Did a BA in geography (which it appears was totally wasted on her). Be still my beating heart. Look, it's not all about degrees but every nurse I work with has at least one university degree. Doctors have two. Clinical psychologists have two. Some doctors and clinical psychologists have three, managing to squeeze in a PhD in their spare time. So Theresa's BA doesn't terribly impress me. I've seen some blacksmiths, carpenters and glass blowers at work though, who leave me awestruck. Oh, totally. I've met some exceedingly bright people in the most unlikely places. Used to work in community mental health on a sink estate in Hull. The things some of my clients said were... profound. Poetic even. Sometimes I wished I could have taped them. And then I hear people like Theresa May and Boris Johnson.
Before we all go mickey measuring in terms of degrees: Even though they are generally worth doing, I don't put a huge amount of value in them. The only reason I brought hers up was because a 2.1/2.2 in a Geography doesn't strike me as the sort of result you would get in the top 10% of the population. I don't know what going to Oxford from a state school means though.
Means you're white middle class. Since tuition fees it means you're rich white middle class. Degrees are only worth the job you can get with them, TBH.
They're as unaffordable as any other university in England. BTW soon they're about to go up to £12000,-- (for many universities).
So not to do with Oxford then? Not sure what your point is. Oxford and Cambridge have higher entrance standards that other UK universities. Not higher fees.
Yeah, you need to be whiter and more middle class than with other universities. <-- NOTE THE SMILEY. THE SMILEY INDICATES FACETIOUSNESS. TONGUE IN CHEEK. SPEAKING IN JEST. Oh FFS, I'll get my coat.
I left the bit about being white with the smily thing. Should I have assumed implicit smilies over all your posts as anything misleading is just there for laughs, innit or whatever.
Have you heard of Chris Langan? Dropped out of college, ex Firefighter, body-builder, club doorman. Now runs a farm with his wife. IQ 200. Works on extremely testing theory in his spare time, on his own. Being smart (or dumb) and appearing smart (or dumb) are most definitely not mutually exclusive. Something that's very easily overlooked in this neat world of certification and pigeon holes.
http://news.sky.com/video/may-forms-stable-and-certain-cabinet-10912750 Somebody please update Maybot from Windows Me to something more suitable for the task...
(refrain) What I am doing now is get on with the job I think that is important I think that is what the people want We need strength and stability Brexit means Brexit And we are going to make a success of it (repeat in any order) At least someone remembered to plug her in for recharge overnight.
I thought that was a gentlemens agreement, IDK it was legislation. I think it was Heseltine over the weekend who said "Brexit is the cancer gnawing at the heart of the Conservative party. It is not about changing the leader, it is changing the policy" For me that encapsulates the problems facing the Conservatives, it's not about leadership its that Cameron thought he could cure the European cancer that had been eating away at the Conservative from the inside for decades, he thought the electorate would help him kill off the cancer but instead he just made the situation worse.
Indeed. And what makes it worse is that the Brexiteers keep presenting it as something that will make the economy better. Only this morning for the first time did a Labour MP explain that the Brexit negotiations will not be about removing barriers to trade for economical reasons, but imposing barriers for political reasons, and that the question will be not whether, but how much worse trade with the EU will be.
I've never, ever understood this at all - how does removing a tariff-free trade agreement with 27 nearby countries (that are easily road-transportable) help improve the economy? They bleat on about increasing our manufacturing, but where does all that output go? Anyway, let's not diverge too far down the Brexit path. Personally I think this whole ****-show is an absolute disaster, the Tories are busy polishing the brass on the Titanic.
Presumably to all those other countries that we can now negotiate with. Of course no one is saying how long that will take...
Speaking of things we don't understand I've never understood why, generally speaking, the big metropolitan centers of the UK seem to typically lean towards left of center socialist parties while constituencies in more rural areas seem to typically lean right of center economically liberal parties. I would have thought it would have been the other way around with people in large cities welcoming economic liberalism and rejecting the idea of redistributing their money and i would have thought rural areas would be the opposite, that they'd reject the idea of everyone looking after themselves and free markets.
That would be an awful lot of commuting from often very large distances and it doesn't account for all the people who don't commute or at least live within the city centers.
