Government gets a U grade for utterly useless
Antonia (AS) Byatt, writer, 84; Jean-Michel Jarre, composer, 72; Sam Torrance, golfer, 67; Stephen Fry (pictured), actor/writer/presenter, 63; Steve Guttenberg, actor, 62; Jared Harris, actor, 59; Chad Michael Murray, actor, 39; Rupert Grint (pictured), actor, 32. ‘LET’S be in no doubt about it, the exam results that came out today are robust. They’re good, they’re dependable for employers.
‘It’s very important that for years to come people should be able to look at these grades and think these are robust, these are dependable.’ So said the Prime Minister on the day the original A level results were released.
Now that the proverbial has hit the fan and the Government has been forced into a screeching U-turn, Johnson has (unsurprisingly) gone to ground leaving Private Pike (Williamson) to front up on this unholy mess.
It is hard to imagine the mental anguish and torment some of our youngsters have just been put through, and the fiasco is far from over, given the Government U-turn has now effectively handed our Universities a poisoned chalice.
To call this a complete shambles does not do justice to what has happened. If I was grading the Government’s performance on this, it would undoubtedly have to be U. This does not though stand for unclassified , it stands for useless – completely and utterly useless.
Time to stop playing petty party politics
WHILE nobody comes out of the exam shambles well, I cannot understand why the Labour Party leader has escaped criticism.
If he had kept control of the teachers’ unions instead of playing petty party politics, the schools could have opened in June as originally planned.
Pupils could then have taken their exams and the present problems averted.
Base decisions on facts not fantasies
THREE councillors overruled the objections of all traders in Cross Church Street by making it a traffic free zone.
One councillor from Dewsbury
claims she had seen many ‘sticky’ situations at the junction of King Street and Cross Church Street with people allegedly believing it was already pedestrianised.
Wow, I didn’t know Ms Scott could read people’s minds and being from Dewsbury, I wonder how many times she has monitored traffic in our town.
The other two stalwarts were from Dalton and Denby Dale. All I might add, being Labour councillors.
Decisions should be made based on proven facts, not fantasies of councillors minds.
The last one was phantom buses driving round Lepton by another Labour councillor who I believe is now subject of complaints.
It is now common practise for this Labour controlled Council to ride roughshod over everyone who gets in their way. Even to the extent of previously keeping coronavirus outbreaks secret.
Can’t they see that most shops are now shutdown and why?
Town could be great without this Council
TODAY we had a pleasant walk around Huddersfield town centre, the town we have frequented for the past 45 years.
It was so nice to see people out shopping and cyclists everywhere, filling their baskets with shopping after perhaps a pavement coffee or perhaps a drink outside The Plumbers.
So many people out. It was lovely.
After reading the Examiner tonight regarding the Council’s dismissal of business concerns about Cross Church Street and in consideration of the fact that they do not ever listen to sane suggestions, I give up.
This Council has ruined a proud town. We were lucky all those years ago to see the shops full and the streets busy.
It could be so good. We could sit outside The Plumbers, we could have Huddersfield as it was – if this inadequate Council was forced to go.