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  1. Guest Who says:
    May 20, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    OT(ish)
    http://goo.gl/JyTXy
    ‘Leitch checked 50,000 scripts and found 700 mistakes. He believes there would have been thousands of errors in total – but we’ll never know because OCR ordered him to stop scrutinising the papers.

    OCR told us in a statement they’d checked the scripts of more than a thousand examiners. They found only 16 instances where grades needed to be changed.

    Jackie has a copy of an email the exam board sent him explicitly instructing him to halt his checks.’
    A quasi-government entity falls off the rails. When some folk start asking a few questions, instead of sharing their concerns they send in the heavies, close it all down and issue a ‘we think we have got it about right’ cookie cutter denial.
    Now, where have I heard that before?

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  2. Reed says:
    May 20, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    More astonishing absurdities from Labour, pushing that joint Labour/BBC narrative of austerity vs growth, as if the two are automatically assumed to be mutually exclusive, and that austerity must be the sole cause of any stalling of growth.

    –Labour’s former chancellor, Alistair Darling, has also warned that austerity could damage living standards.

    …Well duh, if it ever happens. Except that the so-called austerity is only the proposed solution to the problem, it’s the cause of the problem that’s at the root of any possible damage to living standards, and that cause is the massive debt/deficit left by the last lot of spending addicts.

    –Mr Balls said the eurozone had to make “tough decisions to get its house in order but not so much that it chokes off growth”, adding that Germany and the UK’s stance was at odds with that of US President Barack Obama and France’s new president Francois Hollande.

    …there’s that Cameron is ‘isolated’ trick, as if he’s the only one proposing deficit reduction. Mr. Hollande is proving to be useful already, but only to fellow leftist politicians of the fantasyland variety – let’s see how it works out in France before we follow their example, maybe they’ll be able to grow those money trees…who knows. And President Obama’s team seem intent on talikng about anything but the economy.

    –Mr. Balls also argued that the best way to grow the economy out of difficulty and increase tax revenues was to invest in, rather than cut funding to, the public sector. The government was having to borrow £150bn more than it intended as a result of its policies, he added.

    …and there it is…that Brownite ‘investment’ word again. You mean SPENDING, Mr. Balls. As ever, the left continue to conflate the public sector with ‘the economy’. No word as to where all this money will come from. Of course, if the way to power growth in the economy was really to throw ever more money at the public sector, the UK’s finances ought to have been in fine shape at the end of Labour’s 13 year spending spree, but let’s not allow the real world to spoil the advancing of those well worn ‘dividing lines’.

    –He added that the coalition, when it came to power, had “trashed confidence” by comparing the UK’s situation to that of Greece.

    …and actually MAKING the UK’s economic situation like that of Greece, rather than just comparing, wouldn’t trash confidence at all.

    At least they gave the government a chance to put their points across this time…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18136731

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  3. George R says:
    May 20, 2012 at 9:25 pm

    Beeboids on: – NATO and ‘Occupy’.

    BBC-Democrat manages to conclude its report on NATO summit in Chicago, with this sentence:-

    “Leaders from the Occupy movement have said they will join forces with anti-war demonstrators which have held protests ahead of the Nato meeting.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18135796

    Glenn BECK’s ‘The Blaze’ has a rather different observation:

    “‘Eat the Rich and Smash the State!’: Up to 1,000 Protesters March Through Chicago.”

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/eat-the-rich-and-smash-the-state-up-to-1000-protesters-march-through-chicago/

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    July 19, 2012 at 9:29 pm

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