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agentmancuso
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 Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject: Broken Promises |
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| Quote: | In response to the First Minister’s Statement on “Moving Scotland Forward”, Nicol Stephen, Leader of the Liberal Democrats in Scotland said:
“The thing that people remember most about the first year of this SNP government is the broken promises. Students, housing, class sizes, school buildings. The list goes on.
“And today it gets bigger. The promise of 2 hours of P.E. broken and contradicted. They used to say it was guaranteed, with specialist teachers. Now they say that walking to school will count. Isn’t that the sort of policy gymnastics we have come to expect from him?
“But not everyone is as generous in their assessment of the SNP government as me. The Financial Times yesterday described the first year as, ‘doing nothing very much at all’”. It also talked of ‘smugly self-confident politics’ conducted ‘without a hint of modesty’. Does the First Minister expect to keep those elements in the same balance for the forthcoming year? His statement suggests that he will.
“The F.T. also reported that the price of oil was $120 a barrel. With that back-drop, can I ask why there has been such an incredible delay on his Energy Strategy? They said it was important last May. In September we were promised a ‘statement’ ‘by the end of the year’. By February in was down-graded to ‘an over-view’ that would be placed on the website. Will we ever really see it?
“The First Minister spoke about ‘heightened ambition’. He also told a Sunday newspaper this weekend that quite a lot of the time he feels quite a lot like King James V. In that interview he wobbled on independence and said that he didn’t favour separation at all. He said he preferred a ‘social union’ under a single monarch. Can he tell us what on earth that means? And does he see a role for himself in that position as sole monarch?” |
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject: Re: Broken Promises |
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| agentmancuso wrote: | | Quote: | | In response to the First Minister’s Statement on “Moving Scotland Forward”, Nicol Stephen... |
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William_Cleland
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:39 am Post subject: |
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| Obviously somebody who doesn't understand the full implications of the words "minority government". |
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:49 am Post subject: |
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More like unionist broken record
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Alasdair
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On the two hour PE thing - is it really the job of schools to provide kids with all their exercise? or is that the job of parents?
On the homebuyer's grants - what a stupid bloody idea in the first place. It'd only serve to inflate house prices.
Some promises should be broken.
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Lewis
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| Alasdair wrote: | On the two hour PE thing - is it really the job of schools to provide kids with all their exercise? or is that the job of parents?
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It's the job of the school's. I haven't had P.E Since March as they thought revising English was more important.
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| Lewis wrote: | | Alasdair wrote: | On the two hour PE thing - is it really the job of schools to provide kids with all their exercise? or is that the job of parents?
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It's the job of the school's. I haven't had P.E Since March as they thought revising English was more important. |
I would argue that revising English is more important, unless of course you have taken PE as a core subject as part of your educational curriculum. But what the government is tacitly talking about is having PE as a measure for combating obesity and poor health more generally.
Perhaps if more exercise was taken outside of school, then the issue would not be so politically sensitive. the PE issue is more about winning votes than tackling issues of health, there are those who believe that schools should be responsible for all aspects of pupils welfare, from health to moral and disciplinary guidance. I fear they are mistaken, these are the responsibility of the care givers.
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