NotMy Ding

Meh Engineer, upper sheeple/lower normie, NGMI, working class monoglot, 1, degenerate native, originally from Cardiff.

‘Low interactions’

[MrsA @abritishparent]

@Tom_Richmond This is concerning! ~7% kids are in private overall, but share is ~17% in traditional 6th forms. If families are abandoning private at 16+ this could lead to a capacity & funding crisis in state 6th forms esp as the 16-18 population is still increasing.

https://t.co/m5eyUaFzGj

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

@DuxVul We still don’t have takeaways or eat out much. It’s how we can afford school fees.

(I’m currently saving myself £££ by doing my own landscaping too - and I’d rather be doing anything than that)

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

@CageFooName @McNolf @DrewVento The shocking story of Bucky Bailey

https://t.co/KRP4FeuR3C

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

Commissar Lewis reporting for duty

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Still some asking questions about this. Let me try and be a plain english as i can.

'Close the gap' means all policy options to reduce the difference between the rich and poor. It could be done by increasing the poorest incomes, while rich stay same. it could be done by reducing the richest incomes. That's the point. Here the focus is to close the gap

'Lift up poor' is about increasing living standards of those with least in society, without reference to those with most. So you could do this, and the gap could still widen if the rich got even richer during the same period.

I hope that explains what I'm trying to get at (which is reflecting the inequality debate in society)

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

Junior schools round here get 2 weeks off at Whit.

[CathyMac 🥂 @liverbird17]

Kids in front of us and behind us! Why aren’t they in school! 😡

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

@dresserman Easily my favourite retailer, it’s basically the only shop you need. 10/10.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Today's Poll: Inequality. Which is more important - policies to close the gap between rich & poor or focusing just on raising the incomes of the poor.

It’s a deliberately stark choice in what is obviously a far more nuanced issue. What's CLOSER to your view?

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

@JohnHundeslit @DOK430 Dotted line is contributions, chart origin not zero but about 1/4 current value.

There would still have been an increase over the past 2 years but much less as UK weight was 65-70% and now <15%. And these are comparatively, really safe, vanilla, pension co fund options.

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

@JohnHundeslit @DOK430 As a normie it has been incredible to see what has happened to the little bit of pension I have a tiny bit of choice to play with, after moving most of it out of UK assets.

[CallOfDutyDailyX @TatesOofVlogsYt]

It’s important to remember Starmer put his son in Lord Ali’s multi million pound apartment for his GCSE’s yet your children can’t have their choice of school just the state sanctioned one! Champagne socialism at its best!

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

She’s at it again 🙄

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

I’ve grown to hate the slogans used around education.

‘Be exceptional’ says our local college.

‘Every child achieving and thriving’ says the government website.

‘Aim for the top’ says a local youth organisation.

Succeed, try harder, succeed, our children are told relentlessly. Be a winner. We pit them against each other and tell them the prizes are all there for the taking - just as long as they pass their exams and do the best they can. Achieve and succeed.
You can all do it!

It’s not true. They can’t all succeed, no matter how hard they work. The system isn’t designed that way. That’s because one child’s success means another child’s failure. Inevitably.

Our education system isn’t built for learning, it’s built for evaluation. It’s built to divide up our young people, to rank them and sort them. It’s a huge competition, disguised as enrichment and opportunity. There are winners and losers - and it’s often clear who those are going to be, years before the end. We expect kids to keep on going in circumstances where an adult would have quit long ago.

I’d like see a system that starts with the needs of the kids who don’t succeed. The ones who won’t get enough GCSEs, who struggle to keep up. I’d like to see us ask ‘how can we provide a great education and start in life for them all?’. And the answer cannot be ‘by making them all do better in their exams’.

Because that’s just not possible.

We need to stop pretending that education could end with a 100% success rate, and instead turn our attention to what happens to those who don’t make the grade. It’s not their fault, it’s built into the system. Let’s stop pretending it’s avoidable and accept that it’s inevitable.

This isn’t about kids doing better or parents pushing harder. The problem is the way that our system is failing a third of our kids, and then, adding insult to injury, convincing them that the real issue is them. That, not success, is what we should be talking about.

Our kids aren’t failures, but the system is failing them. It’s not enough to tell our children they can all succeed. They can’t. It’s a lie. Some will always fail in the school system, and those kids need a hopeful future too.

[MrsA @abritishparent]

@vickygrayson_ @educationgovuk should be very concerned to see the 6.6% decrease in numbers entering sixth form in private schools. That will put significant extra pressure on state sixth forms already struggling with an increasing 16-18 population and squeezed funding.

https://t.co/CogiXkFkG5

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

Reminder : Shabana released a 2 page statement in 2020 supporting the George Floyd rioters and condemning police action against them.

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

No lives matter

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

Strictly Cum Dancing

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

I'm looking for UK parents whose child has had his/her bursary reduced and it may affect whether they can still attend their fee-paying school. Can be anonymous interview! Pls DM me if you can help. Thanks

[Theresa May @theresa_may]

The net zero economy now supports 1.1m UK jobs and generates £105bn in economic value - proof that tackling climate change & growing the economy can go hand in hand.

Carbon Budget 7 laid in Parliament today provides certainty to help unlock more investment and energy security.

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

@ofjmx Piss on his shoes

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

@trevgoes4th @StormBlueHull I’m looking at some of these changes.

60% Ltv, 2 yr fix down from 5.16% to 5.11% 🤣

Is it worth the risk of a 2 year tracker to save £40pm?

[NotMy Ding @NotMyDing]

Former MP for LARP-on in Makerfield.

[Josh Simons @joshsimonsmp]

I loved being an MP.

In this age, even if you care and graft, showing it can be hard.

Wiganers are tough judges of character and I’ve been moved by what they’ve said.

For those thinking of politics: it’s a privilege that’s worth every ounce of energy you have.