peggymai.bsky.social
Safc. Teacher. TRIP fan. Can't resist a joke (even when I shouldn't). No DMs!
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Ganzy. Great word. 👌
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Quite partial to a spangle but I don't want a vegan spangle! Nope! 🤮
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Genuinely excited by this news.
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I simply do not understand why they aren't doing this!
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Seems legit...
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Creep?
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♥️
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Squeaky bum time! 😬
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😂
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Public transport is rubbish in areas outside of the main cities. Even with the very welcome train station at Horden, we are practically cut off from the towns and cities. Cars are the only option for most.
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Exactly. I remember asking a HT years ago if "every adult mattered" too? He couldn't respond. Says it all. That was probably 20 years ago. Nothing much changes. (Definitely not the pay!)
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It's all of it. It's pay, it's some kids, it's some parents (I have to say that the kids in my school are amazing). It's workload. It's some managers. It's Ofsted. It's the ridiculous curriculum which is under resourced. It's academies. The whole system is broken.
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😞
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"Enlist private sector" = spend lots of money. 🤦🏻
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She needs to reconsider the 2025 pay rise for teachers in that case. Otherwise they'll continue to leave in their droves. The whole system needs reform.
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Or Tory. Not only that, landlords often put DSS people in their houses and many of them wreck properties and behave in an antisocial way. Some empty houses are used for cannabis farms. It's disheartening. No MPs understand this because they live in nice streets.
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Yes. Not only that private landlords are one of the biggest problems with regards to rundown properties and the decline of areas.
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Totally agree.
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Absolutely. Not only that, they constantly allow others to dictate the narrative. For example, the press decided starmer was having a reset. This makes him look indecisive and weak but I didn't hear him challenging that branding.
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I sympathise. Labour hasn't done itself any favours by taking the winter fuel allowance away, either! It's a massive own goal. People were expecting them to start taxing the rich but they don't see evidence of that. In fact, quite the opposite. This will plague them.
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Indeed. They'd be disastrous but many people think labour are too. They call them "liebour". It's all I see in local fbk groups.
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It's nothing to do with that. You're looking at it from a common sense point of view. People here have seen no investment since 1980s. They don't believe any mainstream party will change their lives. Farage shouts loudest. They genuinely think he's the answer.
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Not a chance in my area unfortunately.
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Like?
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Because some people feel betrayed. They live in areas that are neglected, run down, have no investment. Labour doesn't speak to them. Reform pretends to understand their plight. It's as simple as that.
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The Greens and Lib Dems don't get anywhere near the free publicity that Reform gets. I detest farage but he knows how to get attention and he knows the type of disenchanted voter to appeal to. He's a very dangerous man. He wants power only to advance his bank balance and that's a great motivator!
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Yes in many ways life was less complicated.
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I agree the state pension is woeful.
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I think that's a bit harsh tbh. Many women who were born in the fifties may have worked part time and in relatively low paid jobs. They'll have had lower pension contributions if they've had families etc.
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The Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) women are a group of women born in the 1950s who were not given sufficient notice of the increase in the state pension age from 60 to 65. This left them financially unprepared for retirement. Their grievance is about the timing of the changes.
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I take your point. I think what I'm trying to say is that they seem to make a policy then announce it and then they allow others to take over the message. The farmers for example. The government needs to start talking about who actually owns most of the land. Instead, we hear Clarkson's opinion.
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Maybe. I think he cares less about the left. Incidentally, I'd describe myself as a leftie. I absolutely want to rejoin the EU.
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He ruined education. It's broken. It needs radical reform but most teachers don't want to be teachers any more, so that's an almost impossible task as this government has gone straight back to the Tories' old ways. 🙄
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Exactly
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Blair introduced academies. Gove morphed the idea into something that is essentially a stealth privatisation of schools.
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Blair didn't get everything right and I appreciate this has been catastrophic for the NHS. I think academies have had a similar effect on education. But, he improved both schools and NHS services at the time. No doubt.
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Because they've backed themselves into a corner. I think the system is bigger than any party or politics. Not that I'm endorsing Truss, but look what happens if you try anything different. Again, not an endorsement for that absolute buffoon.
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But Blair actually did a lot for working class people! He had to do a deal with Murdoch (much as I detest that weasel). The problem is that the Sun and the DM decide who our pm will be.
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Yes. That's not to say it isn't better (because not much could be worse notwithstanding 'Reform'). But many people thought their voices would be heard and atm that seems not to be the case. In addition, Labour definitely needs a better communications dept!
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I can't bear it. Thought we'd turned a corner.
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Indeed. That goes without saying. I meant for these exceptional payments of compensation which the Tories kicked down the street.
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Dare I say, 'too Tory'?
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🤭
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She's an inspiring woman!
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I don't understand why they can't use a stealth tax on giant corporations to get them through this. And the obvious thing to do long term is join the single market.
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It's very frustrating.
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I can't understand why that would make them so myopic. They'll be a one term government. I'm certain of it.