate I said he was a grifting ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ ◊◊◊◊
 
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Rachel Reeves a says trade pact with countries in the Gulf, including Saudi and Qatar, will come next.
 
Apparently if the King won't dissolve parliament and the police won't arrest Starmer for treason it's up to the people to rise up and remove him by force if necessary.

Better to be a poor master than a rich slave apparently.
 
One thing about fishing that puzzles me
If French boats can find fish in our waters and catch their quota, what's stopping out boats from doing the same?
 
SteveAitch said:
Well, I went to a Direct Grammar school, and checking out my school's Wiki page, it would appear it produced a few MPs, councillors and so forth and a goodly number of bishops and archbishops. But as it was an RC school, they don't really count as the Establishment...

Mind you, it did produce a few well known musicians, actors and sportsmen...
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Wow, Peter Noone as an alumnus...? What a great contribution to mankind, 'No Milk Today' in his cheeky chappy way.


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Andy_Ross said:
Apparently if the King won't dissolve parliament and the police won't arrest Starmer for treason it's up to the people to rise up and remove him by force if necessary.

Better to be a poor master than a rich slave apparently.
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Neither of the remaining gammons will make it out of that pub with their pants on, if they are not careful.
 
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